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I consider Stadiums, Colosseum, XD etc as extensions of mainline games.
As for random side crap, I tortured myself through Pokemon Channel purely for the Special Gift. About as fun as playing The Dinosaur Game when the router goes red. Thankfully, you only have to beat the game once even though you only get one Jirachi per save file.
the tcg gameboy games! and pokemon pinball. alsooooo idk if it’s inappropriate to mention this, delete if necessary, but lately i’ve been kinda into pokerogue
As someone whos played essentialy ALMOST every game, yes i have. ofcourse some are better then others, like i love EX Masters and Unite, but some are… interesting…
A quick google search is telling me that it did everything the same but better except for one thing, and it might be what keeps me loyal to the original, the rumble feature.
Coming in hot here to say I completely would give anything for another (or remake) of Pokemon Pinball lol. Easily one of my most favorite Pokemon games, including the main series ones too haha. Something about just zoning out and playing something easy and fun just gets me going
Also to kind of slyly piggyback the question you asked @lyleberr , I loved both but I actually ended up preferring the ruby sapphire one too after a member here (Cross, and dunno what profile is theirs or if hes active much. so I won’t tag) lent me their copy during covid to play (and it took me forever to return it because I fell in love lol). Im a known gen 3 hater (plz don’t hold it against me) but the mechanics in that one allowed for a super fun and crazy runtime to where you could pretty much play a single game for a long time if you got good enough. Same kinda can be said on the first too, but the second just had a lot more going for it in game wise (and it did feature lots of gen 2 mons too, so that made me happy). Overall, both rock lol
Actually on that note, there was a table at one point in Pokemon Center NYC for the release of the Ruby Sapphire version! Probably completed destroyed and gone now, but it did exist!
Ive never seen this! I would have put so many quarters in that machine . Really big bummer that they didnt make more.
Pokemon pinball taught me a little more about the pinball machine strategies and goals in gameplay as opposed to just being reactionary and trying for a high score.
lolol I know, its a shame its probably gone and just in a landfill now but that’s I guess what happens when we ruin a good thing. I always think how I wish we could have a Pokemon Center again here but then go back to how that one turned out and just makes me think it’s gone for good. So much cool stuff there like that machine!
And yeah same! As a kid one of my favorite games to play while in computer class was that random space (cadet?) pinball game that preloaded on a lot of computers so that was like my pinball intro, and Pokemon pinball made me understand things like tilting or whatnot lol. I still don’t fully get it, but at least I knew that if I mash this button enough I can save the balls from going the wrong way lmao
Didn’t see these mentioned yet but had a lot of fun with these as a kid. Cute reskins of the SNES puzzle game classic “Panel de Pon” with the Pokemon IP slapped over top.
. Really big bummer that they didnt make more.
