[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

I agree. But lets agree the first pokemon game was a test. The developers never expect that game be success like that. And now many years later pokemon its a bomb of success and one of the most successful franchise.

Well, I wouldn't quite call it a test.  More of an experiment, maybe.  Test would imply they were expecting to make more of them if the original did well.

I think we can agree that wonky movepools certainly makes for some fun variety that a lot of more recent pokemon tend to lack, though.  Though why certain TMs exist in the first place in the first gen is certainly a head scratcher...