Warrior of Fire
The Hero of Time
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2012
- Location
- Riverside, CA
As everyone knows, the original release for the Pokemon series in the US had two versions, Red and Blue. However, with the remakes of these games for the GBA, you would expect them to be, based on what they were actually titled, FireRed and WaterBlue/AquaBlue, but instead we got FireRed and LeafGreen. Have you ever wondered why this is? Well, here's a little story. In Japan, the original release had three versions: Red, Green, and Blue. In the trip overseas, only two arrived, but only Red made it completely intact. The Japanese Blue failed to make it completely, and Green became the American Blue. As for why they were those three colors could have been any reason, like a possible reference to Ocarina of Time's three tunics being green, red, and blue, and why, when the special Yellow Pikachu version we got later, which was due to be more like the anime by having Pikachu follow you around when active and in your party as well as several other major changes, we didn't also get the missing piece of the original Japanese trio? These are some very important questions we should all ask ourselves, and something that doesn't seem to be all that well known. I wouldn't even know about it if I didn't have a book that has a lot of information about Pokemon at that time, including complete walkthroughs for the US trio (denotations for when the story deviates from the basic story in all three to the Yellow exclusive story parts and even some parts that are different between Red and Blue(Green)) and the N64's Pokemon Snap. That was very interesting to me, and it did answer some of those questions for me.