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MissingNo. [a] (/ ˈ m ɪ s ɪ ŋ ˈ n oʊ / ⓘ; Japanese: けつばん, [1] Hepburn: Ketsuban) is a glitch and an unofficial Pokémon species found in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue. Due to the programming of certain in-game events, players can encounter MissingNo. via a glitch.
Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version are 1996 role-playing video games (RPGs) developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.They are the first installments of the Pokémon video game series, and were first released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Red [a] and Pocket Monsters Green, [b] followed by the special edition Pocket Monsters Blue [c] later that year.
In the Game Boy Pokémon games, Pokémon Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow, players were able to access a set of 105 glitch Pokémon. These species were not designed by the games' designers but could be encountered via the use of several glitches. Among them is a glitch dubbed MissingNo., which became highly notorious. [43]
The first generation (generation I) of the Pokémon franchise features the original 151 fictional species of monsters introduced to the core video game series in the 1996 Game Boy games Pocket Monsters Red, Green and Blue (known as Pokémon Red, Green and Blue outside of Japan). (Later Pokemon Yellow and Blue were released Nationally)
Lavender Town is a village that can be visited in Pokémon Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, [1] [2] sequels Gold, Silver, Crystal, [3] and the remakes thereof. [4] Lavender Town is the player's first encounter with the concept of Pokémon dying, [2] and is one of a few towns in the Kanto region not to feature a gym. [1]
"MissingNo." is a glitch Pokémon species present in Pokémon Red and Blue, which can be encountered by performing a particular sequence of seemingly unrelated actions. Capturing this Pokémon may corrupt the game's data, according to Nintendo [ 70 ] [ 71 ] [ 72 ] and some of the players who successfully attempted this glitch.
MissingNo's nature is different to other glitch Pokemon, which all have garbled names made of junk data, and this seems like an important thing to explain why. (also, the article does not mention that other glitch Pokemon exist, apart from a translated quote in a footnote, this seems quite a relevant information to the topic, and something that ...
For example, "The author believed MissingNo.'s popularity to be an unusual case, with unique circumstances"—why does he think this, what does he think is unusual/unique, etc.? This is a very short article, and I think this section needs to be where the bulk of the content is (since the reaction to MissingNo. is what makes it notable), but ...