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Nintendo's official Space World '97 page advertises a revised release date of the last third of March.January-March - The demos of Gold and Silver from Space World '97 are showcased at the World Hobby Fair in various locations around Japan.December 16 - The " Pokémon Shock" event occurs, causing the anime to be halted and delayed for a significant amount of time, and potentially impacting development of games and merchandise.Around that time, the release date was adjusted to March 1998. November 21-23 - Playable demos of Pokémon Gold and Silver debut at Space World '97.November 15 - The demos for Pokémon Gold and Silver at Space World '97 are compiled.September 5 - The week's issue of Famitsu reports that Pokémon 2 will be released in Fall 1997.June - Nintendo's official Pokémon 2 page, archived in June 1997, advertises an initial release date of the end of 1997.April 1 - The Pokémon anime debuts, with Ho-Oh making an appearance near the end of the first episode.July - Pokémon 2 is first publicly announced.February - Development of the games begins almost immediately after the release of Red and Green.Indeed, much of the staff was allocated to working on localizing the first two games, and the development team of Gold and Silver only had about four programmers, which was similar in size to the development team for Red and Green but with the added challenge of creating several new features for the games. There's another version of the New Bark Town music?ĭevelopment of Gold and Silver took significantly longer than Game Freak originally prepared for, which as it turns out was due to several reasons.