Before The Shadows Fade
Games With The Name Of A Color: You're either Satoshi, Marina, Kenta, Haruka, Yuuki, etc. (but you can re-name them) depending on the game. Professor Ookido gives you your first monster (Pokémon) and you have to battle it with other monsters to make your monster stronger and to win more money to buy antidotes for attacks that put your monster to sleep and so on. You'll come across the evil organizations: Rocket-dan, Aqua-dan, or Magma-dan (depending on the game) and you must put a stop to them. Additional plots vary by game.
Required Game Councils:
"GameBoy Color": "Pokémon Red," "Pokémon Green,"
"Pokémon Blue," "Pokémon Yellow," "Pokémon Gold," "Pokémon Silver," "Pokémon Crystal"
"GameBoy Advance" or "GameBoy Advance SP":
"Pokémon Ruby," "Pokémon Sapphire," "Pokémon Fire Red," "Pokémon Leaf Green"
On a side note, "Pokémon Red" was the first Pokémon product ever.

BOX: A storage system to manage your monsters from "Pokémon Ruby," "Pokémon Sapphire," "Pokémon Fire Red," "Pokémon Leaf Green," and "Pokémon Colosseum." It comes with a "GameBoy Link Cable," a memory card, and two pins. If you're dieing for a cable and a memory card, I guess you have an excuse to buy it.
Required Game Councils:
"Nintendo Gamecube" & either "GameBoy Advance" or "GameBoy Advance SP": "Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire"

E-reader: You buy the programs, scan your trading cards into them like a barcode, and you get special add-ons (such as more berries) for all sorts of Pokémon games
Required Game Council:
E-reader: "Battle Trainer E," "Pokémon Colosseum," "Pokémon Channel," "Pokémon Pinball: Ruby Sapphire," "Expedition Base Set," "Aquapolis," "Skyridge," "Pokémon EX: Ruby & Sapphire," "Pokémon EX: Sandstorm"

Trading Card Game: If you don't have any place to put Pokémon Cards and you can't find anyone to battle with, you can fight digital Card Masters. In "Pokémon Card GB 2: GR-dan Returns," Rocket-dan take over all of the major card clubs so you have to kick them out. Too bad that game wasn't dubbed into English.
Required Game Council:
"GameBoy Color":
"Pokémon Trading Card Game," (Japanese Name: "Pokémon Card GB)
"Pokémon Card GB 2: GR-dan Returns"

Stadium series: Battle against Gym Leaders, Side Challengers, or even your own friends. Also included are games that require other skills such as memory and speed. Each version contains more Pokémon and different games than the last and other features. For example, in "Pokémon Stadium 3" you get to choose the battling rules. The problem is... the English "Pokémon Stadium" is actually the Japanese "Pokémon Stadium 2" and English "Pokémon Stadium 2" is Japanese "Pokémon Stadium 3." [@___@]
Required Game Council:
"Nintendo 64": "Pokémon Stadium," "Pokémon Stadium 2," "Pokémon Stadium 3"

Puzzle League: Here's some games that don't make much sence. Even though "Pocket Monsters" is a Japanese cartoon, these game are avalible ONLY in English. I've never played them but they sound a lot like "Tetris." You earn points by flipping three of the same blocks. In "Pokémon Puzzle League," you chase after Musashi & Kojirou who keep hiding in disguises. Yamato & Kosaburo pop up sometimes and give you another reason to hate your life by giving you hell-spawned challenges. Other characters from the Animé are in it such as Hiroshi and Kenji. "Pokémon Puzzle Challenge" lets you play puzzles wherever you want. It's not nearly as cool as "Pokémon Puzzle League" though.
Required Game Councils:
"GameBoy Color": "Pokémon Puzzle Challenge"
"Nintendo 64": "Pokémon Puzzle League"

Pinball: Now you've heard of everything, haven't you? Whenever you hit something with your ball, the game system vibrates a little, which I found rather interesting. You basically choose a location and try to catch Pokémon there. You'll get a pinball screen with the monster on it. You have to hit the monster to catch it. Don't ask me how these people come up with this stuff. ^_^;
Required Game Councils:
"GameBoy Color": "Pokémon Pinball"
"GameBoy Advance" or "GameBoy Advance SP": "Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire"

It's A Snap: Whether or not you ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Pokémon Photographer, this game'll give you some idea. You're Toru (of course) so you're eqipped with...equipment [^_^;] for photo capture such as bait. It was very popular in America because for a while whenever I went to "Blockbuster" I could barely push through the crowd of people printing out their snapshots on the machine there. I must say, it IS a fun game! You can't be expected to be subjected to battle in every "Pocket Monsters" game afterall. The problem is, even unexperienced gamers can beat the game in a day.
Required Game Council:
"Nintendo 64": " Pokémon Snap"

Colosseum: The "Battle Mode" is a lot like the "Pokémon Stadium" games but the graphics are cooler and you're either playing as Haruka or Yuuki. It's the only time you can use more than one player at once. But if that was all there was to Colosseum then it wouldn't have made any money, now would it?
Since the story will eat up a lot of room on this page, I'll create a separate page for it A.S.A.P. But for the time being, I'm telling you... it's the best "Pokémon" game there is!
Required Game Council:
"Nintendo Gamecube": " Pokémon Colosseum"

Tamagotchi: This is what it REALLY takes to be a Pokémon Trainer! In "Hey You, Pikachu!" you talk to the controller and Pikachu listens! (Imagine how hard it was to dubb that in English!) I read about it and pretty much all you do is feed him lots of fish to keep him happy and play with him. Kinda like a Giga Pet. In "Pokémon Channel," Proff. Ookido needs you to make the Pokémon Channel get high-ratings by rating the T.V. shows that your couch potatoe Pikachu forces you to watch. You also get to decoarate your room and play with your Pikachu outside-IF he feels like it!
"Nintendo 64": " Hey You, Pikachu! " (Japanese Name: "Pikachu Genki Dechuu")
"Nintendo Gamecube": " Pokémon Channel"

Pimpin' The Mini: ^_^; Felt the need to say that for some reason. In "Pokémon Pikachu" you have to walk, run, and jump to stack up your Watts-which aquire items for the "Pokémon Gold" and "Pokémon Silver" games. Another way to get Watts is by playing with Pikachu. "Pokémon Pikachu 2: Gold Silver" is the same as "Pokémon Pikachu"-but in color.
"Pokémon Mini" has 11 chips. Which is why I'm not going to discuss them..."
Required Game Councils:
"Blue Pokémon Mini" or "Green Pokémon Mini" or "Purple Pokémon Mini": " Pokémon Party Mini ," " Pichu Bros. Mini ," " Pokémon Pinball Mini , " " Pokémon Puzzle Collection ," " Pokémon Puzzle Collection 2 ," " Pokémon Rally Race ," " Pokémon Tetris ," " Pokémon Zany Cards ," " Togepi's Great Adventure ," " Pokémon Breeder Mini ," "Snorlax's Lunchtime!"
None: " Pokémon Pikachu ," " Pokémon Pikachu 2: Gold Silver "
To specify, each "Pokémon Mini" game system comes with all of the games except "Pokémon Pikachu" and "Pokémon Pikachu 2: Gold Silver" which come with a mini game system of their own.

Smash Brothers: Battle various Nintendo characters (Ex. Mario, Zelda, Kirby, etc.) against Pikachu, Pichu, Purin, Myuutsuu or vise versa. If you get a Pokéball, a random Pokémon gets chosen to help you out. You don't HAVE to play a Pokémon character-but if you don't then what's the point of it? :P
Required Game Councils:
"Nintendo 64": " Super Smash Bros. "
"Nintendo Gamecube": " Super Smash Bros. Melee"

Misc. Electronic:
* The "Thinkchip Battle Stadium" is a boring game that I won in a contest that I carelessly entered. All it is is a toy version of an everyday Pokémon Battle arena. You have some Pokémon figures that have a "Regular" and a "Special" attack. A line runs across the stadium. It lights up back and fourth when you "Launch" an attack. You have to try to stop the attack as close to the center as possible. You do this until your opponent is out of hit points. Or until the game breaks. It'll probably break first. There is also a Satoshi toy that has no significance with the game except that he recognizes the "Battle Stadium" Pokémon if you put them on the palm of his hand. He's actually funny because he never shuts up and says stuff like "Uhh...see ya!" when you don't mess with him for a while. There is also a useless Pokémon Zukan ("Ash's Talking Pokédex") that goes with this stuff but it's not important either.
* "PokéROMs" are educational computer programs where you learn skills in math, reading, and other subjects. You need a "Windows" or a "Macintosh" with a inner recessed depression on the CD-ROM tray in order to use these. The roms that I know of are: "Bulbasaur," "Charmander," "Squirtle," "Pikachu," "Meowth," "Psyduck," "Poliwhirl," "Gengar," "Eevee," "Mewtwo," "Togepi," and "Slowking."
* "V-Trainer Electronic Battle Games" are just Pokémon with chips inside of them on a pad, that fight a gym leader.
* The "Pokémon CYCLONE 2" is another plastic child's electronic game except this one requires usage of pogs.
* "Pokémon CYCLONE" is about the same as "Pokémon CYCLONE 2" I would wager.
* The "Tiger Giant Electronic Pokéball" is a big Pokéball-shaped game. The object is to capture 15 different Pokémon by tilting the ball back and fourth so the lights match up.
* I don't see the point in the plastic "Pokémon Pinball Machine." I really don't. I suppose it's for very little kids who can't figure out how to work a "GameBoy."
* "Pokémon Yahtzee" is one of those hand-held electronic board games.

Misc. Non-Electronic:
* Toy stores sell Pokémon bouncer balls.
* "Pokémon Mighty Beanz" are sold at www.pokemoncenter.com. They're jumping beans. (www.pokemoncenter.com is the online shop of "The Pokémon Center" store in New York City so it's very dependable.)
* www.pokemoncenter.com's specialty are it's "Pokémon House" sets which come as sets and also come as portable fold-ups like "Polly Pocket" sets used to come as.
* There's also Pokémon board games. These include "Pokémon Monopoly," "Pokémon Sorry!," "Pokémon Yahtzee Jr.," and probably some others.