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. 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. 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. 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.
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