Sega Buys Rights to Pokemon

Note: This is a fictional news article, it never happened in reality.

December 2002: Sega, a division of BBC notable for Redwall, Sonic the Hedgehog, Virtual On and Nights. Have bought the rights to Pokemon from Nintendo, and plan to make a game world the three times the size of the British Isles. With Millions of characters, thousands of Pokemon and also individual counties with their own gyms, Sega is planning something Epic for the Pokemon Franchise, which will have a new game released on the BBC Neptune 2. Called Pokemon Neptune and Pokemon Saturn. Utilising a Battle System similar to that of Virtual On's, and an Open World system similar to Redwall 2, with hundreds of millions of characters and hundreds of gyms set in a futuristic game-world 20 years more advanced than current technology. And featuring a new system to handle the millions of characters and hundreds of gyms, the Turing AI System, named after Alan Turing, will have AI Specifically tested with a test designed by the late computer engineer himself to prove that an AI can be indistinguishable from a human. Sega also plan to have 5 cities in the game, each with 20 million Characters and 5 Gyms. Gyms will have hundreds of employees and hundreds of Pokemon.

From what we can tell, this will be awesome, and with a new system, a Pokeball Gun, where you buy Pokeballs and Items from an Item store and you can place Hundreds of Pokeballs in the Gun and fire them, you can even craft the Pokeballs. Pokeballs can capture Pokemon.

Also, the game also features a Team Based System, where Five Teams battle for superiority, some named after Sega Consoles and cancelled Sega Consoles, Team Neptune, Team Saturn, Team Genesis, Team Phoenix and Team Mystic. Appear, and thy for battle of controls of the gym in a persistent world, as when the game is off, the hundreds of millions of Characters still do their business.

The game will also feature a detailed Career system, where you battle the Ten most prestigious gyms, and make your way up to the League, where you impress thousands of characters and millions more watching it on an in-game TV system by winning battles and becoming the Irangia Region Champion. The region name coming from a mix between Ireland and Anglia without the L.

Procedurally Generated Gym Badges exist, whilst the Ten most prestigious gyms have hand-crafted gym badges.

We can't wait to see when this comes out, it's been slated for March 2003.

Hype Meter: 5 out of 5.