Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions/Trivia


 * Tsunekazu Ishihara, the current CEO of The Pokémon Company (at the time, the games' producer), originally thought that these games would be Game Freak's last Pokémon project and thus the company invested in the and licensed various merchandise as means to assure the success of Gold and Silver as "the ultimate Pokémon titles".
 * These are the only pre-Generation IV Pokémon games ever released in and localized for South Korea prior to the foundation of both Nintendo of Korea and Pokémon Korea in 2006. Nevertheless, the Time Capsule is available in the Korean versions of Gold and Silver.
 * The Japanese Super Game Boy border of Pokémon Gold (labeled POCKET MONSTERS GOLD VERSION), but not of Pokémon Silver, is present but unused in all releases of . Similarly, in the Korean releases of Gold and Silver, the English Super Game Boy borders (respectively labeled POKéMON GOLD VERSION and POKéMON SILVER VERSION) are present but unused, since they only support the Game Boy Color.
 * In the Korean versions, the credits are presented in English. The Japanese games would later replicate this in Generation V but only when is set to.
 * Due to a possible oversight in the international versions, the Japanese quotation marks are used in certain parts of the dialogue, like in radio stations. This was corrected in Crystal.
 * These games were the first to have Legendary Pokémon as mascots and the use of precious stones or metals as title names.
 * Gold and Silver, as well as their remakes, have the most types that have been specialized in by Gym Leaders, adding up to 15.
 * If one includes the Elite Four, the Ground type is the only type that is not specialized in by an important Trainer in these games.
 * None of the in-game trades in Gold and Silver feature the player trading away or receiving a, making them the only games in which a player must link up with another player to trade Pokémon of that generation.
 * Gold and Silver are the only versions where wild Pokémon battle music is different between day and night.
 * The boxarts for Pokémon Red, and Pokémon Silver are the only three instances where the English Pokémon logo is shown partially covered by some element (in this case, Lugia's crest).
 * Gold and Silver are the only Pokémon games released in a pair to have completely different sprites between each other.
 * Prior to the Virtual Console release announcement, Pokémon.com listed Pokémon Gold and Silver with a PEGI rating of 3.