>>49020401>>49020407Furthermore, if the fact that Cloyster and Shellder got swapped around isn't enough for you, we also have the case of Magnemite and Magneton. In a USUM official guide book, Sugimori stated:
>I suppose the first example of using an inorganic object for a Pokémon’s motif must have been Magnemite, in Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green. That was an idea that the games’ director Satoshi Tajiri thought up. On the work order, he’d just written something like: “A magnet Pokémon” (Laughs) then I designed it.Now, Magneton is in a much earlier slot, we even see the fucking obscure grainy art of it in the Satoshi Tajiri manga. No date for the poll has been revealed, but it's likely to be sometime in 1992 or 1993. If you want to get into the shit from the Gen 1 source code leak (which I don't necessarily want to) I'd like to point out the duplicate Magneton backsprite in a different slot. Basically Gen 1's development involved a lot of shuffling of things.
