Pokemon Did You Knows?

[TheRealJDawgz]

There were a few trainer sprites that had to be changed internationally for censorship purposes, because they appeared to be too revealing or encouraged behavior such as seductiveness or smoking. A few included the GSC Beauties, GSC Fishers, and Gen IV Swimmers. Here are a few:
Japanese sprites:
International sprites:

I'm pretty sure this has been mentioned before, but the picture hasn't been seen. In a 1997 edition of "MicroGroup Game Review" had a cover that featured a few protoype designs of Pokemon along with two trainers.

One of the Pokemon seems to be a recolored Tyranitar, probably in its shiny form. Another seems to be a Clefairy-like Pokemon that had multiple legs and seemed to balance like a top. This may be the inspiration to Hitmontop. The most interesting art has to be the unnamed turtle with a green shell. The face of the turtle bears a striking resemblance to Tirtouga, a 5th Gen Pokemon.

This unreleased prototype Pokemon may be the basis of the design of Tirtouga.

In an interview with Nintendo Power, Shellos and Gastrodon were planned to appear in Gen III as opposed to being left until Gen IV. They have back sprites that were left until Gen IV.

They seemed to be Western variants, Shellos having eastern variant fins and Gastrodon having plumes. What's interesting is that there are two cries in Ruby in Sapphire's data that weren't used (266 and 269)



Seeing as how its two similar, slug-like cries not in the game, and how Shellos and Gastrodon were planned for Gen III, this may be the leftover cries for them.

Credit to the people that posted some of these facts, first, I just felt I had to elaborate on them more