Topic: Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow

Perhaps I'll try it then, if only for the new Rocket Admins and the ability to send your Pokémon to the next pair of games come Christmas season.

Laughed way harder at this than I should have. XD

I'd give Yellow a try, I find it to be more unique than others. Might pick it up myself when my Yellow save conks out.

Got my 7th badge in my Yellow Nuzlocke. Didn't expect a level 54 Arcanine. That gave me bit of a trouble since Nidoqueen wasn't able to finish it off with one Earthquake and its Flamethrower did enough damage (critical hit would've killed) to make me switch to Seadra and hope for the best. Arcanine used Fire Blast and got a crit but my Seadra survived with 25 HP and defeated Arcanine. My current team is Seadra, Fearow, Nidoqueen, Hypno, Magneton and Vileplume. All of them are level 39-44.

I haven't done any grinding yet but because the battle against Blaine was so tough I thought I'd take a look at Giovanni's team and noticed that all of his Pokémon are 5-10 levels higher than in Red/Blue. I think I have a chance against him but just to be safe I'll level my guys a bit (unless they get enough exp while battling the trainers in the gym). The only trouble I'm seeing in his team right now is his Nidoking and Nidoqueen which both have Thunder and Earthquake meaning that my only Pokémon who doesn't have weakness to either is Hypno. I'm not sure how well he can handle those attacks but he should be able to kill both with 1-2 Psychics.

I've lost 3 Pokémon so far:
Sandshrew - One level away from evolving, got hit by Selfdestruct
Pidgeotto - Crit Selfdestruct...
Pikachu - Crit Fury Attack from Rival's Fearow (there's only one crit check so all of 2-5 attacks do the same amount of damage)

I was close to losing my Gloom when I found out that one random Sandshrew trainer had Fissure. Luckily it missed so I quickly switched to Fearow. After the battle I read what he said and it turned out he's the trainer from anime episode 8 who was going for 100 winning streak. I've released all my other Pokémon as soon as they died but I put Pikachu in the PC since one of the two reasons I bought Yellow from the eShop was to try out the Pikachu minigame which I haven't played before.

I remember when I played JP Blue. Koga decided to forfeit the match by telling his Weezing to Self-Destruct when I still had three more Pokemon left. When that happens it causes a glitch where the Gym Leader defeated dialogue is displayed on a blank screen.
Of course that would be a lot more disastrous in a Nuzlocke.

Yellow is a bit harder in general, many trainers and wild Pokemon have higher levels.

I think it's because pikachu levels up a bit faster compared to the starters.

They will kill themselves until you die from it lol

I thought that was just allowing access to more powerful moves as the game progresses like ember to flamethrower.

Explosion is stronger.

They probably have both so it's easier for the rng to choose one.

I did cave in and downloaded Yellow a few days ago. I must say I'm surprised I'm still having such a blast with it. What makes it fun is that the locations of many Pokémon are different compared to Red and Blue as well as the GBA remakes, making this umpteenth time of me playing through classic quest feel fresher than I expected. I enjoyed finding all three of the original starters early on in the quest. Most bosses have different rosters and I like how Jesse and James from the cartoon are in this game. The whole evil team 'admin' concept is now a recurring feature in the series. It's nice to finally see where it got started. I found the outdated gameplay holds up better than I expected. It shows that even though it is archaic compared to today's Pokémon games, the core concept of the series was actually really strong even back then.

The only thing that bothers me a whole lot is that I can't evolve that starter Pikachu. I mean what's up with that? They really forced that Yellow rat on us back when Pokémon was huge, but I just always Iiked Raichu much better. It's a stain on what is otherwise a great game, even for veterans. I actually looked up Serebii and found out that Raichu is actually one of those Pokémon you need to trade for in this game. I mean, come on!

I'm now on the Cycling Road, heading south to Fuchsia City. I'm using Pikachu, Charizard, Poliwag, Weepinbell and Clefable as my main team. I haven't decided on my sixth Pokémon yet, but I know I'm still having a blast.

@Rensch you can buy a leaf stone, and water stone to evolve poliwhirl and weepingbell at the big department store where the fourth gym is.

Because you're supposed to be Ash, I think.

It's less about "you're ash" and more about "just like Ash', this pikachu doesn't want to evolve".

You can cheat it into evolving by trading it and evolving it in other game, but it won't follow you or do anything special, it'll be just a common raichu. A loveless, generic raichu.

I haven't played it but can you even trade the starter Pikachu? I heard you can deposit it in the PC (at the cost of some Friendship points) but you can't release it.
If you can, you probably still want to at least get the other starters (or is it just one that requires a happy Pikachu?).

Already bought them, but I waited until they learned the right level-up moves. It's much more important in these games to do so because of the limited amount of moves in these earliest titles.

You can trade it, evolve it in a Red/Blue game and send it back to become a regular, generic Raichu. It appears this Pikachu has better stats, though. It generally is very reliable even without evolution. If you do deposit it, that blasted yellow rat lets out the saddest-sounding "Pikaaaaaa" you will ever hear, making you feel bad about yourself. Currently heading to the Pokémon League, I am really starting to get a hate/love relationship with this little fella.

Okay I've just picked up Green (because I'm an incorrigible hipster and managed to get a cheap Japanese 3DS off eBay to play through Detective Pikachu), and I'm about to pick Charmander. Which means Brock will likely be a nightmare. Has anyone got tips for what to catch in the build-up? I suppose I could just Google all the relevant information, but there's something wonderfully quaint and old fashioned about... y'know, actually asking people.

And given this is Gen I, quaint and old fashioned is the name of the game.

I think the original manual might've even said go with Charmander and use Ember anyways, since Onix has pretty bad Special (which in Gen 1 counts as both Sp. Attack and Sp. Defense).
Thankfully Onix will be too low level to know Rock Throw which would be SE on Charmander if it hits (though Rock Throw has poor accuracy in gen 1).

@DarthNocturnal: That's interesting, as I remember it being exactly what I did the first time around when I had Yellow, and being amazed by how powerful Butterfree's Confusion was. It's crazy that it's still memorable, all these years later. I was originally given the game to keep me occupied on a flight to Autralia, and it certainly did the job. The main thing that's changed this time around is that everyone speaks Japanese, which is more disconcerting than I was expecting (though, I really should have been expecting it). Your rival is still a jerk, but now he's a jerk... in Japanese, which makes him seem like a quite a different jerk altogether.

I guess it shows how much our first experiences are the formative ones. I imagine I'll find the English speaking versions of Detective's Pikachu's cast to feel like 'wrong' and 'out of place', if/when the game is released here (having already played through the Japanese version), but I feel almost the opposite about Gen I, because my first contact was with the English version. It feels like a sort of parallel world.

Played through all the areas in the game now. I was surprised to find out how wimpy the Elite Four and Blue were. I don't remember it being this easy in my Red Version back in the old days. Sure, I've acquired quite a bit more understanding of the game's mechanics after playing through these games over the years, but I still went in expecting to get wrecked hard.

In FireRed and LeafGreen it's definitely a lot harder, even though you have more trainers to fight before the Pokémon League due to the inclusion of the Sevii Islands. I went in with my Pokémon all at lv. 50, and I didn't even have to grind for too long to get there. Even though I was severly underleveled at Lv. 50, I managed to outspeed most of the Pokémon the Elite Four and even Blue used. Many strong moves and tricky abilities like Levitate simply don't exist here. It's really a lot more bare-bones than newer Pokémon games, which sometimes just makes it easier. In FireRed and LeafGreen I typically avoid trying to challenge the Pokémon League before grinding my squad of six up to around Lv. 55.

The layout of the Cerulean Cave is also different and a little more straightforward in the Yellow Version. This I enjoyed because it's a variant of this infamous cave I've never had the pleasure to experience yet. Overall, the Red/Blue design, which is mostly retained in FireRed and LeafGreen as well as HeartGold and SoulSilver is a little more interesting with all its different paths, but experiencing a different take on a familiar place was a nice diversion that I really liked as someone who knows Kanto by heart.

Overall, it's a lot easier than I remember the Red Version as being in the old Game Boy days. While it's by no means as much of a cakewalk as X and Y or OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire, it's certainly not the hardest Pokémon game I've ever played, either. It was fun to experience Pokémon in it's original bleeps and bloops and static sprites again and I enjoyed the new Yellow Version-exclusive content I haven't experienced before (well, besides the lack of an evolving Pikachu that is), but I'll probably go with FireRed or LeafGreen again next time. Sending my team over to Sun and Moon will be a lot of fun this Christmas, though. Definitely easier than digging out all my old GBA and DS carts in order to sent over my FireRed/LeafGreen teams through all these convoluted methods.

The elite four and champion have really high-level Pokemon, but a combination of dumb AI and terrible move sets balance them

Maybe im in the wrong topic, so please excuse me

I want to ask if there is a reason why i can't find pokemon yellow on the eshop? I'm from South America, Argentina, got the 3DS today, and was going to buy Pokemon Yellow but i can't find it.
If it is a region issue could someone confirm it please? and when they'll realease it here?

Thanks for reading C: