New Pokemon

Pokemon - Red Version Welcome to the world of Pok mon, one filled with wild Pok mon and the people who attempt to tame them. You are Ash Ketchum, a boy on a quest to become the best Pok mon trainer in the world. Professor Oak, the leading authority on Pok mon, has given you your choice of three tame Pok mon in exchange for your helping him catalog and document every Pok mon in the world.

But to catalog a Pok mon, you have to capture it, by first beating it up with one of your trained Pok mon, and then hitting it with an empty Pok Ball. As your tame Pok mon gain experience in battle, their abilities improve and they earn access to new attacks. Sometimes they even evolve into more advanced Pok mon.

Aside from capturing wild Pok mon and evolving your own, you can catalog new Pok mon–the only way to gather some Pok mon–by trading with another Pok mon player using either a link cable or the Game Boy Color’s infrared system. Pok mon gained through trades learn and evolve faster, and trading is the only way to capture all 151 Pok mon, since each Pok mon game (Pok mon Red, Pok mon Blue, andPok mon Yellow) has certain Pok mon missing. So if you own Red and want to have a complete set of Pok mon, you must find a friendly Blue or Yellow owner and arrange a trade.

Pok mon Red is packed with interesting characters, an ingenious story hook, intriguing strategy, and of course plenty of cute Pokemon, and it’s easy to see how it started the Pok mania that is sweeping the world. –Michael Fehlauer

Pros:

• Gameplay and strategy that are fun for all ages
• Fantastic replay value
• Brilliant game design encourages players to meet and trade

Cons:

• Hours of looking at the Game Boy’s little screen may hurt neck
• Only 1 saved game per cartridge–2 people can’t share a single game
• No difference between Red and Blue except for distribution of Pok mon

Customer Review: Pokemon Red Version
8/10 Gameplay (Mainly because of my bitterness toward the snail’s pace leveling-up)
7/10 Story
8/10 Graphics (Especially for a 1998 Gameboy game)
5/10 Sound/Music (Nothing special, but the consistent beeping when you’re at low health could drive me to drink)
7/10 Replayability