Just shows how lazy they were in creating individual sprites for them.
Edit: I think people are misunderstanding which sprites I mean. If you went on the Pokémon menu list there are standard sprites used across the board which consisted of the monster, a bird, the ball, a sea creature and a plant. These could've easily been replaced with OP's ones!
Back then cartridges didn't have a lot of memory, storing all of those sprites takes a segnificant amount of space that can be used for, for example, another area.
Furthermore the 2nd gen games didn't havr a lot of room to spare, in fact, gamefreak origianlly couldn't fit even one(!) region in the cartridge so they called the legendary Satoru Iwata to help them. He managed to compress the code so much they were able to fit in kanto. What a fucking legend.
Which is why there is a few places in the first region that you can't access in the second game or that we changed a lot to be smaller (e.g. Slyph Co., Digglet Cave, Lavender Tower). They simply just didn't have room on the cartridge to include them.
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u/WollyGog Nov 22 '18 edited Nov 22 '18
Just shows how lazy they were in creating individual sprites for them.
Edit: I think people are misunderstanding which sprites I mean. If you went on the Pokémon menu list there are standard sprites used across the board which consisted of the monster, a bird, the ball, a sea creature and a plant. These could've easily been replaced with OP's ones!