After meeting up with Professor Oak while trying to leave for Route 1, both the player and their rival are asked by Oak to choose a starter PokГ©mon, Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle, from the desk near him.

Illustrating the original PokГ©mon gameplay concepts, the player (canonically known as Red) begins his game in Pallet Town, a small town in the Kanto region, on the same day as his former best friend and now rival. Besides PokГ©mon distribution, the aspects of Red and Blue such as graphics, script, and sprite designs are instead based on PokГ©mon Blue.Дespite being released towards the end of Game Boy's lifespan, they quickly became the best-selling non-bundled games released for the Game Boy as well as being the best-selling role-playing games of all time. Unlike later generations, Red and Blue were not the same as their corresponding Japanese releases PokГ©mon Red and Green.

The games are available on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console between the PokГ©mon 20th Anniversary on Februand the discontinuation of the 3DS Nintendo eShop in March 2023. In North America, the pair closely followed the debut of the anime's English dub, which began airing on September 8, 1998, and within a year, PokГ©mon was well known as a popular Nintendo franchise. PokГ©mon Red Version and PokГ©mon Blue Version were the first PokГ©mon games to be released outside of Japan, becoming available in North America on September 28, 1998, in Australia and New Zealand on Octoand in Europe on October 5, 1999. The PokГ©mon Company International (Game Boy & Virtual Console) Game Boy (enhanced for the Super Game Boy), Nintendo 3DS ( Virtual Console) PokГ©mon Blue Version's boxart, depicting Blastoise PokГ©mon Red Version's boxart, depicting Charizard For the Japanese game with the same name, see PokГ©mon Blue Version (Japanese). For the Japanese game with the same name, see PokГ©mon Red and Green Versions.

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