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Pokemon Red
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Item Condition
Pokemon Red comes as a loose Game Boy cartridge, ready to play right out of the gate. This is the cartridge itself — no box or manual — which makes it a great way to own one of the most iconic games ever made without paying a premium for packaging. Coolection tested this one and it was playing as expected, loading up and running the way a classic Game Boy cart should. Please refer to the provided photos for the exact details of the item's condition.
Item Description
Very few games can say they changed the world, and Pokémon Red has a strong claim. Game Freak's creature-collecting RPG launched in Japan in 1996 and reached North America in 1998 alongside Pokémon Blue, and the idea at its heart, catching, training and trading 151 different Pokémon, grew from a Game Boy cartridge into trading cards, a television series and a franchise that reached nearly every corner of pop culture.
The adventure starts in Pallet Town, where Professor Oak hands over your first partner: Bulbasaur, Charmander or Squirtle. From there the Kanto region opens up one route at a time. Eight Gym Leaders, each with a type specialty, stand between you and the Elite Four, your rival is always one step ahead, and Team Rocket schemes its way through the Celadon Game Corner and Silph Co. Deciding which Pokémon to catch, which moves to keep and how to cover your type weaknesses gives the game real strategic depth under its friendly surface, and the simple loop of one more route, one more catch is famously hard to put down.
Pokémon Red was also built around other people. Some Pokémon, including Ekans, Oddish, Mankey, Growlithe, Scyther and Electabuzz, appear only in Red, so filling the Pokédex meant finding a friend with Blue and a Game Link Cable. That schoolyard trading culture is a huge part of why the game spread the way it did. Junichi Masuda's music, from the cheerful Pallet Town theme to the unsettling melody of Lavender Town, and Ken Sugimori's original creature designs gave the whole world a personality that still feels instantly familiar.
Later remakes polished Kanto with color, new features and smoother mechanics, but none of them reproduces the original. The first-generation sprites, the overpowered Psychic types, the strange quirks and glitches like MissingNo. are all part of what makes Red feel so distinctly of its era. This is the adventure in its first and purest form, the cartridge where a generation of players picked a starter, stepped into the tall grass and set out to catch them all.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1996
- Publisher
- Gradiente
- Developer
- Game Freak
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
Pokémon Red, along with Pokémon Green, are the first video games in the Pokémon series of games. They are the first paired versions of Generation I. Developed over the course of several years, Red and Green established several standards for later Pokémon games and sequels. They take place in the Kanto region, with the player having to collect eight Gym Badges to become the Pokémon Champion while also completing the Pokédex by collecting all 151 Pokémon.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayPokemon Red on Game Boy
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