Nintendo recently announced two new Pokémon games coming to Switch later this year and one that’s out now called Pokémon Quest. There’s also a bigger Pokémon RPG coming in 2019. The real news this week though is that there actually used to be a ton of weird and adorable Pokémon that were planned for Pokémon Gold and Silver which never made it into the final games, and if there’s one thing the Internet loves more than new Pokémon its super-pixelated old ones.
A ROM of a 1997 demo for what would become Pokémon Gold and Silver just got into the hands of the public after two decades. Included in it, among other things, were sprites for Pokémon that never ended up getting to see the light of day. Until now. Some of these “beta” Pokémon are super cute, others are tragically monstrous, almost all of them are baby forms of already beloved creatures like Meowth and Tangela though and so people are understandably jacked that they exist.
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Beta baby meowth is adorable 🐱💕
Isn't that a 5 yen coin on its head?? pic.twitter.com/ciPRTi6a2e— Mi-eau 🎀 R693 Hall6 – Japan Expo (@Mi_eau) May 31, 2018
More G/S beta cuties pic.twitter.com/CQ2h1iSaAG
— ByronB @ AX A48 (@YukaOmatic) May 31, 2018
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The beta design of Elekid looks like a freaking Earthbound enemy pic.twitter.com/rgbKVFAdiy
— PK Ben (@Ben_Faulstick) May 31, 2018
— Cow?! (@viviatpeace) May 31, 2018
all my friends are like pic.twitter.com/W1P4JSLYUg
— ◒✧PHI (@sanigo_) May 31, 2018
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those proto-pokemon designs…. sobs pic.twitter.com/MZ0H2f2hGe
— allie (@Grind3h) May 31, 2018
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These are the pokemon from that GS demo that I would immediately lay down my life for pic.twitter.com/XdHzAZbrno— Mary Cagle (@cubewatermelon) May 31, 2018
so many good cat pkmn in the beta…i feel Robbed…. pic.twitter.com/bJrnBCqt6N
— s sobole (@crapmachine) May 31, 2018
What you all were expecting: me drawing something that relates to the recently announced Pokémon titles
What is actually happening: I'm drawing scraped Pokémon from 1997 pic.twitter.com/xHzRNzYP4A— ☆ Siplick! (@Siplick) May 31, 2018
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omfg i just read about the old pokemon designs that got leaked and I'm screaming at the final evolution of the water starter allegedly being named Aquaria in english
— Aquaria 🤌🏼 (@aquariaofficial) May 31, 2018
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Most perfect sprite in the Pokemon beta? Yes, too perfect for this world 🐸🌸 pic.twitter.com/8szXv7v6QC
— crisalys✨AX U14 (@Criisalys) May 31, 2018
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The biggest takeaway from those beta pokemon is that this evolution line used to make sense pic.twitter.com/RB665QCgpA
— Battery Man (@batterycapacity) May 31, 2018
