   are the second installments of the pokÃ©mon series of role-playing video games developed by game freak and published by nintendo; developed for the game boy, the games were enhanced for its successor, the game boy color, and marketed for the latter console. they were first released in japan in 1999, australia and north america in 2000, and europe in 2001. pokÃ©mon crystal, a special edition version, was released for the game boy color roughly a year later in each region. in 2009, nintendo remade gold and silver for the nintendo ds as pokÃ©mon heartgold and soulsilver. the games introduce 100 new species of pokÃ©mon, and follow the progress of the central character, whose name the player may choose, in his quest to master pokÃ©mon battling. both games are independent of each other but feature largely the same plot and, while both can be played separately, it is necessary to trade between them and their backward compatible predecessors in order to fully complete the games' pokÃ©dexes. the johto saga of the pokÃ©mon anime is based on the new region introduced in the g
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