Game Boy Color

Pokemon, Crystal Version

• New monsters
• the ability to play as a female trainer
• tournament-stylishness combat
• awesome graphics
• two-player action

Product Description
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock and you’ve missed the fuss up to this point: The word “Pokémon” refers to a series of 150 different “pocket monsters” that you are challenged to collect, trade, and nurture in hopes of becoming the greatest Pokémon trainer in the world. You use your monsters to help in battle against other trainers. Kids like collecting these pocket monsters, and they’ll like it even more when they get a load of POKÉMON: Crystal Version. A follow-up to the Gold and Silver editions of the handheld POKÉMON saga, the Crystal Version offers enhancements and updates that will keep small trainers going for hours on end. Play as a male or female trainer, collecting, and schooling growing monsters for tournament-stylishness combat. You’ll be aided by an unusual Suicune creature, which serves as the next generation of Pikachu. Play alone or take on a friend in this addicting masterpieceAmazon.com Review
Pokémon Crystal is to Pokémon Gold and Silver what Pokémon Golden-haired is to Pokémon Red and Blue. It features several minor upgrades from its predecessors, but in essence it’s still the same game. The classic Pokémon formula of adventuring, collecting, and battling is at a series best with Crystal. This is one of the best and most addictive role-playing sports meeting for the Game Boy Affect.

The most notable feature is the selectable female trainer who has her own set of animations and backgrounds. This is a splendid option for female Pokémon fans who were previously stuck playing the game as a male character. There are also subtle improvements to the cell phone system, HM moves, and prebattle animations. Rival trainers’ phone calls are now more plentiful and pragmatic. HM moves, which are required throughout the game, are available at the push of a button–you’ll no longer have to navigate menus to use these moves. Lastly, seeing a Pokémon’s new animation makes encountering new creatures more fun than before.

If you haven’t played Gold or Silver yet, Crystal is certainly the way to go. If you’ve played those previous sports meeting, Crystal has only enough new features to justify a buy from Pokémon fanatics. This game is compatible with the link cable, Game Boy printer, and Pokémon Pikachu 2. It’s playable on Game Boy Affect and Game Boy Advance only, and can be played on a box using Pokémon Stadium 2 and a Transfer Pak. –Raymond M. Padilla

Pros:

• New female trainer
• Prebattle animations are cute
• Lots of subtle improvements

Cons:

• Too similar to Gold and Silver
• changeable phone features not in the U.S. version

Buy Pokemon, Crystal Version

Pokemon Gold

• collect 250 Pokemon
• each Pokemon has unique skills
• collect badges to penetrate the Pokemon League
• trade Pokemon via link cable

Product Description
POKÉMON GOLD offers another game for fans of the well loved Pokémon characters, and the list of features is nearly overwhelming. Explore a world with more than 250 Pokémon! The game keeps track of the time via an internal timer, and some Pokémon will only come out during certain times of the day, which means you will quite literally have to get up early in the morning to find them all. Also new to POKÉMON GOLD is Pokémon breeding. Youve heard of Pikachu, but have you heard of Pichu? The PokeGear adds a more streamlined interface for an even greater RPG experience. As in the past sports meeting, link up with a friend, rival, or fellow trainer to trade or battle Pokémon. You can link up to your previous version of POKÉMON RED or BLUE or YELLOW to bring all of your favorite Pokémon into the new game. This version of the game includes Pokémon found only in POKÉMON GOLDAmazon.com Review
Featuring a new adventure that’s filled with copious enhancements and innovations, this long-awaited sequel to Pokémon Red, Blue, and Golden-haired greatly improves upon the series’ winning formula, and makes for an even more insanely addictive and wholly absorbing gaming experience.

Like Pokémon Silver–which essentially is the same tale, with minor gameplay variations–Pokémon Gold casts players in the familiar role of a young Pokémon Trainer who’s out to collect as many different kinds of Pokémon as possible. As in previous sports meeting, gameplay consists mostly of exploration (completing various quests in the process) and Pokémon battles, which use a unique battle system that’s like a complex twist on rock-paper-scissors.

But, despite the similarities, it’s quite obvious that Pokémon Gold is a whole new ball game from the start. The game is played out in real time, with the contemporary time and day of the week (recorded by an internal timer) having a direct impact on gameplay elements, such as what Pokémon you’ll find in the wild, and when certain events occur and characters appear.

While there are too many new and improved features in Pokémon Gold to list here, among the highlights are 100 new Pokémon (including two new types), new evolution processes (including breeding), and a more streamlined game interface that has better-organized menus and button shortcuts.

Although it’s simpler to progress in Pokémon Gold than in the previous sports meeting, the sheer amount of fun and game time that’s involved is disheartening. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better regard than this one. –Joe Hon

Pros:

• Insanely addictive and wholly absorbing gaming experience
• Time and day of week impact gameplay directly
• Bevy of new features and hidden secrets
• Improved graphics and more streamlined game interface

Cons:

• Minor compatibility issues when using Game Link with previous versions

Buy Pokemon Gold

Pokemon – Red Version

• Collect up to 139 Pokémon with this game
• both Red and Blue versions are required to capture all 150
• use the optional Game Link cable to trade Pokémon and play against a friend;
• for one to two players

Product Description
It’s the game that started a revolution, but it’s not just the fad that convinced gamers to “catch ‘em all.” This deceptively unadorned and outcome-friendly roleplaying game design is a far deeper game design than it looks. Pokemon features way more approach and gameplay than it leads on, offering gamers nearly infinite gaming possibilities even after the main adventure ends. Pocket Monsters Red was released in Japan in 1996 by mail-order only (the two launch titles were Green and Blue). The franchise arrived in the west in 1998 as Pokemon Blue and Red (Roald Dahl holds the copyright for “Pocket Monsters” in the west, so the title was changed to the Japanese colloquial name). The sports meeting could be linked up with each other and with the N64’s Pokemon Stadium titles for creature trading.Editorial Review
Welcome to the world of Pokémon, one filled with wild Pokémon and the people who attempt to tame them. You are Ash Ketchum, a boy on a quest to become the best Pokémon trainer in the world. Professor Oak, the chief authority on Pokémon, has given you your choice of three tame Pokémon in exchange for your helping him catalog and document every Pokémon in the world.

But to catalog a Pokémon, you have to capture it, by first beating it up with one of your trained Pokémon, and then hitting it with an empty Poké Ball. As your tame Pokémon gain experience in battle, their abilities increase and they earn access to new attacks. Sometimes they even evolve into more advanced Pokémon.

Aside from capturing wild Pokémon and evolving your own, you can catalog new Pokémon–the only way to gather some Pokémon–by trading with another Pokémon player using either a link cable or the Game Boy Affect’s infrared system. Pokémon gained owing to trades learn and evolve quicker, and trading is the only way to capture all 151 Pokémon, since each Pokémon game (Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, andPokémon Golden-haired) has certain Pokémon missing. So if you own Red and want to have a complete set of Pokémon, you must find a friendly Blue or Golden-haired owner and arrange a trade.

Pokémon Red is packed with fascinating characters, an ingenious tale hook, intriguing approach, and of course plenty of cute Pokemon, and it’s simple to see how it started the Pokémania that is sweeping the world. –Michael Fehlauer

Pros:

• Gameplay and approach that are fun for all ages
• Fantastic replay regard
• Brilliant game design encourages players to meet and trade

Cons:

• Hours of looking at the Game Boy’s small screen may hurt neck
• Only 1 saved game per cartridge–2 people can’t share a release game
• No difference between Red and Blue except for distribution of Pokémon

Buy Pokemon – Red Version

Pokemon, Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition

• Onyl used once!!!!

Product Description
Nintendo Gameboy. Pokemon Special Pikachu EDITION.Editorial Review
While it’s basically the same game as the previously released Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, Pokémon Golden-haired: Special Pikachu Edition features enhancements that make it the best version yet. In all three versions, the player is on a quest to become the World’s Greatest Pokémon Trainer, with exploration and Pokémon battles (reflect advanced paper-scissors-rock) factoring heavily into the gameplay. While the game world is the same in all three versions, the Pokémon you encounter vary from version to version; the underlying goal of collecting all 151 Pokémon can only be met by trading Pokémon via Link Cable with another player with a different Pokémon version. (Players can also battle against one another using the Link Cable setup.)

Pokémon Golden-haired follows the TV cartoon series more closely than the other versions. Your first Pokémon in Golden-haired is Pikachu, and he travels alongside you as opposed to inside a Pokéball (like most Pokémon). Pikachu’s mood can be showed virtual pet stylishness: keeping him pleased is vital, as his mood affects certain events in the game. In addition to the inclusion of other TV show elements like Team Rocket, new battle modes between players are available as well as a secret game called Pikachu’s Beach.

If you haven’t played any of the Pokémon sports meeting before, Pokémon Golden-haired is the best place to start. But while Pokémaniacs will go gaga over Golden-haired’s new features, less enthusiastic veterans of Red and Blue may not find the extras to be quite so special. –Joe Hon

Pros:

• Best version yet of the highly addictive Pokémon game
• Pikachu’s moods raise the game’s cuteness bar to an all-new level
• Features new battle modes between players
• Includes Pikachu’s Beach secret game

Cons:

• Pokémon battles can be repetitive at times
• New features may not be enough for some Pokémon veterans

Buy Pokemon, Golden-haired Version: Special Pikachu Edition

Pokemon, Silver Version

• collect 250 Pokemon
• one player only
• each Pokemon has unique skills
• collect badges to penetrate the Pokemon League
• trade Pokemon via link cable

Product Description
Pokémon Gold and Silver utilize the general design blueprint supplied in Red/Blue/Golden-haired — Boy wanders the land to become the greatest Pokémon trainer in the world, with an archrival out to take your glory every step of the way. Both versions are identical in every way, except for the character images during battles, and the characters that can be caught in the wild, keeping with the “trading is necessary” design. The game has the familiar Japanese-stylishness RPG engine, meaning top-down scrolling provides the perspective, and huge-headed people inhabit the world. The hook in Pokémon is the fact that you yourself don’t do your own fighting — instead, creatures you capture in the wild supply the brute force of your battle skills. The creatures are Pokémon, and in Pokémon Gold and Silver there are exactly 251different species of these animals hiding in the game, waiting to be caught and trained. Pleased hunting!Amazon.com Review
Featuring a new adventure that’s filled with copious enhancements and innovations, this long-awaited sequel to Pokémon Red, Blue, and Golden-haired greatly improves upon the series’ winning formula, and makes for an even more insanely addictive and wholly absorbing gaming experience.

Like Pokémon Gold–which essentially is the same tale, with minor gameplay variations–Pokémon Silver casts players in the familiar role of a young Pokémon Trainer who’s out to collect as many different kinds of Pokémon as possible. As in previous sports meeting, gameplay consists mostly of exploration (completing various quests in the process) and Pokémon battles, which use a unique battle system that’s like a complex twist on rock-paper-scissors.

But, despite the similarities, it’s quite obvious that Pokémon Silver is a whole new ball game from the start. The game is played out in real time, with the contemporary time and day of the week (recorded by an internal timer) having a direct impact on gameplay elements, such as what Pokémon you’ll find in the wild, and when certain events occur and characters appear.

While there are too many new and improved features in Pokémon Silver to list here, among the highlights are 100 new Pokémon (including two new types), new evolution processes (including breeding), and a more streamlined game interface that has better-organized menus and button shortcuts.

Although it’s simpler to progress in Pokémon Silver than in the previous sports meeting, the sheer amount of fun and game time that’s involved is disheartening. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better regard than this one. –Joe Hon

Pros:

• Insanely addictive and wholly absorbing gaming experience
• Time and day of week impact gameplay directly
• Bevy of new features and hidden secrets
• Improved graphics and more streamlined game interface

Cons:

• Minor compatibility issues when using Game Link with previous versions

Buy Pokemon, Silver Version