Pokemon Gold' Demo Leaks, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Pokemon

Pokemon Gold

Pokemon is one of the most popular game in the world and the team behind Pokemon always updating the game to new levels.

Now Pokemon world was shaken by the unearthing and leaking of a legendary, lost demo for Pokemon Gold, which debuted years before the game actually released. For 20 years Pokemon fans have been searching for, drawing from, and speculating about this demo. Theories have formed and revolved around it, and countless fakes have come and gone. Now, the real thing is out there, and it's yielding incredible new information.

In this demo, you see that Gold and Silver were originally envisioned as bigger games than the ones that we got. Notably, the game’s map seems to be based on the entirety of Japan, whereas Johto, the region we actually got to play, covers a lot less real-life ground.

A poster on 4chan, where the demo was leaked, posted a long list of interesting details:

• Girafarig was going to be Dark/Normal
  
• Umbreon was meant to be Poison-type (explains the dex entry)
  
• Ledian was meant to have star-shaped patterns on its body, which explains its category (five-star Pokemon).
  
• Slowbro's shell was meant to be its own Pokemon.
  
• Ampharos was Electric-type in the demo, not Electric/Dragon like the pamphlet said. (They probably changed it.)
  
• Smoochum was meant to be pure Ice.
  
• Sunflora was meant to be Grass/Psychic.
  
• Vulpix, Tangela, Meowth, Ponyta, Goldeen, Paras, Doduo, Grimer, Growlithe, and Girafarig were meant to have pre-evolutions.
  
• Baby Pokemon such as Pichu, Cleffa, and Igglybuff were meant to evolve at Level 12.
  
• Tangela, Qwilfish, Farfetch'd, Pinsir, Lickitung, and Ditto were meant to evolve.
  
• Murkrow's hat was going to actually resemble a witch's.
  
• Sneasel was going to be pure Dark.
  
• Ho-Oh was going to be pure Flying.
  
• Togepi didn't have an evolution.
  
• Snubbull was going to be Psychic-type with no evolution.
  
• Scizor was going to be Bug/Flying.
  
• Houndour and Houndoom were pure Fire.
  
• Weepinbell had a branched evolution.
  
• Bellossom was going to be Grass/Poison.
  
• Politoed, Xatu and Espeon were meant to evolve from Heart Stone.
  
• Umbreon, Gloom and Weepinbell's branch evolution were meant to evolve from Poison Stone.
  
  Enjoy this slice of history, Pokemon fans. It's been decades coming!
  
  
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