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Nintendo · Console family

Pokémon mini

Nintendo’s smallest cartridge system packed a clock, rumble, infrared link, and Pokémon games into a tiny shell.

Documented hardware recordA source-linked factual history appears below. Undocumented development, regional, and package details are left unclaimed.

Pokémon mini was a deliberately tiny monochrome handheld with interchangeable cartridges. Motion sensing and infrared multiplayer made it surprisingly feature-rich for its scale.

Released
2001 · Exact day not documented
Platform / family
Miniature handheld
Format / type
Mini cartridge
Region
Japan / North America
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Documented item history

Release and collector context

Source-linked facts

Pokémon mini is a Nintendo hardware family documented for Japan / North America, with a release recorded as 2001 (the exact day and month are not documented). The catalog identifies it as Miniature handheld hardware using Mini cartridge. PLAYBACK connects 3 documented hardware variants to this family, including Wooper Blue, Chikorita Green, Smoochum Purple.

Research status
Structured source record
01

Release context

The documented release is 2001 (the exact day and month are not documented) for Japan / North America on Miniature handheld. Date precision is preserved exactly: the archive does not invent a day when the source records only a month or year.

02

Regional differences

This record is scoped to Japan / North America. The linked structured source does not document a separate regional title or package difference, so PLAYBACK does not infer one.

03

Physical packaging

The physical format is documented as Mini cartridge. The current structured source does not enumerate every insert, manual, sleeve, or bonus item, so no unverified contents are claimed.

04

Editions and revisions

3 hardware configurations are linked to this family: Wooper Blue, Chikorita Green, Smoochum Purple.

Research sources

  1. commons.wikimedia.org — catalog record ↗