Recommend putting the text speed up to high as soon as you can. Battles can be long and slow as the game works through all of the messages on the ‘small’ resolution. You have to enter the menu to get on your bike, view the map, there’s no running shoes and of course you can only move in a grid. Pokémon being exactly as it was back then means just that, all the modern conveniences of the new Pokémon games are not here. Pokémon Red and Blue play in black and white (or you can turn it green if you hold L and R and press Y), Pokémon Yellow is a Game Boy Color game and has an updated colour palette. The sole new addition is the emulation of the link cable which I’ll talk about later.
The games are exactly as they were, including glitches and hacks. So 20 years later has Nintendo added anything to these versions? Well, no.
You can buy all three versions, but there’s no real reason to – the idea is to trade with friends and ‘catch em’ all’. The story in Yellow also more closely matches the anime and the Pokémon available are slightly different.
Pokémon Yellow is a little different in that it follows the same young boy but instead of Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle he gets a Pikachu which follows him around. There’s different Pokémon to collect in each version and trade Pokémon from one version to the other can evolve as well. As your Pokémon level up they’ll learn new moves (and can be taught more through other means) and eventually evolve into more advanced forms. You can catch Pokémon through battles, you’ll only be able to snap up wild Pokémon – battling other trainers and gym leaders is solely for the experience (plus you don’t want to be a Pokémon thief). That’s really cruel when you think about it.
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The game’s story follows you, the Pokémon trainer in-training to defeat the eight gym leaders of Kanto and eventually defeat the Elite Four and Champion to be the very best like no one ever was. The other big goal is to fill your Pokédex, to see and catch all the Pokémon there are (and maybe one more) and store them in a PC as data. Nintendo released Pokémon Red and Blue as a pair, you play as the same young boy in both and you travel around the same region and play through the same story. While I fully expect anyone reading this to know how the game works just for a minute and for those who don’t, let’s go over the basics. However there’s nothing that makes you appreciate just how far Pokémon has come as a game by going back and playing Pokémon Red, Blue or Yellow.
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One of the chief complaints about Pokémon from casual observers of the series is that they’re just the same games but with just new monsters every iteration. If Gen 2 hits the 3DS virtual console and contains similar Pokemon Bank support, it'll be the first time ever that all 700+ Pokemon could be caught in their original game and traded up all the way into the most current Pokemon release.It’s been 20 years since the Japanese got their hands on Pokémon Red and Green (nee Blue), it was the game that saved the Game Boy and spawned a craze that is still going til this very day. Of special interest is the Virtual Console version of the original Gen 1 games, which allow trading into Sun & Moon via the 3DS Pokemon Bank app. Below is a chart that breaks down which Pokemon can be traded, by what method, and whether the trade is one-way or not. It isn't always a simple or user-friendly process, but it is doable This means that you'll be able to potentially battle with Pokemon you caught 13 years ago in Sun and Moon this fall. But, impressively, from Gen 3 all the way to the upcoming Sun and Moon, it's possible to trade Pokemon up from game to game. Unfortunately, due to a restructure in how Pokemon stats work and a platform switch there is a hard stop between Gen 2 (Gold and Silver) and Gen 3 (Ruby and Sapphire) - no trading is possible. Using a Game Boy Link Cable, Gen 1 Pokemon could be imported into Gen 2. But moving Pokemon between generations, from game to game? That's a different matter entirely.