Non-Pokémon Games by Pokémon Devs | Game Freak Doesn't Need Pikachu

Believe it or not, the Pokemon developers, Game Freak, are actually responsible for a lot of titles that AREN'T Pokemon! Everyone may prefer their monster-catching adventures, but let's take a look at some of the adventures where you DON'T see a single Pikachu. These are Non-Pokemon games by the Pokemon devs!

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[QueuedUp_]

Actually, in Pokemon X and Y, there's a NPC in Lumiose City who references Harmo Knight. He says "I've been playing this game where this little dude smacks around enemies to the beat of the music."

[UltimaShadowX]

What is even cooler about Pulseman is that Pikachu's signature move, Volt Tackle, comes from the same attack Pulseman has. Really love that Game Freak gives nods to their non-Pokémon games in Pokémon.

[Patterrz]

I remember everyone being excited for Little Town Hero and immediately dropping it the day after it came out

[dannykazari]

Pulseman is great, there's a lot of stuff in it that would later become stuff in Pokemon. There's a boss that's an Onix, an enemy that's a Remoraid, Pulseman's signature move being Volt Tackle, one of the stage themes is Barry's battle theme, and even more.

[ChristopherMoom]

Wonder how Toby Fox feels about having the opportunity to work on music for Game Freak (Which, reminder, is really huge), only for Little Town Hero's reception to be either nonexistent or negative, it's really unfortunate what happened with the game

At the very least, it isn't NEARLY as bad as what happened with Yiik

[mechashadow]

12:35 see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil into a game mechanism? Sounds intriguing.
Real Glad to see finally someone share the love for Pocket Card Jockey. Man I was so addicted back in the day.

[genemelendez]

Whoever wrote the dialogue for Pocket Card Jockey deserved a raise

[misterzygarde]

I’d be down for Tembo The Badass Elephant to be ported to Switch. Especially since they could advertise it as “from the creators of Pokemon”

Also Smart Ball 2 is mostly complete and floating around.

[shawnheatherly]

As someone who beat Little Town Hero out of obligation, you're not missing much if you just ignore it.

[Dorian_Scott]

Drill Dozer is *SO* underrated. Really sucks that not many people know about it and it's super rare.

[mathewricafrente]

It's so weird how GF has had involvement in games that aren't even on Nintendo systems. I guess they can make games for other systems as long as the word Pokémon isn't on the box.

[nickk]

I remember getting Drill Dozer because I just finished Wario Land 4 for the first time and loving it and I wanted another experience similar to that. Drill Dozer ended up being very Wario-like and because it's been over 12 years since the last 2D Wario game, I appreciate that!

[AngelicMissMarie]

It's actually pretty common for companies to work on smaller projects alongside the bigger ones to prevent burnout, you're the first person I've seen mention it. LTH didn't have that big of a budget and was made by a small team of less than a handful of people so I don't get why it was pushed so hard.

[julianxrl]

What a coincidence, not too long ago, I actually started to play Drill Dozer.

Something neat I discovered is that some games like Superstar Saga and Pokémon Pinball are rumble compatible via Gameboy Player... pretty neat stuff!

[briansilva]

8:10 of course you and most people haven't heard of it, the damn thing not only never left Japan, but to this very day, the anime is one of the few who does not have an Fansub, a darn shame, the show is so cute and adorable.

[PKSparkxxDH]

17:25 I saw this coming, and I STILL LOL'd when you said it.

[blackcowboymusic]

Tembo the Badass Elephant wasn't perfect but the game was just fun, glad to see it get some love!

[MegaManNeo]

I remember especially Tempo and Little Town Hero because those were games made by Game Freak that made everyone go wtf because its not Pokémon.
On a side note, most of these in between Pokémon games actually exist because they want to stay creative with more games than just Pokémon.

[kallyle]

This makes me want a Kingdom Hearts style game with different Game Freak properties in a manner that properly utilizes the Ultra Space concept from the Alola games.

[BugsyFoga]

“I’m like a hello fresh shill at this point”

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