Pokémon Silver Version (1999)

9440 members have it in their collection · 118 playing now · 593 backlogged · 418 wish listed

How long? Main story 25h · with extras 70h · 100% 85h (from 27 logged playthroughs)

Details

Developers: Game Freak
Publishers: Gradiente, Nintendo
Genres: Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes: Action, Fantasy, Kids
Franchises: Pokémon
Series: Pokémon
Events: Pokémon Direct 6.6.2017, Nintendo Space World '99, Nintendo Spaceworld '97

Release dates

Nov 21, 1999 (Full Release) (Japan) Game Boy Color
Oct 13, 2000 (Full Release) (Australia) Game Boy Color
Oct 15, 2000 (Full Release) (North_America) Game Boy Color
2000 (Full Release) (Brazil) Game Boy Color
Apr 06, 2001 (Full Release) (Europe) Game Boy Color
Sep 22, 2017 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo 3DS
Sep 22, 2017 (Full Release) (China) Nintendo 3DS
Sep 22, 2017 (Full Release) (Korea) Nintendo 3DS
Sep 22, 2017 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo 3DS
Sep 22, 2017 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo 3DS

Remakes

Pokémon SoulSilver Version (Sep 2009)

Expanded versions

Pokémon Crystal Version (Dec 2000)

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Rating distribution

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Review Freezius 4/5 · Jan 6, 2025

My favorite Pokemon Game

This is my favorite Pokemon Game well, Gold/Silver/Crystal as a trio. While it isn't my highest rated Pokemon Game it's still my personal favorite! My reasons being, the first game (probably cause its gen 2 so not much competition lol) game with 2 full regions! Kanto did feel a little flat in some aspects which was unfortunate but this was …

Review CrowThoron 4/5 · Apr 11, 2023

Played both Gold and Silver found them enjoyable however the level curve past gym 4 is a little questionable given the technical ‘non linear’ story progression from this point.

Review MellyHeals 4/5 · Nov 2, 2019

Pokeyman Gald

I love heartgold but the old gameboy color charm is unbeatable, Johto's my favorite region by far and i feel like it has the most endearing pokemon designs.

4.5 out of 5, a golden experience wink wink nudge nudge

(Ps : I should really bring a jacket for Red next time i go see him, he must be freezing up …

Review Connor 5/5 · May 30, 2019

2-in-1

Bro it fucked me upppp when I realized they put a whole 2nd game inside this one. A god's gift for a ten-year old

Review LightNovelFan 3/5 · Feb 12, 2019

Fun when I was a kid. Not as much now. I prefer the remakes though.

Review Myffanwy 4/5 · Nov 16, 2018

Fond memories

First Pokemon game I actually owned.

First time I put 100+ hours into a game.

First time I learned that siblings are God's way of punishing us as my younger sister stole my game and erased my save when I was at school.

I do not forget. I do not forgive.

Review SailorStar 5/5 · Oct 3, 2018

I sunk hundreds of hours into this bad boy, collecting every Berry every day, battling the special trainers and raising my team of legendary pokémon to Level 100. If I'd known about EV training and the nuances of breeding, I probably would have engineered the perfect team, but alas those were the days before the internet in my household.

Review Mazinkaiser 3/5 · Apr 21, 2018

Pokemon Gold/Silver - Packed But Still Lacking

It's no mystery that Pokemon as a series was seen to reach its pinnacle around this point. Generational opinions aside, this came at a time while Pokemon catching was still fresh and in a feat of mechanical wonder, twice the amount of content of the original and color graphics was packed into an itty bitty cartridge. Problem is, if the original Red/Blue was still relatively grindy and didn't encourage fleshing out a team of Pokemon, this one pretty much does the same thing but with More Pokemon!

Starting out on an adventure in the Johto region, you make your way through the similar adventure of catching and training Pokemon. Pokemon can now hold items to use in battle, events and Pokemon can be determined by a real-time clock, and there are small asides to legendaries and the strange Unown. The color graphics are more pleasing to the eye, but the screech of the soundtrack is surprisingly unpleasant. I don't know if it's just rose-colored hearing aids, but the GB rendition of these tunes does not age well.

Mechanically speaking, there are more Pokemon and thus should be more strategies, including the Dark and Steel types. However, there's just not a lot you can do to avoid mindlessly grinding unless you want to take a relatively strong Pokemon and brute-force the entire game. Me and my Level 85 Typhlosion can attest to that. Granted, there's always a harder way to play the game based on self-restricting tendencies, but I just wanted to feel like there was more stimulus to catch and evolve em' all instead of losing my mind in determined power-leveling in grass.

And...that's it. Gold/Silver plays off of the nostalgia of the first game but can't really escape what it is at its core - a system that comes off as a bit grindy and with narrow focus, but at least the creatures are varied and adorable. Hell, if we went off of technical feats alone, this baby would get 5/5, but for the shining boy of the Pokemon series, it only has nostalgia and a breezy playthrough going for it.

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Review Phalk 5/5 · Nov 19, 2016

A classic that aged very well

I recently took the time to replay Pokémon Silver. The game still has all it's magic. It's truly a classic and didn't even need those remakes that were made for the Nintendo DS a while back.

The pacing is very nice, graphics are top notch for the Gameboy Color (it still looks beautiful even for today standards on retro stuff), …