Rediscovering The Forgotten Wii Pokemon Games
How many Pokemon games can you name that released on the Wii? Now take out the Virtual Console. Games that only released on the Wii. No, Super Smash Bros. isn’t a Pokemon game. If you’ve got any more than just Pokken, I congratulate you. But I’ll wager you’re still missing a few.
It may surprise you to learn that the same number of Pokemon games were released on the Wii as the GameBoy Color. There’s two more if you include the Wii U - which I do, because it’s like saying 3DS and 3DS XL games are from different generations. We are big fans of the Wii here at TheGamer, with editor-in-chief and Chad Wii Enjoyer Stacey Henley naming it as her choice for the best games console of all time, but the Pokemon games released on it often go overlooked. There’s sometimes a good reason for that, but I’ll go through them all for you right here and you can judge for yourself.
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If I had to guess, Pokemon Battle Revolution might be the Pokemon game other than Pokken that you guessed up in paragraph one. Battle Revolution is partly a successor to Gale of Darkness and partly a Pokemon Stadium, but was as good as neither.
There was no story mode, just battles, and you couldn’t even pick your team unless you connected a Nintendo DS with a Pokemon game. You had to make do with rental teams, and unlock more as you battled in more colosseums. The most notable part of Pokemon Battle Revolution, however, was the fact that you could get a Pikachu that knows Surf - a reference to the minigame in Pokemon Yellow - and transfer it to your DS games as many times as you wanted.
PokePark Wii was basically like those 50-in-one game cartridges you used to get off the local market
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