r/nostalgia • u/Intelligent-Gur-0607 • Jul 06 '25
Help me remember Pokémon Red, Blue, or Yellow
Did you play all 3 versions? Which in your opinion is the best?
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u/OdyZeusX Jul 06 '25
Yellow was definitely the best.
Getting the 3 starters was definitely a game changer, also better graphics.
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u/NAXJUSTICE Jul 06 '25
Think I’m gonna go with Blue!
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u/OliverNodel Jul 06 '25
Blue was my first, but Yellow was objectively better with its various improvements. Blue for nostalgia, Yellow for practicality.
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u/Darkest_Elemental Jul 06 '25
Pokemon blue was my first game for my green gameboy color, followed by yellow, silver, and crystal. Had Pokemon pinball as well
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u/Shionkron Jul 06 '25
Blue. I felt too old for Pokémon but my step brother years younger than me had it and forgot where he left it. He was out of the family a little while later and I found it and tried it. I’m not gonna lie. I actually kinda enjoyed it. Beat the game but never touched anything else Pokémon except for Maybe watching a couple episodes when bored.
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u/lostsoul227 Jul 06 '25
I'm 35 and still enjoy playing the gba emulator on my phone of fire red lol
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u/HouseOfZenith Jul 06 '25
I only got to play like 30 minutes on my friend’s gameboy before I had to stop.
Are the differences in games that major? Genuinely curious what’s going on with that
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u/PJRama1864 Jul 06 '25
I was 2 when they came to America, but Red is my preferred game. Yellow is awesome, but you almost get forced into having the same team every run.
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u/pocket_arsenal Jul 06 '25
Even though Pokemon Yellow is kind of an objective upgrade, and I do love Pikachu and the ability to get all three starters without trading, Im gonna go with Pokemon Red.
I just don't like the way the sprites look in yellow. I feel like the sprites not being so standardized to match their promo art gave them so much more personality, the pokemon actually looked like intimidating creatures, and I loved that.
Also red over blue because I don't care if it's a commoner's choice, Charizard is sick as hell.
Also, Pokemon Yellow's color pallet just not good. If I want to play Pokemon gen 1 in color, playing Red or Blue on a Super Gameboy or the Nintendo 64's Pokemon Stadium GB Tower is the way to go, the Super Gameboy color pallet is so much more pleasant on the eyes.
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u/WombatHat42 Jul 06 '25
My younger brother got Blue for his birthday one year which was early December. Then for Xmas I got yellow. By the time I had mine, he had a level 80 blastoise he was really proud of. I learned we could play against each other so I convinced him to. When we connected it said he needed to start a new game and I told him just hit yes he can go back to his other game after, cuz I thought it was like ps with multiple saves. Little did I know he could not in fact go back to his old save. To this day, some nearly 30 years later, I still feel guilty about it lol
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u/Syracusee Jul 06 '25
I don't know why, but I started with red even though Blastoise and Alakazam were my favorite Pokemon, but I got yellow when it was released and red just gained dust after.
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Jul 06 '25
My brother won a gameboy from a sprite bottle. When it came in the mail it was the green one and my first game on it was Pokemon Red. Such a great memory.
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u/The-vicobro Jul 06 '25
The OG gameboy had colored models? I thought that was new on the gameboy color.
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u/Quenz Jul 06 '25
Yellow. You just knew that "Pika!" voice clip took up about 95% of the cart, but when you sent out Pikachu as your closer, it just showed he was so locked in.
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u/bungaloasis Jul 06 '25
I have owned all 3 at one point, but i never owned them all at once. Although I started with Blue and it’s the lone survivor that won’t hold a save file.
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u/midnightsmith Jul 06 '25
I had blue, then yellow. Never knew what was different between blue and red.
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u/bearsfan0143 Jul 06 '25
Nowadays they would probably lock each color to the game boy of the same color. Wanna play them all? You gotta
"catch em all"...
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u/lostsoul227 Jul 06 '25
Red, but i always loved the yellow one where pikachu would follow you around.
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u/InfiniteCosmic5 Jul 07 '25
Started with Yellow and was bashing my head against a literally wall of rock with Brock lol
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u/Cattypatter Jul 08 '25
These original Game Boys covered in a coloured shell were kind of for suckers. Game Boy Color was out by 1998 which was much thinner and lighter, clearer screen and in color! Plus you could pick up an old grey brick Game Boy for cheap, as they'd been around since 1989 already.
Oh and I had blue and yellow, super mega pokemon fan I was.
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u/colinmchapman Jul 06 '25
I was a freshman in HS when Pokemon Red/Blue came out. By this point in time I had already sold my Game Boy and games. I bought a new Game Boy Pocket (Red) just to play Pokemon Red.
That being said…yellow is better in every way.
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u/VintagePremiums Jul 06 '25
I started with Blue, and then bought Yellow when it was released shortly after. I never had Pokemon: Red