Twitter user Sindorman recently posted two images created in the likeness of early Pokemon games with a caption pondering what handheld game adaptions of the Pokemon movies would have been like if they were released at the time. While there have been over a dozen Pokemon movies released since the original, Sindorman’s post focuses on Pokemon: The First Movie and Pokemon 2,000. Given that these films were both released in 1999, the fan art is inspired by the art of Pokemon Gold and Silver which were both released between the movie premieres.
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The first Sindorman fan art fittingly centers on Pokemon: The First Movie and one of its key moments towards the end of the movie. As several Pokemon are clashing with their clones with Mewtwo encouraging them, Pokemon anime hero Ash turns to stone after blocking a powerful psychic blast from Mewtwo. This interference causes all the Pokemon to pause their fighting and cry out for the Pokemon trainer, beginning with Pikachu, which is the moment that has been encapsulated by Sindorman’s fan art. Standing in the middle of a Pokemon stadium between Mew and Mewtwo with all the Pokemon sprites looking on, Pikachu and Ash share the tear-jerking moment in Sindorman’s Game Boy interpretation of the scene just as they do in the movie.
Joining the many Pokemon watching Pikachu and Ash in Pokemon: The First Movie’s Game Boy adaptation from Sindorman are Brock, Misty, and Nurse Joy who all play an important role in the film. The Pokemon included in Sindorman’s fan art of the scene beyond the aforementioned Mew and Mewtwo are Arbok, Tentacruel, Nidoqueen, Nintetales, Squirtle, Vileplume, and Wigglytuff, Because the Pokemon lineup grew with Pokemon Gold and Silver, Pokemon 2,000 and its corresponding fan art from Sindorman had fresh faces like Slowking and the Legendary Pokemon Lugia.
Taking up a large portion of Sindorman’s mostly green Game Boy screen for Pokemon 2,000 is Lugia who stares directly at Ash, Misty, and Tracey standing between several stone pillars on Shamouti Island. While Pokemon 2,000 focused on a prophecy about the three Legendary birds from Pokemon Generation 1, the three birds are left out of Sindorman’s Game Boy version. The color pallet included in Sindorman’s imagining of Game Boy adaptations of Pokemon: The First Movie and Pokemon 2,000 is evidently not the same color scheme used in Pokemon Red and Blue. The Pokemon: The First Movie fan art alone includes various shades of blue, purple, and pink that wouldn’t have been possible in the original generation of Pokemon due to hardware limitations.
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