Game Boy: Pokemon Yellow - Part 1

It's no secret that the most successful Game Boy games in all it's incarnations are the Pokemon games. And if you wont admit it, you're just kidding yourself.

Pokemon Special Pikachu Edition was released in North America on October 19, 1999. It is a remake of it's Pokemon Red and Blue, which are pretty much the same games with a few Pokemon exclusive to each version.

If you don't know what the Pokemon games are about (then you've been living in a hole), they are set in the fictional Kanto region where you take the role of a young boy who is about to start his journey as a Pokemon trainer, which basically consists of traveling the region catching as many of these creatures as possible, while battling other trainers along the way and facing Gym leaders in different cities to quallify for the Pokemon league.

Sounds simple right? Not really. Some Pokemon can only be obtained by meeting certain requirements or are exclusive to other games, which means you can only obtain them by trading. The main goal for many is really just to have a complete Pokedex.

At the time of it's release, a lot of people saw this game as a marketing tactic for Nintendo to make more money, since it was just a revised version of the previous games with some minor differences to make it more similar with the anime. And with the release of Pokemon Silve for Game Boy Color on it's way, it seemed there was really no reason for this game to exist.

Still, it was a comercial sucess selling over 600,000 units in it's first week.

I have personally never been able to finish a Pokemon game before, as I've never been a huge RPG fan and found the idea of walking around a city pretty boring after a while. I could never get past Fuisha city mainly because I got sick of it by that point.



I've had this cartrige for years now and have finally decided to play and FINISH Pokemon Yellow in an attempt to get as many pokemon as possible by the time I'm done.

In the previous games I would usually go with Charmander as my starter Pokemon, mainly because he has a lot o advantages over those annoying little grass and bug pokemon you encountered in the beggining, plus he's cute. In this game however, I'm stuck with Pikachu, which is not really a bad thing since he is very useful for the second gym, plus he walks behind you all the time and you can talk to it whenever your're feeling lonely.

To be honest, I find a lot of the paths in this first stage of the game really, really annoying. With tons of blocked roads and a lot of going around, but I guess that's what takes away some of the dullness this could have if it was just a battling game with no digging around. This also works towards catching all those wild pokemon popping out every now and then. Which in the end can be very rewarding.

By the time I defeated the first gym leader I already felt like a champion. With a team of a Lvl 12 Pikachu, Lvl 9 Nidoran, and Lvl 9 Pigeotto, plus the some filler pokemon. I was pretty much having a blast trying to level up my pokemon and learning new moves. My intention is to find myself a party of various type of pokemon and stick with it til' the end.

Now, entering Cerulean City I have the task to find one of the key members of my team.

It's time for... The Mew glitch.

Til' next time!