Cinnabar Island

Cinnabar Island
Series	Pokémon
First game	Pokémon Red and Green (1996)
Created by	Game Freak

Cinnabar Island is a town and island in the Pokémon series located in the Kanto region and has appeared in the first, second, third, and fourth and seventh generation games. It is famous for its volcanoes. The Fire-type gym leader Blaine can be found here in the original games. In Pokémon Gold and Silver, the gym was relocated in Seafoam Islands.

Places of interest

There are numerous places that the player may visit in the island, two of them being needed for the player to advance the story.

Pokémon Mansion

The Pokémon Mansion is a dungeon that the player must explore in order to unlock the Cinnabar Gym. It is an abandoned and charred building, which got its name because of a famous Pokémon researcher who once lived there, though the reasons why he abandoned the mansion and why it's abandoned are never explained. Numerous burglars can be found throughout the mansion, along with a variety of Fire and Poison-Type Pokémon, owing to the decrepit state of the building.

The player must enter the mansion to find the key to the Cinnabar Gym. To advance through the mansion, the player must hit some switches found on some Mewtwo statues, in order to open and close doors that may block progress. The key can be found in the basement, where lots of scientists can be found, which say that the big space is ideal for a lab.

Along the mansion, the player can found books that contain journals and notes about the cloning of Mew and the origin and consequent disaster of Mewtwo.

The Pokémon Mansion was eventually destroyed by the volcano, along with everything else in the island.

Cinnabar Gym

Cinnabar Gym is home to the Hot-Headed Riddle Master, Blaine, who specializes in Fire type Pokémon. Fitting with his love of riddles, the rooms leading to Blaine contain machines where trainers must answer questions related to Pokémon trivia in order to unlock the door. Wrong answers result in a battle with the trainers stationed in the room while correct answers let the player skip the fight. Victory over Blaine awards the Volcano Badge and the Technical Machine for Fire Blast, which will teach a powerful fire type move to a compatible Pokémon. In the anime and Trading Card Game, Blaine is shown to possess a second, secret gym, only accessible to the strongest trainers. built into the island's volcano where his heat and magma loving Fire Pokémon have an advantage.

External links

• Cinnabar Island at Bulbapedia, the Pokémon wiki.

Kanto Map