Reviews from

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The box art is an exclusive drawing by Ken Sugimori, the original artist of Pokemon. It's the only good thing about the game.

You basically just slide around the stylus to reach point A to B to C before other Pokemon do while avoiding death water. Not really challenging but pretty boring, and somewhat tiring. I guess it's pick your poison with the bad Pokemon games: Pokemon Channel is drawn out but at least has some funny moments in how bad it is. Pokemon Dash is just tedious all the way through but at least it won't waste your time for more than an hour and a half.

The only redeeming factor is the fact you can pet and interact with Pikachu on the home screen.


No mentiré con que lo disfruté, pero realmente no lo recomendaría por su falta de contenido, un control cuestionable y escenarios bastante básicos

I'm surprised that everyone hated this game so much, I had a ton of fun with it as a kid and it was genuinely challenging at some points. My DS screen was fine so not sure what kind of force people were applying in order to break their's

Play this game, but not for more than maybe 30 minutes at a time or you're getting a new DS

Actually one of the worst games I've ever played

A lousy racing game, with bland visuals & music, dumb rubbing controls, and barely any interesting tracks, although the Pikachu model was pretty impressive for its time.

This game ruined my DS' lower screen.

Is there a single soul on this earth who even remembers this exists? This is like the Steel Diver of the DS.

Even as a kid, I really didn't like this game. It was incredibly short, very repetitious in gameplay, and just generally disappointing. I kept hoping it would get better, but it ended far before it barely began. It can't be saved by it's cute Pokémon and decent menu design when thats all it has.
Why do I still own this cartridge...?

Can you even call this a game? Cause it ain't fun. I can hardly recall ever having fun, I just played it cause I had it.

Completely worthless racing game with the Pokémon name slapped onto it that feels more like a tech demo that they grabbed by the neck and kicked out the door because the DS was coming and they could make some extra dough just by adding Pikachu onto the box.

All you do for the most part is just swipe on the DS screen like you've never swiped before, it's gimmicky in every sense of the word and it's never fun doing it either.

It's completely lacking in content as well with only five cups, 25 courses (most of which are very short) and there's no other Pokémon to play as or even unlock, the other mons you see here are just for show and nothing else.

And on top of that, the game doesn't look very good either outside of Pikachu's adorable Channel model being reused for menus and you can even play around with him too via the touch screen (let's be honest, they put all the effort into that and not with the actual game itself).

It may have been the first Pokémon game to come out on the Nintendo DS but that didn't mean it was good, and of course it isn't. Ignore this even if you are a diehard Pokémon fan.

Des gens ont payé ce jeu 40€.

Pokemon es una de esas franquicias que puede permitirse vender mierda sólo por llevar su marca. Este juego es una de esas ocasiones. No vale ni como gimmick de controles tactiles de la época inicial de la DS.

I'm sorry I am not a fan of my DS screen being broken

Why yes I would like to destroy my Nintendo DS screen, thank you so much.

I don't think I would remember this is a game I played and owned if it wasn't a Pokemon game.

this game caused so many DS screens to get scratched up so bad lmao

Lousy racing game with a Pokémon theme that will probably break your DS screen and give repetitive strain injury if played for more than 30 minutes. If you like Pokémon, want to break your screen but also actually have fun, play Pokémon Ranger instead.


i guess i was entertained by the gba functionality that made courses out of your pokemon as a kid