POKÉMON YELLOW Yellow was the fourth Generation I (Kanto) entry in the Pokémon franchise, and was made to take advantage of the Pikachu fandom that had developed among kids following the arrival of the TV anime. It did this by replacing the three typical starter monsters with the electric generating marsupial star from the show, and letting you talk to him whenever you wanted. If a kid wanted to be Ash Ketchum, this was probably the closest they were going to get.


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GEX 3D: RETURN OF THE GECKO Gex and the


BODY HARVEST


Body Harvest was one of two games DMA Design (soon to become Rockstar North) made for the Nintendo 64. It was supposed to be a launch title, but eventually arrived in September 1998 with help from Midway. Nintendo had by then backed out of publishing the game, realising that an invasion story about aliens harvesting the human population of Earth for their organic material was perhaps a bit dark for its brand at the time.


villainous Rez faced off with one another for a second time in September 1998 with Return of the Gecko. It took the titular lizard into the third dimension in a Super Mario 64-style TV remote collecting adventure, which had humour that was supposedly inspired by The Simpsons. So important was his snark and parody humour, in fact, that the main character was redubbed in the UK to make him actually funny. Sorry, Dana Gould, but Leslie Phillips will always be the best Gex to us.


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