Customer reviews:

Customer Rating:
Summary: An absolute classic!
Comment: "Squirtle, I choose you!" These are the somewhat cheesy yet classic words of Ash Ketchum, a hyper young lad from Pallet Town whom you get to play in this game, only you can name him whatever you want. You'll travel the region of Kanto, the first of now 5 regions in the world of Pokemon, where you'll catch and train Pokemon, battle other trainers, stop a villianous terrorist organization called Team Rocket from using Pokemon in harmful ways, and take on a quest to become the world's greatest pokemon master.

If you're a Pokemon nerd to this day, despite being old enough to play these original games when they first came out (like me), your memory will kick in when you start this game and you'll say "I remember playing this when I was _______! <- [insert age]", and you'll have the time of your life playing through this thing.

However, if you're a new young lad or lady who is used to playing Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heartgold, Soulsilver, Battle Revolution, and XD: Gale of Darkness, then this game will likely bore you out of your skull. Why? The graphics, compared to the new games mentioned previously, are a complete, well, katasztrófa - a word that means "disaster" in Hungarian.

The Pokemon games have a special effect on people. With most games, you can start a new game every time you beat it without thought. But with these games, you literally become attached to your Pokemon and would feel bad if you started a new game and made your original Pokemon cease to exist. I, personally, feel like a fool for feeling that way, but its true.


If you can put up with the graphics (or lack there of) and love Pokemon, then this game will entertain you for years to come.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Old School
Comment: I purchased this game for my daughter who still had found her gameboy from 1999. She really wanted the red version again, so I purchased it. She said it was as fun as she remembers! The game itself was in excellent condition.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Different Times?
Comment: People don't understand why there's a blue then red version...IT WAS 1999. as the original gameboy was coming to an end, nintendo started to put color in their games. They did this with Pokemon. It was supposed to make it one full color but decided other kids might want different colors so they made both red and blue for different kids. thanks

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pokemon Red Version
Comment: Besides this again being a re-purchased item and a older game; it was fun to play again despite horrible older graphics.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Classic which has earned, and deserves your respect
Comment: I have been playing pokemon for 13 years, before I could properly read, I am 16 now and am proud to say I still play. Children refuse to play Pokemon because there minds have been dominated by new age graphics and first person shooters. Kids, it is good. If you try to argue otherwise, then you clearly haven't expirienced some of the truly awful games out there.

Before you blindly hate on Pokemon merely because of it's popularity, Try giving strategy games a second look.

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