{"id":12653,"date":"2017-12-14T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=12653"},"modified":"2017-12-14T11:42:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:42:40","slug":"pokemon-crystal-coming-to-nintendo-eshop-on-nintendo-3ds-on-january-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2017\/12\/pokemon-crystal-coming-to-nintendo-eshop-on-nintendo-3ds-on-january-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Crystal coming to Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS on January 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When it launched in Japan 17 years ago, <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Crystal<\/strong> introduced many new and exciting elements to the beloved Pok\u00e9mon franchise. The game, an expanded version of the popular <em>Pok\u00e9mon Gold<\/em> and <em>Pok\u00e9mon Silver<\/em> games, was the first in the Pok\u00e9mon franchise to allow players to choose between a boy or girl playable character, as well as being the first game to introduce animations during Pok\u00e9mon battles.<\/p>\n<p>Now this groundbreaking game is coming to Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo 3DS family of systems on Januart 26th for only $12.89 CAD.<\/p>\n<p>On the day it launches, Pok\u00e9mon Crystal will also be compatible with Pok\u00e9mon Bank, a paid service that lets players bring select Pok\u00e9mon from classic core games to the newest core games in the series. With the addition of Pok\u00e9mon Crystal to this service, it is now possible for players to bring Pok\u00e9mon from all 29 core games in the series to Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun and Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Moon.<\/p>\n<p>In this version of Pok\u00e9mon Crystal, players will also have the chance to encounter the mythical Pok\u00e9mon Celebi in an event after completing the game. In the original Pok\u00e9mon Crystal game, Celebi could only be obtained by using a special accessory.<\/p>\n<p>As with the Nintendo eShop editions of Pok\u00e9mon Gold and Pok\u00e9mon Silver, Pok\u00e9mon Crystal will take advantage of the wireless communication capabilities of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, allowing players to enjoy Link Trades and Link Battles with each other. With the Time Capsule feature, players can even trade and battle Pok\u00e9mon from Pok\u00e9mon Red, Pok\u00e9mon Blue and Pok\u00e9mon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition, which are all also available in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aW_Yi54JEUk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it launched in Japan 17 years ago, Pok\u00e9mon Crystal introduced many new and exciting elements to the beloved Pok\u00e9mon franchise. The game, an expanded version of the popular Pok\u00e9mon Gold and Pok\u00e9mon Silver games, was the first in the Pok\u00e9mon franchise to allow players to choose between a boy or girl playable character, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21],"tags":[1386,1385,125,752,199],"class_list":["post-12653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-3ds","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-3ds","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-bank","tag-virtual-console"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/XhzLq-Ayi6RnlXjaFD9UwhRnG8DmMnnd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-3i5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8727,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2015\/12\/pokemon-2ds-bundles-coming-to-japan\/","url_meta":{"origin":12653,"position":0},"title":"Pok\u00e9mon 2DS Bundles Coming to Japan","date":"December 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Released nearly 20 years ago, the original Pok\u00e9mon games are coming to the 3DS Virtual Console. 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