The Pokemon 4Ever movie will make its debut October 11th. If you live in New York, you definitely want to hear about this. Be the first 200 people to buy over $100 worth at the Pokemon Center store in New York, and you’ll get celebrity treatment to see Pokemon 4Ever at Loews Cineplex. You’ll be able to walk down the yellow carpet, not red carpet, the yellow carpet in honor of Pikachu. You will have the chance to take a picture with Celebi, and a gift bag filled with Pokemon stuff. Now that’s seeing a movie in style! For more details, head over to the Pokemon Center. Obviously, not all fans will have this chance, only a lucky group of 200 will be, so get there quick if you can. Once again, whether you have celebrity treatment or not, the Pokemon 4Ever movie will make its debut on October 11th, don’t miss out!

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Here’s a picture of the Pokemon 4Ever movie poster. On the poster, there’s Celebi, Suicune, Ash, and Pikachu. With the slogan “Best Friends, Better Heroes”. You can buy this poster at stores, but it may be hard to find at the current time. However, you should be able to see it available at the Pokemon Center store at New York. You can also shop online at the Pokemon Center’s online store at www.pokemoncenter.com . You will also find more products related to Pokemon 4Ever, such as Celebi plush, Celebi figures, etc. The Pokemon 4Ever movie will be released in theaters October 11th.

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The game doesn’t come out until November in Japan and not until May 2003 in the US. But, we have an image of the Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire cartridges. It looks great, a sparkle effect, and have their respective colors for each cartridge (red for Ruby and blue for Sapphire). Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire is for the Game Boy Advance handheld system. It will feature 100 new Pokemon, making a total of 351. It includes a new region with new challenges. For more insight to the Ruby/Sapphire game, check out the Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire section of this site. Over there, you will find pictures of the new Pokemon and screenshots of the game.

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The e-Reader for Game Boy Advance was released not long ago, on September 16th. You can find it at stores now for $40. Basically, the e-Reader is a device that reads codes from cards that will make games, images, or text on your Game Boy Advance. The Pokemon Expedition cards for the TCG, can also be used for the e-Reader. The packs sell for $3.29, and theme decks costs $10 per deck. Also, the NES Series 1 cards are also compatible with e-Reader, that set of cards have also been released, $5 per pack. You’ll find games like Donkey Jr, Pinball, Tennis, and other classics from the 80’s NES.

Some new screen shots of Pokemon related games from e-Reader:

Use the A Button to make Pichu Jump and pull the rope, keeping the 5 Hoppip from flying away. Press the A Button as soon as Pichu hits the ground to make it jump higher in a one-two motion.

Use the A Button and the Control Pad to make Corsola paddle and dive by avoiding contact with the fully-charged Qwilfish and Tentacool. The game incorporates the concept of water resistance and gravity, so Corsola floats upward when not paddling and dive faster when the paddling gains momentum. Going pass bubbles gives Corsola air supply. The bigger the size, the greater the amount of oxygen.

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The next Pokemon movie, Pokemon 4 Ever, will be making its debut in less than month. Pokemon 4 Ever will be released in theaters October 11, 2002. The movie features Celebi and Suicune, along with our main characters: Ash, Misty, and Brock. This will be a first time we’ll be getting a good close look at the #251 Pokemon. As usual, if you go see this movie, you’ll get a free promo Celebi trading card, while supplies last. This 4th Pokemon movie is distributed by Miramax for the first time, past movies were distributed by Warner Bros. Miramax also has rights to the 5th Pokemon movie, which features the legendary Pokemon Latios and Latias. The release date for the 5th movie has not been announced at this point. Back to the 4th movie, once again, it will be released on October 11, which is a Friday.

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Today was the debut of the first episode of the newest Pokemon season: Master Quest. The episode is called “The Whirl Pool Affair”. This new season, which is the 5th season of Pokemon, will feature 52 new episodes. The new season starts off at the Whirls Islands, as the first episode name suggests. There will be around 14 episodes that will be related to the Whirl Islands. After the Whirl Islands ordeal, the season will finish up Johto. After finishing Johto, it will lead us to the series based on the upcoming new games: Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire. On a side note, Ruby/Sapphire is scheduled to be released in May 2003 in the US. Missed the first episode of Pokemon: Master Quest? No problem! “The Whirl Pool Affair” episode will be aired again this coming Friday (09/20/02), and day after that, Saturday, will feature the second new episode, titled "The Passionate Pidgey".

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Not long ago, in the 08/23/02 news, the news was about a mysterious looking Pokemon. The picture was from a popular gaming magazine in Japan, Coro Coro. My first feeling was that it might be a legendary Pokemon. I was wrong. We now know the Japanese name of that “mysterious” Pokemon, which is Bashamo. One of the starter Pokemon, from the new Pokemon beyond 251, is a bird like Pokemon, is named Achamo (Japanese name). So, the mystery has been solved. The evolution of Achamo is Wakashamo, and then comes Bashamo. Keep in mind that these are Japanese names, no English names have been given to them yet. You will be able to see these Pokemon in the Ruby/Sapphire games, coming out on May 2003.

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Pokemon Elite 2000 now has a new address! Very simple: www.pokemonelite2000.com . It’s easy to remember, and hey, it’s a .com . All the old addresses to Pokemon Elite 2000 will still work, which includes: http://www.pokemonelite2000.tk and http://pokemonelite2000.cjb.net . Pokemon Elite 2000 actually owned that domain name for one year before, in the site’s two years of existence. But because the site wasn’t exactly popular back then, it wasn’t worth continuing (.com’s cost money). However, the site now is at its best now, getting more and more popular. The site recently reached 250,000 hits. I always wanted to get back my domain name, and I’m really excited that I got it back now. If you like this site, please tell yours friends about it too, they probably would like it as well.

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The e-Reader for Gameboy Advance won’t come until September 16, but here’s a little sneak peak on what to expect. The e-Reader is a device that you can attach to a GBA. Using special e-Cards, you’ll be able to get games, images, or text, by swiping the card through the e-Reader. It’s not just Pokemon, it will feature a lot of Nintendo characters such as Donkey Kong Jr. Currently, e-Cards will be available in the upcoming TCG set, Expedition, and it will be released on the 16th, the same day as e-Reader device. Here we got two screen shots of two different games from e-Reader, “Machop at Work” and “Flower Power”.

Machop at Work description: Help Machop bust some boulders as he tries to beat the high score each and every time. As the counter winds down, you have to break boulders as they fly at you from off screen, being careful not to get crushed by them. If a boulder does hit you, tough rocks – it’s game over!

Flower Power description: Use the A Button and the Control Pad to make Butterfree flutter and collect honey while also avoiding contact with Beedrill, Koffing and Rattata. Butterfree falls when not fluttering and flies higher when the fluttering gains momentum.

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Yes, here are some more screen shots from the next versions of Pokemon, Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire. Nothing new here, if you seen a bunch of them, then you've seen them all. There's actually more I have to show than the two here in the news, the rest of the screenshots from Ruby/Sappphire can be found at the Ruby/Sapphire section of the site, you'll also see some past screen shots displayed here at this site. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire will be released in Japan on November 21, 2002. The US release is scheduled at May 2003, but it may not be a sure thing, as Nintendo want to release it in the US as soon as possible. However, May 2003 is still the officially announced release date, we'll see if anything changes, and of course, you'll hear about it here if it happens. Highlights of Ruby/Sapphire: 100 new Pokemon, 2-on-2 battles (1-on-1 still exists), new region, improved graphics, and for GBA only. Like Lugia representing Silver version and Ho-oh for Gold, Ruby and Sapphire also have a pair of legendary Pokemon to represent the game. Pokemon Ruby, is represented by the legendary Pokemon Latias (English name). Pokemon Sapphire is represented by Latios (English name).

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