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#96 Pokédex time!
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| Looking Back: Here we have the first strip where the pokédex is used to look up a recently captured pokémon. From this point on, whenever Brendan and May catch a new pokémon or have one of theirs evolve, just about the first thing they do is look it up in the pokédex. I can't remember if I had them wait until this point intentionally or if I just forgot to do it after May's wurmple capture. If the games are to be believed, the pokédex spontaneously comes up with all this information out of the blue when you catch a pokémon for the first time. Now with things like weight and height I could understand the machine scanning the captured pokémon or something to figure that out. With things like the pokémon's little descriptive blurb though, that's a bit harder to believe. In the anime, on the other hand, the pokédex already has all that info programmed in and trainers can look it up at any time. That makes more sense, but would kind of defeat the whole 'gotta catch 'em all' and fill the pokédex thing that the games have going. The official Pebble Version explanation is that the pokédex writes everything itself (since that's how it is in the games) either by being magic, psychic, or just making it all up. If you weren't around in the really early days of Pebble Version, or even if you were, it may surprise you to know that this is not the original version of the strip. Actually, I don't think I even have the original any more. See, I always wanted to show a bit of the pokédex itself, not just the pokémon's info screen. Going by the look in the games and anime, I made it red and gave it a d-pad and A and B buttons. But I was still using MS Paint at the time so my original pokédex design didn't look anywhere near this good. However, a day or so after the strip was posted, Wil from Mushroom Kingdom Hearts, a long time PV fan, e-mailed me this shiny new pokédex image based on my original design but done in Photoshop with things like blurs and gradients. I liked it so much that I went back and redid this strip with it (a fairly major undertaking in MS Paint) and I've been using his pokédex design ever since. |
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