Anniversary: It's Been 20 Years Since We First Glimpsed Johto In Pokémon Gold And Silver

A let's go version of gold/silver would be great... As long as they included Kanto like the original games!

I would prefer a full-fledged remake, not just the Let's Go treatment for my favourite generation, but I'll take what I'm given and like it.

But please, please, please, I know they're not very commercial and I'm delusional, but Let's Go Dunsparce and Let's Go Porygon2 would be the stuff that several dreams are made of, but we'll wind up with something safe like Let's Go Marill and Let's Go Snubbull.

Got Gold a good while ago, but it spent months in the backlog, especially after my 3DS time found itself devoured by Xenoblade. I'm reluctant to start it in the middle of my other continuous JRPG involvements (especially since it's supposed to be my next thorough "binge" playthrough in the franchise since finally beating Blue), but who knows? Besides, things are looking like I may have jinxed my Sword copy into early December (our accounting HAD to pick this month for the long rumoured payday map reshuffle), so this and Moon will be there if I end up with a frustrated itch.😆

When we were kids my parents told me and my brothers that Pokemon was a fad and we’d forget about it in a year.

Just this morning my 8yr old was telling me how his friend keeps calling Ho-Oh “Ho-Ho” and joked that it must be Santa’s favourite Pokemon.

I have a feeling they’ll be having conversations about Pokemon with their kids one day and reading an article on Nintendo Life about Pokemon Sword and Shield being 20 years old.

can we have the catching mechanics of sword silver rather than let's go, i like seeing the pokemon but also like to fight to catch!

And the formula hasn't innovated since.

My favorite generation. I'll never forget that feeling of becoming champion and going back to Kanto. For me, the original versions of Gold and Silver are the best Pokémon games ever made. They improved and grew so much on the original games.

Gold and Silver are such amazing experiences. If you are a Pokemon fan, this here is a must play pair of games.

Sadly Gold & Silver showed that without help of Iwata the Johto itself would not even fully fit on the cartridge, and thanks to him we even got Kanto above that.

Myself I prefer the remakes, all the stuff that they cut out in Kanto in the OG games, plus the new extra in Johto the OG games never had, makes them for me the ultimate versions of the games.

I am really hoping that next year we get Let's Go versions of Gold and Silver if not traditional remakes, those are some of my favorite games in the series and unlike Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee it would have far more content due to there being a post game location to explore. I do hope they would actually allow for pro controller support this time because not being able to use their arguably flagship Switch controller while docked was pretty annoying.

Hard to believe they fit these games on the GameBoy. My batteries long since ran out though.
@g_ruz
I was 24 when I bought these imagine how old I feel 👴🏻

My favorite gen. These were the golden days of Pokémon and I’ll never forget them.

Only played the remakes on DS as I was almost a fetus when the originals came out. HG/SS are easily my favourite, and objectively the best, entries in the series. Would honestly prefer a port of them to Switch than a remake as I just don't trust GF to deliver anymore.

Happy 20th Pika Blu!

In other news, today (yesterday in Japan right now) marked the 21st anniversary of the release of Ocarina of Time in Japan. Two days after was NA, then some 20 days later for Europe.

I love Gold and Silver. I can't see Bellsprout in any game without thinking of my dear BellStinks. In 2000, I had Mr. Bell for a teacher and he and I did not get along. When I first played Silver and you have the option to trade a Bellsprout for an Onix to get the edge on the first gym. I named one Bellstinks and traded it off. That somehow became a tradition that I hold onto almost 20 years later.

I still remember being in 5th grade playing gold at school inside under my desk while class was going on

Any chance we could get the games on Switch Online?

I’ll never forget seeing the coverage in Nintendo Power of these games. I was so excited. I was first to get a copy of Silver at my local game shop and I played it for HOURS. I’d absolutely love an HD remake. Out of the entire series these are my fav

The amount of content they managed to fit into a GameBoy cartridge was just astounding. Truly an ambitious game.

Man, these games were amazing. I still remember being amazed just by the day/night implementation, and then later also being able to revisit Kanto. Absolutely brilliant.

Looking at the screens and remembering these games from back in the day, and now playing sword and shield I very much appreciate all the improvements they have made over the years.

Gold/Silver (and Crystal) were such fun games that I actually was 100% spoiled of them before they came out thanks to an unofficial strategy guide I got and I still had a blast playing through them.

My favorite of the series besides the remakes. It was just such an improvement over Gen 1 it's insane. Will always love these.

I remember buying a Japanese import gold, completed it eventually, had to use a good old gamefaqs text guide a couple of times I got stuck! Gold/Silver were originally supposed to be the final Pokemon games, this is why the end battle was who it was (won’t spoil it for people yet to play). Pokemon wasn’t overly popular upon the Jap release in 1995. Obviously the franchise took off sufficiently worldwide in 1998 with red/blue but development of G/S started around 96/97, well before anyone could foresee the success. The games would have been a fitting end to Pokemon if they were to have been the last.

By far my least favourite generation, I dont think I even managed to finish Soul Silver when that was released a few years ago. Personally it wasn't until RSE that my Pokémon love was sold.

Probably wouldn't buy another remake, wouldn't want to reward Gamefreak for laziness, do we SwSh guys?

I remember being so excited for these games as a kid that I convinced my mother to help me import the Japanese silver version. She didn’t think I would beat it since I couldn’t read a lick of Japanese but I did.

@DanteSolablood soul silver was released 10 years ago in japan, 9 years ago elsewhere, thats more than just a few years.
unless you mixing SS up with the silver re-release for the 3ds in 2017.

I've been playing Crystal a lot lately. Preparing for the Elite 4 and very recently caught Suicine.

Happy 20th G/S/C.

Wow, a surprisingly positive comment section for a Pokemon article. I thought we were past that.

@commentlife There's nothing negative about nostalgia.

Gen 2 was when I first played Pokémon, but gen 1 anime was still airing so it confused the hell out of me. Especially as that was some badly translated pirated rom in terrible Engrish. I still have a soft spot for Gen 2 to this day, not for starters themselves but for random pokemon like Hoothoot or Sentret. Shame Jotho hasn’t been returned to much, the fact that it and Kanto are joined would make a great nostalgia bait game including both.

This is and always will be the best Pokemon generation, simply because of the fact you get to go through more than one region. Like, the amount of content in these two games makes every attempt since then look p/// poor in comparison. Not knocking the other gens, but I wish Game Freak would make a game where we could go to another region during the post game... 😑