In an interview with the former president of Nintendo, it now emerged that the creation of one of the most famous Pokémon would go back to a lucky coincidence. We are talking about the legendary Pokémon Mew.
The curious history of MEW
Did you know that Nintendo's ex-boss runs your own interview format? In the "Iwata asks" format, Satoru Iwata talks to various sizes from the Japanese video game industry. Brand new: an interview with the creators of Pokémon.
In the interview said, it recently emerged that the legendary Pokémon Mew only made it into the first editions, because it happened to be 300 bytes storage space on the module .
However, this was only possible because shortly before the end the debug features were removed from the Greens and the Red Edition. The newly won space on the module was then used for the legendary pocket monster.
A Pokémon becomes a legend in the schoolyard
But the story is not over yet. MEW should not actually appear in the game regularly, but should only be revealed after the release during an action. With a bug many players, however, in advance that there was another Pokémon.
This created the legend of Mew, a Pokémon that could only be catched with with the help of a special glitches . Today, in the age of the Internet, this is of course an old hat for many Pokémon fans.
But at that time Mew provided plenty of conversation on the school playground. Could you really catch the Pokémon? Was Mew ever or you were hugged ice cold.
At this point you should not forget that such statements or claims were difficult or not even not checked at the end of the 2000s or early 2000 . But that was precisely that also made the special charm of MEW that continues to this day.
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