Pokémon Dash
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| Pokémon Dash | |
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 Pokémon Dash's North American boxart
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| Category | Racing |
| Players | up to 6 players (one cartridge per player required) |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Developer | Ambrella |
| ESRB | E for Everyone |
| Release dates | |
| Japan | Dec 02, 2004 |
| N. America | Mar 14, 2005 |
| Australia | Apr 07, 2005 |
| Europe | Mar 11, 2005 |
| Korea | Mar 22, 2007 |
| Web sites | |
Pokémon Dash (Japanese: ポケモンダッシュ) is a Pokémon racing game for Nintendo DS. It is the first Pokémon game for Nintendo DS and the first game featuring Munchlax. The player plays as Pikachu, sliding the stylus across the touch screen in order to keep Pikachu moving, and competing against other Pokémon in the various game modes and GPs.
To make the player familiar with the game control, the first thing the he or she should do is play the practice mode. After completing it, the various game modes and GPs are accessible.
The game has 5 Cups: Green Cup, White Cup, Blue Cup, Yellow Cup and Red Cup, each consisting of 5 courses. The courses may differ in the different GPs and the other game modes. In order to unlock a new GP, the player needs to complete the previous GP first by winning all its five cups.
There is also a mode which allows the player to create his/her own cups with courses made of Pokémon sprites from the GBA Versions Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald. This mode will be unlocked together with Hard GP, after he or she has completed the Regular GP. For detailed information on those special courses, see Special courses.
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Single player
Regular GP and Hard GP
In these two GPs, the player races from checkpoint to checkpoint in a specified order. The player competes with about equally-sized Pokémon.
Expert GP
In the Expert GP, the player starts from the hot-air balloon, having a view over the whole course. When the player starts diving to the ground, the race begins. All checkpoints have to be reached, but in no specified order. This gives the player the opportunity to choose where to start the race and allows him/her to play his/her own way and strategy. The reason why it's called Expert GP is that the player has to find out the best way around the course in order to be the first to reach all checkpoints. Additionally, the player will now also compete with larger Pokémon such as Blaziken or Mightyena, making the races even more difficult.
Time Attack
Multiplayer
Special courses
The game includes over 420 special courses. To break down into smaller parts, there are 417 downloadable game courses from the Game Boy Advance, which include all 28 Unown, 4 Deoxys, and an Egg. There are also three special courses that can be downloaded from official events that star Munchlax, Surfing Pikachu, and Flying Pikachu.
Reception
The game received a mediocre score from IGN due to the fact that the player could only play as Pikachu in single player, and could also be finished within hours.
Trivia
- Although this is a Generation III game, it features Munchlax fairly prominently (i.e. more so than most "sneak peek" cameos.)
- My Pokémon Ranch makes a reference to Pokémon Dash. If Pokémon that race in this game are on the Ranch, then the Pokémon might have a race as one of the events.
| This article is part of Project Games, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon games. |
