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Description

You guide Ash Ketchum to catch every Pokemon in this top-scrolling game. Battle each Gym Leader to get a badge. After Elite Four, you are taken to the evil Gary Oak.

Himshou Goran Pocket Monster was produced by Nintendo in 2001.

Nintendo released 106 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Nintendo was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Nintendo during the time period Himshou Goran Pocket Monster was produced include: Pokemon Snap Station, Super Soccer, Super Mario World, Mario's Open Golf, Nintendo Super System, Pokemon, F-Zero AX, Super Mario Fushigi No Korokoro Party 2, Nintendo Gamecube Custom, and Donkey Kong Jungle Fever

Specs

Name Himshou Goran Pocket Monster
Developer Nintendo (Japan)
Year 2001
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8115
Class Wide Release
Genre Other
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Either
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
  • Buttons: 6 - Select|Cancel|Pokedex|Save|Pokemon|Status
Sound Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

You use your Pokemon Player's Guide (Red, and Blue Versions only) to make a walkthrough of the game.

The player can play either as the Red Version (player 1), or Blue Version (player 2). You can battle, or trade Pokemon while in two-player mode located in every Pokemon Center.

Game Play

Once you get to certain cities, go to the house with the POKE sign to heal your Pokemon. You can also turn on the PC to deposit objects. Read the status from Professor Oak's PC to see how many Pokemons you have got. Once it says MART, that means you can buy things. Some places wants to trade your Pokemon for theirs such as: Farfetch'd, Likitung, Mr. Mime, and Jynx.

Once you get one of the fossils from MT. Moon, the Helix Fossil contains Omanyte, which evolves into Omastar in LV 40. The Dome Fossil contains Kabuto, which evolves into Kabutops in LV 40.

There are eleven unique Pokemon: Red Ekans, Arbok, Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Mankey, Primeape, Growlithe, Arcanine, Scyther and Electrabuzz. The Blue version has Sandshrew, Sandslash, Meowth, Persian, Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel, Vulpix, Ninetales, Magmar and Pinsir

The Pokemon from Coin Exchange is located in Celadon City:

Red Version

  • Abra - 180CR
  • Clefairy - 500CR
  • Nidorina - 1,200CR
  • Dratini - 2,800CR
  • Scyther - 5,500CR
  • Porygon - 9,999CR

Blue Version

  • Abra - 120CR
  • Clefairy - 750CR
  • Nidorino - 1,200CR
  • Pinsir - 2500CR
  • Dratini - 4,600CR
  • Porygon - 6,500CR

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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

To catch any of the Legendary Bird Pokemon, you must have an Ultra Ball. You will need 50 of them.

To catch Mewtwo, beat the game one time, push the Pokemon button, go to the Flying-type Pokemon, push Select, Go to FLY, push Select again. Go to Cerulean City. Push the Pokemon button again, go to the Water-type Pokemon, Push Select, move the cursor to SURF, push Select again to get to Unknown Dungeon. You must follow the order. A-B-C-D-E-F-G. Go to a Pokemon. When you hear a noise, you will have a capture with level 70 Mewtwo. Must have a Master Ball from Slith Company, located at Saffron City. You want to add him to your Pokedex.

Trivia

This game is the same as the Game Boy version, which later inspired the Japanese anime of the same name. There was an apostrophe on top of the E in Pokemon. The Pocket Monster was only released in Japan.

The Green Version was released in Japan only. The Red version had Charizard, the Blue version contained Blastoise, and the Green Version had Venusaur.

Cabinet Information

The side art shows Pikachu and Ash.

Miscellaneous

LICENSOR: Game Freak

Japanese version of Pokemon.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Himshou Goran Pocket Monster Census

There are 15,247 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,663 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,913 machines (6,994 unique titles).

Very rare - There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our active members.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

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