YMMV / Telefang

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Considering that this game was pirated under the guise of a new Pokémon game, there are a few features that appeared in theses games that took time until appearing in the proper series later:
    • One of the game bootlegs was known as "Pokémon Diamond". Flash forward to 2006 ^note 2007 in the West, and the actual Pokémon Diamond Version was released under that very name.
    • The fake Legendary Pokémon on the "Pokémon Jade" bootleg cover, simply the forest spirit from Princess Mononoke, does resemble a deer. Flash forward to 2013, and the games Pokémon X and Y would introduce Xerneas, an actual giant deer Legendary Pokémon.
    • Pokémon followed the Trainer^note a hotly-requested feature since in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Pokémon Sword and Shield's Expansion Pack, and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.^note They also followed the protagonist in Amity Square in Diamond and Pearl, plus Pikachu followed the player in Pokémon Yellow. Your first Denjuu can follow you around in the overworld.
    • The Game Boy Color Telefang games had Triple Battles, which Pokémon Black and White eventually introduced to the main series.
    • It took until Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire to be able to run faster than to walk, while Pokémon X and Y introduced diagonal movement; Telefang enabled both of those beforehand.
    • The strange obsession with curry became this when curry became a part of the Pokémon Camp mechanic in Pokémon Sword and Shield.
    • Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a prequel to the real Diamond and Pearl games. Though it's set in the Sinnoh region, in the time period that Legends: Arceus occurs, the region is instead known as "Hisui". And what does Hisui translate to? Jade, of course. Additionally, it changes up the battle system so you either battle using a "Strong Style" or an "Agile Style". This is amusingly close to Telefang's Power and Speed versions.
    • 22 years after Telefang introduced Easydog, which was part-motorbike and evolved from a Secret Denjuu, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet featured mascots which resembled (and in the former's case, even moved like) a motorcycle.
  • The concept of "monsters using cell phones to talk to the player" would come back in Undertale.
  • According to this game, 4 signal bars are literally out of this world. Now, look at you own cell phone. You most likely get up to 5 bars.
• Memetic Mutation: Well, have you had curry? ^Explanation This is a common quote in the games.
• Unintentional Period Piece: As researcher Rachel Briggs pointed out in an interview, this game was very much the product of the early years of "keitai culture" in Japan. They started with the premise of the cell phone being as big a craze in-universe as it was in real life and more or less wrote the story proper around it.

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