There was also originally a function to name the Mother, similarly to naming the Player or the Rival. There was also a Trainer that was scrapped in the official release. There was also to be a different female Trainer one had the option to choose. Generation II was the most thoroughly covered games.
The unused move animations include Blizzard, Thunderbolt, Spore, Bubble Beam, Rock Slide, Selfdestruct, Dream Eater, Confusion, Reflect, Mega Kick, Mega Punch, Psychic, Explosion, Hyper Beam, and Guillotine. There are unused move animations for certain moves due to rapid flashing. The player could originally obtain 4 different gift Pokémon in Pokémon Yellow, including Jigglypuff, Persian, another Pikachu & Snorlax. In the beta of Pokémon Yellow, there are about 16 unused Pikachu voice lines for different expressions including Excited, Suspicious, Amused, and more.
This Bird-type seems to be a default for all glitch Pokémon, as the great majority of them have this type, either by itself or with the Normal-type. There were also many changed Pokémon names, for instance, Gastly was originally called Spirit.Īccording to glitches, there was originally a planned Bird-type (possibly a beta Flying-type for Pokémon like Pidgey or Doduo). In a meeting at GameCenterCX, Satoshi Tajiri had showed off finalized pictures for the Pokémon Slowbro, Nidoking, & Kadabra. Concept art also tells that the PokéBall had acted very differently, acting like two-halves of a ball that could be switched like a bowl to release a Pokémon. Many concepts for unused Pokémon were used including a beta Charizard known as Dragon4. It was also discovered that the producers had originally intended that the player character could battle Professor Oak, supposedly at the end of the Elite 4 or as an after-story event, but it was most likely scrapped due to timing, but one can glitch the game in order to actually battle him.
Shigeki Morimoto had revealed that the original Pokédex had included 190 Pokémon, but they didn't have enough time or space to complete it, explaining the 39 different types of MissingNo found in game. There were however some beta Pokémon in the games files found through various glitches. With the first games having taken so long to develop (Six years in total) Pokémon Red and Green was released.