Topic: Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow

I would have much rather seen Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team/Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon FireRed/Pokémon LeafGreen on the Wii U Virtual Console instead this just shows that since the Nintendo 3DS sold way better than the Wii U, Nintendo is pretty much giving up on there console until the new Nintendo NX system arrives, however I love the Nintendo Wii U. If Nintendo could have a chance to remake some awesome GameCube Games in HD like Animal Forest+, Super Mario Sunshine, Both Harvest Moon games on Nintendo GameCube, Luigi's Mansion, Pokémon Colosseum/XD, The Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures, Wario World. But we will see in the future, just to be clear I'm not trying to hate on the Nintendo 3DS my sister has one and she lets me play hers every once in awhile. And I think it's alright but I'm more of a console kind of person, that's just me.

I buy all three

I may pick up Yellow but I fear I'll just get annoyed with how dated they are compared to the current games. I remember my old copy of Yellow had a surfing Pikachu and Mew, I wonder if there are any plans to release them on the vc copies.

I'm happy that R/B/Y is finally going to be available on VC but on the other hand I already have Red and Blue on GB and while I'm thinking of getting Yellow at some point, the thing that I haven't experienced in Yellow before is the surfing minigame and I doubt they'll have it available on VC release. If they do though, I'll be getting it. I'll get Crystal when they decide to put that to VC.

While this is awesome, and I will probably get Blue (Brother getting Yellow, My Wife is getting Red) I am disappointed that there isn't a Pokemon Bank function. Even if the Pokemon had to completely change for the new style, it would have helped getting some pretty rare Gen 1 pokemon.

@andrew20: There aren't really any benefits in buying all three on the same 3DS unless you really want multiple save files. You can't trade between games on the same 3DS.

I suppose some nostalgia is good. It will be weird to revert back to ye olde days of outdated mechanics and glitches

I was gonna buy Yellow & Red but at $10 each, I'll just get Yellow (still have my Blue version and a GBA SP and I've never played Yellow). If I ever get an additional 3DS/2DS I'll probably get Red on that though so I can trade with myself.

@DarthNocturnal: Amazon has them listed for $9.99, though I guess that could be a placeholder price.

I'd be tempted to get those. However, I'm not sure I want them without any way of trading between myself using only one console. If I see a really old second hand 2DS or 3DS going super cheap, then I might be tempted to grab it.

I might just pick up Yellow and play it for nostalgia sake without worrying about trading. That first gym is such a pain with yellow though.

I imagine that Pokemon Yellow will cost more than the others. It should anway, given the current GB and GBC pricing on the VC. Apparently R/B are going to be completely B+W, and Yellow in Colour. I'll probably pick up Yellow, but I'm torn because I always disliked the changes being specifically from the anime, and the fact that you get all three starters - makes it too easy.

Why are you even comparing nostalgia and alcohol? Nostalgia means you could enjoy things even if they've aged terribly, and hurts no one, in fact it means you have more fun. Glitches and imbalances can be fixed, and they were in the remakes, FireRed and LeafGreen. Looking at the actual games themselves, one could easily think that Gen 1 was the best. It also seems funny to hear you talking about nostalgia like that though; it's basically the only reason Pokemon is still as big as it is.

@DarthNocturnal: Well anyone who is honest convinced that the original releases of Red and Blue were the best in the series do need their heads checks. Maybe you could argue most innovative at the time, but yes, you're right about some Gen 1 fanboys.

In retrospect, official events are no longer necessary in obtaining Mew!

There's no need to do that.

Even then, they can just recolor her face using a different shade of gray... Though that might not work for yellow since she'd end up white, red or yellow... Not exactly good replacements for purple.

Edit: maybe replacing yellow with purple and recoloring any yellow details in white would work. Like in the second generation.

I don't really care if they do, I actually like purple jynx more. And again, it would be really easy to do for them.

However, if they start to censor these... Let's just hope they don't remove a certain establishment in Celadon City.

Since they added wireless... could mystery gift work? It would be bloody brilliant if I could go into Game and get a Mew, or a surfing Pikachu for yellow...

Mystery gift was never a thing in these games though.

It would certainly be nice if they offered surfing Pikachu, flying Pikachu and Mew in some way.

The Game Corner actually caused the originals to have a higher age rating in Australia. And quite frankly given that we live in an age of micro-transactions where you're effectively gambling with real money? I can't see any reason why they'd need to alter it.

I really don't want them to change anything about the game other than the wireless communication. Maybe some way to save images you "print" in Pokemon Yellow. Possibly some kind of "event" system where you can get rare Pokemon. Or maybe even some kind of interaction with other Pokemon software. But beyond that? I really don't want to see any change to the core game.

Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold and Silver were all rated G in Australia (Nintendo could technically still use these ratings and keep the games totally uncensored). From Crystal onward, the main series games received a G8+ rating (now known as PG) for "Mild gambling references". Mind you, these "mild gambling references" were also present in the previous G rated games. This pattern would continue for the main series games up until HeartGold/SoulSilver, which had the gambling activities replaced with the Voltorb Flip mini-game; then, from Generation V onward, the Game Corner was removed completely. In OR/AS, the former owner of the Game Corner is standing outside the building citing something to the effect of changing societal standards being the reason for its closure.

As of Generation VI, the main series games are receiving PG ratings again, though this time for "Mild themes and violence" in the case of X/Y (probably due to the particularly malicious motivations of the villains) and "Mild violence" for OR/AS. Technically, Nintendo should resubmit the games to the ratings board for reclassification if they intend to remove the gambling content from Crystal or the GBA/DS era games for a future VC release, as it would be ridiculous for these games to carry a PG warning for "gambling" when it has been excised.

It will be interesting to see if the slot machines are retained for the sake of preserving the original games as much as possible. I can't see Jynx really changing much (if at all) in the rerelease of the Generation I games as its colours were virtually indiscernible anyway. I wish they'd just leave it as it is. A couple of disgruntled Americans have a moan about something as innocuous as this and suddenly the rest of the world is subjected to such a ridiculous form of censorship. I would never have viewed Jynx as a negative stereotype (she's just a satirical portrayal of a Japanese fashion trend). Now those old Bugs Bunny cartoons in the public domain that depict persons of African descent in an unflattering (and often inhuman) light? THAT'S a problem.

@DarthNocturnal: I had nothing better to do, so here's a quick idea of what a censored jynx would probably end up looking like:

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