Talk:Pokémon Stadium

Source

• https://web.archive.org/web/20000312150420/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/98_04/17_long/index.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20001024120338/http://www.videostoremag.com/content/news.cfm?ID=268.00000

— Preceding unsigned comment added by JimmyBlackwing (talk • contribs) 19:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Pokemon Stadium 3. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 November 21#Pokemon Stadium 3 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesomeHwyh 15:28, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Pokémon Stadium/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Pokelego999 (talk · contribs) 01:47, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Andrzejbanas (talk · contribs) 20:40, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Will begin looking at this article over the weekend. Andrzejbanas (talk) 20:40, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I guess when I said weekend, I mean several weekends ahead. ;) Some early points from an early draft.

Sourcing

• "Unlike the Game Boy games Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, Pokémon Stadium does not have a storyline or a well-defined world or story, meaning that it is not considered a role-playing video game" Not quite what the source says, it does say its lack those elements, but not that these elements make or do not make an RPG.

Style

• The title Pocket Monsters' Stadium is in bold, but this seems to be referring to the earlier Japanese game. Putting it in bold here, at least for those familiar with wikiformatting, would make it look like this is an alternative title for this game.

Phrasing Lead

• "" Always hard to list release dates like this in a healthy manner. But for shortening it in the lead, Maybe take a page from the Donkey Kong Country article. Perhaps change the lead to...
  • Pokémon Stadium{{efn|Known in Japan as Pokémon Stadium 2 (Japanese: ポケモンスタジアム２Pokemon Sutajiamu 2) is a 1999 [genre] video game developed and published by Nintendo video game develope dand published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64." and then later before mentioning the "best-selling titles", You can say "Pokémon Stadium was released in Japan in 1999, before being its release in Australia, Europe and North America in 2000."
• " A sequel, Pokémon Stadium 2, released in 2000, supporting connectivity with the games Pokémon Gold, Pokémon Silver, and Pokémon Crystal games." lose the either the first or second "games" term.
• "Stadium was later re-released on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack on April 12, 2023" drop the "later", the date makes that clear.

Gameplay

• "Unlike the Game Boy games Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, Pokémon Stadium does not have a storyline or a well-defined world or story, meaning that it is not considered a role-playing video game." Probably should clarify that these are the older games.

• "...or they can be imported from the Game Boy using the Nintendo 64 Transfer Pak." They aren't imported from the game boy, they are imported from the game boy games.

• "Pokémon are depicted in 3D, and have unique animations in-battle, which is a first for the series.", I mean, in North America, but Pokemon Stadium (in Japan) was clearly before this as mentioned earlier.

Pocket Monsters' Stadium

• This section reads more like a mini-article for the the original game. Also, the lead of this article states "Originally intended for the 64DD, it was later developed into a standard console game after the add-on failed.", is that this game or the original game called Pokemon Stadium. As they both share similar titles. this isn't clear. This information can probably be moved to its own article with some of maintained for a production seciton on this. While I'm aware most Pokemon games do not have a lot of information regarding their development. I would suggest looking at an article like Mario Party DS and at least using it as a model for games that have very little in their development.

Release and promotion

• "Pokémon Stadium was announced in the December 1998 issue of The 64Dream" is this a magazine? If so, the magazine should be in Italics.
• Maybe a bit more clarification what the "Japan-exclusive Pokemon Festival" is. (i.e: the articles doesn't state it's Japanese exclusive, its just a promotional even around Japan that seemed to take place in a few cities).

Reception

• The reception section is a lot "[website said this this and this]". Generally, its better to combine the topics and what was complimented by the sources to make it a bit more readable.

• " Stadium was unable to replicate the success of the Game Boy games before it." what does this mean? Financially? quality of game? If its in terms of sales, then this should probably go in the release section discussing financial. If its in terms of quality of game, it should be clarified.

I think that section involving the production will require some re-working in general so once that is tackled, I'll be able to give this a second look, along with the other points I've brought up before @Pokelego999: Andrzejbanas (talk) 03:27, 6 January 2025 (UTC)