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Just shows how phones stopped innovating on design

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[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the other way around. GameFreak redesigns the Pokedex each generation to resemble contemporary hardware. Gens 1 through 4 looked like the handheld you were playing on, 5 onwards look like a smartphone, and in Let's Go only it looks like a laptop.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But it looks like the Gen 1 Pokédex to me, which did not really look like a Gameboy (I'm also pretty sure the Hoenn Pokédex did not look like a GBA until the remake)

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

The precursor to the DS was the Game and Watch, back in the 1980s.

https://gameverse.com/2019/07/17/nintendo-handhelds-ranked-best-ever/

Bulbapedia has a reference of all different dex designs

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9dex#Artwork

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Gen 1 had a gameboy-looking face though.