Pokémon Yellow Version: Difference between revisions

|jname=ポケットモンスターピカチュウ

|caption=Pokémon Yellow Version's boxart, [[Version mascot|depicting]] {{p|Pikachu}}.

|link_method=[[Game Link Cable]]

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|pegi={{tt|3|Rating from TPCi}}

|release_date_ja=September 12, 1998<ref>[http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/other/gb-pikachu/ ポケットモンスター ピカチュウ | ポケットモンスターオフィシャルサイト]</ref><ref>[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/dmg/apsj/ ポケットモンスター ピカチュウ]</ref>

|release_date_na=October 18, 1999<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20000621205847/http://www.nintendo.com/corp/press/100499.html PHENOMENON CONTINUES WITH NINTENDO'S POKéMON YELLOW VERSION: SPECIAL PIKACHU EDITION™] (archive)</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20000302052202/http://www.nintendo.com/corp/press/110199.html NINTENDO'S LATEST POKéMON GAME SMASHES COMPANY SALES RECORD] (archive)</ref>

|release_date_au=September 3, 1999<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20000614202450/http://www.nintendo.com.au/games/gameboy/games/pokemon_yellow.html Nintendo - Nintendo 64 Games]</ref>

|release_date_eu=June 16, 2000<ref>[http://www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-yellow-special-pikachu-edition/ Pokémon™ Yellow Special Pikachu Edition | Video Games | Pokemon.com] (UK)</ref><ref>[http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Game-Boy/Pokemon-Yellow-Version-266142.html Pokémon Yellow Version | Game Boy | Games | Nintendo]</ref>

'''Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition''' (Japanese: '''ポケットモンスターピカチュウ''' ''Pocket Monsters: Pikachu''), often known as '''Pokémon Yellow Version''', is the third Pokémon game for [[Game Boy]] released worldwide, as a [[core series|solitary version]] of [[Pokémon Red and Blue Versions]]. In Japan, the game was the fourth Pokémon game released, as a second solitary version of {{game|Red and Green|s|Pocket Monsters Red & Green}}.

* A girl in [[Cerulean City]] will give the {{player}} a {{p|Bulbasaur}} if the [[Starter Pokémon|starter]] {{ga|Red's Pikachu|Pikachu}}'s [[friendship]] is high.

* {{p|Pikachu}} is the only [[Starter Pokémon]] the {{player}} can have and [[Walking Pokémon|travels with the player]] on-screen, outside of a [[Poké Ball]] like {{OP|Ash|Pikachu}}. The {{ga|Blue|rival}} starts with {{p|Eevee}}, and the previous three [[Kanto]] starters can be obtained later in the game.

** Furthermore, no other wild Pikachu can be found, thus requiring the player to trade a Pikachu from another [[Generation I]] game or [[Generation II]] game to obtain another one. A traded Pikachu will also not behave like the starter Pikachu, acting as a regular Pokémon instead (even to the point of being able to evolve with a {{evostone|Thunderstone}}), unless it matches the [[Original Trainer]] and [[Trainer ID number]] of the player.

*** If the player loses one of these two battles or passes up the Route 22 battle, Eevee evolves into {{p|Flareon}}.

*** If the player loses at Oak's Lab, and loses or passes up the Route 22 battle, Eevee evolves into {{p|Vaporeon}}.

* [[List of in-game trades|In-game trades]] are changed to different Pokémon.

** The Pokémon that [[Team Rocket]] use ({{p|Koffing}}, {{p|Ekans}}, {{p|Meowth}} and their evolutions) are not available to be caught in the wild. It would be unlikely that Ash would catch these Pokémon in the anime as they are the primary antagonists.

** Wild Pikachu and {{p|Raichu}} are not available, as Pikachu is the player's starter Pokémon (furthermore, it is unlikely that Ash would catch another Pikachu or a Raichu).

As well as reprising the ability to allow players to trade Pokémon between two cartridges via a [[Game Link Cable]], Yellow also debuted a new link battle mode, Colosseum 2.

In Colosseum 2, players can select from several battle modes:

* [[Misty]] is first encountered in the [[Cerulean Gym]]. In the {{pkmn|anime}}, she had left the Gym when {{Ash}} met her.

Contemporaneous materials refer to the game as ''Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition'',<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20000621205847/http://www.nintendo.com/corp/press/100499.html PHENOMENON CONTINUES WITH NINTENDO'S POKéMON YELLOW VERSION: SPECIAL PIKACHU EDITION™ | Nintendo Press Releases] (archive)</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20000302052202/http://www.nintendo.com/corp/press/110199.html NINTENDO'S LATEST POKéMON GAME SMASHES COMPANY SALES RECORD | Nintendo Press Releases] (archive)</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/19991013114744/http://pokemon.com/games/index.html#yellow Pokémon Games | Pokémon.com] (archive)</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/19991013020010/http://www.nintendo.com/gb/gamelist.html Game Boy Color: Upcoming Games | Nintendo] (archive)</ref> or ''Pokémon Yellow'' for brevity. The instruction manual refers to the game as "the Yellow version of Pokémon", "Yellow" is one of the selectable preset names for the the {{ga|Red|player character}}, and ''Yellow Version'' can be seen on the game's title screen. ESRB classified the game under the title ''Pokémon yellow'',<ref>[http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=4122 ESRB]</ref> while the Australian Classification Board classified the game under the title ''POKEMON YELLOW''.<ref>[http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?ncdctx=FCkQCm7viLSpoubB2Pl%2bUqk4ywcYhGtIFwZYml92sndTY3DWHTTp5KpY2RCkfmf8 Classification Board]</ref>

* Out of all the [[core series]] [[Generation I]] games, this is the only one where {{p|Lickitung}} and {{p|Farfetch'd}} can be caught in the wild; in the Japanese {{2v2|Red|Green}} and {{game|Blue| (Japanese)|Japanese Blue}} as well as in the {{game|Red and Blue|s|international Red and Blue}}, these Pokémon are only available by means of an [[List of in-game trades|in-game trade]].

* Yellow is the only core series game in which the player cannot choose their own starter Pokémon, and which is not {{t|Grass}}-, {{t|Fire}}-, or {{type|Water}}.

** Prior to {{pkmn|X and Y}}, it was also the only game in which all three of the region's starters can be obtained without having to trade with other games.

* Pikachu had its [[cry]] changed to that of its anime counterpart for this game. [[Junichi Masuda]] details the modification of [[Ikue Ohtani]]'s voice to a sound capable of being made by the low-tech [[Game Boy]] in his [http://www.gamefreak.co.jp/blog/dir_english/?p=144 Director's Column]. In some parts of the game, though, Pikachu's original cry was used.