Pokémon Gold & Silver Coming to the Virtual Console

Like Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, the first Generation II games will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS’ Virtual Console! Pokémon Gold and Silver will be available to (re-)purchase on September 22nd! They will feature wireless trading and battling as well as Pokémon Bank support so that you can transfer Pokémon to the latest games!

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2,282 thoughts on “Pokémon Gold & Silver Coming to the Virtual Console”

  1. A friendly reminder
    All of y’all like gen 7 this much with just one game
    And the new game will be SuMo but even better sooooooo

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  2. I just hope that this new game has the Battle Frontier….but I am not holding my breath. Also hope for some better facial animations ?

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    • Emerald and Platinum both introduced Battle Frontiers to their respective regions.
      And if Ultra Sun/Moon are similar to Emerald and Platinum then…
      Who knows? 🙂

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      • But how can you stay away from yourself? ?

        jk you’re fine it’s just your Ciny stuff that annoys me but I can live with that since yall deal with my bitching on a regular basis

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        • My Incineroar hatred is bad but have you SEEN what THEY act like? It stops becoming about the Pokemon very quick. I may say your opinion is wrong but I’m not gonna think of less of you just cause of that… they on the other hand

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  3. I just wish they had left the legendaries alone. They were so well designed, not overly complicated, and pretty stellar. Necrozma was complicated and needed some kind of story, but combining him twice seems like overkill.

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  4. If I can ever afford the Switch I would probably get Pokken and main Decidueye. I really want to see the colour variants they give it.

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  5. I have to say, it’s peculiar that Gamefreak is going with this route for Generation VII and Pokemon X and Y didn’t get the same treatment–neither a third version nor a sequel. This happened with BW in the form of BW2, but did they just give up with XY? Will it be paired with another region in the future?

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    • To me it all seems like a timing issue. They can claim pokémon Z or whatever was never in the works all they want, I’m always going to remain sceptical and believe that they must have planned for it at some point. They just needed to get Gen 7 out for the 20th anniversary, and they wanted to put their all into it, so they had to ditch the Gen VI third version and shoe-in zygarde into SM.
      Which is a real shame because now X and Y still reek of unfinished, messy as they are, and it seems quite clear from many subtle hints that that generation still had tantalising secrets to reveal. Plus the integration of Zygarde was a joke of annoyingly-near minimum effort lore-wise.
      I really hope they do somehow give XY a proper follow-up someday. Overall I’m just of the opinion Game Freak should just slow down and actually make their games complete and fully polished rather than give us a series of amazing but flawed titles. I’d happily forgo having pretty much a title a year (which frankly I don’t like, damn our restless generation) to get proper numbers of new pokémon, a truly developed story, an amazing postgame, and concepts and ideas that are actually full explored (rather than just leaving a bunch of threads hanging and some obvious missing bits like XY and SM have). But that’s just not their business of production model sadly.

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    • I feel they started on Z, came up with ideas, and then, cancelled it silently, and put those elements in S/M, which is why Zygarde is there. Leaving X/Y with so many loose ends.

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    • I’m honestly so confused why Sun and Moon, such a beautiful and complete game, is getting a sequel when everything was wrapped up in the game.

      Yet here we have X and Y with a TON of loose ends and unfinished story lines, and ORAS with literally NO post game whatsoever.

      But listen, I’m sure the games are gonna be amazing, and GF will surprise us just like they did with SM

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      • I mean……to me it doesn’t really seem like USUM is a sequel or anything like that. Seems more like a Platinum for SM than anything else. I could be wrong tho. I really REALLY hope I’m wrong lol

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      • ORAS had a post game though..

        SM was not fully complete
        -who is the dragon trainer guy who randomly shows up?
        -Is there more to ultra space?
        -what is necrozma?
        -what’s with the random plots of land all over?

        Honestly I have more, but my brain is fried right now

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