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|name=<span style="color:#FFF">Pokémon Blue Version</span>
|jname=<span style="color:#FFF">ポケットモンスター　青</span>
|boxart=Blue JP boxart.png
|caption=Box art of Pokémon Blue Version, [[Game mascot|depicting]] {{p|Blastoise}}.
|platform=[[Game Boy]] <small>(enhanced for the [[Super Game Boy]] and [[Super Game Boy 2]])</small>
|category=RPG
|players=2 players simultaneous
|link_method=[[Game Link Cable]] <small>(Game Boy)</small><br>3DS Wireless <small>(3DS VC)</small>
|developer=[[Game Freak]]
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|gen_series=[[Generation I]] [[core series]]
|cero=A <small>(3DS VC)</small>
|gsrr=6+ <small>(3DS VC)</small>
|release_date_ja=December 1996 to January 1997 <small>(Game Boy, mail release)</small><ref name="Lava"/><br>June 13, 1997 to August 31, 1997 <small>(Game Boy, mail re-release)</small><ref name="1997 re-release">[https://web.archive.org/web/19970707185911/http://www.gamefreak.co.jp/POKEMON/NEWS/NEWS.HTM ポケットモンスター・ブルーバージョン再販中！！] (Pokémon Blue Version Re-Release!!)</ref><br>October 10, 1999 <small>(Game Boy, {{wp|retail}})</small><ref name="TPC" /><ref name="NoJ" /><br>February 27, 2016 <small>(3DS VC)</small><br><small>(Note: October 15, 1996 is claimed to be Pokémon Blue's Japanese release date according to some official sources,<ref name="TPC" /><ref name="NoJ" /> but this was simply the date when the still unreleased game was announced on {{wp|CoroCoro Comic|CoroCoro}} magazine<ref name="Lava"/>)</small>
|release_date_na=N/A
|release_date_au=N/A
|release_date_eu=N/A
|release_date_kr=N/A
|release_date_hk=N/A
|release_date_tw=N/A
|website_ja=[https://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/other/gb-blue/ The Pokémon Company] <small>(Game Boy)</small><br>[https://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/VCAMAP/ The Pokémon Company] <small>(Virtual Console)</small><br>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/dmg/apej/ Nintendo] <small>(Game Boy)</small><br>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/titles/50010000038656 Nintendo] <small>(Virtual Console)</small>
}}

'''Pokémon Blue Version''' (Japanese: '''{{j|ポケットモンスター　青}}''' ''Pocket Monsters: Blue'') is the third [[core series]] [[Pokémon games|Pokémon game]] for the [[Game Boy]].

This game was announced on October 15, 1996, via the {{wp|cover date|cover-dated}} November 1996 issue of {{wp|CoroCoro Comic}}. It was originally [[#Release|released]] by mail in early December 1996 to those who had requested it using an application form included with this specific issue of CoroCoro.

The game was originally released to celebrate 1 million sales of Pokémon Red and Green. It was later re-released (again as mail order) in 1997 to celebrate 4 million sales of Red, Green, and Blue combined, and then was ultimately released to general {{wp|retail}} on October 10, 1999.

In Japan, Pokémon Blue is a minor revision of {{game|Red and Green|s}}, which were released earlier in the same year. It was thus the first [[core series|upper version]] in the core series Pokémon games. Fixes in the game include a graphics upgrade, as well as the removal of several known glitches that had been found in the original pair. Outside of Japan, the pair of games {{game|Red and Blue|s}} was released with the same [[wild Pokémon]] and [[version-exclusive Pokémon]] as Japanese Red and Green, with the graphics and game engine from Japanese Blue.

The game was available on the [[Nintendo 3DS]] [[Virtual Console]] in Japan between the [[Pokémon 20th Anniversary]] on February 27, 2016, and the discontinuation of the 3DS Nintendo eShop on March 27, 2023.