remake pokemon gold and silver

To:  Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK Inc

Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue are the first two installments of the Pokémon series of role-playing video games, first released for the Game Boy in Japan in 1996, later released to the rest of the world in 1998 (North America) and 1999 (Europe and Australia). Set in the fantasy world of Kanto, the game's stories follow the progress of the central character in his quest to master Pokémon battling. Both games are independent of each other but feature largely the same plot and, while both can be played separately, it is necessary for the player to trade among the two in order to fully complete the game.

Fire Red and Leaf Green feature the original 151 Pokémon from the original Game Boy games, along with many others from later games in the series. While players can still play the originals, they can not trade Pokémon to the Advanced generation. The upgraded games bring the Kanto region Pokémon, and experience to the third generation of Pokémon (the Advanced generation). These games finally complete the loop; allowing players to catch all 386 Pokémon that existed at the time, since many of the Kanto (and Johto) Pokémon are unavailable in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. The games were very well received, with the improvement of the graphics, and the inclusions of extras, with 10.66 million sold.


Pokémon Gold and Silver introduces a separate region from the one in the original Pokémon titles (Kanto). This new region, named Johto, offers one hundred new Pokémon for players to capture and discover with a new version of the Pokédex; other new features include the Pokégear, Berries, a full-color world, special Pokéballs, and breeding Pokémon to produce Pokémon Eggs from which baby Pokémon hatch.

Additions
More specialized Poké Balls were introduced in this game. A Lure Ball is more effective if used against a Pokémon caught with a fishing rod, and a Friend Ball will make a Pokémon more comfortable and friendly to its trainer much more quickly. To obtain these balls, Apricorns must be picked from special plants found throughout Johto, and Kurt in Azalea Town will fashion these into the different balls based on their color. However, Kurt can only make one ball at a time, and players must wait until the next day for Kurt to finish the ball. Although these specialized Poké Balls and Apricorns were not in future generations, there were other specialized balls.
The game introduces shiny Pokémon, i.e. Pokémon which have a different coloring than normal Pokémon of their species, and which appear very rarely (estimated to be a 1/8192 chance). In this second generation of games (though not the third generation which followed on GBA), these Pokémon often have better stats than regular non-shiny Pokémon, but can never get the maximum stats for that species. There is one exception to the shiny Pokémon system: A Red Gyarados can be found at the Lake of Rage. Since it is part of the storyline, it is impossible not to encounter this Pokémon.
Pokérus (Pokémon virus) was introduced. The virus is even rarer (about a 1 in 32768 chance) to get than a “shiny” Pokémon, and doubles the Special Experience (a concept adapted to later installments of the Pokémon series as effort values) that the player’s Pokémon gain each time the infected Pokémon participates in battle (provided the battle is won and the infected Pokémon does not faint).
Six legendary Pokémon were introduced:
Raikou, Entei, and Suicune are three mammal-like Pokémon that have been informally called "Legendary Dogs," "Legendary Cats," and "Legendary Beasts." (This is a point of hot contention among fans, though Nintendo usually refers the them by their individual names or as “Legendary Pokémon,” only once having called them cats.) They wander around Johto after they have been “awakened” at the Burnt Tower, changing locations every time the player moves to a new location, though they can be tracked with the Pokédex once sighted. If encountered, they instantly attempt to run away, and if unable, use the move Roar, which ends the battle by forcing the player's retreat. Because of this, many players catch them with a Master Ball to avoid the hassle of attempting a battle. However, if the player does engage them in battle, any HP loss or status effects will stay the next time they are encountered.
Ho-Oh and Lugia are two new legendary birds; Ho-Oh is depicted on the cartridge of Gold while Lugia appears on Silver. Of the two, the one depicted on the game cartridge is encountered at level 40, while the other can be found at level 70 after the player defeats the Elite Four. Ho-Oh is said to control Raikou, Entei, and Suicune while Lugia is said to control Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres from Pokémon Red and Blue.
Another legendary Pokémon, Celebi, is analogous to Mew in the original set of games. Celebi can only be obtained through devices like GameSharks or through official Nintendo promotions, though it was available through a mobile phone connection in the Japanese Crystal version.
Several new moves were also added; to allow Pokémon to be traded back to the first generation games, a move deleter was introduced. He can be found at Blackthorn City. The move deleter can remove any move, including HM moves, which previously could not be unlearned once taught to a Pokémon other than through the daycare which has the rights to replace the Hms

Time
In addition of other new features, a time system was also introduced. At the beginning of the game, Professor Oak is awakened by the player before the traditional intro sequence. He asks the player the time. The game’s clock is set accordingly. Afterwards, the protagonist’s mother will ask about the day of the week and Daylight saving time.
Throughout the game, Pokémon appearances are influenced by time of day: morning, day, and night. Hoothoot, for example, only appears at night (since it’s an owl-like Pokémon). Certain events are also determined by the day of the week, like the bug catching contest which is held in Goldenrod City's national park on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Depending on the day of the week, either "Pokémon March" or "Pokémon Lullaby" can be heard on the Pokégear radio. Pokémon March raises the chance of a Pokémon appearing when the player walks into the grass, while Pokémon Lullaby decreases that chance.
In addition, Eevee's two new evolutions, Espeon and Umbreon, will only appear at a certain time of day once Eevee levels up after becoming extremely attached to its trainer. Eevee will only evolve into Espeon in the morning or daytime and into Umbreon only at night.

Type changes
Two new types were introduced, Steel-type and Dark-type. These two types serve to balance the Psychic type, whose only weakness consisted of Bug-type moves; however, Bug-types lacked any powerful offensive moves in past games. In the second generation games, moves like the powerful Megahorn (120 power move with 85% accuracy) were added. In addition, the Steel and Dark types also balanced the Fighting type, which was only "super effective" against Normal, Ice and Rock types ( all of which are rarely used in competitive battling) ; Steel and Dark are both weak against Fighting. Steel-type Pokémon are known for their very high defense; they are highly resistant to many types and their moves are strong against Ice- and Rock-type Pokémon. Dark-types are immune to Psychic-type moves and have moves with malicious-sounding names, like Bite and Thief, which are super-effective against Psychic-type. Dark-types are also strong against Ghost-types, thus being the only type that has an attack advantage over Ghost-type Pokémon besides Ghost-type moves themselves. The Dark-type Pokémon are also weak against Bug-type attacks.
Another major change from the original series was the splitting of the Special stat into Special Attack and Special Defense. Again, this increased aspects of strategy, for Pokémon were now more specialized. Some were good special attackers, while others were better physical attackers; the same now held true for defense and special defense. For example, Cloyster has a decent Special stat in Red/Blue/Green/Yellow, but in all later games, has a decent Special Attack, but low Special Defense.
Some type match-ups were changed as well. In Pokémon Red and Blue Ghost-type moves had no effect on Psychic-types; this was changed to super-effective as it was in the Pokémon television series. Poison-types originally were effective against Bug-types and Bug-types ineffective against Poison; this was changed to Poison doing normal damage to Bug and Bug becoming not very effective against Poison, seriously limiting the effectiveness and usage of Bug-types and Poison-types. Ice-type moves were also made not very effective against Fire-types (previously they did normal damage). In this version several moves had their type changed. For example, the move Gust was a Normal-type in the first generation games but is now a Flying-type move; the move Bite was a Normal-type move in the first generation, but now is Dark-type. Two Pokémon, Magnemite and Magneton are now Electric/Steel (in Red and Blue, they were pure electric).

Holding items
A new feature, Pokémon being able to hold items, raised the bar for strategy, because players could use held items to outspeed their rivals (Quick Claw), heal ailments (berries), restore HP in battle (Leftovers), boost element-specific attacks (Miracle Seed), or increase the Pokémon's happiness (Soothe Bell), among other uses.
Held items can be acquired on their own, but some are found already attached to Pokémon. For example, trading a Kadabra/Alakazam may result in obtaining a Twistedspoon, which is the only way to obtain this item. If the Pikachu that is given by Oak at the beginning of Pokémon Yellow is traded to Gold or Silver, it will be holding an item called the Light Ball, which doubles Pikachu's Special Attack power. Because of this, many players do not evolve their Pikachu and instead keep the massive power boost. Many other wild Pokémon hold items too, such as Leftovers from Snorlax and Lucky Egg from Chansey.

Gold and Silver originals made it to the top two spots on the charts for weeks after release and the remakes for Pokemon red and blue were very successful. I think making remakes for gold and silver on GBA or Nintendo DS would make the Pokemon companies even more money.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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