Underplayed Gems

Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Power Version (2000)

Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Power Version cover
Developer
Natsume Co., Ltd.
Publisher
Smilesoft
Platforms
Game Boy Color
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)

How it feels

A Pokémon-like monster friendship RPG set in a future world where phone-based Denjuu bonding is all the rage.

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About

In the year 2020 it has become possible to travel to the Denjuu world using D-Shots, special mobile phones. Making friends and sharing telephone numbers with Denjuu has become popular among humans. The protagonist, Shigeki, despite having originally arrived in the Denjuu world by accident, becomes determined to travel the world with his new Denjuu companion, and make more new friends while he is there. Keitai Denjuu Telefang (Japanese: 携帯電獣テレファング; Romaji: Keitai Denjuu Terefangu), also known as Telefang 1 (since there are two games in this series), is a video game for Game Boy Color released by Smilesoft in Japan. It is available in two versions, Power and Speed. The game was not released in English, and is best known among English audiences for the a bootlegged game version which was hacked and sold as a fake Pokémon game.

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