Price: $99.99 as of 11/22/2009 14:15 EST
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: Game Cartridge
Brand: Nintendo
EAN: 0045496730734
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: SPIG
Manufacturer: SPIG
MPN: 73073
Platform: Game Boy
Publisher: SPIG
Release Date: February 15, 1999
Studio: SPIG
Features:- Collect up to 139 Pokémon with this game
- both Red and Blue versions are required to capture all 150
- use the optional Game Link cable to trade Pokémon and play against a friend;
- for one to two players
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
It's the game that started a revolution, but it's not just the fad that convinced gamers to "catch 'em all." This deceptively simple and child-friendly roleplaying game design is a far deeper game design than it looks. Pokemon features way more strategy and gameplay than it leads on, offering gamers almost infinite gaming possibilities even after the main adventure ends. Pocket Monsters Red was released in Japan in 1996 by mail-order only (the two launch titles were Green and Blue). The franchise arrived in the west in 1998 as Pokemon Blue and Red (Roald Dahl holds the copyright for "Pocket Monsters" in the west, so the title was changed to the Japanese colloquial name). The games could be linked up with each other and with the N64's Pokemon Stadium titles for creature trading.
Editorial Review:
Welcome to the world of Pokémon, one filled with wild Pokémon and the people who attempt to tame them. You are Ash Ketchum, a boy on a quest to become the best Pokémon trainer in the world. Professor Oak, the leading authority on Pokémon, has given you your choice of three tame Pokémon in exchange for your helping him catalog and document every Pokémon in the world.
But to catalog a Pokémon, you have to capture it, by first beating it up with one of your trained Pokémon, and then hitting it with an empty Poké Ball. As your tame Pokémon gain experience in battle, their abilities improve and they earn access to new attacks. Sometimes they even evolve into more advanced Pokémon.
Aside from capturing wild Pokémon and evolving your own, you can catalog new Pokémon--the only way to gather some Pokémon--by trading with another Pokémon player using either a link cable or the Game Boy Color's infrared system. Pokémon gained through trades learn and evolve faster, and trading is the only way to capture all 151 Pokémon, since each Pokémon game (Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, andPokémon Yellow) has certain Pokémon missing. So if you own Red and want to have a complete set of Pokémon, you must find a friendly Blue or Yellow owner and arrange a trade.
Pokémon Red is packed with interesting characters, an ingenious story hook, intriguing strategy, and of course plenty of cute Pokemon, and it's easy to see how it started the Pokémania that is sweeping the world. --Michael Fehlauer
Pros: - Gameplay and strategy that are fun for all ages
- Fantastic replay value
- Brilliant game design encourages players to meet and trade
Cons: - Hours of looking at the Game Boy's little screen may hurt neck
- Only 1 saved game per cartridge--2 people can't share a single game
- No difference between Red and Blue except for distribution of Pokémon
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I have been playing pokemon for 13 years, before I could properly read, I am 16 now and am proud to say I still play. Children refuse to play Pokemon because there minds have been dominated by new age graphics and first person shooters. Kids, it is good. If you try to argue otherwise, then you clearly haven't expirienced some of the truly awful games out there.
Before you blindly hate on Pokemon merely because of it's popularity, Try giving strategy games a second look.
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everyone loves this game, i mean come on. but one of my biggest problems is the fact that you can't catch all the pokemon by yourself, you have to trade with others. to me, this seems unneccesary and annoying and it only makes it so i will never catch all the pokemon.
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Awesome classic. Nintendo made one great game here, I hope kids these days will still play the oldies.
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Daughter is very happy with purchase. Has used for some time now with no technical issues or any other problems. Very fair price and positive experience, arrived very quickly.
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My son wanted the Red Version soooo bad, so he used some of his allowance to get it. He likes it but he'd much rather play the Gold Version that he's had for much longer.
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