Almost a decade after the release of Pokemon ‘gold and silver’, by Nintendo which revolutionized the gaming world, now their remakes named: Pokemon Heart Gold and Pokemon Soul Silver are selling like hot cakes in Japan. The popularity of these games can be seen from the fact that in only two days after their release, a whooping 1,480,980 copies have been sold in Japan itself. Stock shortages are predicted in future by the retailers here. Seeing the popularity of the previous Pokemon games the new Pokemon were already predicted by game lovers to be a big hit. Big time gamers were waiting eagerly for these new releases by Nintendo. But gamers in other parts of the world will have to wait for some time as these two new games are scheduled to release in spring 2010 across Europe and North America.

The legacy of Pokemon dates back to 1998, when first generation Pokemon i.e. Pokemon ‘red’ and ‘blue’ were launched in U.S in 1998 with about 151 Pokemon species. Then came Pokemon ‘gold and silver’ in the year 2000, which worked wonders for the game hungry world. Pokemon gold and silver were followed by ‘ruby and sapphire’ in 2003 and further by Pokemon ‘diamond and pearl’ in 2006.But they failed to create the magic of Pokemon gold and silver. Finally in May, 2009 Nintendo announced the release of enhanced remakes of Pokemon gold and silver for Nintendo DS system. Hopefully their plans worked and the success of Pokemon Heart Gold and Pokemon soul silver is in front of the world. The idea of creating remakes of popular versions of the games seems to be having worked for Nintendo.

So until spring 2010 it’s a wait and watch situation for game lovers in U.S. Meanwhile we can just envy Japan moving its fingers playing the latest Pokemon. The success of Pokemon Heart Gold and Pokemon Soul Silver is being credited to the firm fan following of their predecessors and also to the hype created prior to their release. It would be fascinating to see that what the new Pokemon has in store for us. While the retailers in Japan have a celebration time rejoicing the success of Pokemon Heart Gold and Pokemon Soul Silver. It’s going to be a hectic schedule for them though.