The Pokemon Center Japan announced that the Pokemon Gold and Silver sukajan jackets of Lugia and Ho-Oh will be available for purchase again from December 10, 2024 due to popular demand. The jackets cost 22,000 yen (or about $146.58) each and will be available on M and L sizes only.

The sukajan jackets have similar designs, with the Lugia version featuring the Legendary Pokemon on the back and has silver details with blue accents, while the Ho-Oh version has gold details and red accents instead and the Legendary bird on the back. The lining of the jacket features an illustration version of the map of the Johto region. The jackets are packaged on a box imitating the original Game Boy Color editions of Pokemon Gold and Silver.

You can check out the new Pokemon Gold and Silver sukajan jackets based on Lugia and Ho-Oh here:

The new Lugia and Ho-Oh jackets are part of a new line of merchandise celebrating the second generation of Pokemon games and their 25th anniversary, which originally appeared in Japan on November 21, 2024.

The Pokemon Gold and Silver sukajan jackets based on Ho-Oh and Lugia cost 22,000 yen (~$146.58) each and will receive new stock from the Pokemon Center online store on December 10, 2024.

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The Pokemon Company revealed a new lineup of merchandise themed after Pokemon Gold and Silver right on the game's 25th anniversary date on November 21, 2024. The company is also gradually putting the items up for sale in its Japanese online and physical Pokemon Center stores.

The merchandise lineup ranges from plushes of Golden Ho-Oh and Silver Lugia priced at 4,400 yen (~$28.55) each to jackets that cost 22,000 yen (~$142.85). However, most of the items already have their online stocks sold out in just half a day after the company made the reveal at 10 AM JST. As of midnight in the Japanese time zone (10 AM ET), the only items still available for orders online are the 495 yen (~$3.20) socks, the Miltank Moomoo Milk-themed correction tape at 550 yen (~$3.55), and a set of multicolored pens with one side producing square pixels at 1,540 yen (~$10).

Pokemon Gold and Silver appeared on Game Boy Color first in Japan on November 21, 1999. Nintendo released Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver as remakes on the DS to mark the game's 10th anniversary in 2009. The company also brought the original GBC games to the 3DS via Virtual Console in 2017.

The Pokemon Gold and Silver 25th anniversary merchandise is immediately available to order online—although most of the items have already sold out in less than half a day since the opening. The items will be available for sale in physical Pokemon Center stores across Japan on November 23, 2024.

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Game Freak ed a new video over the weekend that focuses on the mythical Pokemon Celebi, and how the Pokemon came to be designed, as well as the rumors regarding the mysterious shrine in Ilex Forest.   Check it out below:   Here are the highlights:

• Celebi was designed by Hironobu Yoshida (the man sitting in the middle), although he’s starting to forget the details.

• While Mew wasn’t originally planned for Pokemon Red and Green, and was added in by Morimoto because he thought it would be cool, Celebi was planned as a Mythical Pokemon from the planning stages of Pokemon Gold and Silver.

• What is the common element between Celebi, Wobbuffet, and Dunsparce? (As shown in the header image?) They were all designed by Yoshida, because their designs still weren’t decided at the time. He asked why Celebi was at the bottom of the list, and the other staff answered that it was a Mythical Pokemon, just like Mew. So Yoshida thought of a design that was cute and fairy-like like Mew, and thus Celebi got its design.

• Rumors spread in Japan (and worldwide) that the Ilex Forest shrine was the key to gaining Celebi, which Game Freak had no hand in spreading. The leading rumor in Japan was that you needed to bring both the Rainbow Wing and Silver Wing to the shrine, which would make Celebi appear. This confused Morimoto and the Game Freak staff at the time, as they didn’t recall adding this in. They have no idea where it came from.

• That said, Game Freak ed the rumor for Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, and that’s why they decided to add in a Celebi event at the Ilex shrine.

• So if Celebi wasn’t planned for the shrine, what was it there for? According to Unno, nobody re what the shrine is for among the original staff. That’s the true mystery behind Celebi.

• Yoshida’s theory is that, as back then they would use additional sprite parts to give texture to rooftops, staircases, rocks, and more, they might have added in the shrine with these additional sprites just to spruce up the area. Basically, it was probably just part of the background.

  Twitter Inatsuka looked up Gold and Silver sprites after the video was released, and realized that the sprite for the shrine is likely a reuse of roof tile sprites and sign sprites.   Pokemon Gold and Silver released for Game Boy.

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Pokémon games now tend to follow rather familiar formulas. We follow a child coming of age on a journey that sends them around a country, making friends, proving their proficiency through challenges, and managing to prove themselves to everyone by vanquishing a criminal organization that somehow flummoxed adults. But when it comes to Pokémon Gold and Silver, we experienced the influence a new entry could have on the series for the first time. While Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue created a foundation, Gold and Silver were this mold that shaped it into something more. It added more depth and strategy to the series through rebalancing, stat adjustments, and breeding, giving people more control over their characters and giving people a chance to be a little more competitive.

One of the biggest changes in this installment has to do with stats. In the original Pokémon games, we only needed to worry about health, attack, defense, speed, and special. That last one is the one that gave people pause. After all, anyone familiar with RPGs knows that many games tend to group magical attack and defense stats into separate categories. Special is essentially that for Pokémon, with attack and defense referring to physical attacks. This was troublesome, since a character who had a high special stat was strong in both areas. It was Pokémon Gold and Silver that took the first steps to righting that wrong by asg each character Special Attack and Special Defense values. It also introduced Pokerus, the virus affecting stats of actively infected Pokémon. It marked the beginning of a greater focus on the capabilities of characters and builds.

It also brought in Game Freak’s first attempt at balancing the Pokémon series. As anyone who played Red, Blue, or Green knows, Psychic types were incredibly broken. It took double damage from bug types, and that was it. It was even immune to ghost-type moves. Not to mention, it was super effective against both fighting and poison types. Ghost types were a little troublesome too, since only other ghost-type moves were super effective against them and there weren’t any types where it wasn’t very effective against them. Gold and Silver rectified this, both by adding two new types and adjusting these older ones. Dark and steel changed things up. Dark types were super effective against both ghost and psychic types and took no damage from psychic type characters, at the expensive of not being very effective against dark, fighting, and steel and being weak to bug and fighting types. Meanwhile, the new steel type was only effective against ice and rock, did half damage to electric, fire, steel, and water, took no damage from poison, took half damage from bug, dark, dragon, flying, ghost, grass, ice, normal, psychic, rock, and steel, and took double damage from fighting, fire, and ground. Psychic types were suddenly susceptible to ghost type moves, losing that former immunity. After this shake up, type effectiveness remained the same until Pokémon X and Y brought in fairy types and adjusted the steel type’s defenses.

Pokémon Gold and Silver were the first to add breeding to the formula. All of these characters suddenly had genders! We had means of giving more limited TM moves to multiple creatures via breeding. There were egg moves that could be taught by fathers to the babies. Not to mention, it meant having a better moveset on a weaker creature. For the first time, we had even more control and options over our party and their skills. Stat inheritance worked differently here, being based on gender and whether or not one parent was a Ditto, but it was a first step into a process that would eventually become so involved, people would be attempting to down Natures or specific IVs.

Of course, there are also the details that have come about because of the Virtual Console versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver. It allows a level of connectivity not present in the original. While the Game Boy Printer option is absent, you can easily connect to the first generation Pokémon Virtual Console games. The Pokémon Bank does not Gold or Silver yet, but will, giving us an opportunity to access these older characters. The in-battle HUD always appears too. In previous games, it would sometimes disappear during attacks. This means you always know how healthy your characters are and, while this can be an issue for some attack animations, does keep you constantly informed.

The Pokémon formula is always being refined. There are always going to be adjustments to characters to make them more well-rounded and new features brought in. But when it came to Pokémon Gold and Silver, we saw the introduction of so many elements that made the games stronger and better. We saw Special split into Special Attack and Special Defense. We saw issues with the ghost and psychic types addressed and rectified through tweaks and the introduction of two new classes, dark and steel. Breeding was brought in, paving the way for the creation of our perfect party . And now, with the Virtual Console release, we’re eventually going to have more access to more characters. It is amazing how much Gold and Silver did for the series, and we are now in a good place to appreciate that.

Pokémon Gold and Silver are now available in the Nintendo 3DS eShop.

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Stickers in the style of a game manual

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Pokémon Gold & Silver poster (with type affinities)

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The final announcement made during Nintendo’s Pokémon Direct had to do with the revival of an old installment. Pokémon Gold and Silver will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console on September 22, 2017. That is the same day Pokkén Tournament DX will debut on the Nintendo Switch.

As is common with the Nintendo 3DS Pokémon Virtual Console releases, Pokémon Gold and SIlver will both receive Pokémon Bank . However, the announcement does not specify if they will be compatible with the Pokémon Bank at launch.

Pokemon Gold and Silver originally launched on the Game Boy Color in Japan in 1999, coming to North America in 2000 and Europe in 2001.

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