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Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow...what've they become?
What have the original Pokemon games become? Everyone says "Oh yeah I am such a Pokemon fan, I used to play Pokemon Red/Blue all the time."
But did they really? These games were my childhood, and now everyone claims that they love it, when they don't. "I'm such a Pokemon fan!" "Oh yeah? Cool! With what Pokemon did you start as a kid?" "OMG I totally remember starting out with Pikachu in Pokemon Blue." (I'm not kidding. I heard this. I asked if it was Yellow, and no. She kept insisting it was in the Game with the GIANT TURTLE WITH GUNS.) |
..Don't particularly know what this thread is supposed to discuss but;
In all truth, I did pay the original Pokemon Games way back when I was a kid. I always kept my precious level 80 pikachu in my Pokemon [s]/Blue[s] Yellow, not to mntion by dominating hypno. |
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Well, I got into Pokemon when the Diamond & Pearl games came out, but, my neighbor gave me his Red. I have had some experience with it, but I never really liked it (besides the Mew Glitch! That was awesome!:D). |
It's true that nowadays it's "cool" to like the original Pokemon but hard to find people that actually remained fans. It does get rather obnoxious when people know the basics of Ash, Pikachu, Red, and the starters, and then don't really know anything else about the games but because the old Pokemon is a good thing to like but not to be particularly knowledgeable on.
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I first played Red and Blue when I was at my uncle's house (He was 12 at the time. We are 5 years apart.) Actually, the first game I played there was Yellow, when I didn't know what I was doing at all. After playing around for about 2 hours I actually figured out how to play. A couple years later, after getting Ruby version, my uncle decided to give me Red and Yellow. I will always remember those games because they were the games that got me into Pokemon and Gaming itself.
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Memories. Sweet sweet memories. Started playing Pokemon Yellow as my first game when I was 5 years old. Put so much blood sweat and tears(literally tears) into that game. Its funny, I was 5-6 years old, and have the time I had no idea what I was doing. By the time I got the Rainbow Badge I got stuck because I had no idea how to get the PokeFlute so I spent the longest time running around everywhere, just doing all sorts of crazy stuff.
It wasn't until I got Pokemon Blue that I figured out what I had to do. I never really beat the Pokemon League in Yellow version or Blue version but by the time I got to Giovanni in Yellow version, my Pokemon were borderline 60s. |
I'm a hardcore RB fan. Ive seriously not put the games down in 13 years now. In fact, i started blue again for the 24th time yesterday. :)
Contrary to the naysayers, the originals are the best. The irony is that their longevity is thanks to their poor coding - thanks to the glitches, i've spent years finding new ways to exploit the various holes in the code! :D Gold and Silver aren't bad, but i've played them to death. Ruby and Sapphire were good, but i find it hard to muster the willpower to see a new game through nowadays. LG/FR - meh, to me it was the same games I still play to death, without the code holes that made it so exciting. D/P... ew. Please gamefreak, no more lazy ass prevolutions and evolutions. B/W, an improvement on the last generation, but the charm of the series is shot now. So yeah, i'll keep on glitching till my cart fries. It's already been through the washing machine twice, and with red version I now need to jam a magnet in the back to get it to work, but 13 years enjoyment for £25 isn't bad at all. ;) |
POKEMON YELLOW is easily my favorite. I played Blue a loong time ago and I actually remember, I was with my cousin on our way to a local camp site with his mom and dad and he was playing it and it just caught my eye at first I didn't know how to play and my first pokemon caught was an Abra but it could only teleport and it didnt discourage me I taught it Mega Punch. But, that was all I played of Blue, The real Excitment was when I first got that big frikkin Gameboy and my first pokemon Yellow Game. I was so happy that I didin't care how many batteries it took to play the darn thing. There's is one memory I will never forget and my older brothers never let me live down I think I was 9 when it came out or 10, but I didnt know the nooks and cranny's so I got the masterball and then I got an old rod and then you can imagine where this is going I fished for the first time and got a magikarp and used all 4 of my pokeballs top catch it thinking it would be awesome bc my brothers had blue and red and they didn't have it so I used the masterball on it not realizing that the MASTERBALL was the ultimate pokeball and that Mewtwo was able to be caught.(who woulda knew) I trained that Magikarp until it evolved and then I was like booya take that Adam.(My older brother that i couldn't beat at the time) Now they like pokemon but not that hardcore and they can't keep up with the physical and special aspects of their attacks they still think razorleaf is special and not physical in BW. But, the best years of my life.(In games)
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Personally, those that say Gen III was the best but haven't played Gen I or II really don't know what they're talking about at all.
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Pokemon Red and Blue are just Pokemon Firered/Leafgreen now :)
Good: Gitches Bad: The Bag It seems quite slow before you get the bike :) |
Now looking back at the 1st Pokemon games after playing one of the best Pokemon games in my opinion (Pokemon Black and White), I just love looking for the Glitches in these Pokemon games.
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As for the topic I've never met anybody who said they were cool for playing red, yellow or blue. |
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I started out with Red and Blue when they first came out. Yes, that's how long I've been into Pokemon. Back when they came out, they were awesome. They may not be as good as newer games by today's standards, but those are the games that set the standards for new Pokemon games. Personally, my favorite set of games is GSC and HGSS. However, we just have to remember that RBY is where it all began and it's where everything we see in new Pokemon games gets its inspiration from.
To answer the question "What have they become?", I guess they've become the grounds for all Pokemon games and a lot of the very successful RPGs out there. |
I played Pokemon yellow but I did not really like it. I prefer Gold because Ho-Oh is caught relatively early in the game and it's my favourite legendary :P I know a lot of people who pretend to like it (maybe under a pseudo-hipster guise), but I also have some friends who play the old games all the time. Maybe I will get a new Yellow soon (the battery's failed :() so I can g et a bulbasaur for my crystal save
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Perhaps I just enjoy the simpler things in life. But for me, I prefer being able to play a game where the pokedex feels acheivable, rather than a never ending feat. Oh, and believe it or not, I still link battle with my friends now and again. Screw IV's and F.E.A.R, this is where it's at. ;) There's just something about R/B. It's like, for all it's failings and obvious inferiorities, it somehow feels like the most accessible of the Pokemon games. As the graphics have become more flashy and the character roster has ballooned, the series has managed to become more niché. I certainly don't hold the interest I did back in the early 2000's. Most people who played pokemon in it's heyday haven't touched a pokemon game since G/S and, at a stretch, R/S. Hell, they even advertised HG/SS here in the UK by getting celebrities to give us their memories of the originals in the hopes of getting some ex-players to pick up the game. |
I certainly do recall buying Blue way back in '99. For all its flaws I'd love the opportunity to play through it again, as my favorite game mechanic was how Slash on Persian would critical all the time. It was a beast back then :)
But I lost my copy years ago to an internal battery issue. Overall, the two games were the basis of a franchise that's kept me entertained for well over a decade. |
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I only ask because it's now happened in my Ruby Version, but that's the only pokemon game I have ever had the problem with. Blue i'm most suprised with, what with the washing machine incident... (Now it has a label i made with missingno on it. :P ) |
I wasn't quite old enough to be playing R/B/Y right when they originally came out. My first game was Crystal, which I got a year or two after it came out. I still consider myself to be a "classic"/"original" Pokemon gamer, but R/B/Y just don't hold up to the later games without the nostalgia boost.
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i remember when i first got blue and yellow.i turned on blue cuz i saw blastoise(who is my fav pokemon evarrr)and started playing.i was just walking around and didnt understand a single thing,since i didnt know english untill i went to school,and even then i started learning about it in 3rd grade!(8 yrs old)so untill then i did lose BOTH of my copies cuz im a ****ing retard thats why,but still i remember allways choosing squirtle for a starter and going and choosing random attacks :D...please note:in my country nobody really had a gameboy,and i started playing the games after the anime started over here(which is 2000 n something,cant remember exacly)and i got my copies from england,so i didnt even have any friends to play and trade with :(
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I remember playing Yellow/Red/blue. I never knew when my pokemon was gonna gain a level because I couldn't see the exp bar. I would run around in the grass for hours training my Pikachu [In Pokemon Yellow]. I didn't know anything about Pokemons then. I remember when I challenged the 1st gym leader with my Pikachu and a Metapod, lol. I utterly lost to Brock.
Good ol' memories. |
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