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The ultimate Pokémon battle is about to begin...
At long last, all of your favorite Pokémon are ready to go head-to-head on the N64! Whether you're battling a friend, a Gym Leader or a tournament contestant, you're about to witness some of the most spectacular battle scenes in history! Select a team from a huge stable of "rental" battlers, or use the included N64 Transfer Pack to upload your own team from Pokémon Red, Blue or Yellow! This stadium is packed and ready to rock!
Pokémon Stadium (Japanese, title: ポケモンスタジアム Pokémon Stadium, English subtitle: Pocket Monsters' Stadium) is a Nintendo 64 game that allows players to upload and battle their Pokémon from the first generation Pokémon games, Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green in Japan. It features several battle arenas, introducing Stadium Mode's original four cups, the Pika Cup, Petit Cup, Poké Cup, and Prime Cup, the latter two of which would return in the sequel, and the original Gym Leader Castle. It also features new Pokémon cries, a feature that was carried on in the sequel for Pokémon from Generation II.
Unlike the Game Boy games Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, Pokémon Stadium does not have a storyline or a well-defined world, meaning that it is not considered a role-playing video game. Instead the game challenges the player to succeed in trainer battles at the Stadium, a tournament consisting of 4 "Cups" and 80 battles in total, as well as the Gym Leader Castle, where the player battles the 8 Kanto Gym Leaders, the Kanto Elite Four, and the Champion. When all Cups have been won and the Gym Leader Castle is completed, a six-on-one battle against Mewtwo is unlocked. Defeating Mewtwo unlocks another round of Stadium, Gym Leader Castle, and the Mewtwo battle, but with higher AI difficulty.
In Stadium mode, the player is challenged to earn trophies by winning the Pika Cup, Petit Cup, Poké Cup, and Prime Cup, each having its own set of rules and restrictions. In the Poké and Prime Cups, four trophies may be earned, one for each level of difficulty. The Pika and Petit Cups only award one trophy each. After choosing a Cup to compete in, the player decides on a party of six Pokémon, which may include available rental Pokémon and/or Pokémon imported from a Game Boy cartridge of Pokémon Red, Blue, or Yellow. In each battle, the player and the opponent are only allowed to use three of their six party Pokémon. The player will win a trophy after successfully completing all battles in a Cup. If certain conditions are met using imported Pokémon from a Game Boy cartridge, the player will be awarded a Pikachu with the move Surf, which unlocks a mini-game in Pokémon Yellow.
In the Gym Leader Castle, the player initially challenges the eight Kanto Gym Leaders from the Game Boy games, followed by the Elite Four, and finally the Champion. Before battling a Gym Leader, however, the player must defeat a gym's three Pokémon trainers. Like in the Stadium, the player has to pick a team of six Pokémon and may only use three at a time for battling.
About this LP!
This LP will be a bit different from some of the others I've done, namely because unlike the main Pokemon games, Pokemon Stadium does not have a story or 'adventure', but rather a series of battles and challenges to go through. But, this will still be a narrative LP with loads of screenshots and writing! I'm going to be tweaking the setting a bit here though, and give 'trainers' personality, and maybe an original plot here and there involving the setting (White City, not to be confused with Pokemon White/Black), and with the cups. Even if you hadn't played Pokemon Stadium before, I'll try to make this as accessible as possible for everyone reading it!
In this Playthrough
Now, normally with some cups, there will be different levels of difficulty (Pokeball, Great Ball, Ultra Ball, Masterball). I won't lie, doing all these levels for this LP and screenshotting them all is... pretty tedious. So, I'll only focus on the Masterball rank, and even the R-2 Masterball rank when the time comes. Speaking of R-2, that will come in it's own section. Anyway, this isn't a narrative masterpiece or anything, but there's also some cool moments that shouldn't be ruined! Updates will come... whenever I have time, but hopefully consistently.
Prologue Part I
