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Pokémon Red Version

Game Freak · Feb 27, 2016

3DS

Everyone

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Relive the feeling of catching your very first Pokémon from the original 150, complete with monochromatic pixel art and 4-bit background music. You’ll take on the role of a Pokémon Trainer and travel across the land searching for amazing creatures called Pokémon. Catch, battle, and trade as you face Gym Leaders and try to stop Team Rocket! If you want to catch the original 150 Pokémon, you'll need to trade wirelessly with your friends.

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Critic 8.3 (7 critics) · Gamer 9.2

8.3

Critic reviews

  • Destructoid

    Chris Carter · Feb 29, 2016

    7.5
    Even though it's been left in the dust by its successors (even as early as Silver and Gold, which knocked it out of the park), there's no denying that the original series, including Pokémon Red, the objective best first generation game, has its charms. As long as you're able to deal with some antiquated mechanics and a ton of random battles (you are not prepared, even with repels), it's worth booting up all over again.
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  • Game Reactor

    Clover Harker · Mar 06, 2016

    9.0
    The highly successful signature grind of Pokémon has proven to be both fun and challenging enough to remain unchanged for twenty years. Pokémon Blue, Red and Yellow have definitely stood the test of time - whether you're a veteran player looking for a pleasant trip down memory lane or an entirely new (aspiring) Pokémon Master, these games will provide you with hours of fun. Although some people might think the price of £8.99 is too much (via Nintendo's Eshop), there are still plenty of reasons to (re)visit the Kanto region!
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  • NintendoLife

    Alex Olney · Mar 01, 2016

    9.0
    Pokémon Red & Blue are a superb addition to the 3DS Virtual Console, and whilst these are both twenty year old games with the occasional wrinkle, they're still extremely engaging and involving titles in which to drown your free time. The gameplay is simpler by modern standards, but there's still a wealth of intricacies and complexity to be explored if you want to train a team to pixel-powered perfection. If you were to drag everything about the game and dump it in a nice, shiny, new 3D engine like X & Y you'd be forgiven for thinking these were brand new games, and you can't say that about many twenty year old titles.
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  • MeriStation

    Dedede · Feb 29, 2016

    7.0
    Estamos, por tanto, ante la oportunidad de revivir lo que sentimos hace tres lustros, y entender por qué un juego que, en muchos aspectos, ya era obsoleto en su lanzamiento, y por qué es capaz de cautivarnos aún ahora. Muy probablemente volvamos a engancharnos de nuevo.
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  • FNintendo

    Henrique Pereira · Mar 25, 2016

    9.0
    Mesmo depois de tantos anos é um prazer jogar Pokémon Red & Blue. É verdade que os originais estão totalmente deprecados em quase todos os aspectos quando comparados com as entregas mais recentes mas o núcleo de coleccionismo e combates continua tão forte como nunca. A primeira geração também conta com o conjunto mais reconhecível de criaturas e voltar a seguir uma aventura em Kanto vai colocar um sorriso a quem já o fez no passado.

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