by Tanner Kinney Pokemon is a gigantic franchise. Kids love it, adults love it, and every Pokemon game seems to sell just as well or even better than the previous title. You show an everyday person a silhouette of Pikachu, there’s almost a guarantee they know what it is or, at the very least, that it is that Pokemon thing. There are hundreds of YouTube channels devoted to EXCLUSIVELY Pokemon content, whether it be WiFi battles or Let’s Plays or weird conspiracy videos. Kids grow up with Pokemon everywhere, and enjoy it in whatever way they want to. I definitely grew up with Pokemon Sapphire, the Pokemon Trading Card Game, and the Pokemon Advanced dub by 4Kids with all of Brock’s “jelly filled donuts”. Even then it was massive, now it’s even more prevalent in popular culture. But Pokemon wasn’t always this huge franchise that had a massive budget behind it. Like all big things in popular culture, it started small: a simple game on Gameboy. The fact that Pokemon even came together and worked (mostly) as intended was truly a miracle of engineering from the geniuses at Game Freak and Nintendo. To celebrate the release of Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon, and to make it so those games would actually be reasonably fresh, I went back and revisited the first generation of Pokemon, Red and Blue version (and Green but also not really). For future reference, once I start talking about the game, I will be talking about Pokemon Blue version, as that’s the one I own.
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