Pokemon Stadium (1998) | All Mini Games!
5Take a trip down memory lane with this one from the year 1998. Which mini game was your favorite? Which mini game was a guaranteed win against your buddies?
Played on N64, recorded through El Gato.
Mini Game Time Stamps:
1:01 - Magikarp's Splash
1:35 - Clefairy Says
3:37 - Run, Rattata, Run
4:15 - Snore War
5:13 - Thundering Dynamo
5:42 - Sushi-Go-Round
7:00 - Ekans' Hoop Hurl
8:14 - Rock Harden
9:08 - Dig! Dig! Dig!
Gameplay:
Unlike the Game Boy games Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, Pokémon Stadium does not have a storyline or a well-defined world. The game challenges the player to succeed in trainer battles at the Stadium, a tournament consisting of 4 "Cups" and 80 battles in total, as well as the Gym Leader Castle, where the player battles the 8 Kanto Gym Leaders, the Kanto Elite Four, and the Champion. When all Cups have been won and the Gym Leader Castle is completed, a six-on-one battle against Mewtwo is unlocked.
In Stadium mode, the player is challenged to earn trophies by winning the Pika Cup, Petit Cup, Poké Cup, and Prime Cup. After choosing a Cup to compete in, the player decides on a party of six Pokémon, which may include available rental Pokémon and/or Pokémon imported from a Game Boy cartridge of Pokémon Red, Blue, or Yellow. In each battle, the player and the opponent are only allowed to use three of their six party Pokémon. . If certain conditions are met using imported Pokémon from a Game Boy cartridge, the player will be awarded a Pikachu with the move Surf, which unlocks a mini-game in Pokémon Yellow.
In the Gym Leader Castle, the player initially challenges the eight Kanto Gym Leaders from the Game Boy games, followed by the Elite Four, and finally the Champion. Like in the Stadium, the player has to pick a team of six Pokémon and may only use three at a time for battling. Each time the player defeats the Elite Four, one of eight randomly selected prize Pokémon will be awarded, which can be transferred to the player's Pokémon Red, Blue, or Yellow game using the Transfer Pak. The prize Pokémon are Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Eevee, Kabuto, and Omanyte.
Pokémon Stadium includes other features, such as mini-games, a Game Boy Tower, the Victory Palace, Oak's Lab (featuring connectivity to the Game Boy titles including a Pokédex), Free Battle (a battle between two players with set rules), Battle Now, and Gallery.
In this video I played the original Pokemon Stadium on an actual Nintendo 64 and recorded through an El Gato HD60. It was a quick play through as I only played the mini games. Playing this brought back so many awesome childhood memories. I grew up playing all the Pokemon games and collecting the cards. I still do both to this day when I can!