Even though i thoght pokemon was for kids back in the day when it came out... i was 13.. i LOVED the game..
Spent many hours with Picachu in Pokemon Yellow.. Great story.. Great Game

Great review.Ah I remember the good ol days back in 1999 where every week my mother would come home with 10 pokemon card packs' ,5 which was always 3 water 2 plant packs for me while my brother got 5 fossil packs,always scared that there would'nt be a starmie in there but then I got.

This made me think: What if they emulate the Super Game Boy adapter for the VC?

I love the old ones, 1st and 2nd gen, then just like the Sonic games did, it turn mediocre and I still play the retro ones.

@TwilightV
That could work if they finally opened the Virtual Handheld section of the DSi Shop!

By the way, I've noticed that a lot of people refer to Red (the male PC in Chrome and its remakes) as Ash, and Blue (the rival in said games - his name's Green in Japan, to the one person who's interested) as Gary, just like the characters in the Anime. It's strange how much people associate the games and anime as a single entity, but I think that the games are completely different in every way, and I prefer the games to that regard.

Useless Fact for the Day: counting the different forms, shiny colourations etc. of each Pokemon species, there are somewhere between 1000 and 2000 physical variations of each Pokemon! Kinda makes you respect the fact that Chrome only had 151, doesn't it?

I had the pokémon blue version for my old gameboy pocket! was alot of fun, consumed alot of batterys this one did! Good times..

@NintendoPurist: The do the same with the Japanese version. Red as Satoshi and Blue as Shigeru.

"In total there are more than 150 Pokèmon to capture and train"

I guess that 151 is technically more than 150, but that sentence still seems kind of strange.

G/S/C improved on it's predeccesor, R/S replaced good features with annoying ones, then D/P made it ugly and slow (I hear Platinum fixes the speed, and doesn't suck).

Deserved a 10 back in the day, a 9 being played on the Gameboy is fair, since this is fairly slow, with archaic menus. But with Pokemon Stadium speed enhancement it's just as awesome as ever.

I lived and breathed Pokemon Yellow and Blue back in the day. Then G/S/C managed to be even better and they remain the peak of the series, in my opinion.

Yellow was REALLY hard to really get started since the first gym leader was Brock and rock Pokemon don't take damage from Pikachu's electric attacks. I don't remember how I got past him... but I've picked it up again so I guess I'll find out soon enough.

Nidoran get double kick, or Mankey gets low kick.

Digiki: What about D/P was slow?

The series has always been good. Sure, G/S/C marked the peak but I wouldn't compare the new games to Sonic's new games (which actually aren't as bad as people make them out to be). The only real problem with D/P is that the monsters themselves aren't as good-looking as the first two generations.

When are they going to make a proper Pokémon game on a home console is what I'm wondering.

1) I read a book that said that the Pokémon bubble had popped, yet this (as well as experience) suggests otherwise.
2) This is what is called an "AAA game," yet this is not a 10!
Heh, at least this gets rid of hater's concept of bias.

Needs more 10/10. But still, great review.

I am now 31 years old. I have never played a Pokemon game, am I too old, or would I find them enjoyable?

Of course you're not too old. Why shouldn't you find them enjoyable? The only reason i could think of was if you're one of those idiots who consider everything other than bloody FPS games and GTA clones to be "for kids", but given that you're posting on a site dedicated to Nintendo games, I doubt that's the case.

40 Hours to complete the game ?
It should take no longer than 24 hours to complete the game i mean no more .
Winning every battle catchin 3 pokémon so you can defeat Gary in that famous final battle .
In every version of Pokémon i played usally takes less than 24 hours to complete .

@Adamant: Actually, I hate the GTA games. My favorite games are Final Fantasy, Zelda, and Mario games.

I loved my Red Version. One of my most played games out of my whole collection. The G/S/C versions are better, but they don't hold as much nostalgia for me.

I wish I had never caught Missingno. :l

@LinktotheFuture (@22): You'd probably like Pokémon in that case.

@kawaiipickachu: It takes about 24 to beat the Elite Four, but 40 to capture all the Pokemon.

Oh, and for the review, Ash was made for the TV show, he had no "real" name in game like the others (ex- Ruby has Brendan as the boy).

@XD375 Cool, thanks!

Pokemon yellow was the best, you could easily get pikachu, charmander, bulbasaur, and squirtle, and i loved that he followed you around:)

@TwilightV
Exactly! Personally, I prefer the Japanese anime names for Red and Blue (Ash and Gary just don't appeal to me at all)!

@Outrunner
They actually made two full-blown (if not a little dark) games for GameCube (Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness, the latter of which I never got to play ). They added a new twist where you could catch other people's Pokemon, to a certain extent.

@Bahamut ZERO
Actually, the main characters of Chrome and its remakes were:
Red (Male PC)
Blue (Rival)
Leaf (Female PC-only in the remakes)
In GS, Blue is the Viridian City Gym Leader and Red is the 'true' final battle. As for Leaf, the reason she isn't called Green is because in Japan, the Rival is called Green.

Ow...my knowledge hurts...

[Fanboy]The games should have got a 10/10. Sure, G/S are even better, but that doesnt make the original games less worthy for an 10/10 score.[/Fanoby]

What sucks in the DS versions is that the pokemon got so damn ugly. I even dont like the starter ones - cant imagine to play the next 200 hours with one of that guys...

Actualy, neither "Leaf", the DP rival or any of the three GSC characters have real, ingame names. All you have to go on are the alternatives the games suggest you giv them when naming them - "Leaf", "Gold" and "Crystal" do not appear in their respective games unless you choose to play as them, and "Silver" and the DP rival will always be named by you.

Hence, the only playable characters in the series to have actual names are Red, Brendan, May, Lucas and Dawn.

To me, it only makes sense to get the newest version of Pokémon (I can't imagine training a Pokémon to level 30 just so it can learn Harden). That said, there's no denying the mark this made, and not just on the gaming industry. Of course, if you ask me, the gaming industry was the only place it left a GOOD mark.

I love Pokemon. Always have, always will.
Nothin' you can do about it!

Silver version was the best IMHO. The pokemon actually felt like a expansion to the first version rather then the same pokemon with a different look.

Also if wikipedia is to belive (actually is more reliable then many would think) Nintendo power gave this a 7.5 or something like that back in the day.

These games were the beginning of a masterpiece that is still evolving today.

I remember i first played it on my bros gameboy.
EDIT: @28. NintendoPurist: the Japanese anime names for Ash and Gary were Satoshi (Ash) and Shigeru (Gary).

I was one of the suckers that bought Pokemon Red instead of Pokemon Blue - I wanted Meowth, Butterfree and Vulpix/Ninetails but they were in the BLUE version! What really stunk was that I knew no one else in my age group in which I could trade for those pokemon because I was twenty at that time...

I have to admit that I played so much of the original series (especially Pokemon Yellow) that my zeal ran out by the time Gold and Silver came out. Sadly I gave Pokemon Silver to my sister along with my Game Boy Color to play while I focused on my Playstation RPG collection and going to school. I miss Pokemon Yellow...

@Wolfcoyote
You're not the only one! I too got the Red version instead of Blue and was always frustrated that I never had a link cable to trade pokemon with. Luckily, the DS has solved that problem.

Possibly my favourite game of all time. Even just looking at the screenshots on this page brings back all the emotions I had when playing it for the first time on my brother's Game Boy Pocket. At the time, it was like nothing else I'd ever played. None of the subsequent generations have managed to capture my imagination in quite the same way as the first. It's completely unbalanced but I don't care. What a game. To me it's THE pokemon game.

Tell me who was 10 when this came out on the Game Boy? I was and it was a hectic year back then Trading Cards and playing the games. Fun times indeed.

I was 11... I have probably dozens of brain cells dedicated ONLY for this game, it has imprinted on my mind. Most infuential and emotional game I know. Technically Silver is better, but still amazingly awesome.