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English: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX has finally arrived. The remake of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team for the Game Boy Advance and Blue Rescue Team for the Nintendo DS is an absolutely adorable game, so now seemed like the perfect time to explore the history of the original titles that started this series.

Imagine our surprise, then, when we discovered that the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games are themselves a spin-off of another series named the Mystery Dungeon series. These games are in turn a spin-off from the popular Dragon Quest games which, while never super huge in the West, are incredibly popular in Japan.

It turns out that there are dozens of Mystery Dungeon games from Chunsoft which play very similarly to Red and Blue Rescue Team (and the new Rescue Team DX). These games have simply never been localised into English.

So where did the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games come from? They are a passion project from Tsunekazu Ishihara, the president of The Pokemon Company. Tsunekazu moved mountains to get the original games made, when nobody else thought that they were a good idea. Even Satoru Iwata, master of making Pokemon games do incredible things, called the crossover an "impossible" prospect.

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Sources: https://www.webcitation.org/6O7eoBomV?url=http://www.1up.com/features/koichi-nakamura-interview-console-rpg http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/pokemon-mysterydungeon-gti/0/0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mystery_Dungeon_video_games