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The game was released in Japan on December 14, 2000 and on July 21, 2001 in North America. It was followed by the Game Boy Advance games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
Pokémon Crystal was an enhanced remake of Pokémon Gold and Silver.
In addition to the new 100 Pokémon introduced to the series in Gold and Silver, Pokémon Crystal featured the ability to allow players to finally choose what sex they want to play as, male or female. This is a feature that has been used in all games made after Crystal except for Pokémon ColosseumPokemon Colosseum is the GameCube incarnation of the Pokemon video game franchise. It follows the idea of the Nintendo 64 Pokemon Stadium video game series. The game was released in Japan on November 21, 2003, and was released in North America on March 23.
One of the game's biggest additions was the Battle Tower. A new building was added west of the city of Olivine which allowed players to participate in Pokémon StadiumPokemon Stadium is the Nintendo 64 incarnation of the Pokemon video game series. Games Pokemon Stadium The first game of the series, called Pokemon Stadium was released in Japan in 1998. This version featured only around 50 Pokemon, not the full 151 Pokem-like fights.
A focus on the Pokémon SuicuneSuicine is one of the three Legendary dogs (the other two being Raikou and Entei) in the games Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal. In the Pokemon Anime, Suicune made a feature appearance during the movie: Voice of the Forest. It also appears in quite a few was also added as a subplot. Some Crystal-only events involve running into a man named Eusine, who is hunting Suicune as well.
Another feature introduced in Crystal and later reused is the Move Tutor. After the Elite Four is defeated, a man would start appearing twice a week who would teach the player's Pokémon one of three moves – Flamethrower, Ice Beam, or Thunderbolt – if they could learn the move. In Crystal, this required Game Center coins.
The player would also receive a new egg from the Daycare Couple for free. This was in addition to the egg players would receive earlier in the game, making two eggs they would get in the game without doing any breeding.
In the JapaneseThe term Japanese can have several meanings: Japan Mainland Japan Japanese people people of Japanese ancestry living in Japan Ethnic Japanese people of Japanese ancestry living outside Japan Japanese-American an article primarily about the immigration and version of Crystal, the player could link up with others through the use of a mobile phone. The Goldenrod City Pokémon Center was replaced by a much larger building which included the machine to use this feature. Using the mobile phone link-up would give the player an extra item, a GS Ball . After taking the Ball to Kurt in Azalea Town to examine, the player must place the GS Ball in the Ilex Forest shrine. This causes a level 30 CelebiHo-oh (#250) Celebi Treecko (#252) General Name ( Japanese), NumberCelebi (Serebii), 251 Stage Basic Evolves from none Evolves to none Battle Hit points100 Attack100 Defense100 Speed100 Special attack 100 Special defense 100 Biological Species Timetravel to fly down and attack the player. Two Gameshark codes can be used to activate the GS Ball related events and eventually catch CelebiHo-oh (#250) Celebi Treecko (#252) General Name ( Japanese), NumberCelebi (Serebii), 251 Stage Basic Evolves from none Evolves to none Battle Hit points100 Attack100 Defense100 Speed100 Special attack 100 Special defense 100 Biological Species Timetravel in the English version of Crystal.