Pokémon Stadium 2 And Pokémon Trading Card Game Available On NSO Today

Nice! Pokemon TCG is a game I will forever go back to. I really wish they made a modern version for the Switch.

Looking forward to TCG.

Cool I remember playing the TCG on my old 3DS.

Stadium games remain useless without the GB ones but been looking forward to TCG for a good while. Bit slow to start but it's very fun.

TCG is one of the best spin-off games, right up there with Pokémon Conquest. Excited to have this one on here… I can hear that battle theme in my head!

Never had Pokémon TCG on my GB as a kid, despite being big into Pokémon, and having some of the other spinoffs such as Pinball.
I bought it on the 3DS VC before it shut down, with the intention of playing it at some point.
Guess I got no more excuses huh?

Got TCG on my 3DS :/

Just about what was to be expected. It's a shame that the Stadium games are nowhere near as fun without the ability to use your own trained Pokémon. I won't hold my breath, but I'm still hoping they'll add the OG games to the NSO library sometime later

The only thing of this presentation that actually excited me to a degree. Love Stadium 2 though, just hope they give us a way sometime to not have to use rentals because with just those, the stadium games are pretty rough.

Aside from Detective Pikachu, the other 2 things that did not disappoint.

The rest did, and while the DLC for the PKMN games could be great, base game gave me too much sour and bitter aftertaste to care about them.

So unless that changes I stand by what I said.

This was the best news of an otherwise mediocre presentation.

I am starting to think that Gen 1 will never come…I’ve lost hope. All I see is a barren desert of death, devoid of a single drive of water, deadly to all who enter, as unforgiving as the dry wind…

GBA NEEDS SOME OLD SCHOOL POKEMON I MEAN HOW HARD IS IT TO PORT IT OVER

@CharlieGirl Mediocre is incredibly generous. "New Applin, new Duraludon, look at the giraffe Raikou, Mewtwo raid, NSO, half an hour of nothing," basically sums it up.

Sweet. Yesterday I made a comment here that this would be the most exciting thing about the Direct for me and I was right!

This is what I was waiting on!

Giving us the Stadium games without any way to transfer Pokemon is almost an insult.

@Incognito_D I disagree. Selling the Stadium games without any way to transfer Pokemon would be an insult (and probably why they were not available on Virtual Console on Wii and Wii U). Making the games available on the NSO service, without additional fee, is not an insult. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

Easily the best thing announced during the presentation

Guess I’ll be trying out the Pokémon card game for the first time.

@Blue_Rover They're up now.

I just wish I could play pokemon Gold with this! Stadium 1 is fun but I know how amazing it is when you're training your own!!

Just realized it took them just about 11 full months to finally drop Stadium 2 since the announcement: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/09/more-n64-games-are-coming-to-the-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack

Glad it’s finally here, though. Excited to play through the single-player modes and have some fun mini-game sessions with some friends.

There's no reason the GB and GBA Pokemon games aren't here. I have already injected the roms into the official GB and GBA NSO apps, and the games run perfectly, local wireless included. Pokemon Company prefers to starve and drip feed their fans.

well hot diggity dog.

The Pokemon TCG game seemed pointless to me when it came out, since I was playing the real thing already. But now that I haven't touched the Pokemon TCG in decades, I'm excited to play it.

TCG rules. One of my favorite gameboy soundtracks alongside, of all things, Tamagotchi.

Dang I saw pokemon tgc and stadium 2 and my brain combined them and thought they were putting out Pokemon TCG 2 translated. Still nice adds to nso.

Pokemon Stadium 2 with rental Pokemon, 's not for the faint of heart.

these videos are always disappointing. Most of the time was spent on the card game and then a ton of phone crap.

Why can't we get the classic games on NSO?

GBC Pokemon Puzzle Challenge and Pokemon Pinball should have been added today too.

@Mando44646 ”Why can't we get the classic games on NSO?”

I’m guessing they want to save big name games for later instead of releasing all the good games now and having nothing but crap later.

It breaks my heart Nintendo never made a sequel to Pokemon TCG. 😭

@EVIL-C They did, but it was never localized outside of Japan.

Trading Card Game is a great addition. Stadium 2 like the first game is only good for the mini games and playing against friends with the bad Rentals w/o a way to connect to the main games. Hope they add Pinball, Pinball R&S, & Red Rescue Team if the main games won't happen.

@Bass_X0 well as it is, I have very little to play on NSO with the utter lack of RPGs. We have a single Fire Emblem and thats about it, which is crazy. I wish I knew who to pay to get Golden Sun on the service at the very least

Nice to see Stadium 2 on the service.

I played Stadium with rentals, it might not be ideal but its definitely doable. So I wouldn't consider it worthless or whatever without the ability to transfer mons.

Lol. I loved this game as a kid but it's hilarious how Nintendo is avoiding giving people what they want. Oh you want the original Gameboy games? How about remakes, spin-offs, new games, phone apps, N64 games, the Trading Card Game... but not the actual original Pokemon games? Deal?

I kind of feel like Nintendo might be afraid that the Gameboy games would be cannibalizing sales of the newer iterations.

@AlexanderDaniels True, I was thinking about those outside Japan, which is likely most of us here. But even that sequel is 20+ years old now. The modern Pokémon TCG has evolved dramatically.

Pokemon is coming to NSO! Oh wait, it's TCG and Stadium 2...

That's like searching on Netflix for The Terminator and seeing that the only ones they have are 3 and 5.