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Status Screen

Number: 124
Name: Dragonchi
HP: 200
TP: 200
Level: 47
Attack: 100
Speed: 75
Intelligence: 28
Defense: 125
Special Attack: Fire Breath (TP – 20)
Value 128,000 Gold

Translator’s Notes

There is evidence that money was intended to be a more prominent game mechanic, however. The status screen concept art above displays the monetary value of the Pokémon in question. Tajiri also had this to say about the role of money in the games:

Tajiri: I was thinking about allowing players to trade Pokémon with money attached, but I gave the idea up in RGB as it doesn’t do anything to increase your understanding of the games.

This status screen differs from the final game in other ways as well. Instead of a Special stat, the Pokémon has Intelligence. Fire Breath, the only attack listed uses something called TP, which undoubtedly stands for Technical Points.

In Pokémon RGB, each move has a certain number of Power Points (PP) allotted to it. Run out of these, and the move becomes unusable. While PP are tied to individual attacks, TP seem to have been tied to individual Pokémon: a bank of points that could be drawn from. It is unclear whether Dragonchi would have had a list of basic actions, such as Attack and Defend, that it could use in addition to its stat-draining special attack, and whether or not these would have also used up TP.

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
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This Post Has 14 Comments

  1. Freezair May 29, 2013

    “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.

  2. Gojiguy May 30, 2013

    Should mention that Gojirante is a portmanteau of “Gojira” (the japanese name for Godzilla) and “Biollante” (one of his enemies from 1989).

  3. samm May 30, 2013

    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.

  4. maggiedroid May 30, 2013

    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?

  5. TB May 30, 2013

    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”.

  6. Pinky June 1, 2013

    Just wondering if anyone else caught the teenage mutant ninja turtles reference with blastocyst being called ‘caravaggio’

  10. Tenko November 19, 2013

    Pinky, I noticed that too. The creators must’ve been TMNT fans.

  11. wonderful alligator January 4, 2014

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