In this video, Did You Know Gaming takes a look at a fascinating piece of Pokemon history that completely flopped, and is frankly awful. This is Pikachu Meets the Press.
Read it yourself on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/pikachu-meets-the-press-scans-20240201-t-200017-z-001
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Special Thanks to HiResPokemon for the scans, Jacob Newcomb for translations, and to SnorlaxMonster for proofreading.
Research/Writing by Dr Lava
Video Editing by TheCartoonGamer
Voice Over by Remix
Sources/Further Reading:
ポケモンストーリー (English title: “Pokemon Story”)(2000 book)
64Dream magazine (Japan), May 1999 issue
Nintendo Dream magazine (Japan), Aug 2001 issue
Nintendo Power magazine (USA), Apr 1993 issue
Nintendo Online Magazine (Japan), Jun 2000 issue (see below for links to both Japanese and English versions)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070325060533/http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0006/04/04c02.html (NOM Jun 2000, Japanese)
https://lavacutcontent.com/masakazu-kubo-pokemon-interview/ (Our English translation of NOM Jun 2000)
https://metroiddatabase.com/old_site/manga/listing.php?vid=1
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