Uploaded December 2007 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A video of the intro of Telefang (Power version). Probably very few of you have ever heard of this game, so let me explain what it is. It's a GBC RPG that was OFFICIALLY only released in Japan, produced by Smilesoft and published by Natsume. It plays a bit like Pokémon, but you use cellphones in this game. You use them to call other Denjuu (the name of all the monsters) to battle other Denjuu. Nearly all battles are multi-battles (i.e. 2-on-2, 3-on-3, etc.).
This game was notorious because somebody in China bootlegged it. The bootleg versions of these Telefang games were badly translated from Japanese to Engrish, had a bunch of glitches (for example, it can't save properly), and were called "Pokémon Diamond" (not to be confused with the Pokémon Diamond for the DS that came out years later) and "Pokémon Jade." This particular version was bootlegged into Diamond. They are not actual Pokémon games! This caused a lot of people to have negative impressions on these games, though in reality Telefang is the most underrated game ever, in my opinion. It later got a sequel for the Game Boy Advance.
A video of the intro of Telefang (Power version). Probably very few of you have ever heard of this game, so let me explain what it is. It's a GBC RPG that was OFFICIALLY only released in Japan, produced by Smilesoft and published by Natsume. It plays a bit like Pokémon, but you use cellphones in this game. You use them to call other Denjuu (the name of all the monsters) to battle other Denjuu. Nearly all battles are multi-battles (i.e. 2-on-2, 3-on-3, etc.).
This game was notorious because somebody in China bootlegged it. The bootleg versions of these Telefang games were badly translated from Japanese to Engrish, had a bunch of glitches (for example, it can't save properly), and were called "Pokémon Diamond" (not to be confused with the Pokémon Diamond for the DS that came out years later) and "Pokémon Jade." This particular version was bootlegged into Diamond. They are not actual Pokémon games! This caused a lot of people to have negative impressions on these games, though in reality Telefang is the most underrated game ever, in my opinion. It later got a sequel for the Game Boy Advance.
