Battle Screen
| Gojirante | Goriraimo | |
| HP: 400 | VS. | HP: 500 |
| TP: 27 | TP: 10 |
| Fight | Item |
| Pokémon | Run |
Translator’s Notes
Another screen which features Technical Points. One staple of Pokémon that’s lacking is the HP bars. Apparently there was some deliberation during development over how health should be displayed.
Masuda: Game Freak’s modus operandi is that we add ideas and break things down. For example, at one point we took out the health gauge during battles and tried using phrases like “That hurt,” and “That really hurt,” instead. That didn’t turn out to be very interesting, though, and we went back to using the meters.
Goriraimo may well be a reference to APE Inc., which was a company run by Shigesato Itoi’s until 1995, when it turned into Creatures Inc.. The latter shares ownership of the copyright to the Pokémon franchise with Nintendo and Game Freak.
Index
| Page # | Category | Title |
| Page 01 | Intro | Life Before Pokémon |
| Page 02 | Design Doc | Tajiri’s Pokémon Vision |
| Page 03 | Concept Art | Adventuring With Pokémon |
| Page 04 | Concept Art | A Battle Between Trainers |
| Page 05 | Concept Art | A Day in the Life |
| Page 06 | Concept Art | A Battle Between Pokémon |
| Page 07 | Concept Art | Trading Pokémon |
| Page 08 | Concept Art | At the Pokémon Hotel |
| Page 09 | Concept Art | Catching Pokémon |
| Page 10 | Concept Art | At the Pokémart |
| Page 11 | Concept Art | Status Screen |
| Page 12 | Concept Art | Battle Screen |
| Page 13 | Concept Art | Opening Sequence |
| Page 14 | Concept Art | Overworld |
| Page 15 | Sprite Art | Sprites |
| Page 16 | Outro | A Brief Conclusion |
“The Celadon Hotel and the player’s house are also the only buildings in the game, aside from Pokémon Centers, to have PCs” Nitpick: That’s not exactly true. There’s also a PC on the top floor of Silph Co.
Should mention that Gojirante is a portmanteau of “Gojira” (the japanese name for Godzilla) and “Biollante” (one of his enemies from 1989).
On Page 14 on the map, there is squares in 8 towns. I’d say these are where the gyms were located, showing that the gyms stayed pretty much the same apart from the removed city gym was moved to Cinnibar/Seafoam.
C looks like the entralink in how it isn’t connected to anything else and the fact it was in the dead center of the map, maybe a precursor to the dream world?
The term “illusory monsters” is interesting because it is an actual term in the Pokémon series. In Japan, “illusory Pokémon” is a term, distinct from “legendary Pokémon”, that refers to the Pokémon that you can only get from an event. (Mew, Celebi, etc.) This was just translated as “Legendary” until recently. For the past few years, you’ll notice that Pokémon no longer officially calls these Pokémon “Legendary”. Now they use the term “Mythical”, which is equivalent to the Japanese “illusory Pokémon”.
Just wondering if anyone else caught the teenage mutant ninja turtles reference with blastocyst being called ‘caravaggio’
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Pinky, I noticed that too. The creators must’ve been TMNT fans.
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