News Archive - May 2004

This may be a bit late, but Pokemon was fined not to long ago. The reason: Topps and other companies violated the European unitymarket. (Topps is a company that is licensed by Nintendo to sell Pokemon Cards and Stickers.)These companies were fined about 1.59 million euro ($1.94 million in US dollars). The cards were sold more expensive in some countries than others, and this violated Europe's market rules. Since Pokemon sales in Europe have gone so well for the last couple years, Pokemon will recover quickly.

Nintendo has put up a bunch of English Fire Red/Leaf Green screenshots. Click here to check them out.

I have completed the new layout (although you won't see any difference), so hopefully things will look better in MSIE 5. I have also added two new episode guides in the Pokemon Advanced section, and also recoded the entire Character Bios section. Whew!

In the past few days and the next few days, I have and will be recoding the layout of Pokemon Dream. Because of this, certain visitors (those without Microsoft Explorer 6) may be seeing a weird looking layout. I assure you all that this will be fixed.

In addition to that, I've been working with Adobe Photoshop to figure how to make better looking graphics for PD. That's all for now.

Pokemon.com has been updated with more information on the Pokemon Space Party. This is an event at Space Center Houston, going on from May 29th to June 6th. Pokemon fans will be able to play Pokemon games, check out Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green on video, and even get Jirachi transferred to a copy of Ruby/Sapphire! For more details on the Pokemon Space Party, please click here for Pokemon.com's article.

Yesterday, which is Saturday, May 22nd, Pokemon Dream broke its own record. On that day, we received over 3,200 unique visitors, the most ever! In other words, over 3,200 different Pokemon fans from all over the world visited Pokemon Dream. I never thought I'd see this day. I have to thank everyone's support on helping Pokemon Dream become a great site. I will continue to work hard on Pokemon Dream, and make it an even beter site. All I have to say is: life is good, and Pokemon's great!

The old poll is gone, and a new poll is up! The old poll asked: How would you rate Pokemon Colosseum? This time, a total of 810 people voted. 69% voted Excellent, 17% voted Good, 7% voted Okay, 1% voted Bad, and 4% voted very bad. Remember to vote in the new polls. That's all for now.

We have the sales figures for April 2004 for North America. Pokemon is still doing well. Here's a list of all the games and their sales figures in April.

• Pokemon Colosseum: 155,639 (Total: 498,242)
  
• Pokemon Channel: 4,687 (Total: 135,498)
  
• Pokemon Ruby: 54,402 (Total: 1,953,354)
  
• Pokemon Sapphire: 51,576 (Total: 1,767,765)
  
• Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire: 11,602 (Total: 417,047)
  

Pokemon Festa, a summer Pokemon event in Japan, has been announced! Pokemon Festa is a summer time traveling Pokemon experience, held this year from July 17th to August 15th, visiting 11 different locations in Japan. At Pokemon Festa 2004, Pokemon fans will be able to participate in various Pokemon activities and competitions. Of course, Pokemon Festa 2004 is only for Pokemon fans in Japan. For the official Pokemon Festa 2004 website, click here.

To your right is a never-before-seen Pokemon, known as Gonbe. Its physical appearance closely resembles Snorlax (who's Japanese name is Kabigon). In other words, Gonbe is a Pokemon of the fourth generation, and could very possibly be the pre-evolution of Snorlax.

This, of course, cannot be confirmed as of now. However, we are sure that this little chubby Pokemon will appear in the soon to be released 7th movie. For more information on this movie, please click here. Information and picture were found at Pokeschool.com

This is the Nintendo DS, the newest Nintendo handheld system to be on display at this year's E3. As you can see, it has two screens, both at 3-inches wide. The screen on the bottom is a touch screen (you can control it with your fingers or stylus), and they will produce better 3D graphics than the Nintendo 64!

In addition to that, the Nintendo DS has voice recognition, and a wireless feature that can connect up to 16 players. Also, it even has a GBA slot to play GBA games. This looks like the best thing since Pokemon was invented.

Nintendo has added a page on FireRed/LeafGreen with English screenshots and a bunch of information. As most of you may know from the last post, the games will be released on September 9th. It'll come with a Wireless Adapter, so wireless trading, battling, and chatting will be made possible. For the page, click here.

We've known that there will be two Pokemon games soon to be released, and their names are Pokemon FireRed and Pokemon LeafGreen. Now it's official. Pokemon.com has been updated with a news article on the new games, set for release in the U.S. on September 9th of this year. Pokemon Dream is already prepared for the release of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, as we have a very detailed walkthrough of the games for all the fans. To view Pokemon.com's short article, please click here.

You can expect Gameboy Advance Video Cartridges to be released in the next two weeks (in the US) at places like Wal-mart and Toys 'R' us. On these cartridges in the not too distant future, there will also be Cartoon Network's Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog and Dexters Laboratory. From Nickelodeon expect Rugrats (All Grown Up) and SpongeBob SquarePants.

April has passed pretty quickly, and has been a great month for Pokemon Dream. We've gotten record breaking visitor amounts. May has began, and April's News is up. I have also added a Submitted Deck, the first one in about two years. I hope that May will be an even better month for PD.