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Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation: Hiragana Katakana Kakechatta!

Pokémon Advanced Generation: I've Begun Hiragana and Katakana! is an educational game designed to teach Japanese children to read and write in the Japanese scripts of hiragana and katakana for Sega Pico. It…

17 November 2003

Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation: Hiragana Katakana Kakechatta! is a video game, released 17 November 2003 on Sega Pico.

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What Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation: Hiragana Katakana Kakechatta! is

Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation: Hiragana Katakana Kakechatta! was released in 2003. It is available on Sega Pico only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Advanced Generation: I've Begun Hiragana and Katakana! is an educational game designed to teach Japanese children to read and write in the Japanese scripts of hiragana and katakana for Sega Pico. It has only been released in Japan. The game features voice acting from the anime's cast and an instrumental version of Advance Adventure as the title theme. Team Rocket disguise themselves and tell Ash, Brock, May and Max that they need around 25 Pokémon to progress to the Pokémon Stage. Pokémon are caught by correctly drawing five kana.
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How it plays

Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation: Hiragana Katakana Kakechatta! is the 100th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Colosseum in 2003.

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What it launched against

Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation: Hiragana Katakana Kakechatta! launched on 17 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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When did Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation: Hiragana Katakana Kakechatta! come out?
Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation: Hiragana Katakana Kakechatta! was released on 17 November 2003 for Sega Pico.