| Items at Goldenrod City | |
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Ultra Ball Basement of the Dept. Store, accessible only via the elevator. |
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Burn Heal Basement of the Dept. Store, accessible only via the elevator. |
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Ether Basement of the Dept. Store, accessible only via the elevator. |
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TM78 (Captivate) Inside of the Game Corner, immediately to your left. |
| Dept. Store 2F (Top Counter) | |||
| Poke Ball | $200 | Great Ball | $600 |
| Ultra Ball | $1200 | Escape Rope | $550 |
| Poke Doll | $1000 | Repel | $350 |
| Super Repel | $500 | Max Repel | $700 |
| Grass Mail | $50 | Flame Mail | $50 |
| Blue Mail | $50 | Space Mail | $50 |
| Dept. Store 2F (Bottom Counter) | |||
| Potion | $300 | Super Potion | $700 |
| Hyper Potion | $1200 | Max Potion | $250 |
| Revive | $1500 | Antidote | $100 |
| Parlyz Heal | $200 | Burn Heal | $250 |
| Ice Heal | $250 | Awakening | $250 |
| Full Heal | $600 | ||
| Dept. Store 3F | |||
| X Speed | $350 | X Attack | $500 |
| X Defend | $550 | Guard Spec. | $700 |
| Dire Hit | $650 | X Accuracy | $950 |
| X Special | $650 | X Sp. Def | $950 |
| Dept. Store 4F | |||
| Protein | $9800 | Iron | $9800 |
| Calcium | $9800 | Zinc | $9800 |
| Carbos | $9800 | HP Up | $9800 |
| Dept. Store 5F | |||
| TM70 (Flash) | $1000 | TM17 (Protect) | $2000 |
| TM54 (False Swipe) | $2000 | TM83 (Natural Gift) | $2000 |
| TM16 (Light Screen) | $2000 | TM33 (Reflect) | $2000 |
| TM22 (SolarBeam) | $3000 | TM52 (Focus Blast) | $5500 |
| TM38 (Fire Blast) | $5500 | TM25 (Thunder) | $5500 |
| TM14 (Blizzard) | $5500 | TM15 (Hyper Beam) | $7500 |
A person in the far left side of the 5th Floor of the Dept. Store will trade you his Machop for your Drowzee. You can catch Drowzee on Route 34 pretty easily and Machop is really helpful against the upcoming Gym, which is solely a Normal-type Gym. It's up to you if you want to make the trade or not, though I'd advise it.
On the 6th Floor of the Dept. Store, there are two people at a desk and they will hold a little raffle. You can talk to the bottom one to pay $300 for a chance to win one of three fabulous prizes: 3rd is a Berry of some sort; 2nd is a Dusk Ball, and 1st is TM42 (Facade). That's pretty nifty. Dusk Balls never hurt, and nor do berries, so go for it if you want.
You can also buy either Fresh Water (first option; $200 and heals 50HP), Soda Pop (second option; $300 and heals 60HP), or Lemonade (third option; $350 and heals 80HP). I definitely recommend picking up a dozen or so Lemonade, because they're cheap, half the price of a Super Potion, and heal 30HP more than that same Super Potion. The only drawback is that you have to buy them one at a time.
If you go into the elevator in the Dept. Store, you can access the basement floor, where there's someone down there with her Machoke. The Machoke will move a crate, the first of which giving you access to an Ultra Ball. Head on over to the west and talk to the girl over there to have another Machoke move a crate, allowing you to reach a Burn Heal. Go back to that same girl and talk to her again to have a third Machoke move a third crate so you can get an Ether.
Heading a few steps north of the Pokemon Center will reveal the Game Corner, which is pretty rad. You can't play there yet, though, because you don't have a Coin Case. You'll get that in the Underground Path. Speaking of which, head past the Game Corner and you'll reach Bill's House — at least his Johto one, where he keeps his family. He's not there, though, but remember this spot because you'll want to come back here later.
Just past Bill's House is one entrance to the Underground Path. You can go ahead and explore it right now, just jump ahead a bit, because I'm covering that in the next section. There's still plenty to do in Goldenrod, so you might want to check that all out first!
Further north of the Game Corner is the Magnet Train Station, which isn't operational at the moment, as well as the Radio Tower (with a Rocket Grunt lurking outside of it!) to the west, and a new addition further west of that: the Global Terminal. It's basically like it was in Platinum, and allows you to go view battles, trades, and stuff like that. Nifty!
You should totally start by checking out the Radio Tower, though, so you can get the Radio Card for your Pokegear. Inside, there are three ladies at the desk. The first one just says hi. The second one is for the Lucky Number Channel, where each week a different ID number is drawn, and she'll scan your PC and party to see if you have a winning match. Then the third one is the one who will give you a quiz in order to get the Radio Card.
Standing to the side is a girl with pink hair. Yep, that's Whitney, the Goldenrod Gym Leader, slacking off. You can't even enter the Gym until you get the Quiz right, so you'd better get to it!
Now, since the Quiz is in Japanese, I'll help give you the answers.
- Question 1: Is there a Pokegear Card for the Town Map? YES!
- Question 2: Can Nidorina be female-only? YES!
- Question 3: Does Kurt make Poke Balls out of Aprikorns? NO! (ApriCorns, not Korns)
- Question 4: Magikarp can't learn any TM moves? YES!
- Question 5: Oak's co-host is Marie? NO! (It's Mary)
If you go to the 2nd Floor of the Radio Tower and talk to the girl in the bottom-right (Buena) corner, you'll get the Blue Card. You can tune in to the daily question on Buena's channel to get points which can be used to exchange for nifty items.
You can't go any further in the Radio Tower now, so go ahead and leave (assuming you got the Radio Card of course; you NEED to have gotten this or you won't be able to enter the Goldenrod Gym).
Wanna get a Bicycle? You bet you do! So head east of the Radio Tower and kind of go behind the Pokemon Center, ignore the house you see there (nothing really that important; just a lady who judges your lead Pokemon's happiness), and enter the flashy-looking building. Talk to the guy in there and he'll give you a Bicycle. He wants you to help advertise his place, but really it just means you get a free bike. Awesome!
Almost done with the tour of Goldenrod City! Head up to the north, passing the railroad, and then you'll see the Gym and a tent on the other side of it. Well, we know what's in the Gym, so why not check out the tent, right? Inside is the Name Rater, and he just looks a little fancier now. He'll rename your Pokemon just like he's always done, as long as they aren't traded. Handy.
That's pretty much everything you need to see in Goldenrod City. Oh wait! There's still the Underground Path you need to check out! Heal up your Pokemon, and then enter the Underground Path from either the north or south entrance.






