Official RGB artwork?

[Adamant]

(I don't know if this is the right forum for this, but I couldn't find a better place, so here we go)

We all know it exists, but why does it have to be so incredibly hard to find online? A simple google search for a random pokemon name turns up an enormous amount of images, but you can count the RGB images showing up on one hand. And of those that DO show up, 95% lead to dead pages, which means you're stuck with the tiny thumbnail pictures.

So I wonder, do anyone know of a place I may aquire decently-sized (200x200 pixles or so) images of the original artwork of the 151 first pokemon?

 

[Misty]

Artwork? Good luck.

Your best bet is probably finding some in an old RBY player's guide...

 

[Adamant]

Well, this kinda leaves the thread redundant, but I did manage to find an awesome site via google:
http://www.pikachu.cz/Karty/Karty.php3

Yes, it's the TCG section of a pokemon site, but the cards featured here are not scans, but mockups, and the illustration used in place of the original card artwork is indeed from RGB. Joy.

 

[RBYGSCRSFRLGEPD]

Looking through my old guide, I see Pikachu started out really round, almost a circle. Now he looks like a stretchy mouse.

Perhaps that's why Americans thought that it was nauseatingly cute back in '98...