

Game developers did not remove several glitches from the 2016 re-releases of Pokémon Red and Blue on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, and players can encounter MissingNo. The company warned that "any contact with it (even if you don't catch it) could easily erase your game file or disrupt your graphics". to appear in the May 1999 issue of Nintendo Power. Nintendo of America first documented the events that cause MissingNo. is not one of the official Pokémon species that players are meant to encounter, but it is accessible to players of European and North American copies of the games by a glitch. The ultimate goal of the games is to complete the entries in the Pokémon index (Pokédex), a comprehensive Pokémon encyclopedia, by capturing, evolving, and trading to obtain creatures from all 151 Pokémon species. Players use the creatures' special abilities to combat other Pokémon, and certain abilities also grant new ways to navigate the game's world, such as instantaneous travel between two areas. In these games, the player assumes the role of a Pokémon Trainer whose goal is to capture and train creatures called Pokémon. ĭeveloped by Game Freak and published by Nintendo, the Pokémon series began in Japan in 1996 with the release of the Pokémon Red and Blue video games for the Game Boy. as part of the games' canon as an actual in-game character, and sociologists have studied its impact on both players and gaming culture as a whole. Fans have attempted to rationalize and incorporate MissingNo. IGN noted MissingNo.'s appearance in Pokémon Red and Blue was one of the most famous video game glitches and commented on its role in increasing the series' popularity. This beneficial effect resulted in the glitch's coverage by strategy guides and game magazines, while game publisher Nintendo warned that encountering the glitch may corrupt players' game data. causes graphical anomalies and changes gameplay by increasing the number of items in the sixth entry of the player's inventory by 128. Due to the programming of certain in-game events, players can encounter MissingNo. ( Japanese: けつばん, Hepburn: Ketsuban), short for "Missing Number" and sometimes spelled without the period, is an unofficial Pokémon species found in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue. May 1999 (first documented by Nintendo Power)
