Topic: Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow

Well that's an improvement.

Playing blue now

Ah nostalgia.

If you were ever wondering why my username is Skywake it's because of this screen. With me just basically trying to create unique names for my different versions of Pokemon within that character limit:

Yay they're here now!

I'll only buy Blue for now. I know I said I'd save the money.... But whatever. Happy birthday Pokemon.

Edit: oh thank arceus, Start is mapped to X. Unlike every other vc game, where X brings up the useless VC menu.

Too bad L is not A.

They're out!!! I got Blue (Main File) and Yellow (Nuzlocke Playthrough).

Let the Yellow Version Nuzlocke begin!

I wish they would update Pokémon Bank so that we can at least switch Pokémon between Red, Blue and Yellow versions without a second console (and yet ANOTHER copy of the game).

I plan to wait on yellow until we hear if it's true the Nintendo Account will allow sharing a same NNID between multiple 3ds. That way I would be able to buy yellow and download it to my 2ds, without feeling like I added money to a useless second NNID.

In the meanwhile, I have a friend who will get red, so we can trade and battle. And my brother expressed interest in getting one of the games too.

As I fight a Jigglypuff, I am reminded of a major annoyance of Gen 1: CPU gets infinite PP.
And also waking up from Sleep counts as a turn (something that was SO thankfully fixed in gen 2, I believe). So you can be infinite sleep spammed.

Curious as to how Pokemon bank will treat the pigeotto's caught in Viridian Forest in Yellow, they're at level 9 and pidgey evolves at level 18.

Edit: Also there's currently no way to get surfing Pikachu in yellow either.

@KingMike: oh yeah, and then there's moves like wrap and fire spin that don't let you move at all, and if the enemy is faster...

@shaneoh: they'll probably just be treated as normal pidgeottos. Other games have ways to get under leveled Pokemon too.

I noticed that. I was playing it for a while and just using X to bring up the menu without thinking. It took me a while to realise I wasn't using start and that they'd mapped start to X. Very cool.

Interestingly, Select is not mapped to Y. Like with other vc games.

It's not used much, so it's not a problem... But still, it's a bit odd

Because X was the menu button since the DS.
I wonder if they will map Y to Select if they release gen 2, since that is where they first had an item quick key (or as TPP would call it "PROP CAN BE LOG ON TO CONVIENT BUTTON")

I downloaded Yellow since I hadn't played it, as well as Red since it was my first (even though I think I prefer the Blue set). I'll play those later.

Definitely going to need to take some planning and probably careful use of TMs if I want to win without an overused team (ie Pikachu!)

Protip:

In the case of the Nidoran family (most people get a nidoran early on), don't be afraid of evolving them as soon as possible.

Nidoqueen and Nidoking learn their last move at level 23 (body slam and thrash, respectively), but unlike most other Pokemon that evolve by stone, their previous stages learn nothing useful at all. Those early last moves are actually quite good, and their previous stages can't learn them naturally.

The rest of the moveset will rely heavily on TMs, either way. Make sure to save earthquake for them, if you plan to have one in your team.

My protip:

Make sure you remember which version of the gen 1 games you bought, so you don't waste 20 minutes trying to find a Mankey outside of Viridian City on Blue.

I might be speaking from very recent experience there...

Yeah that's yellow, so the player has something to take on Brock. Also Mankey can't be found in Blue

More protips:
Psychic is seriously OP in gen 1 so make sure you catch a Caterpie early on. It'll be a lot easier to level up than a Metapod and once you evolve it into a Butterfree it'll learn Confusion. Particularly handy against Team Rocket who love to use poison types (Koffing, Grimer, Ekans, Zubat)

There are other ways to get Psychic moves but this is the easiest, earliest and most reliable.

They're better in Yellow, as they learn Double Kick before level 23, instead of level 50 in Red and Blue.

i wanna post my fc for the 3 pokemon games to get the other 2 starters but im not sure if this is the place to do that