Japanese Pokémon Red/Green/Blue - 27 February 1996
Compatibility: GB,GBC,GBA,DS Designed for: GB
Pokémon first came out in two versions: Red and Green. They were only available via mail order in Japan and around 1999 a limited amount was available in shops. The graphics were similar, though not the same as in the English versions of Red/Blue, since they were an entirely different game. Due to the presence of many bugs in the code of Red/Green that caused loss of saved data in many cases, the game was re-written (with MissingNo added as an error-handler) and released in the rest of the world as Red/Blue, the Japanese Blue is actually the same as the english ones but different from the Japanese Red.
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