Two decades of Gen II.

November has historically been a busy month for big video game releases as companies look to get their marquee titles on shop shelves in the run-up to the holidays. Earlier this week the European version of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 64 celebrated its 20th anniversary and today its the turn of Pokémon Gold and Silver to get twenty birthday bumps.

North American gamers would have to wait until the year 2000 for get a taste of the Johto region and 100 new Pocket Monsters introduced between the two sequels (and us Europeans wouldn’t get to enjoy the games until 2001!). Dark- and Steel-type Pokémon debuted in Gen 2 along with Pokémon breeding and the concept of time, not to mention the not-inconsiderable addition of colour on the Game Boy Color hardware.

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