1st Gen Pokemon Green

[CollosalPokemon]

Yes, green is a real game, it was just never released in the USA. It was officially the first pokemon game in history to hit Japan's market in February of 1995! Discussion of this game can take place here, as I have seen no other threads in this section about it! To all of you who post G/C/S/R/B/Y, you are all missing Green! Anyone who has pokemon green, or wants to know about it, discuss it here! Its photo's are also included here:

Pallet Town:

The Trainer's First Battle with your rival!:

I know they are low end graphics, but it plays just like R/B/Y, so anyone who likes R/B/Y should take a look at green!

 

[Azzurra]

It looks pretty much the same as R/B/Y, but less advanced.
But, it does show how much Pokemon has improved over the years.

The storyline wouldn't be much different either, would it?

 

[CollosalPokemon]

It looks pretty much the same as R/B/Y, but less advanced.
But, it does show how much Pokemon has improved over the years.

The storyline wouldn't be much different either, would it?

Nope, not much different, btw I didn't see a post about it, and it seemed everyone forgot about it...its kinda cool seeing how much pokemon has advanced, right?

 

[Charliezard]

Weren't green and red released together with blue coming later with improved sprites and what not?

 

[invisible-chan]

It's pointless to get it or emulate it though. Why bother when you have Blue and Red(actually, they are both Japanese Blue Version. Red was different).

 

[Outlander]

I remember seeing this game is a japanese anime store in the mall a long time ago

 

[coolcatkim22]

Yeah, I played it on a rom. It's pretty good, although I can't understand a word they're saying.

 

[bubblewrap]

If I'm not mistaken, Green and Red came out in Japan, as practically the same, then Blue came out, which was the American Red and Blue. Then Yellow came out, and after that everything was the same with Japan. Right?
Also, I looked at the Pokemon Green sprites online, they look wierd...
Mew has like a funky head bump thing. xD

 

[Charliezard]

If I'm not mistaken, Green and Red came out in Japan, as practically the same, then Blue came out, which was the American Red and Blue. Then Yellow came out, and after that everything was the same with Japan. Right?
Also, I looked at the Pokemon Green sprites online, they look wierd...
Mew has like a funky head bump thing. xD

Yeah, Blue was the same game with bug/sprite fixes.

 

[Azzurra]

Green's sprites look more real life inspired than the anime.
For example, the Squirtle sprite from Green Version looks more lifelike than one from Diamond version.

 

[FairyGarland]

Why wasn't the game released in English? I don't get it.

 

[coolcatkim22]

Why wasn't the game released in English? I don't get it.

Easy, there wasn't any reason to make it.

 

[bubblewrap]

Why wasn't the game released in English? I don't get it.

Probably because Pokemon was a new franchise and they only wanted to go worldwide when it got popular.
Just guessing, though.

 

[Ninja Tree]

I own Pokemon Green and it's pretty hard to play without knowing Japanese.(or playing r/b so much that you know what's going on)

 

[Fluffy Clouds]

What I heard about why Green wasn't released in the US was because of the total amount of glitches in it. I can't remember how many. On YouTube, you can find a ton of videos on glitches in that game.

Note that I heard this reason from somebosy else, and it might be an opinion. I don't know, though.

 

[SkyPioneer]

Just to clear alot of newb questions, Pokemon Green was never released outside of Japan, instead they released Pokemon Blue. Similarly, Japan never got their hands on Blue version. Both regions had Red version however.

Japanese games had different sprites for the pokemon. But apart from that, there is no difference between the two.

 

[ハリマ☆ハリオ]

Just to clear alot of newb questions, Pokemon Green was never released outside of Japan, instead they released Pokemon Blue. Similarly, Japan never got their hands on Blue version. Both regions had Red version however.

Japanese games had different sprites for the pokemon. But apart from that, there is no difference between the two.

No, that's not right... In Japan, Red and Green were released first. Blue was released after, and then Yellow was released after that. Blue enhanced the graphics of the original Red and Green in a way. And, when the games were released in America, they were based off Blue and rebranded as Red and Blue.

 

[BrainWave]

When fire red and leaf green versions came out I knew there has to be green somewhen.

Why wasn't the game released in English? I don't get it.

I've read somewhere that USA who was going to translate the original RG versions found english-fying pokemon red too tedious and could not bear to continue to green, so they decided to make it red/blue instead of red/green.

 

[coolcatkim22]

I've read somewhere that USA who was going to translate the original RG versions found english-fying pokemon red too tedious and could not bear to continue to green, so they decided to make it red/blue instead of red/green.

What does fying mean?

Any ways, from what I can tell is. They took the in-game trades, game corner Pokemon prizes and exclusive Pokemon from GR and put it in B.

 

[BrainWave]

What does fying mean?

When I say english-fying I meant translating the games into english. Now I wonder what could have happened if green was released in USA. Probably the exclusive are the same as JP Blue?