Pokémon Gold and Silver beta: Difference between revisions

In 1997, Nintendo announced the first details of the next generation of Pocket Monsters games, to be titled '''Pocket Monsters 2: Gold and Silver'''. The games were intended to be released at the end of the year for both Game Boy and Super Game Boy.

One of the many additions promised, notably, was a skateboard that could be used in addition to the [[Bicycle]] of the previous games and would allow users to travel to "unusual places". Though this never made the final cut, other things announced, such as the [[time|real-time clock]], {{cat|Generation II Pokémon|100 new Pokémon}}, including [[List of Pokémon with cross-generational evolutions|new evolutions of old Pokémon]], new [[TM]]s and [[HM]]s containing new [[move]]s were included. The trading and communication abilities of the games were also to be improved, and [[Time Capsule|backwards compatibility]] with the Generation I games was also announced.

The color scheme in these screenshot was not as varied as the one provided by the Game Boy Color; this town was also ultimately either changed into [[Violet City]] (perhaps with [[Sprout Tower]] at left) or removed altogether.

This screenshot displays an area which made it into the game's final cut with little alteration. Replace the water with trees and fences and open a path to the right, and a simplified version of [[Route 35]] and the [[National Park]]'s southern entrance materialize.

A possible early design for the [[Johto Radio Tower]] can be seen on the right-hand side of this screenshot.

At this time, the early game screenshots realesed generally didn't look all that much different from Generation I. The pictures clearly show the games' engine being in a more developed but still early stage. The lack of battle images would seem to indicate that a redone battle system had not been implemented yet.