Pokémon Factory Adventure (2020)

Platforms: Game Boy Color
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Main story: about 38 hours
Completionist: about 60 hours

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A fan-made Pokemon hack set in a mutation-plagued Kanto where Red returns as a detective to uncover a sinister conspiracy.

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About

A hack based on Roaming Red by TShadowKnight The year is 199X. Several months after becoming champion of the Kanto Region, Red is called back by Blue to help on a secret mystery-solving mission! In Red's absence the Kanto region has been overtaken by a strange mist that mutates Pokemon into shocking new forms, and the military has instated a lockdown! Are you a bad enough detective to discover the origin of the mutations and save Kanto? This hack is based on a fansite from the late 90s called The Pokemon Factory". On it, fans would email in their ideas for new Pokemon to the site's artists who would make sprites and Pokedex entries of them to be displayed. These Pokedex mockups have made the rounds on the internet in the years since, with some even gaining notoriety as "Pokegods".

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