This is easily one of the greatest Game Boy games ever.
You are then sent back to Professor Oak’s lab, and you get to select one of three Pokèmon: Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. For this, there is a rock-paper-scissors type of thing. Bulbasaur (grass) beats Squirtle (water), Squirtle beats Charmander (fire) and Charmander beats Bulbasaur. After you choose, your rival picks the Pokèmon that can counter the one you picked. Then your adventure starts.
Along the way, you will need to capture new Pokèmon, battle other Pokèmon Trainers, defeat Gym Leaders to earn all of the badges, and many other quests in order to complete your journey. Wild Pokèmon appear everywhere in Kanto. They appear in tall grass, caves, water, some buildings and on the water’s edge. There are a huge variety of Pokèmon, as they fall in many different types: Water, Fire, Grass, Flying, Normal, Bug, Rock, Ground, Electric, Poison, Psychic, Ice, Fighting, Dragon and Ghost. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses, so a large variety of different types are needed in order to defeat other trainers in the game. Whenever you defeat a Pokèmon, your Pokèmon gains experience. Now when this happens, you get closer to growing to a higher level. When you get to a higher level, you get stronger with raises in stats and learning new moves.
Now I’ll stop talking about some of the games required features. Now, I’ll talk about my usual features: Gameplay, Graphics, Sound, Value, and then I talk what I think about the game myself. The Gameplay is nice and smooth. Not only is it very addicting, but original as well. When Pokèmon Red and Blue came out, there was nothing like it before. It was a revolution in gaming. And that is indeed no surprise when you play it. The game is very easy to get hooked to when you play it. The graphics are also very nice. Though there is a lack of colour (only Red and White in Red, and Blue in White in Blue), the graphics are indeed not that bad. The Pokèmon models are great, though some hardly look like the real thing from the show. Despite some of the negatives in the Graphics, they indeed aren’t that bad.
The sound in this game is one of the few where I give a ten. In my opinion, in most games, there is indeed a lack of good sound, except for some music and FX sounds. The music that you go through in the game is very catchy, as I still remember most of the game music. There is also no lack in music. Almost every city or town has their own unique music, and some buildings and caves have their own music as well. The music alone is good, but the FX effects are also great. There is no shortage on FX sounds, in the form of attacks and other things that are triggered in the game’s atmosphere. Indeed, the sound in this game is very unique.
There is also a massive amount of value in this game. There is indeed a lot to do before you defeat the game. You have to accomplish quests, strengthen you Pokèmon, capture Pokèmon and defeat trainers before you defeat the game. And when you beat the game, you can also still capture Pokèmon and battle the Elite Four again. And if you don’t like that, you can go to a fresh new start and replay the game again in a whole new way you want, and not get bored of it.
Now I get to say what I think of the game on my personal experience. This game is one of my favourite games ever. I played it over and over for about two years, nearly every day when I got it for my Game Boy. I didn’t need any other games for my Game Boy. It helped me pass time when I had nothing else to do, and this is when I really started to get hooked on gaming. This is one of the reasons I love the game today, even though my interest in Pokèmon gaming is gone.
If you passed on this game for the Game Boy, you missed a part of gaming history. Not only were it a revolution in gaming, but it was also easily one of the most addicting games ever. This game will hardly leave you if you like video games, and especially Nintendo’s games. This game is not for kids. It is a game for all ages, so don’t think age would be a factor for this.