It's Been 20 Years, So Where Is Pokémon Snap 2?

The year is 1999. You're a child and your family has decided to make a trip to Blockbuster, a blue-and-yellow titan that, at this point, is mostly filled with VHS tapes of She's All That and The MatrixYou think "Perfect, I'll just grab my copy of Pokémon Snap because I really need to get these shots of Charizard printed. So you get your cartridge, and one car ride later where your Mom explained that YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE MOVIE JUST ONE, you're making your way past the candy and the soda and the leftover toys from the 1998 Godzilla and you're at the official Pokémon Snap Kiosk, where you can get pictures that you've taken in the game printed out as stickers.

You'd bring a Nintendo 64 cartridge to a video rental place to print out stickers? It sounds like the entertainment equivalent of old-timey medical advice like "Just put a drop on the Now, in 2019, some of that seems absolutely. end of the fever baby's tongue and let the whiskey fight the flu. "But in 1999, all of the effort was worth it because Pokémon Snap was, and still is to this day, one of the most fun experiences that the Pokémon I had it stick up, and there were sticker stations in 4,500 locations. I did this mainy to prove that they were real and not just the coma dream that I had've had if I'd hit my head in a Blockbuster in the late 90s.

And I bring all of this up because, on the twentieth anniversary of Pokémon SnapBut, just in case you've never played it or you clicked on this article thinking "P-O-K-E-M-O-N? That's a fun combination of letters!", Pokémon Snap You hop into a little cart called the city of Pokémon where you were tasked by Professor Oak (who is apparently a freelance photography critic when he's not forgot his own grandson's name) to snap some pictures of a wildlife. Pokémon run around and hoping that they stay still long enough for you to get a shot of them that please please godking Oak.

It was ridiculously fun and breezy and was the middle section of the Pokémon Holy Triumvirate of games that was begun with the original round of Game Boy entries (Red, Blue, and Yellow,) and rounded out with Pokémon Stadium Legend has it if you collected all of the games, you would unlock the secrets of space and time OR you would just be the most awesome kid in the neighborhood. Equal chance of either happening.

But when I ask "Hey Nintendo, how about another game?" Know that this is just a random request. I'd like a sequel to just about everything I enjoy, be it video games, movies or hot dogs. But it's been twenty years and knowing how Nintendo feels about Pokémon sequels (They love them if you haven't noticed, and we'll be getting Pokémon And sure, we got a re-release for the Wii and the Wii-U's Virtual Console, but for a game that sold. so well and so many people feel nostalgic for, you'd think that we'd at least hear rumors of a sequel floating about.

Even Junichi Masuda, who's been a producer and director of the Pokémon series for nearly twenty years, has basically said that if Nintendo wants to make a Pokémon Snap 2: Infinity War And whatever, he's not gonna stand in their way. And aside from the fact that a Pokémon Snap 2 P o w lite hard hard hard hard hard hard P P wo wo wo wo wo br wo it will also bring literal dumptrucks' worth of cash to Nintendo.

But most importantly, it would probably be super fun. One of the best things about the original Pokémon Snap You could form a Magneto if if lured the Magnemite together with apples. You throw an apple at Charmeleon so it falls into the Lava pit and turns into Charizard Like how did you know that would work out? Just because it's a Fire type Pokémon? You would like to walk up to a Lapras and be like "Oh, an ang" Ice type, you say? Well, how would you like this avalanche falling directly onto you? I bet you'd enjoy it, seeing as my attempted manslaughter of that Charmeleon failed in the best of ways. ")

I know that, in 2019, you'd probably be to watch YouTube tutorials for finding and performing most of these "secrets" less than a day after the game is released. But the joy in Pokémon Snap You'd hear from you friends about these amazing feats that sounded like the perfect combination of skill and luck with you and you'd go home and try it for yourself. Pokémon main series games have usually been about catching your own teams, training your own 'mons, forging your own path, and then trading and battling with people, Snap Yes, it is most likely just an end with the island being full of tossed apples, but as soon as the Zero-One started down the track and those who are you friends on a quest to uncover everything.

And I would love if Pokémon It didn't have the stakes of becoming "the greatest trainer" or "catching them all," but it was a fun way to explore another face of the fans. Pokémon world that hasn't been touched on enough since, well, Pokémon SnapAnd while it's probably too late for Blockbuster or sticker stations or all of those toys left over from the 1998 Godzilla, it's not too late for Pokémon Snap 2.

Did you play Pokémon SnapWould you want a sequel? Let us know in the comments!

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Daniel Dockery is a writer and editor for Crunchyroll. You can follow him on Twitter.