Can You Name All 151 Original Pokémon In This Quiz?

Ethan Krieger (He/Him) is an editor at DualShockers that got started in the writing industry by covering professional basketball for a sports network. Despite being a diehard sports fan (mainly formula one, basketball, American football, and golf), video games have always been his #1 interest.

I know I’m not alone when I say that Pokémon was genuinely one of the biggest things in my entire childhood. The Poké-movement of the ’90s was the first time I’d ever experienced a video game becoming just so culturally transcendent. From the games themselves, to the cards, TV show, movies, stuffed animals, and everything in between, Pokémon was truly inescapable.

Assuming you were just as addicted to the original anime as I was, you’ve likely heard the Poké Rap hundreds of times, as well as tested your memory just as often by playing “Who’s that Pokémon?” I don’t want to brag or anything, but I almost always knew who it was. No big deal.

Still, we’re all getting older, and our memories have needed to dump old knowledge in order to make room in our brains for more adult things, like tax brackets, how to make French press coffee, and styles of knots for a necktie. Still, I’d like to think all 151 of my original Pokémon buddies still hold some real estate up in the old noggin as well. It’s time to put that to the test.

Sporcle user “Matt” has put together a quiz that you can use to challenge your Gen 1 Pokémon memory retention. Once you hit “Play,” you’ll have 15 minutes to name as many of the OG 151 as you possibly can.

Be sure to post your results in the comments so we can see who the greatest Pokémon Master is among us!

Original 151 Pokémon Quiz

Release Date: 1997 – 2023
Network: TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TVh, TVQ, TSC
Directors: Shigeru Omachi, Koji Ogawa, Fumihiro Ueno, Hideki Hiroshima, Maki Kodaira, Makoto Ooga, Ayumi Moriyama, Keitaro Motonaga, Shigeru Ueda, Fumihiro Yoshimura, Minoru Ohara, Yoshitaka Makino, Kiyoshi Egami, Makoto Sokuza, Bjarne Heuser, Naoki Murata, Kenichi Nishida, Tomoe Makino, Masahiko Watanabe, Hiroaki Takagi, Tazumi Mukaiyama, Ryohei Horiuchi, Yoshihiro Oda, Hiromichi Matano
Writers: Junki Takegami, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hideki Sonoda, Yukiyoshi Ôhashi, Yuka Miyata, Takeshi Shudo, Shouji Yonemura, Shinzo Fujita, Michihiro Tsuchiya, Deko Akao, Reiko Yoshida, Aya Matsui, Junichi Fujisaku