A new Pokรฉmon 30th Anniversary official release is set to bring Pokรฉmon fans all the way back to the original games: Pokรฉmon Red, Pokรฉmon Blue, and Pokรฉmon Yellow. Unfortunately, the 30th anniversary of the series has been uneventful. And to make it worse, Pokรฉmon Winds and Waves won’t be out in time either. There was the Nintendo Switch re-release of Pokรฉmon FireRed and LeafGreen earlier this year, which was a nice surprise, but Pokรฉmon fans are yearning for more.
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To ease the disappointment a little bit, there is a new nostalgic release for hardcore Pokรฉmon fans. More specifically, new, special, and limited merchandise that celebrates the entire history of the series, from the latest mainline games all the way back to the first-ever Pokรฉmon games. The new release launched on June 18 via the Pokรฉmon Center Online, and features special T-shirts, shiny pins, magnets, and collectible pouches all stylized for each and every mainline game in the series, but only mainline games. Spin-off games have not received any love. That said, Pokรฉmon Legends: Arceus and Pokรฉmon Legends: Z-A are included as they are technically mainline games, despite some considering them spin-off games. Lastly, there is also a special set featuring all the package pins from all the games displayed in a special picture frame.
More Releases Coming
Some of the items instantly sold out, as you would expect, but it’s been promised by the Pokemon Center Online that any item that sells out will return for sale in the future, at some point, but there’s no word on when second waves will arrive or if there will be any additional waves after the second wave. Meanwhile, more media of all the products featured in the new promotion can be seen here.
As for where all the game releases are, we don’t know. It’s understood that Pokรฉmon Winds and Waves were originally supposed to release in 2026, which would have been the main release for the celebrations to go with the aforementioned Pokรฉmon FireRed and LeafGreen re-releases. Meanwhile, there’s some scuttlebutt that more was originally planned, but ended up getting delayed, which means 2027 could end up being a really great year for Pokรฉmon fans. That said, it’s also simply a reality that while Nintendo does give fans something on milestone anniversaries, it’s usually less than what fans are anticipating and yearning for.
All of that said, and as always, feel free to leave a comment or two letting us know what you think, or join the Pokรฉmon conversations happening over on the ComicBook Forum.
