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Pokémon Pinball is a Gameboy Colour Pinball game which lets you catch all 151 pokémon on a pinball table. You get the choice of two tables, Red and Blue. As with the RPG versions, you can only catch certain types on each colour table.
The bonus stages are excellent as you can knock out a whole herd of diglett, steal meowth's coins and even go ghost hunting in a graveyard. Whats even better is it's got the new Rumble Pak feature. It only needs one battery and you can feel the action on your portable pal! You also hear Pikachu talking when he thuderbolts your Pokéball.
Pokémon Pinball is compatable with all types of gameboy (original, Super gameboy-Snes, Pocket and colour) On the Super Gameboy the rumble feature automatically turns off.
This game is highly addictive and only has one fault, the background is rubbish on the Super Gameboy!
I would give it 98%
The bonus stages are excellent as you can knock out a whole herd of diglett, steal meowth's coins and even go ghost hunting in a graveyard. Whats even better is it's got the new Rumble Pak feature. It only needs one battery and you can feel the action on your portable pal! You also hear Pikachu talking when he thuderbolts your Pokéball.
Pokémon Pinball is compatable with all types of gameboy (original, Super gameboy-Snes, Pocket and colour) On the Super Gameboy the rumble feature automatically turns off.
This game is highly addictive and only has one fault, the background is rubbish on the Super Gameboy!
I would give it 98%
Pokémon Yellow is good, but so is the big cheese.
LiamAC wrote:
> Dizi1 wrote:
> > I reckon it's just a phase. Ive got Pokemon Yellow, but If I want
> > any of the others then I'll swap. Afterall, It's all exactly the
> > same.
>
> No way. I've played all of the games "Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold and
> Silver". There are differences. Yes, yellow may not have many, but
> you wait for Gold. In it is another 100 Pokémon, making 251! And
> in Gold and Silver, there is another system towards raising. You
> can breed most of the Pokémon, allowing you to get new, rarer
> species of Pokémon! Take Pikachu for example. Leave a male and a
> female in the raising center and after a while you get an egg.
> Sometime later it will hatch into a Pichu!
>
> Come on. I have had Blue since the day Yellow came out in America
> (I know since i had the chance of buying it for Ł35) and I still
> play it today. My friend imported us Gold and Silver from Japan,
> and we are obsessed!!! We haven't had enough.
>
> I maybe a teen, but this craze is amazing. I may carry on with it
> for another year.
LiamAC wrote:
> Dizi1 wrote:
> > I reckon it's just a phase. Ive got Pokemon Yellow, but If I want
> > any of the others then I'll swap. Afterall, It's all exactly the
> > same.
>
> No way. I've played all of the games "Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold and
> Silver". There are differences. Yes, yellow may not have many, but
> you wait for Gold. In it is another 100 Pokémon, making 251! And
> in Gold and Silver, there is another system towards raising. You
> can breed most of the Pokémon, allowing you to get new, rarer
> species of Pokémon! Take Pikachu for example. Leave a male and a
> female in the raising center and after a while you get an egg.
> Sometime later it will hatch into a Pichu!
>
> Come on. I have had Blue since the day Yellow came out in America
> (I know since i had the chance of buying it for Ł35) and I still
> play it today. My friend imported us Gold and Silver from Japan,
> and we are obsessed!!! We haven't had enough.
>
> I maybe a teen, but this craze is amazing. I may carry on with it
> for another year.
I was once really into Pokémon. I liked it before most other people in England had ever heard of it. I brought my friends into it, and there was about six people in our school that liked it. I went to America and bought Pokémon Yellow (another waste of money).
Then I went off Pokémon for a while. Then it suddenly got really popular. Then the game that I had heard about around 2-3 years ago finally was coming out:
POKÉMON STADIUM
My birthday had been about a month before it came out. I heard Pokémon Stadium was coming out so I had to save my birthday money (a hard thing for me to do). Then it came out and I got my Mum to get it for me the day it came out while I was at school. I was excited when I got it. I went upstairs and played it.
I was screwed.
Here is a list of the things that bothered me the most about the game:
1, It didn't have the features there were in the game boy battles: Potions. Changing your Pokémon after defeating your opponent. This caused the biggest problem: If you used Rage as your first move, or used metronome and used Rage, you were screwed. Since you couldn't change your Pokémon, you would continue to use the Rage attack 'till you killed all of your opponent's Pokémon, or until you died. ANNOYING!
2, The computer could ALWAYS paralyse, hypnotise, or poison your Pokémon. Here is something annoying: I had Pokémon Yellow, so when you play Gary, his best Pokémon is an Eevee evolvation. His Eevee was a Flareon. My Mewtwo (lv.100) attacked first. OH, HE MISSED. Then his Flareon attacked. What, body slam, oh, now I'm paralysed. Ah not to worry, I'll get out of it. Did I? No. When you're paralysed, your opponent goes first. Flareon used Fire Spin. That means you can't attack for 2 - 5 goes. So he had me trapped, and when his Fire Spin finishes, he attacked again: Fire Spin. Okay, now I'm a little annoyed. That Fire Spin finished and then he used another move: Fire Spin. ALRIGHT, NOW I'M ********* ANGRY! Every so and often, his fire spin would miss. But when he missed, I was fully paralysed.
3, Types are better efective against others. (eg, water beats fire, fire beats grass, and grass beats water) I was playing a fire Pokémon, so I used a water pokémon. I used a strong water move ('scuse my memory, i can't remember what it was). I expected a strong knock out, but instead it didn't even say Super Effective! And he took it normally!
4, One move can kill your opponent. Now that was just annoying as I may want to complete the game, but I do want a challange, or what's the point of playing? Imagine playing snakes and ladders with the snaked turned into ladders. Rubbish.
5, Some of the moves don't go how they should. There is a move that a Tentacool can do called Wrap. Tentacool is a jellyfish, and Wrap is where it wraps it's tentacules around the opponent. So you do it, and what happens? It shoots this blue string out of it's mouth around the opponent. The move is supposed to last for a long time, as if saying they are trapped. In this game, they stop doing it and start doing it again in the next move. Just doesn't seem right. I remember a move where a Pokémon punched the other (pound?). What happened was it just punched the thin air, and the camera changed scenes and the opponent fell over. That is because they don't touch each other because they all fall differently. When you hit some Pokémon with the annoying Fire Spin move, they fall back out of the falmes, and then they jumop back in!?! When you finally kill your opponent, they start to fall and then they quickly change and die differently. The graphics are good, but the moves weren't set out very well.
6, Finally, the most annoying feature: I'm pretty sure that the annoying commentary is done by the worst character in Pokémon: TRACIE.
My tip is not to waste your money on Pokémon Stadium, as the only good feature on it is the mini-games, and they can get boring after a while, and it is just like playing your Game Boy. A better idea, if you're a Pokémon fan, is just to spend around Ł30 Pounds on the regular old Game Boy, and spend Ł20 buying Pokémon Red or Blue, as Yellow is a lot more expensive for a tiny little change.
1999, I bought South Park 64 the day it came out with my birthday money. What a dissapointment. I'm never buying a new release with my birthday money again!!!
Then I went off Pokémon for a while. Then it suddenly got really popular. Then the game that I had heard about around 2-3 years ago finally was coming out:
POKÉMON STADIUM
My birthday had been about a month before it came out. I heard Pokémon Stadium was coming out so I had to save my birthday money (a hard thing for me to do). Then it came out and I got my Mum to get it for me the day it came out while I was at school. I was excited when I got it. I went upstairs and played it.
I was screwed.
Here is a list of the things that bothered me the most about the game:
1, It didn't have the features there were in the game boy battles: Potions. Changing your Pokémon after defeating your opponent. This caused the biggest problem: If you used Rage as your first move, or used metronome and used Rage, you were screwed. Since you couldn't change your Pokémon, you would continue to use the Rage attack 'till you killed all of your opponent's Pokémon, or until you died. ANNOYING!
2, The computer could ALWAYS paralyse, hypnotise, or poison your Pokémon. Here is something annoying: I had Pokémon Yellow, so when you play Gary, his best Pokémon is an Eevee evolvation. His Eevee was a Flareon. My Mewtwo (lv.100) attacked first. OH, HE MISSED. Then his Flareon attacked. What, body slam, oh, now I'm paralysed. Ah not to worry, I'll get out of it. Did I? No. When you're paralysed, your opponent goes first. Flareon used Fire Spin. That means you can't attack for 2 - 5 goes. So he had me trapped, and when his Fire Spin finishes, he attacked again: Fire Spin. Okay, now I'm a little annoyed. That Fire Spin finished and then he used another move: Fire Spin. ALRIGHT, NOW I'M ********* ANGRY! Every so and often, his fire spin would miss. But when he missed, I was fully paralysed.
3, Types are better efective against others. (eg, water beats fire, fire beats grass, and grass beats water) I was playing a fire Pokémon, so I used a water pokémon. I used a strong water move ('scuse my memory, i can't remember what it was). I expected a strong knock out, but instead it didn't even say Super Effective! And he took it normally!
4, One move can kill your opponent. Now that was just annoying as I may want to complete the game, but I do want a challange, or what's the point of playing? Imagine playing snakes and ladders with the snaked turned into ladders. Rubbish.
5, Some of the moves don't go how they should. There is a move that a Tentacool can do called Wrap. Tentacool is a jellyfish, and Wrap is where it wraps it's tentacules around the opponent. So you do it, and what happens? It shoots this blue string out of it's mouth around the opponent. The move is supposed to last for a long time, as if saying they are trapped. In this game, they stop doing it and start doing it again in the next move. Just doesn't seem right. I remember a move where a Pokémon punched the other (pound?). What happened was it just punched the thin air, and the camera changed scenes and the opponent fell over. That is because they don't touch each other because they all fall differently. When you hit some Pokémon with the annoying Fire Spin move, they fall back out of the falmes, and then they jumop back in!?! When you finally kill your opponent, they start to fall and then they quickly change and die differently. The graphics are good, but the moves weren't set out very well.
6, Finally, the most annoying feature: I'm pretty sure that the annoying commentary is done by the worst character in Pokémon: TRACIE.
My tip is not to waste your money on Pokémon Stadium, as the only good feature on it is the mini-games, and they can get boring after a while, and it is just like playing your Game Boy. A better idea, if you're a Pokémon fan, is just to spend around Ł30 Pounds on the regular old Game Boy, and spend Ł20 buying Pokémon Red or Blue, as Yellow is a lot more expensive for a tiny little change.
1999, I bought South Park 64 the day it came out with my birthday money. What a dissapointment. I'm never buying a new release with my birthday money again!!!
The Game wrote:
> Pokémon Yellow is basically the same as Blue and Red accept you
> have to have Pikachu at the start and he walks around with you......
>
> Don't get me wrong all of them and excellent games probely the
> best Game Boy games since Zelda, However who would buy the Yellow
> version 8 months after the other two versions came out for the
> gameboy.....Its stupid!
>
> But it works! So many people have bought the Yellow version of
> this game even know they all owned one of the previous two. All
> Three games have the same story, the same gameplay and the same
> Pokémon!!
>
> Yellow has the special abillity to actually talk to the little
> electric mouse pikachu and also features the Duo of Jesse and
> James of Team Rocket but still that isn't anything special!!
>
> Basically the team of Nintendo our cleaver people as they see the
> popularity of the revelotion of pokémon and they can release just
> about anything and it'll be brought by the "poké puplic"!
>
> That is why Yellow was brought out 8 months later so when the
> craze calmed down a bit the Yellow version can put the mon's back
> on top again. Pokémaniacs will then purchase this game because of
> the fact you can have the most popular pokémon pikachu at your
> side!!
>
> However the game is know different and people will get coned, with
> out even knowing it!!
Yor Right, esactly what is the point in buying yellow With "Pikachu" when you have red or blue, its ridiculus
> Pokémon Yellow is basically the same as Blue and Red accept you
> have to have Pikachu at the start and he walks around with you......
>
> Don't get me wrong all of them and excellent games probely the
> best Game Boy games since Zelda, However who would buy the Yellow
> version 8 months after the other two versions came out for the
> gameboy.....Its stupid!
>
> But it works! So many people have bought the Yellow version of
> this game even know they all owned one of the previous two. All
> Three games have the same story, the same gameplay and the same
> Pokémon!!
>
> Yellow has the special abillity to actually talk to the little
> electric mouse pikachu and also features the Duo of Jesse and
> James of Team Rocket but still that isn't anything special!!
>
> Basically the team of Nintendo our cleaver people as they see the
> popularity of the revelotion of pokémon and they can release just
> about anything and it'll be brought by the "poké puplic"!
>
> That is why Yellow was brought out 8 months later so when the
> craze calmed down a bit the Yellow version can put the mon's back
> on top again. Pokémaniacs will then purchase this game because of
> the fact you can have the most popular pokémon pikachu at your
> side!!
>
> However the game is know different and people will get coned, with
> out even knowing it!!
Yor Right, esactly what is the point in buying yellow With "Pikachu" when you have red or blue, its ridiculus
Pokémon Stadium is a great game. It is so cool to see the Pokémon that I worked so hard to train on the Game Boy to appear on the TV screen! I also liked how I could re-arrange Pokémon moves. Even better, Pokémon Stadium allows me to store items and Pokémon in the Pokémon Stadium cartridge, freeing up space in Red/Blue/Yellow. There are a few problems with it though. (a) Pokémon Stadium should be a suppliment to Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow. If you don't have the Red/Blue/Yellow, the game would be less exciting. (b) When the announcer says the same things, it is annoying. (c) The "List" function in Professor Oak's lab should be easier to use. (d) In the Prime Cup, the computer seems to benefit the opponent. For example, when my Pokémon is paralyzed, it has more chance of being "fully paralyzed" than the opponent's Pokémon. But hey this is Pokemon right and the gameplay is great and very satisfying for younger kids!
richell wrote:
> IS yellow the esist pokemon game for a 6 years old or should I
> choose another colour?
You could wait until Gold and Silver come out in English. I have played the Japanese and have completed the game (250 of the Pokémon, still had to cheat for Mew.) The Elite Four have Pokémon all around Level 40, but the last boss (Ash Ketchum) has a Lv81 Pikachu. Anyway, out of R/B/Y, Yellow is easier.
> IS yellow the esist pokemon game for a 6 years old or should I
> choose another colour?
You could wait until Gold and Silver come out in English. I have played the Japanese and have completed the game (250 of the Pokémon, still had to cheat for Mew.) The Elite Four have Pokémon all around Level 40, but the last boss (Ash Ketchum) has a Lv81 Pikachu. Anyway, out of R/B/Y, Yellow is easier.
Dizi1 wrote:
> I reckon it's just a phase. Ive got Pokemon Yellow, but If I want
> any of the others then I'll swap. Afterall, It's all exactly the
> same.
No way. I've played all of the games "Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold and Silver". There are differences. Yes, yellow may not have many, but you wait for Gold. In it is another 100 Pokémon, making 251! And in Gold and Silver, there is another system towards raising. You can breed most of the Pokémon, allowing you to get new, rarer species of Pokémon! Take Pikachu for example. Leave a male and a female in the raising center and after a while you get an egg. Sometime later it will hatch into a Pichu!
Come on. I have had Blue since the day Yellow came out in America (I know since i had the chance of buying it for Ł35) and I still play it today. My friend imported us Gold and Silver from Japan, and we are obsessed!!! We haven't had enough.
I maybe a teen, but this craze is amazing. I may carry on with it for another year.
> I reckon it's just a phase. Ive got Pokemon Yellow, but If I want
> any of the others then I'll swap. Afterall, It's all exactly the
> same.
No way. I've played all of the games "Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold and Silver". There are differences. Yes, yellow may not have many, but you wait for Gold. In it is another 100 Pokémon, making 251! And in Gold and Silver, there is another system towards raising. You can breed most of the Pokémon, allowing you to get new, rarer species of Pokémon! Take Pikachu for example. Leave a male and a female in the raising center and after a while you get an egg. Sometime later it will hatch into a Pichu!
Come on. I have had Blue since the day Yellow came out in America (I know since i had the chance of buying it for Ł35) and I still play it today. My friend imported us Gold and Silver from Japan, and we are obsessed!!! We haven't had enough.
I maybe a teen, but this craze is amazing. I may carry on with it for another year.
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