Japanese Promotion

After two years since the last promotion, Japan will see tomorrow the return of the Mysticticket and Eon Ticket items. Distributed from Dec. 9 to Jan. 5 at Pokémon Center stores, Pokémon Town and the Pokémon Center Winter Festival event, the statistics of Japanese players with access to the two promotional items is bound to receive a boost in the upcoming month.

Mysticticket and Eon Ticket bode well for GBA games..

This comes as a surprise when factoring in the fact that the GBA games have been acknowledged sporadically in the past year. Once the Old Sea Map was distributed at PokéPark in Sept. 2005, the five RPG games gave way to what was called The Path to Diamond and Pearl, a project which eventually turned out to have little with Diamond and Pearl and all to do with three spin-off games for the Nintendo DS. The rest of the year was spent on advertising the two main games, and finally, their release in Japan. Be the ends as they may, there was precisely a one-year period in which the traditional games were more or less put on hold. More...

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