Nintendo promised Pokemon Stadium for their Nintendo Switch Online service quite a while ago. It’s only now that we’re finally hearing about a date for its arrival. Pokemon Stadium is coming around the middle of next week.
Once, long ago, I beat this entire game. I did everything a man could possibly do in there. I smoked all the cups AND the Round 2 cups that are even harder. I earned “Surfin’ Pikachu,” a variant of #25 that could take you across water in Pokemon Yellow AND unlock a secret surfing minigame there. I unlocked the special alternate title screen and managed to register all 151 Pokemon in the Hall of Fame, which gets you a little wavy graphic of every Pokemon running at five frames a second because it was the N64. I’m here to tell you, Pokemon Stadium doesn’t mess around. The battles are quite a bit more difficult than the ones in the Game Boy game this was meant to complement.
In fact, you were supposed to use your Game Boy Pokemon to battle with using a transfer device that the GB cart snapped into. Without that, you were forced to use rental Pokemon with lower stats, which made the battles even harder. That was your punishment for not owning the whole set like Nintendo wanted.
So now that Stadium has arrived on NSO, with no possible way to use Game Boy Pokemon, how can anyone be expected to get very far? Maybe Nintendo’s not thinking of that. Maybe they should. I don’t know if it’s even possible to beat Round 2 with just rentals, and having that GB Tower on the menu with no way to access it is just mean.
Pokemon Stadium will be added to Nintendo Switch Online April 12. At least try the Sushi-Go-Round minigame — trust me, until you do, you haven’t lived.
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