Pokémon Red Blue Yelllow re-releases

[Shinylatias]

How do you like them? Are they better on the 3Ds than gameboy? How far are you in the game now? If you picked red/blue who was your starter?

I picked Yellow, and I'm already on Pewter city with a Metapod, Pikachu, Nidoran F, and a Pidgey lel. I've never played on the gameboy so I wouldn't know how it was :L

 

[Mothership]

I already own a physical copy of Yellow, so I downloaded Blue. I never played the gen on a Game Boy. My starter is Squirtle. Team is Wartortle, Bellsprout and Spearow. I'm....ummmmm.....in the town with the big boat, but I haven't gotten on it yet.

 

[raeyoung]

I picked Red. It's so much fun!

 

[Vickie]

How do you like them? Are they better on the 3Ds than gameboy? How far are you in the game now? If you picked red/blue who was your starter?

I picked Yellow, and I'm already on Pewter city with a Metapod, Pikachu, Nidoran F, and a Pidgey lel. I've never played on the gameboy so I wouldn't know how it was :L

♥ We have the same team!!
I grinded a lot to get metapod to evolve into butterfree though,
can't stand the look of metapod :c ♥
~♚Vickie​

 

[Zane]

I got Red since that's what I had originally, the experience is pretty much the same as it was on the GB since they took out restore points. Rn I'm on my way to Fuschia to get the badge (actually I made a detour there before fighting Erika to get a Rhyhorn from the Safari Zone so there'd still be lots of trainers to grind it on haha), current team is Charizard, Clefable, Butterfree, Pikachu, Rhyhorn and Gyarados. I left the Magikarp with the daycare guy until it was lvl 17 I'm a cheater.. and I forgot Charizard couldn't learn Fly in Gen1 so bring on the suffering. 8)

 

[King Dorado]

anybody know how long these will be available for purchase??

 

[AmenFashion]

I bought Blue and I'm loving the game all over again. It feels just like the first time I played back in the day!

My team is Alakazam, Haunter, Clefable, Venasaur, Chansey, and Slowbro.
I just made it to the Elite 4, but won't be challenging them until I get my Pokedex filled a little more.

 

[pokedude729]

anybody know how long these will be available for purchase??

I'm pretty sure indefinitely

 

[Jake]

I was gonna get blue and yellow, but I just ended up getting blue since I have yellow in GB, and I never played blue, and I didn't wanna DL both only to get bored of one because of the outdated mechanics, and then never play the other - so I just chose blue b/cos it's the only main series game I've never played a version of.

I'm struggling to find a team tho, I only right now have Ivysaur, Fearow and Alakazam. I also have Pikachu and Mew in my party, but I don't plan on using them, and havne't used them in battle yet. Gen 1 is a hard generation for me b/cos I don't like a lot of the Pokemon, and a lot of the Pokemon I do like are similar to each other so it's going to be hard for me to find a good team. Like I like Chansey, Snorlax and Kanga, but they're all normal type, so why so I need three normals? I'll probably pick Snorlax since OP. Then I also plan on adding Lapras to my team, bringing my total up to 5. But I kinda wanna replace Fearow with something else, but then there are no good flyers that I need, so I'm thinking Atricuno?? If not then maybe Dodrio since online says it can explot OHKO Hyper Beam p well?? IDK I just need help putting a good, well structured, mild OP team exploiting Gen 1 glitches. Like I was gonna add Persain so I could use the speed/slash/crit exploit but since I plan on using Snorlax why do I need another normal type?

 

[Shinylatias]

I was gonna get blue and yellow, but I just ended up getting blue since I have yellow in GB, and I never played blue, and I didn't wanna DL both only to get bored of one because of the outdated mechanics, and then never play the other - so I just chose blue b/cos it's the only main series game I've never played a version of.

I'm struggling to find a team tho, I only right now have Ivysaur, Fearow and Alakazam. I also have Pikachu and Mew in my party, but I don't plan on using them, and havne't used them in battle yet. Gen 1 is a hard generation for me b/cos I don't like a lot of the Pokemon, and a lot of the Pokemon I do like are similar to each other so it's going to be hard for me to find a good team. Like I like Chansey, Snorlax and Kanga, but they're all normal type, so why so I need three normals? I'll probably pick Snorlax since OP. Then I also plan on adding Lapras to my team, bringing my total up to 5. But I kinda wanna replace Fearow with something else, but then there are no good flyers that I need, so I'm thinking Atricuno?? If not then maybe Dodrio since online says it can explot OHKO Hyper Beam p well?? IDK I just need help putting a good, well structured, mild OP team exploiting Gen 1 glitches. Like I was gonna add Persain so I could use the speed/slash/crit exploit but since I plan on using Snorlax why do I need another normal type?

I'd say Persain as a good normal. Since crit mechanics are based on speed, and Persains one of the fastest you might get a crit on almost every turn.

 

[Jake]

I'd say Persain as a good normal. Since crit mechanics are based on speed, and Persains one of the fastest you might get a crit on almost every turn.

Tbh that's what I was considering but Snorlax is more tank than Persian and I taught Venusaur razor leaf and it crits 9/10 times anyway so no Persain for me

 

[pokedude729]

I've played it on my friend's 3DS, and gen 1 has aged horribly (like how gust is a normal move. You can't really even use Pidgey!)

 

[spamurai]

I bought Yellow, so I can get all the starters easily in one game.
It's so good. Brings back so many memories xD

 

[nerdatheart9490]

I got Red, as it was the first Pokemon game I ever got as a kid. But I also want Yellow, since that was my favorite version as a kid. I'm super excited to be playing them again. And now I'm doing all the glitches I didn't know about as a kid. I love being able to play with a Mew in my party.

 

[Alienfish]

I've played it on my friend's 3DS, and gen 1 has aged horribly (like how gust is a normal move. You can't really even use Pidgey!)

Lol this... I mean what the heck.. some moves should have been changed to reflect new times but I get they wanna be original, just digital if you get the point...

And yeah I hate you need to manually cut and get on the bike also you can't run.. m8

 

[Reindeer]

Lol this... I mean what the heck.. some moves should have been changed to reflect new times but I get they wanna be original, just digital if you get the point...

And yeah I hate you need to manually cut and get on the bike also you can't run.. m8

Why should they have to change any of it? No other VC releases have their base gameplay system updated. And where does it stop? Do you want the full 31 IVs and the EV system put into G1 as well? The new type chart? What about Dark/Steel/Fairy types?

VC releases aren't updates of the games, just a re-release of what was released back in the day. Some of them do have minor updates, like how Pokemon Snap had Wii Message Board functionality, or RBY has Pokemon Bank compatibility. And that's more than enough.

 

[Alienfish]

Why should they have to change any of it? No other VC releases have their base gameplay system updated. And where does it stop? Do you want the full 31 IVs and the EV system put into G1 as well? The new type chart? What about Dark/Steel/Fairy types?

VC releases aren't updates of the games, just a re-release of what was released back in the day. Some of them do have minor updates, like how Pokemon Snap had Wii Message Board functionality, or RBY has Pokemon Bank compatibility. And that's more than enough.

Hahaha salty enough? I was just making a point that it hasn't aged to well at some points. And yes they actually did minor updates but that was eg. you can't get a surf pikachu in the VC games and such.

 

[Reindeer]

Hahaha salty enough? I was just making a point that it hasn't aged to well at some points. And yes they actually did minor updates but that was eg. you can't get a surf pikachu in the VC games and such.

Salty about what? G1 is crap, people that thought it would be updated to include move type changes etc. just come across as absolutely daft.

 

[spamurai]

Gen 1 can't be that crap... It propelled a franchise and small dev dept to a multi-billion dollar business that markets itself.

I was 10 when it first came out and the games were amazing, especially compared to other games at the time.

If they'd of updated moves/types, I wouldn't have downloaded it and Nintendo would have cut out the "nostalgia" market.

 

[Reindeer]

There's two reasons I say G1 is crap, the first of which has more to do with things under the hood. G1 is plagued by its bad coding, which causes a lot of bugs and glitches with unintended side effects, in some cases even rendering the game unplayable. That's horrendous, even if you put on 50 pairs of nostalgia shades. It doesn't say anything about fun factor though. Most of Bethesda's games are also monstrosities that shouldn't have been released as they were, but people still enjoy them.

Apart from that, the early success of Pokemon as a franchise is attributed to the extremely limited distribution of Mew in Japan, because only when this was announced did sales really start shooting up (weekly sales started matching previous monthly sales). Pokemon didn't reach its full popularity until more than a year after its initial release. That means that the games, by themselves, left very little of an impression on the Japanese audience.
The popularity in the west was expected. There were massive ad campaigns, toy lines, an anime with a movie on the way, and so on. However, if the Japanese Mew distribution hadn't happened, it's likely that Pokemon would never have been localized, and instead the entire franchise would've faded into obscurity.

That's why I say G1 is crap. If it was dependent entirely on the games as they were released, the franchise would not have gotten this big.