Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 3 (Hoenn)
Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire reached Japan on November 21, 2002 with a wall built into them. The Game Boy Advance used a different link connector from the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, so... Read More →
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Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 2 (Johto)
Johto’s Gym Leaders deal in Flying, Bug, Normal, Ghost, Fighting, Steel, Ice and Dragon. Kanto’s eight Gym Leaders had already claimed Rock, Water, Electric, Grass, Poison, Psychic, Fire and Ground, which left exactly seven... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 8 (Galar)
Four of Galar’s eight Gyms have two people attached to them, and they arrive there by two different routes. Two are split by cartridge – buy Sword and you fight one person, buy Shield... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 1 (Kanto)
Pokemon Red and Green were meant to be a Christmas release. Game Freak had the code finished in October 1995 and the launch was set for December 21 that year, then it slipped, because... Read More →
Every Secret Character Unlock Method in Super Smash Bros History
In 1999, the official Super Smash Bros. website ran a technique column – 77 numbered entries, written by Masahiro Sakurai himself – and technique 20 addressed the players who kept losing to the game’s... Read More →
Every Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros Ultimate
The item drops, somebody grabs it, and the match stops being fair. An Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate can produce a Castlevania swordsman, a falling moon, a vintage Pong console, or a... Read More →
Every Smash Bros Fighter Reveal That Was Leaked Before the Official Announcement
The Smash Bros. DOJO ran on weekdays from May 22, 2007 to April 14, 2008, and Masahiro Sakurai wrote all of it himself, in Japanese, for a localisation team to push out in seven... Read More →
Every Character Sakurai Publicly Considered But Rejected for Smash
Most game directors bury their rejected ideas in design documents nobody will ever read. Masahiro Sakurai publishes his. For more than two decades he has told the public, in his own words, which characters... Read More →
Every Paid DLC Fighter Ever Added to Super Smash Bros
Masahiro Sakurai spent most of the 50-Fact Extravaganza on October 23, 2014 explaining mechanics, then closed it with a resurrection: Mewtwo would return to Super Smash Bros., and for the first time in the... Read More →
Every Third-Party Character Ever Added to Super Smash Bros
Shigeru Miyamoto closed an after-hours Nintendo event on May 10, 2006 with a trailer for a Wii game called Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and at the end of it stood Solid Snake – Konami’s... Read More →
