Pokémon Center
- For information about the retail store chain, see Pokémon Center (store).
Pokémon Centers (Japanese: ポケモンセンター Pokémon Center) are gathering places for trainers. A downstairs clinic heals Pokémon, free of charge, and an upstairs Link Club facilitates multiplayer gameplay. (Note: Originally, Pokémon Centers were one-story buildings. They became two-story as of Generation II versions.
Kanto Cable Club
The original link-up place was at the far end of the Pokémon Center in Generation I Kanto. Two players linked by cable could trade and battle Pokémon.
Johto Cable Club
Located upstairs in a Pokémon Center throughout Johto, this Cable Club consisted of three rooms. The Cable Trade Center facilitated trading, the Cable Club Colosseum allowed battling, and the Cable Club Time Machine provided a way to trade Pokémon with the Generation I games. (Note: In order to deal with Pokémon Gold and Silver's lack of a female player sprite, before the Pokémon Crystal version female player can enter a Cable Club room linked a Gold of Silver version, she has to change her clothes to a boy-style.
Johto Mobile Center
Only in the Japanese Crystal version, the Pokémon Communication Center in Goldenrod City. Added was the ability to battle over mobile phones upstairs, and two new items downstairs: Pokémon News, a news machine which aggregated news about trainer accomplishments and Trade Corner, which let a trainer place a Pokémon up for trade.
Hoenn Cable Club
Similar to the Cable Club in Johto, the Hoenn Cable Club's Pokémon Center has a Cable Club Colosseum and a Cable Club Trade Center. Added is the Cable Club Record Center, which allows two to four trainers to swap data. Similar to the Pokémon News in Crystal version, swapped trainer data shows up on television shows on televisions found all across Hoenn. Also, trainers' Secret Bases are copied over in the record mixing.
Kanto/Hoenn Wireless Club and Cable Club
The Generation III Kanto and Pokémon Emerald version Hoenn have a Wireless Club. The Wireless Club meets in the Union Room ,where up to 40 trainers may (in groups of five) talk and battle, as well as trade via a trading board similar to the Crystal version Trade Corner. The Cable Club's room has the standard Trade Center and Colosseum. Pokémon Emerald version's Cable Club also has the Record Corner.
