Pokémon Gold and Silver

***Pokémon Gold*** and ***Silver*** are two role-playing video games made by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color handheld. They are the second games in the Pokémon series, and increased the number of Pokémon to 251. The Pokémon Ho-oh and Lugia, respectively, are featured in the boxart. A special version named _Pokémon Crystal_, which had the Pokémon Suicune on the cover, was released around a year later. Pokemon Gold and Silver are backward-compatible with the original Game Boy (except in Korea), but Pokemon Crystal requires a Game Boy Color or Game Boy Advance.

## Gameplay

The games added many new things, such as breeding and a new bag system. There were also ninety nine new Pokémon added.

## Plot

The games take place in a region named Johto. The player is a ten year old kid from New Bark Town, who is sent on a mission from Professor Elm. After completing the mission, the player gets to choose a starter Pokémon, and start a journey. During this journey, the player fights an villainous team, Team Rocket, who is coming back after being defeated by the player of _Pokémon Red_ and _Blue_ and many Gym Leaders so that he can earn Gym Badges. After defeating the Gym Leaders in the Johto region, the player has to travel to the Kanto region to defeat the Gym Leaders living there. After defeating a total of 16 Gym Leaders and 4 Elite Four members and the champion, Lance, Professor Oak, will ask the player to go to Mt. Silver, where the player has to defeat Red, the former champion of Kanto.

## Known issues

The cartridges use a CR2025 lithium battery to keep track of the time and to power the sRAM save mechanism. As these games were released over 15 years ago, the original battery is usually depleted by now. It is possible to replace it, but it requires a special screwdriver bit to open the cartridge and soldering in a tabbed replacement battery. Replacing the battery will erase the game save on the cartridge, if any, unless special precautions (such as backing up and restoring the save file using special hardware, or wiring a temporary battery in parallel with the original while removing it) are taken.

## Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

and  are remakes of _Pokémon Gold_ and _Silver_, developed by Game Freak for the Nintendo DS. They were released on September 12, 2009 in Japan, and were released on March 14, 2010 in North America, March 25, 2010 in Australia and March 26, 2010 in Europe. There are many new features. Like _Pokémon Yellow_, the player's Pokémon can follow them. The games come with a pedometer-like device, called the Pokéwalker, that can let players walk with their Pokémon, and gain Watts, which can be used to battle Pokémon, or dowse for items. They also introduced an item named GB Sounds, which made the music sound like the one used in the original games.

## Infobox (video game)

- **title**: _Pokémon Gold_
_Pokémon Silver_
- **developer**: Game Freak
- **publisher**: Nintendo
- **director**: Satoshi Tajiri
Junichi Masuda
- **designer**: Satoshi Tajiri
- **producer**: Takehiro Izushi
Takashi Kawaguchi
Tsunekazu Ishihara
- **artist**: Ken Sugimori
- **writer**: Toshinobu Matsumiya
Kenji Matsushima
- **composer**: Junichi Masuda
Go Ichinose
Morikazu Aoki
- **genre**: Role-playing video game, Role-playing
- **series**: _Pokémon (video game series), Pokémon_
- **modes**: Single-player video game, Single-player, Multiplayer video game, multiplayer
- **platforms**: Game Boy Color
- **italic title**: no