Capsule Monsters? "What is that?", you ask. Let's take a trip back to the development of Red & Green....
So, while working on my early Gold/Silver research, I decided to take a look at Red/Green's development history. At first, nothing stood out as too different compared to the final version (unlike G/S's 1997/early 1998 development). All of the artwork was released during the months leading up to R/G's release. And then I found this image
In the second book, there is one image. It's some sort of poster/ad design. Turns out, the development really begin in 1990 & it was then called "Capsule Monsters"
It was with this confirmation, it reminded me of a piece of artwork (from the Game On Exhibition) that I saw
I was able to find larger versions of certain areas of that poster
It looks like development started in the Fall of 1990 & was scheduled to be released in December of 1991. From what I can tell, there was not enough funds to continue development so, "Capsule Monsters" was put on hold in early 1992. They then developed "Yoshi" for the NES & the GameBoy.
Game Boy
Yoshi (Mario & Yoshi) (1991, Nintendo)
Nontan to Issho! Kuru-Kuru Puzzle (1994, Victor Interactive)
FC/NES
Yoshi (Mario & Yoshi) (1991, Nintendo)
SFC/SNES
Mario & Wario (1993, Nintendo)
Smart Ball / Jerry Boy (1991, Sony)
Smart Ball 2 / Jerry Boy 2 (1994, Sony)
Nontan to Issho! Kuru-Kuru Puzzle (1994, Victor Interactive)
Sega Mega Drive/ Sega Genesis
Magical Tarurūto-kun (1992, Sega)
Pulseman (1994, Sega)
In the Fall of 1995, Ishihara Tsunekazu was appointed President of the newly founded Creatures, Inc. (formally called A.P.E, the company that produced Mother 2/EarthBound). Game Freak & Creaturs, Inc. joined forces to complete the development of Pocket Monsters Red & Green (for their new release date of 2/27/96). And the rest, they say, is history...
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:49 pm Post subject:
Ahah. Nice write up.
So the initial stuff for Pokemon was done all the way back in 1990?
By the way, not sure if it was just deliberately excluded, but I seem to recall Jelly Boy 2 being a game that was never released (although there's a ROM of it floating around + a translation for it too)
Also, it probably shouldn't be too hard to get ahold of copies of those books if you don't have 'em already, but really want 'em.
Not sure if anyone ever determined if Jelly Boy 2's freezing credits music was a game or an emulator bug (it wasn't a patch bug).
That's the only I think noticed that would've kept it from being a (seemingly) complete game.
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject:
KingMike wrote:
Not sure if anyone ever determined if Jelly Boy 2's freezing credits music was a game or an emulator bug (it wasn't a patch bug).
That's the only I think noticed that would've kept it from being a (seemingly) complete game.
Think it's probably a game bug (or a problem with the dump?). I seem to recall it happening during my playthrough on hardware too.
Oh & I haven't forgotten about my Gold/Silver research. Still waiting on some email responses. Will let you guys know about any finds as soon as I get the information.
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