Pokémon Gold And Silver was supposed to be the last games

Here up to the release of Pokémon Gold Heart and Soul Silver for the Nintendo DS in Europe, it emerged that the two original games, Pokémon Gold and Silver, was originally intended as the last game in the popular series, which took the world by storm in late 90s.

This comes up during an interview with Tsunekazu Ishihara, president and CEO of The Pokémon Company, in interview series "Iwata asks'.

In the interview, said Tsunekazu Ishihara following:

Read the whole interview here.

I worked with the assumption that after we put out Gold and Silver, my work as far as Pokémon was concerned would be done," said Ishihara. "I didn't intend to make any more Pokémon titles. I even thought that once we entered the twenty-first century, it would be time for me to do something else entirely."

- Tsunekazu Ishihara, The Pokémon Company

But Ishihara had to quickly face the fact that Gold and Silver was hardly the final chapter in the series, as it quickly became apparent that the two games sold faster than their predecessors Red and Green.

Can you imagine if Nintendo hadn't released any Pokémon games after Gold & Silver? o.O

Aaaaaaaah! That would be terrible! NO MUDKIPZ OR LUCARIOS OR RIOLUS OR ABSOLS OR.....OR.......AAAAAAAANNNYYYYYYYYYYTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (good)




.......................................................I'm done now....

It would have been terrible xD