One of the things that is on the lips of the entire community of Pokémon players is that a Pokémon fanatic has decided to show us what the Pokémon Sword and Shield video game would look like if Game Freak had decided to release it a few decades ago.
Something we find quite curious is that Pokémon Sword and Shield is one of the most recent main installments in the Pokémon universe, taking players to the UK-inspired region of Galar, starting with the picturesque farming town known as Postwick.
But what would this region look like on an old school Game Boy Color? Well, artist Sindorman, who has recreated everyone from Disney characters to drag queens to Pokemon trainers, decided to find out, and today we’re showing you what Sword and Shield looks like on the Game Boy Color.
The Galar region of Pokémon recreated on the Game Boy Color
In a tweet that received over 37,000 likes at the time of writing, Sindorman’s animation recreates one of the earliest moments from Sword & Shield, where Trainers choose their starter Pokemon. Grooky, Scorbunny, and Sobble all look adorable even in a pixel art style, and we also see what the player’s neighbor and rival, Hop, would have looked like in the past.
Sindorman later recreated the scene where the trainers first meet the villainous Team Yell, as well as their idol Marnie, who has become one of the most iconic characters in Sword & Shield.
Unfortunately, this Game Boy Color version of Sword & Shield isn’t actually a working version that you can play, as Sindorman explained that it was “just an animation done in Photoshop.” Still, it’s fascinating to see what the Galar region, as well as its three starter Pokémon, would look like if they were released in the 1990s.