As the player's own Pokémon become more powerful, they draw closer to the Indigo Plateau.īetween the battles with Team Rocket, their rival, and other trainers, the player journeys across the region, defeating all the Gym Leaders: Brock, Misty, Lt. The rival will also continuously challenge the player to a battle, with an increasingly powerful team. Fuji hostage, and taking control of Silph Co. The player must defeat them to put a stop to their crimes, which include killing a Marowak while keeping Mr. Oak also gives them a Pokédex and asks them to catch all the Pokémon in the region.ĭuring their travels, the player will encounter the villainous Team Rocket and their boss Giovanni, a criminal gang that treats Pokémon as tools, rather than train them as friends and partners. Oak lets the two boys choose a starter Pokémon, a choice of the Grass-type Bulbasaur, the Fire-type Charmander, or the Water-type Squirtle (and with the player's rival choosing the Pokémon that has a type advantage over the player's Pokémon).
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Red and Green begin the Pokémon series in the region of Kanto, where players play the role of Red, an eleven-year-old boy who has just started his journey as a Pokémon Trainer from Pallet Town, on the same day as his Blue, who is Red's rival and the grandson of the local authority on Pokémon, Professor Oak. The rerelease also allowed compatibility with Poké Transporter, a tool which can send Pokémon from Virtual Console copies of Pokémon to Pokémon Bank, where they can be withdrawn in Pokémon Sun and Moon and in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. In Japan, the original 1996 games, along with Blue and Yellow, are available on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console between the Pokémon 20th Anniversary on Februand the discontinuation of the 3DS Nintendo eShop in March 2023. In 2004, Red and Green were remade for the Game Boy Advance as Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. In 1999, the sequels to these games, Pokémon Gold and Silver, were released for the Game Boy Color. The game was a commercial success in Japan, which prompted the localization of Red and Green for an international release the games were then released as Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. They take place in the Kanto region, with the player having to collect eight Gym Badges to become the Pokémon Champion while also completing the Pokédex by collecting all 151 Pokémon.
They were first released in Japan on February 27, 1996, and were later followed by the updated Pokémon Blue and the supplementary Pokémon Yellow.ĭeveloped over the course of several years, Red and Green established several standards for later Pokémon games and sequels. They are the first primary paired versions of Generation I, developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the handheld Game Boy. Pokémon Red Version (Japanese: ポケットモンスター 赤 Pocket Monsters: Red) and Pokémon Green Version (Japanese: ポケットモンスター 緑 Pocket Monsters: Green) are the first video games in the Pokémon series of games.
Game Boy (enhanced for the Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2) Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearlīox art of Pokémon Red Version, depicting Charizard.īox art of Pokémon Green Version, depicting Venusaur.