Product Description

In Pokemon Blue, your mission is to collect all 150 Pokemon. To collect all 150, you'll need to train each captured Pokemon. Once they evolve, each Pokemon gains power, which can be used to defeat and capture other Pokemon. Along the way, several skilled trainers will challenge you to Pokemon duels. To win the game, you must defeat them all.

Keep in mind that some Pokemon are rare and won't be found in your game. To get all 150, trade Pokemon with your friends using the Game Boy Link Cable, which allows the transfer of Pokemon between Game Paks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2052 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Released on: 1999-02-15
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Game Boy
• Number of items: 1

Amazon.co.uk 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 leading authority on Pokémon, has given you your choice of three tame Pokémon in exchange for your helping him catalogue and document every Pokémon in the world.

But to catalogue 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 Pokémon Ball. As your tame Pokémon gain experience in battle, their abilities improve 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 catalogue new Pokémon by trading with another player using either a link cable or the Game Boy Colour's infrared system. Pokémon gained through trades learn and evolve faster, and trading is the only way to capture all 151 since each game (Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow) has certain Pokémon missing. Of course, as a Pokémon trainer, you've "gotta catch 'em all!"--150 to be exact. So if you own Blue and want to have a complete set, you must find a friendly Red or Yellow owner and arrange a trade.

Pokémon Blue is packed with interesting characters, an ingenious story hook, intriguing strategy, and and it's easy to see how it started the Pokémania that is sweeping the world. --Michael Fehlauer

Pros:
• Gameplay and strategy that's fun for all ages
• Fantastic replay value
• Brilliant game design encourages players to meet and trade

Cons:
• Hours of looking at the Game Boy's little screen may hurt your neck
• Only one saved game per cartridge--two people can't share a single game
• No difference between Red and Blue except for distribution of Pokémon

Customer Reviews

Good memories
Its hard to believe looking back, that this game caused so much of a stir in the playground. Pokemon Red and Blue where a big deal during the mid 90's, and it was the game that really absored kids into a great adventure.
The layout of the game itself is simple, which I guess helped the popularity. But it was more of the objective that took sold the game - you had to become the 'best' pokemon trainer, and this could be done by winning lots and lots fights with other trainers.
I won't even go into what 'Pokemon' are (japanese for Pocket Monsters - hence they are kept in Pokeballs...) but to make it simple, their just creatures that are trained up and used for fighting other Pokemon. On your travels, you can catch Pokemon by using Pokeballs you may buy, and various other things can be bought too.
The game is captivating in that it seems to go on forever, and it is incredibly obsessive - there weere many a time you'd be in the middle of a battle, and the battery was about to die.... uh oh! The range of things to do is good as well - swim, ride a bike, go to a casino style place, lots of environments/people to see.
Their was also the now infamous cheat that soon went round the playgrounds. Remember it??..... Well, for those who want to know, it enables the player to gain MISSINGNO - the pokemon that is a... circuit board. Kids rumour had it that it 'ate' your other Pokemon, but was essential to completing the collection. The cheat also allowed the player to gain many other rare pokemon, including those available only on Red! To do these cheats, the player must 'surf' around the bottom left island, (on the map) on the edge of the right of the pier/ground. Sorry about the inaccurate description!
I tried to look at the game as an adventure - I didnt actually like the cartoon, and left that to the kids who like that kind of stuff. But frankly, now that I've grown up, I can honestly say that whether you likes the cartoon or not, the game is still as addictive as ever, and its an adveture worth taking!

Gotta Catch 'Em All!
Pokemon Blue is one of the two original and best Pokemon Gameboy games (Red being the other). Your mission is to catch as many Pokemon as possible and train them up by defeating wild Pokemon, and Pokemon belonging to rival trainers, so that eventually you are powerful enough to defeat the Elite Four and become the champion trainer of all time. You'll have loads of adventures on ths way - you have to defeat 8 gym leaders and loads of bad guys who are members of Team Rocket.

Although this game is a complete adventure in itself, if you want to catch all 150 Pokemon you will need to trade with someone who has the Red game, as some Pokemon are exclusive to each game. In addition some Pokemon only evolve when traded so you need to trade in order to actually generate certain evolved species.

This has to be the most original and absorbing console game ever - full marks!

Pokemon Blue (must have)
This is an excelent game to play. I think that the pokemon games should be top for the gameboy. The graphics could be a bit better like in Pokemon Yellow and gold and silver versians , but the gameplay is great.