Pokémon Gold and Silver are headed to the 3DS Virtual Console

7 Jun 2017

Steve Wright

Pokémon Gold and Silver are heading to the 3DS Virtual Console, Nintendo today announced.

Available from 22 September, the pair of titles will also be compatible with the Pokémon Bank service.

Pokémon Gold and Silver were first released on the Game Boy Colour, then followed up with a DS release in the form of Pokémon HeartGold and SouldSilver. The second generation of Pokémon were introduced with the titles.

Today, Nintendo also confirmed Pokkén Tournament DX for Switch and Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon for 3DS.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.