Pokémon Red and Blue Versions: Difference between revisions

'''Pokémon Red Version''' and '''Pokémon Blue Version''' were the first [[Pokémon games]] to be released outside of Japan, becoming available in North America on September 28, 1998,<ref name="Sept28PR"/> in Australia and New Zealand on October 23, 1998 and in Europe on October 5, 1999.<ref name="NoE (Red)">[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Game-Boy/Pokemon-Red-Version-266109.html Pokémon Red Version | Game Boy | Games | Nintendo]</ref><ref name="NoE (Blue)">[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Game-Boy/Pokemon-Blue-Version-266054.html Pokémon Blue Version | Game Boy | Games | Nintendo]</ref> In North America, the pair closely followed the debut of the {{pkmn|anime}}'s English dub, which began airing on September 8, 1998,<ref>[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=270&page=25 Pokémon (TV) [Episode titles] - Anime News Network]</ref> and within a year, Pokémon was well known as a popular [[Nintendo]] franchise.

Unlike later [[generation]]s, Red and Blue were not the same as their corresponding Japanese releases {{game|Red and Green|s}}. Besides Pokémon distribution, the aspects of Red and Blue such as graphics, script, and sprite designs are instead based on {{game|Blue| (Japanese)}}.