pokemon sprites
https://imgur.com/a/LqYrZHB- hanamogura : bayleef was completely different
- meganium was named "hanaryu" or "blossom dragon"
- "kurusu" and "honoguma" were a thing, they were the water and fire starters; out of this original 3, only the meganium line survived apart from meganium's mid-evo being changed; the kurusu line may have resurfaced as a combination of the oshawott and popplio lines
- noctowl was different
- mikon, vulpix prevo
- mareep had a different name, "pachimee"
- monja and jaranra, a scrapped tangela prevo and a proto tangrowth
- haneei bird that is half black/white
- qwilfish almost had an evolution! seems it was recycled and modified into whiscash for gen III
- proto pichu, cleffa, and igglybuff; pichu was completely different, cleffa had an antenna, igglybuff had no hair tufts and had smaller eyes
- quagsire was a standalone, was named "mizuo"
- gyopin, goldeen prevo
- marill did not have an evolution
- manbo1, ikari, grotes ; fish, anchor eel, and an angler-eel line, supposedly the first 2 became carvanha/sharpedo, the 3rd was split into lanturn and huntail
- para, paras prevo
- crobat was once named "exsing/X-ing"
- ariados was different, was named "twohead"
- skarmory was once named "yoroidori"
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what the hell is that thing after skarmory? some freaky goomy prototype? surprisingly a ditto evo, "animon"
- a baby 3-headed bird? doduo prevo apparently
- sunflora was standalone
- slightly different phanpy...it was named "paon" after the sound of a trumpeting elephant
- twins : this...two-headed ghost thing...was what girafarig would've evolved from
- proto girafarig, was dark/normal
- konya, meowth prevo
- rinrin and bellurun, a black cat line, beta purrloin/liepard?
- proto politoed, eerily similar to the famed fakemon tentaquil
- mitsuboshi : thought to be a proto ledian
- puchicorn, ponyta prevo
- umbreon was once the poison type eeveelution; its toxic sweat claimed in dex entries was a holdover from then
- turban : seems the form shellder took when it became part of slowbro/slowking was almost considered as its own pokemon
- betbaby : prevo grimer
- remoraid and octillery were different, more resembling a gun/tank than their final designs
- gongu : tyrogue was less humanoid
- hitmontop proto
- pudi : growlithe prevo
- jumpluff line was different and based on cats, their final versions removed the cat motif from their names and design
- barririna : proto mime jr
- lip : smoochum looked more like a mini jynx
- elebaby : proto elekid was more simplistic
- proto magby
- bellossom was sparkly with additional detail in flowers
- tsubomitto : scrapped split weepinbell evo; seems oddish and bellsprout were recognized as counterparts by game freak at one point
- bomseaker : a seal with a fireball, would have been the first fire/water type
- proto delibird : had a more obvious santa claus motif, was named "gift"
- kotora/raitora : electric hamster/tiger line
- madame : the name doesn't seem to match the motif of farfetch'd (kamonegi), but is this the fabled farfetch'd evo we never got? gamefreak you bastards (and to make things worse, this was speculated to have been adapted into lugia)
- norowara : voodoo doll
- kyonpan : panda kyonshi
- murkrow had a pointy hat design
- prototype blissey, was named "happy", had 2 egg pouches and grew a heart on its head
- scizor was much spikier, was names "scissors"
- plux : scrapped pinsir evo that was split into 2 designs - heracross, and later mega pinsir
- houndour was called "devil"
- wolfman, warwolf : these...beast fur wearing things
- this lion thing...is a proto porygon2, supposedly a precursor of pon de lion from the mr. donut ads that would happen a few years later...pon de lion's creator was a former gamefreak employee
- nameeru : proto lickilicky
- proto kingdra
- rai, en, sui ; in case their early names don't make it obvious, these are the proto L-beasts, and they look like the fakemon of some furry deviantartist, and more canine than their finalized designs..."legendary dogs" actually made sense at one point in time
- proto sneasel, was much cuter
- ho-oh had a different front sprite, but the back sprite stayed the same
- togepi, snubbull, proto aipom looked to be recent additions at the time of the demo's build; aipom was once called "tail"
- this looked like either proto celebi or proto leafeon...but its name, リーフィ (leafie), which matches the name scheme of eiefi (espeon) suggests it was going to be leafeon
- ho-oh is in the title screen of both G/S protos, suggesting lugia wasn't yet a concept until later
- all pokemon between 152 - 251 have a placeholder or glitch cry
- unown's sprite is broken in-game in the pokemon viewer in debug mode
- a "missingno" called "neeno*ba", no.253, can be brought out in test fight wild debug battles; it has the backsprite of the enemy pokemon, but crashes the game as soon as it is sent out
- another "missingno" called "binidenu", no.252 can only be fought as an opponent in the test fight wild debug battle
- the steel type was called "metal" instead of "hagane"
- there's a "megaphone" attack that was scrapped, its name survived up to final release, as megahorn
want to see some of these re-surface as regional forms or in a future generation
https://tcrf.net/Proto:Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver/Pok%C3%A9mon