Pokemon Red [JPN]
Pokemon Red [JPN]
Pokemon Red [JPN]
Pokemon Red [JPN]

Pokemon Red [JPN]

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Pokemon Red comes complete in box, including the original Game Boy cartridge, the box, and the manual — everything you'd want from a complete package. Coolection photographs every game in hand, so the photos here show the actual cartridge, box, and manual you'll be receiving, not stock imagery. The game has been tested and was playing as expected. Please refer to the provided photos for the exact details of the item's condition.

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Before anyone in North America had heard the word Pokémon, there was Pocket Monsters Aka. Game Freak's original Red and Green launched in Japan in February 1996, the culmination of years of work led by Satoshi Tajiri, and this Japanese Red is the game in its very first form: the release that turned a quiet Game Boy RPG into a phenomenon by word of mouth, schoolyard trades and rumors of a hidden 151st monster.

The adventure is the one the whole world would come to know. You leave your hometown in Kanto with a single partner from Professor Oak, earn eight Gym Badges, battle a rival who always seems one step ahead, and try to fill a Pokédex of 151 creatures. The turn-based battles look simple until type matchups, move choices and evolution timing start to matter, and the real genius is the link cable. Some Pokémon appear only in Red and others only in Green, so completing the Pokédex means finding a friend with the other version and trading.

What makes the Japanese Red special is how early it sits in the timeline. Later in 1996 Japan received a revised Blue version with updated sprites and refinements, and the Red and Blue released overseas in 1998 were built on that update. Japanese Red keeps the original monster sprites and the game as it first existed, with Ken Sugimori's creature designs, Junichi Masuda's music and the full script in Japanese. It is also the generation that gave the world Mew, slipped into the code late in development and famously first handed out through a CoroCoro Comic promotion.

For a Pokémon collector, this is the root of the family tree: not a remake or a localization, but the first generation as Japanese players met it, and a natural centerpiece beside a set of the English Red and Blue releases.

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.
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