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    Pokémon Dash

    Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Dec 02, 2004

    A Pokemon based top down racer that was released near the start of the DS life cycle. It featured one new character, Munchlax, from the (then) unreleased Diamond/Pearl.

    Short summary describing this game.

    Pokémon Dash last edited by Aruru-san on 09/22/21 04:12AM View full history

    Overview

    Pokemon dash is a Nintendo DS racing game based on the Pokémon Franchise.

    Plot

    Pikachu frolicking
    Pikachu frolicking

    Players control Pokémon in a race, just one more competition for the psuedo-animals as no real story is implemented.

    Gameplay

    Players rub the DS touch screen to guide their chosen racer around a Pokémon shaped race track, from a top down view. This game was largely considered one of the worst Pokemon spin-off games.

    What made it what it was

    Meowth in a neck on race
    Meowth in a neck on race

    Essentially this game was a tech-demo for the (then) newly launched Nintendo DS. It featured touchscreen only controls, adding to the experience that you are racing animals not vehicles, because you had to actually work a bit more than just pushing buttons. It also had GBA slot 2 connectivity with all GBA Pokemon games. Insterting one of these allowed you to ulock new tracks based on which pokemon you had captured on the cartidge.

    Nintendo knew that the Pokemon name would move the game no matter what, so they used it as a jumping board to aclimate users to DS touch screen. Much in the same way that Nintendo uses Wii-play to "teach" the new controller scheme.

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