As Pokémon has become one of Nintendo's dominant franchises, it has made appearances across various platforms in a variety of non-Pokémon specific games. Most notably Pokémon has appeared within the Smash Bros series, which is covered on this site, but Pokémon has also appeared in a variety of official Nintendo games. This page is to detail all of its appearances
Splatoon 3 | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo Switch Splatoon 3 is the third iteration of Nintendo's hit third person shooting game where you play as Inklings and have to face off against eachother in various modes to see who can cover the most course in ink. From time to time, Splatfests are held which have players select between three teams and compete to show which team is the best. Pokémon appears via these Splatfests |
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Tetris 99 | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo Switch Tetris 99 is a Battle Royale version of the Tetris game and puts you against 98 other players worldwide for matches. Your task is to clear lines using the various puzzle pieces and doing combos in order to send garbage lines to other players so that you become the victor. In March of 2019, the game introduced Maximus Cups, a special competition where, for the weekend, players would face off against eachother in order to earn points. First this was for a reward of My Nintendo Gold Points but, in April 2019, customisation was added and themes started to exist |
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Animal Crossing Pocket Camp | |||||||||
Console: iOS/Android Ahead of the launch of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee!, a collaboration went live in the mobile game, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. This game is a mobile version of Animal Crossing where, instead of joining a town, you make a campsite where you can encounter various villagers and gather materials while doing various quests. One of the event styles is a special Scavenger Hunt where you collect various special Gyroids and use them to craft various items. On October 12th 2018, a special Poké Ball Scavenger Hunt began. This has you hunt down various Poké Balls rather than Gyroids which can then be utilised to pay for the special items. Once the items are obtained, they can forever be in your game. |
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Swapdoodle | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo 3DS Swapdoodle is the successor to Swapnote and allows for you to handwrite various messages to send to other Nintendo 3DS owners on your friend list. It soon got functionality to tie in with Nintendo Badge Arcade and, as of October 18th 2017 allows for the Pokémon badges obtained within that game to be used to decorate your messages. You can use up to 4 badges on each message. |
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Nintendo Badge Arcade | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Badge Arcade (Collectible Badge Center in Japan) is a free piece of downloadable software that lets you use a crane machine style game to collect various badges. These badges can then be used to decorate your home menu and often provide home menu themes to fit it. You get free attempts each day to get badges, or you can pay to get more attempts at 90¥/Ł0.90/€1.00/$1.00 for 5 attempts. Most Nintendo franchises have had a variety of panels introduced and on September 17th 2015, Pokémon had the first panels introduced |
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Splatoon | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo Wii U Splatoon is Nintendo's hit third person shooting game where you play as Inklings and have to face off against eachother in various modes to see who can cover the most course in ink. From time to time, there are various special events called SplatFests and in these Splatfests, you pick between two teams and face off against to see who is the best. Pokémon appears via these Splatfests |
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Super Mario Maker | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo Wii U In Super Mario Maker, you can get various costumes to access through the Mystery Mushroom in the Super Mario Bros. style. These costumes can be of a variety of characters from many Nintendo franchises, and this includes Pokémon. To get the costumes, you either have to scan the appropriate amiibo or complete the 100 Mario Challenge where you will receive a random costume for doing so. There are 9 different Pokémon costumes in this game, each with different animations but they lack additional Pokémon related sound effects. |
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StreetPass Plaza - Puzzle Swap | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo 3DS Puzzle Swap is a part of the built-in application on the Nintendo 3DS called StreetPass Plaza. As you StreetPass other players, you'll be able to receive puzzle pieces from them, or spend 2 Play Coins to get a puzzle piece. Various panels get sent through SpotPass to celebrate a variety of games and when the puzzle is complete, then you can watch a special animation. Pokémon is one of the many franchises which has had representation in this piece of software
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Swapnote / Nintendo Letterbox | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo 3DS Swapnote, known in Europe as Nintendo Letterbox, is a piece of free download software available on the Nintendo 3DS eShop. This game allows you to send various messages to other players across the world but, after writing 20 messages, you get the ability to save and use new stationery. This stationery has specific themes and numerous Pokémon themed stationery has been released. This stationery typically requires you to have a game played on the 3DS. The stationery is as follows |
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HarmoKnight | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo 3DS HarmoKnight is a platform game developed by the developer of the main series Pokémon games, GameFreak. This game has you play as Tempo as he travels through the stages hitting enemies and jumping to the tune of the music. This game has five stages which feature Pokémon music and backgrounds. The five levels feature the following music
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Mario Artist: Paint Studio | |||||||||
Console: Nintendo 64 DD This Japanese-only Nintendo 64 DD game is the sequel to Mario Paint and allowed for you to draw various art designs using a special mouse that came with the game. As with the original Mario Paint, you can add various stickers onto your art, and with the power of the Nintendo 64, it allowed for you to paste in artwork of the Pokémon from Bulbasaur to Mew |
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GameBoy Camera | |||||||||
Console: GameBoy The special GameBoy Camera peripheral for the GameBoy and GameBoy Color came out within 1998 and within it, like with Mario Artist, came a variety of Pokémon stamps. These stamps can be placed upon your photographs and feature Pokémon sprites from Pokémon Red & Blue of Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle and Pikachu across all verisons, Rattata, Nidoran, Clefairy, Cubone, Poliwhirl & Eevee in the Japanese version and Mew and Meowth in the International version. Several pictures were pre-loaded onto the game including various other Pokémon such as Mewtwo. Finally, the Japanese version has several borders which can be printed out. These featured Red on a bicycle, Blastoise and Pikachu & Clefairy. In addition to this, a special Pokémon themed printer was released for use with the GameBoy Camera, and it even had some features within Pokémon Yellow, Gold, Silver & Crystal |
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Picross NP Vol. 1 | |||||||||
Console: Super Nintendo Following the cancellation of the once mentioned Pokémon Picross, Pokémon appeared in a Picross style on the Japanese only Picross NP Vol. 1. In this game, there was a variety of Pokémon Puzzles, specifically focusing on Meowth, Mr. Mime, Psyduck, Clefairy, Togepi, Electrode, Gloom, Pikachu, Zapdos, Rapidash, Poliwag & Snorlax, each with advancing difficulty. |
Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Console: Nintendo Switch Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the 20th anniversary game features not only 70 songs as standard but a music pass containing over 500 more songs
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Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Console: Nintendo Switch Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the Nintendo Switch version includes over 70 songs, including 1 Pokémon song. This was the same globally.
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Console: Nintendo Gamecube Donkey Konga is a drum based game with various Pokémon themes within them.
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Console: Nintendo Gamecube Donkey Konga is a drum based game with various Pokémon themes within them.
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Console: Nintendo Gamecube Donkey Konga is a drum based game with various Pokémon themes within them.
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Console: Nintendo Wii U In the Japan only version of Just Dance, the ending theme for the Pokémon Best Wishes Season 2 Anime was included.
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Taiko no Tatsujin: Dokodon! Mystery Adventure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Console: Nintendo 3DS Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the Nintendo 3DS version includes over 70 songs, including 1 Pokémon song and was used in the various campaigns in the game.
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Taiko no Tatsujin: Collection☆Battle of the Friends | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Console: Nintendo Wii U Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the third Wii U version includes over 70 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Console: Nintendo Wii U Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the second Wii U version includes over 70 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Taiko no Tatsujin: Donto's Space-Time Adventure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Console: Nintendo 3DS Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the second 3DS version includes over 60 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Console: iOS & Android The Taiko no Tatsujin Plus game on smart devices included various Pokémon music added in through add-on content.
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Console: Nintendo Wii U Deviating from the trend of including Pokémon anime music, Taiko no Tatsujin: Wii U Version included some Pokémon game music.
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Console: Nintendo Wii Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the fifth Wii version includes over 60 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Taiko no Tatsujin: Baby Dragon & the Magical Orb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Console: Nintendo 3DS Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the first 3DS version includes over 60 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Console: Nintendo Wii Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the fourth Wii version includes over 60 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Taiko no Tatsujin: Wii Party With Everyone 3rd Generation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Console: Nintendo Wii Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the fourth Wii version includes over 60 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Console: Nintendo Wii Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the third DS version includes over 60 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Console: Nintendo Wii Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the second Wii version includes over 60 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Console: Nintendo Wii Continuing on the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, the first Wii version includes over 60 songs, including 1 Pokémon song.
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Console: Sony Playstation 2 The Taiko no Tatsujin game on the Playstation 2 started the tradition of Pokémon anime music inclusion in the Taiko no Tatsujin series, including 1 Pokémon song.
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