Pokémon Snap
| Pokémon Snap | |
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North American Nintendo 64 cover art
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| Developer(s) |
HAL Laboratory Pax Softnica |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Yoichi Yamamoto Koji Inokuchi Akira Takeshima |
| Producer(s) |
Satoru Iwata Shigeru Miyamoto Kenji Miki |
| Designer(s) | Shigezo Kawase Takeyuki Machida Masanobu Yamamoto Shizu Higashiyama |
| Composer(s) | Ikuko Mimori |
| Series | Pokémon |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
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| Genre(s) |
First-person rail shooter Simulation game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 77% |
| Metacritic | 77/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| EGM | 83/100 |
| Famitsu | 33/40 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | C+ |
| GameSpot | 8/10 |
| IGN | 7.8/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 8.7/10 |
| ONM | 85% |
Pokémon Snap (ポケモンスナップ Pokemon Sunappu?) is a first-person rail shooter and simulation video game co-developed by HAL Laboratory and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in Japan in March 1999, and was later released in June 1999 in North America and in September 2000 for PAL regions. It is a spin-off game in the Pokémon series, being one of the first console-based games for it, and featuring many Pokémon rendered for the first time in real-time 3D. The game was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in December 2007 as well as Wii U's Virtual Console in 2016.
Originally announced as a Nintendo 64DD title, development of Pokémon Snap was moved to the Nintendo 64 due to the 64DD's poor sales. The gameplay is similar to other first-person games, viewing from the perspective of protagonist Todd Snap as he moves automatically on a rail. The objective of the game is to take pictures of Pokémon, using items such as apples and "pester balls" to achieve better shots. After each round, players are judged based on the quality of their photos. The Virtual Console version features the ability to send pictures taken in the game to the Wii Message Board and send them to friends, whereas the Nintendo 64 cartridge could be taken to either Blockbuster or Lawson stores in North America and Japan to have pictures from the game printed on stickers.
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