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Pokémon Silver Version cover

1999 · Game Freak · Role-playing · Turn-based strategy

Pokémon Silver Version

Nintendo exclusive

Pokemon Silver is a role-playing game played from a top-down perspective, in which the player explores the world, catches wild creatures called Pokemon, and trains them through turn-based battles. Set in the Johto region, it continues the core loop of building a team, earning Gym Badges, and completing the Pokedex by capturing, evolving, and trading creatures. This entry introduced 100 new Pokemon along with additions such as a real-time internal clock that affects certain events, Pokemon breeding, held items, and two new creature types. It supports linking with other games in the series to trade and battle.

Released
21 November 1999
Platforms
Game Boy ColorNintendo 3DS
Genres
Role-playingTurn-based strategyAdventure
Developers
Game Freak
Publishers
NintendoGradiente
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Bird view / IsometricSide view
Themes
ActionFantasyKids
Age ratings
PEGI 12ESRB ECERO AUSK 0
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
45hwith extras
›Story

In Pokemon Silver, the player is a young Trainer starting out in the Johto region. After receiving a first partner Pokemon from the local researcher Professor Elm, the player sets out to travel across Johto, catching and training Pokemon while working toward the eight Gym Badges needed to challenge the region's strongest Trainers. Along the way, the player is repeatedly tested by a mysterious rival who took one of Professor Elm's other Pokemon, and encounters the criminal group Team Rocket as it tries to regroup and return to its former activities. The journey unfolds across towns, routes, caves, and seas filled with wild Pokemon to discover.

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Media

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Game Boy Color21 November 1999Japan · Australia 13 October 2000 · North America 15 October 2000 · Brazil 31 December 2000 · Europe 6 April 2001
Nintendo 3DS22 September 2017Europe · North America 22 September 2017 · Japan 22 September 2017 · Korea 22 September 2017 · China 22 September 2017

Editions and related releases

Expanded editions
Pokémon Crystal Version
Remade as
Pokémon SoulSilver Version
Built on it
Pokémon Crystal VersionPokémon SoulSilver

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