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First Generation Pokémon Return to 3DS

Want to play the original Pokémon games? The first generation trio return to handhelds, with a Virtual Console release.

The much loved Game Boy games were the first steps for the hugely successful franchise, launching in the West in 1998/1999 after a run in Japan a few years earlier. Nintendo have remade Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue in the past, but it's the first time these games have been brought back for older fans, and newcomers, to play on a handheld once again.

Nintendo confirmed the news during Nintendo Direct this evening, with a release date set for 27th February 2016.

The game will essentially remain intact, however with trading tweaked to take advantage of the 3DS's wireless features. No more link cables needed, fortunately!

It's official. #Pokemon Red, Blue & Yellow will arrive on Virtual Console for #3DS on 27/02/2016! #NintendoDirectEU pic.twitter.com/2DfvTRtMg0
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) November 12, 2015

Which of these Pokémon classics will you play through on Nintendo 3DS?

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Supa_hyped 13.11.2015#1

if i catch pokemon in red, blue and yellow can i use them in x and y? surely you're able to upload them to some sort of online poke box that is compatible with all mainline pokemon games?

RudyC3 13.11.2015#2

Supa_hyped said:
if i catch pokemon in red, blue and yellow can i use them in x and y? surely you're able to upload them to some sort of online poke box that is compatible with all mainline pokemon games?

How would the two completely different stat systems pan out though, transfering your pokémon over the the newer games? IV and EV worked differently, there were no gender, sp.atk. and sp.def. were only one stat back then, etc... not sure it would be worth the trouble for them really to make it work. I'm happy they get released at all actually Smilie

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Flynnie 13.11.2015#3

They should have just released Fire Red and Leaf Green and made that compatible with Pokemon Bank.

They could at least give us the option of having the Gameboy colour palette.

crackedthesky 13.11.2015#4

Flynnie said:
They could at least give us the option of having the Gameboy colour palette.

Some of the ads I've seen show it in color. Not sure if that counts as an official thing or not, but their facebook post at least showed the Yellow version in the GBC palette.

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RudyC3 13.11.2015#5

The Yellow version, though not properly a GBC game was always identified as a colour game by the Game Boy Color, and prevented you from swapping colour palettes using D-Pad and button combinations on bootup. I always thought it was a bit of a weird case of GBC compatiility, that one. That's the first version I owned so couldn't try out the blue and red versions, I don't know if you could change the colours in those.

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Flynnie 13.11.2015#6

Urghhh but why make it so complicated. I would buy Metroid II on the 3DS eshop if I could swap it to the colour palette, my GBplauer did this, and yes, while the lava was blue it seemed fine to me.

They should really sort this out. Charging £4-5 for a monochrome game in 2015 is just stupid IMO. Especially when it is a quick fix for them to offer a colour option (if you wanted to)

Supa_hyped 13.11.2015#7

RudyC3 said:

Supa_hyped said:
if i catch pokemon in red, blue and yellow can i use them in x and y? surely you're able to upload them to some sort of online poke box that is compatible with all mainline pokemon games?

How would the two completely different stat systems pan out though, transfering your pokémon over the the newer games? IV and EV worked differently, there were no gender, sp.atk. and sp.def. were only one stat back then, etc... not sure it would be worth the trouble for them really to make it work. I'm happy they get released at all actually .
u do have a point maybe if once transfered from the pokebox to the newer game your pokemon gains the equivlent stats ie. gender sp.atk of an identical pokemon and u can continue to build from there but as u say they may not see it as worth the trouble given u can catch all pokemon across all the newer games

RudyC3 14.11.2015#8

Supa_hyped said:

u do have a point maybe if once transfered from the pokebox to the newer game your pokemon gains the equivlent stats ie. gender sp.atk of an identical pokemon and u can continue to build from there but as u say they may not see it as worth the trouble given u can catch all pokemon across all the newer games

And I forgot to mention the transfered Pokémon wouldn't have all the moves that the same species can acquire in all later versions so... you wouldn't prefer getting more limited Pokémon across rather than capturing them in newer games. But I do agree on principle alone, that pretexting a time machine sort of thing like they did between gen I & II -- in between which there were already huge changes, modernising how Pokémon work -- would make sense and if it would show those Pokémon inside the game as coming from the past or something, as their region of origin, that would be fun Smilie

. It would be a generally cool idea to sort of interconnect all the older games with the newer ones, particularly gens I & II. Gen III pokémon you can techincally transfer them over to gen IV, then from there on to gen V, send them via Pokétransfer onto your Pokébox, and retransfer them to your gen VI (it's useful in some instances to receive certain Pokémon with certain useful movesets that would otherwise be impossible to obtain in newer gens).

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