Pokemon Blue

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Item Description

Pokémon Blue is where it all started for an entire generation of trainers. Developed by Game Freak and released alongside Pokémon Red in North America on September 28, 1998, the pair were the first Pokémon games released outside Japan, arriving close behind the English dub of the anime. Blue dropped players into Pallet Town and set them loose on one of the most addictive role-playing adventures the Game Boy ever saw. You choose your starter, Bulbasaur, Charmander or Squirtle, while your rival takes the one with the type advantage, and set out to catch, train and battle your way through the original 151 Pokémon across the Kanto region.

The core gameplay loop of building a balanced team, challenging eight Gym Leaders from Brock to Giovanni, and trading with friends to complete the Pokédex was deceptively deep, and it kept players hooked for hundreds of hours, all the way to the Elite Four of Lorelei, Bruno, Agatha and Lance and a final battle against your rival as Champion. What made Blue distinct from its Red counterpart was its exclusive roster: certain species appear only in each version, which meant trading with a Red owner over the Game Link Cable was the only way to fill the Pokédex. That social mechanic was revolutionary for its time, turning the link cable into something kids everywhere were passing back and forth on lunch tables and schoolyard benches.

The turn-based battle system, the Safari Zone in Fuchsia City, the Psychic types that sat at the center of the generation's biggest balance issue, and Team Rocket and its boss Giovanni lurking from Mt. Moon to the hideout beneath the Celadon Game Corner all hold up as a masterclass in accessible RPG design. Everything that turned Pokémon into a worldwide phenomenon begins here, in the version that, alongside Red, first brought Kanto to North American players.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1996
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Game Freak
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

Pokémon Blue is the third core series Pokémon game released as a minor revision of Pokémon Red and Green, which were released earlier that year. It was thus the first solitary version in the core series of Pokémon games. Various fixes in the game include a graphics and sound upgrade, as well as the removal of several known glitches that had been found in the original pair. Outside of Japan, its graphics, game engine and script formed the basis of Pokémon Red and Blue, while the wild Pokémon and game-exclusive Pokémon lists were changed to match Red and Green.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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