![]() This is all just a review of what we’ve taken for granted, though. This sprite was probably not drawn by the original creator of Venomoth, either – the art staff for Yellow included some new faces. The advent of the anime and the insane amount of merchandise made it necessary to have a standard appearance for every Pokémon, based off of (and often directly referenced from) Sugimori’s art. Here’s the sprite from Yellow:īy 1998, Venomoth’s design has been cemented as what Sugimori had envisioned for it when he drew the initial art for Red and Green. Normally when discussing the development of Pokémon sprites, we continue on to Yellow and then to Generation II. Blue’s sprite was probably done by the same artist that created the original one. In Blue, the front sprite was given an alternate pose, but the back sprite was left the same as in Red and Green. Sugimori’s alterations to the design are minor and mostly boil down to stylistic differences and the technical limitations of the Game Boy. Here are its sprites from Red and Green (February 1996).Īdditionally, here is Ken Sugimori’s design for it dating from Red and Green’s release. The Pokémon with the most compelling evidence is Venomoth, whose appearance was altered further and improved upon after its debut in Red and Green. In other words – do you like Sugimori art? Instead of the 100 new Pokémon designs included in the ROM that the world has been abuzz over, today’s article focuses on the sprites of the original 151 – there’s something odd about them that might pique the interest of those who have been paying attention to the way that Game Freak approached ‘official’ or ‘canonical’ designs for monsters back in the day. While the demo was somewhat altered and abridged from the full games in development, it is overall a revealing snapshot of how progress on the games had been coming along at that point in time. These prototypes branched off from the games’ main development some time during or before November of 1997, pre-dating Yellow Version by a year and the final Gold and Silver by a solid two years. ![]() To no one’s surprise, new evidence about the timeline of Pokémon’s development emerged from within the Spaceworld 1997 demos for Gold and Silver. ![]() Most (if not all) Pokémon fans run on the logical assumption that the second “generation” of Pokémon started with Gold and Silver, but the actual answer to the question is much more convoluted – the two generations seem to be significantly intertwined. Where does Generation I end and Generation II begin? ![]()
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