The start of a great collecting craze that nobody expected, but everybody would soon know! :D
User Rating: 10 | Pokemon Blue Version GB
It's hard to believe this game is now ten years old. It seems like only yesterday that the phrase "Gotta Catch Them All" still seemed like a feasible, accomplishable project and a worthy endeavor for any game player! This game proved that the Game Boy Color was no slouch when it came to delivering RPG games, and this was a game that became a giant success for Nintendo, and continues to be so today. Although primitive, players choose the name of a protagonist and their rival. Choosing a starter Pokemon, the rival would choose the opposite type of the player's Pokemon. There are soon revealed to be a number of different Pokemon, all with different stats, abilities, and types to! There were 11 different types of Pokemon, and 150 to collect in all! And the only way to do that was by linking with the opposite game and fulfilling a Pokedex! And this was the one game where I actually managed to catch them all! The characters are also interesting by the handheld standards of 1998. There is Brock, the rock gym leader. There is Misty, the water gym leader. There is Lieutenant Surge, the electric gym leader, there is Sabrina, the psychic gym leader, there is Koga, the poison (ninja) gym leader, and there is Giovanni, the ground gym leader as well as a couple of others. And even if a player could beat all that, there was one more challenge: the Elite Four and facing off against the protagonist's rival for one last time! Only then would it be possible to capture Mewtwo, the most powerful Pokemon of all! While the graphics are outdated and there aren't any special game mechanics that the later games had, this game still had to exist so that it's descendants could exist! So this game was important for the "Pokemon" franchise, and for developing an RPG that everyone could enjoy! And for that reason, I salute this game! :idea: Enough said! ;)
