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Old June 17, 2015, 09:27:11 PM
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Yep. I don't know many specifics offhand but apparently they cut down on the Pokédex somewhere near the end of development, maybe because they were already 6 years in and the larger Pokédex was slowing them down. Probably because they weren't as complete as they wanted them to be.

Also remember a few of the Johto Pokémon appeared in the Kanto/Orange anime; Ho-oh made itself known in the very first episode. Kind of surprised Togepi didn't show up in that list you posted, though.

Also the "there was no dark type" bit seems a bit odd to me, Ghost and Dragon already only had one evolutionary family in the entire type, and I have to assume adding the Dark type information would have only taken up a few bytes on the cartridge. Guess they didn't like it or something, the way they rebalanced Ghost and Psychic later in Gen 2. Who knows.