Nintendo Could Revive the Older Pokemon Games’ Multiplayer

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Pokemon has evolved as times changed. Throughout the years, it was able to successfully preserve one core part of its identity: its multiplayer component. Indeed, as the old slogan said: “Gotta Catch’em All!”, but to do that, the player either needed a friend with the right game to get version exclusives, or an entirely separate system and game alongside their main ones. Pokemon’s multiplayer was always at the core of the franchise’s identity, and even though events like trades and battles have changed, the very thing that makes Pokemon appealing has remained the same to this day.

Most components of contemporary Pokemon’s multiplayer rely on players being online. With the existence of a Game Boy branch of Nintendo Switch Online having been leaked, the possibility to playing classic Pokemon games online is looking more likely. Not only can Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 games be played online on the Switch, but the inclusion of a similar service for Game Boy games guarantees the inclusion of the games that started it all. If that were to become a reality, it could be an opportunity for Nintendo to experiment with its online services by allowing players to play the classic Pokemon games online.

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Currently, Nintendo allows mutual Switch friends to play Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 games online with each other. Additionally, the first two generations of Pokemon, whose main series titles were made for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, have been ported to a previous Nintendo system in the past. Indeed, they were rereleased on the 3DS, showing that Nintendo has experience porting these now classic titles.

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