If you exchange phone numbers with other trainers you fought in the game, they'll call you for rematches. The Lucky Channel gives out lucky numbers each day and if yours match the ones at the radio tower you can win prizes (what they are you'll have to find out for yourself). Radio stations vary from Professor Oak's Pokemon Channel (which gives you locations of the monsters in the game), a music channel and the Lucky Channel. Keeping track of time is important as some monsters only appear during certain times of the day.

With the Pokegear you can check the time, look at an overworld map, make and receive cellular phone calls and listen to the radio, among other things. The Pokegear is possibly the handiest gadget in the game next to the backpack. Like the previous versions there are monsters only available in one cart or the other. There are artwork differences between Gold and Silver-some Pokemon have different poses depending on which version you're playing. Special versions of different monsters will turn up during the game too, and you'll only have one chance to catch them (for instance, the Gyarados who's terrorizing a lake area is gold-colored, different from normal). Gold and Silver have two new types of Pokemon-Dark and Steel, in addition to later evolutions of some monsters like Onixand Slowbro. Eevee can evolve into two additional forms-A psychic Eevee and a dark Eevee. Get a male and a female of those and take them to a farming couple which breeds Pokemon and you'll get an egg about a half hour later (see sidebar).

Some of these are pre-evolved forms of popular monsters like Pikachu, Electabuzz and Clefairy. There are a total of 251 Pokemon in the new games-151 from the first, and too new.

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