Jigglypuff Is Joined By Up-And-Comer Lady Gaga In Pokémon's Super Bowl Ad

Pokemon are going big for the 30th, I wonder what they have planned for Pokemon day? There will surely be some big announcements, like a new low quality mainline game? I can't wait.

Facetiousness aside: a new pixel art game announcement would be the best announcement for this month. No more janky 3D games please.

@Dazman just janky 2D games then.

@ShadLink None of the pixel art games were janky though?

Jigglypuff is my favourite too, mostly on account of how awesome Jigglypuff is in Smash Bros. The Snore/Snooze move always manages to surprise other players! But whenever Jigglypuff is present in any game, it is sure to get a place in my team. Although it has to be said that I also love Scream Tail, which should come as no surprise.

@Dazman None?

And that is the most famous one. But every Pokémon game has jank, glitches and bugs. Since day one.

Some people really have pink colored retro glasses on here on this site. Because actually the jank is a lot less now than it used to be. But social media is a lot more now than then, so it's more visible.

Lamine Yamal not exactly going gaga over the whole thing, but I don't really speak Espanol so perhaps in his culture that's unbridled excitement. Wonder how much cash he gets for that.

It made me feel super old because i only noticed the Gen 1 Pokémon, but hopefully people are excited for the anniversary.

@ShadLink A single cherry picked bug is not good evidence of something being janky i.e. "of extremely poor or unreliable quality". Indeed, every bit of software in existence has bugs bar some incredibly simple programs. It is also without dispute that the original games were of a decent enough quality relative to those of the time. It is only over the last few generations that standards have begun to slip noticeably, and in particular, performance issues began to spring up most around the shift to 3D seen from Sun and Moon (see the double battles). Post-Sw/Sh the quality of the games relative to not only their past entries but to their peers in the game space has taken a complete nosedive.

I'm gen 1 so charmander Squirtle Bulbasaur Pikachu basically original 151 Pokemons 💙💙💙

Hope they didn't take money from the development team for this ad.

@Nick2054 What not even Luxray from Gen 4? Jeez you must be old. Haha

Mother Mayhem reigns supreme.

@Dazman Um, what? Virtually every Pokemon game has had some crazy nonsense in it. Just to name a few examples...

Gen 1 - Speaks for itself really, these games are held together with prayer, down to a whole type not functioning properly and Focus Energy doing the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do.

Gen 2 - The Apricorn balls are poorly coded garbage that don't work at all (for instance, the Moon Ball gives a boost to Pokemon that evolve via Burn Heal), there's the daycare experience glitch, the trading to gen 1 was very poorly handled and can cause all kinds of problems...

Gen 3 - The berry glitch is the big one, given it completely destroys date-based events a year after you start the game and that can cause all sorts of issues.

Gen 4 - Being able to surf off the map, acid rain, just the general sluggishness of them, Invisible Shiny Bulbasaur, things vanishing off the GTS, Giratina's form change not changing its stats if given the item in the PC, these games were especially rough for this point in the series.

Gen 5 - Sky Drop was a total mess that just broke everything to the point they had to ban it online, the N and mascot stuff in BW2 could be permanently lost in the Japanese version if you dared to just, like, leave the room too early, Challenge Mode's stats not actually working...

If anything the most stable games in the series were probably the 3DS ones. Granted there was the Lumiose glitch in X & Y though being fair they didn't take very long to fix that.

@Kiz3000 oh yeah ancient! Old enough to remember when Pokémon wasn’t even out yet.