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GAME · 1998 · JAPAN

Poketto monsutâ Pikachû

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All facts (12)

  1. #001

    Pokémon Yellow was one of the few games able to interact with the Game Boy Printer.

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  2. #002

    Pokémon Yellow was the fourth Game Boy game to have a yellow cartridge. The other three were Donkey Kong Land (1995), Donkey Kong Land 2 (1996) and Donkey Kong Land III (1997).

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  3. #003

    The surfing Pikachu obtainable in this version, either through Pokémon Stadium or at Nintendo events, had previously been referenced in the anime as "Puka", a blue-eyed Pikachu belonging to a surfer. Winning this Pokémon also unlocks a special minigame, "Surfing Pikachu".

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  4. #004

    The infamous Old Man glitch, which allowed players to encounter MissingNo, was patched in the wild for this version. MissingNo can still be encountered through other glitch methods, but it is difficult, as it will often crash the game.

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  5. #005

    This game includes another design of Cerulean Cave, one that had been redesigned between the original Pokémon: Green Version (1996) and the Japanese Pokémon: Red Version (1996) and later carried over to the Japanese and international Red and Pokémon: Blue Version (1996).

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  6. #006

    Content cut from the final version includes a unique song for Giovanni and several variations of Pikachu's speech. Another cut text string reads: "Hurry, get away."

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  7. #007

    The sprites for Blue, Brock, Misty and Erika were redesigned for this version. The first three were meant to resemble their anime counterparts more closely. In Erika's case, in the original Pokémon: Green Version (1996), Pokémon: Red Version (1996) and Pokémon: Blue Version (1996), Erika wore her kimono crossed right over left, a Japanese custom for the dead at funerals. In this version it was corrected to left over right. It has been speculated that Erika's specialty may have been the Ghost type before it became Grass.

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  8. #008

    This video game takes place in the Yellow Timeline of the Pokémon multiverse.

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  9. #009

    This is the first appearance of the Team Rocket trio, Jessie, James and Meowth, in a main Pokémon video game.

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  10. #010

    Red is the same main character as in the previous games.

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  11. #011

    Team Rocket is the same villainous team as in the previous games.

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  12. #012

    Although the game was not marketed as a Game Boy Color title, such as by being labelled as one on the outer box or having a transparent game pak shell, it was designed to take advantage of the Game Boy Color.

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