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Remakes are a well-known part of the Pokemon franchise. New titles are produced regularly, but older ones are visited fairly frequently. Fans might be interested to hear that Game Freak remains interested in this.

Series producer Junichi Masuda told IGN:

“I think the remakes, like Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, is still an approach we’re interested in. With the Virtual Console releases of the original games, specifically there had never been a way to bring those Pokemon over to the latest generation. It had always been that you couldn’t get those Pokemon out.”

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Update (10/31): Bumped to the top. Bewear and Mimikyu plushies are available for pre-order on Play-Asia along with the Pokemon Sun/Moon starters.

Original (10/26): Two new Pokemon Sun/Moon plushies have leaked online. This time around, we have a look at Bewear and Mimikyu, who measure in at 26cm. Both will apparently launch in March.

By the way, it’s also worth mentioning that Bounsweet (17cm) and Gengar (11cm) will be getting new plushies. We have a look at the Gengar set below.

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After the smash hit that was Donkey Kong, Sky Skipper was planned as one of Nintendo’s next arcade titles. However, even though it was play-tested and marketed in the United States, the game only released in Japan. Only a small number arcade circuit boards exist, and Nintendo of America houses the only finished Sky Skipper product in the states.

Whitney Roberts, Olly Cotton and Alex Crowley are part of a team looking to create a fully restored arcade cabinet of Sky Skipper next year. Roberts was fortunate enough to gain access to the cabinet at Nintendo of America, and was able to take plenty of photos and scans. You can view a photo of Roberts with the only Sky Skipper cabinet ever made above.

As for why Sky Skipper never came to arcades in the United States, it just wasn’t successful. It went through some play testing at the nearby University campus in the early 80s, but because of a lack of success, the plug was pulled on wider release plans.

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Over at GameXplain, a new video of the NES Classic Edition is available. The clip shows the menus as well as some footage from Mega Man 2. View it below.

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Square Enix is seemingly ending the Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker series. With Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3, which launches in Japan next February, no additional games will be created. The latest issue of V Jump mentions that this latest title will be the final adventure and “grand finale.”

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional will be a compilation of sorts. Over 700 monsters will be included in the game. The original Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 came out in March.

The Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker series started out on DS a decade ago. In North America and Europe, the first two titles were localized, though the third one isn’t available in English currently.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GBA, General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments

Nintendo recently published another new interview on its Japanese website to promote the NES Classic Edition / Famicom Mini. This time, Yoshio Sakamoto of Metroid fame sat down to talk about Balloon Fight. Nick Mosier translated the piece, which had some interesting talk about how the game was made, memories of the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, and a GBA hardware idea that was cancelled after making it to the mock-up stage.

We’ve picked out some notable excerpts from the interview below. You can read the full translation here.

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The Star Fox Limited Edition Fox McCloud Stone Statue is now further discounted over at GameStop. It’s on sale for $30, meaning you can save another $15. Place an order here if interested.

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Skylanders Academy debuted on Netflix today. It’s a new animated series based on Activision’s toys-to-life franchise.

Crash Bandicoot was present in Skylanders Imaginators, and it looks like he’s in this show as well. A brief clip has emerged on YouTube of his appearance… and he even talks. See it below.

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Paper Mario players are only supposed to have access to the southern area of Toad Town after finishing the first chapter. But by using the “log skip” out of bounds glitch, you can get there ahead of time. Doing so lets you reach a part of the game early, essentially using teleportation to be ahead of where you should be.

What’s interesting about this all is that the Japanese version of Paper Mario has some dialogue that wasn’t found until just recently. When talking with NPCs here, they’ll say things that they normally wouldn’t – mostly about how you shouldn’t be there. Some even tell the player to “get in contact” upon seeing what they have to say.

Stryder7x explains it all in his new YouTube video below:

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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta show off the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition. Watch it below.

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