Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue combined Red/Green/Blue for release outside of Japan. The games were later released as Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue in North America and Australia in 1998 and Europe in 1999. They were first released in Japan in 1996 as Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green, with the special edition Pocket Monsters Blue being released in Japan later that same year. They are the first installments of the Pokémon video game series. Reception of the graphics and audio was more mixed, with some reviewers complaining that they were too simplistic and lacked improvement compared to the previous games, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. FireRed and LeafGreen were commercial successes, selling a total of around 12 million copies worldwide.Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version are 1996 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. Most critics praised the fact that the games introduced new features while still maintaining the traditional gameplay of the series.

The games received mostly positive reviews, obtaining an aggregate score of 81 percent on Metacritic. The games have compatibility with the Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter, which originally came bundled with the games. New features include a contextual help menu and a new region the player may access after a certain point in the story.

Throughout the games, the player captures and raises Pokémon for use in battle. The games are part of the third generation of the Pokémon video game series and hold the distinction of being the first enhanced remakes of previous games within the franchise.Īs in previous games, the player controls the player character from an overhead perspective and participates in turn-based battles. They were developed by Game Freak, published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. FireRed and LeafGreen were first released in Japan in January 2004 and in North America and Europe in September and October 2004 respectively. Pokémon FireRed Version are 2004 remakes of the 1996 Game Boy role-playing video games Pokémon Red and Blue.

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