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Dataminers have found a Pokémon Pink buried in the source code for Pokémon Yellow, intimating that the game was intended to be a companion to Yellow (via Nintendo Life).
Dr Lava is a prolific Pokémon dataminer, spotlighting pocket monsters that were lost to time and translating original Japanese developer notes into English. Their latest discovery is that of a Pokémon Pink, hidden in the leaked source code for Pokémon Blue and Pokémon Yellow, and it’s “almost certainly legit.” The version may have been a companion game to Pokémon Yellow, before it was binned.
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It also may have shown off Clefairy or Jigglypuff in its starring role, and fans are getting creative with their own renditions of Pokémon Pink box art. Though a Pokémon Pink has never been referred to by The Pokémon Company, Pokémon Yellow’s source code reveals its title to be “Pocket Monsters Pink and Yellow.” “Pink” appears elsewhere in the code, along with audio files taken from the Pokémon anime. This implies that other Pokémon were going to get their anime cries in place of their game cries.
One of the dataminers theorised that Pokémon Pink would have been targeting “girl gamers,” and might even have had a female protagonist. Pokémon Crystal was the first game to ask the player if they wanted to use a male or a female avatar, and Pokémon fans are curious what became of the planned Pokémon Pink version. Though Yellow was released more than twenty years ago, it’s stunning that new discoveries about one of the biggest franchises are still being found today.
