Keitai Denju Terefangu or “Mobile Electric Beast Telefang” was produced by Smilesoft in 2000 for the Gameboy Color. “Keitai” which is Japanese for cell phone and “Fang” representing the monsters involved. Like Pokemon, the game has two versions, Telefang “Speed” and “Power”
This is a Pokemon-like RPG where you play as a young boy named Shigeki. You have to collect the numbers of various creatures using a cell phone devise called a “D-shot” in order to get them to battle enemies you come across.
The story is, it’s 2020 and some cell phones come equipped with a unique antenna called a D-shot which allows the user to teleport through huge trees called “Antenna Trees”. When going to find a baseball Shigeki lost near an Antenna Tree, he is accidentally transported to a strange world when he finds one of these special cell phones.
This strange world is filled with monsters who own and use the D-shot to communicate and call for help from other creatures called “Denju”. While traveling through this odd world learning as much as he can, Shigeki finds himself in the middle of several plots to take over the monster world by other evil Denju and human beings.
What REALLY happened to Telefang?
Later on the two games were roughly translated (VERY roughly translated!) into English, taking on the names of “Pokemon Diamond” for Power and “Pokemon Jade” for Speed. They were sold on ebay for a short time.
“For the clever opponent, Injure increase!!”
This was a dirty, yet thorough, pirate job. The box art featured two monsters that were not even in the games. Jade version had a deer-like creature roughly based on the forest spirit from Hayao Miyazaki’s “Princess Mononoke” and the Diamond version had a weird blue serpent. The back of the box even had screenshots of things you could not achieve in the game as well as official Pokemon names edited in. Diamond was the version I played before realizing, this wasn’t just a terrible Pokemon game, It was an awesome Japanese game. I eventually got past the spelling errors, bad grammar, multiple glitches and continued to play and LOVE the game. Not to mention it had some decent music. Just listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ab_HMFVvcE&feature=related
it’s a groove, not an overworld theme. Later on in 2002 a sequel was made for the Gameboy Advance, again by Smilesoft. It plays pretty much like the first only Telefang 2 takes place in a different part of the Monster World.
In this game you play as the blue haired boy named Kyou (or whatever you name your character) who is striving to be a “T-fanger”, someone who befriends and battles with the Denju. In your journey you meet the evil Diablos who doesn’t like the fact that there are humans in the monster world. Kyou sets off to stop Diablos from destroying all the Antenna Trees separating the human world from the monster world once and for all.
This game plays and feels like the old Telefang only they’ve upped the anti on everything. Especially the battle screens. I'de say they’re almost better than any Pokemon battle screen. You don’t get a blurred colored backdrops to fight in like Pokemon but a similar setting to where the battle began.
Great, unique game. If you haven’t played one I suggest you go on a Google hunt right now.
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