I expected to be momentarily transported back to a simpler time in gaming, courtesy of a pillar of entertainment from my childhood, and be done with it. The nostalgic wave arose and vanished in a shorter span than anticipated, but not by much. The genre-defining instalment in a enduring franchise inevitably carries a greater sense of purpose than any of its sequels, but that’s only part of the picture with Pokémon.Īfter downloading Yellow on 3DS, I played for seven minutes and promptly enabled Sleep Mode. And yet, I cannot look past Red, Blue and Yellow. I’ve improved as a Pokémon trainer, and more broadly as an RPG player, and welcome the tweaks and minor evolutions that come each generation. Some are beloved, and others hastily grew tired. I’ve played a lot of Pokémon games since then. ![]() Get your sh*t together, Nintendo Australia historians) but in essence, it’s a trio of variants of a game made long before Windows 98 was installed on the “good” computer at your primary school. Yellow, my choice of the three $13 Game Boy Classics because it’s the edition to which I surrendered my spare time as a 10-year-old, and because I appreciate the splash of colour, was released locally 16-and-a-half years ago (to nitpick, Yellow says it was released in 2000 on the eShop, but that was in Europe. Truth be told, the Aussie celebrations are more than a tad premature (we’ll have the real party in 2018). If you missed the memo, Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow were released on the 3DS eShop last weekend to commemorate the 20 th anniversary of the original duo, Red and Green, in Japan. Perhaps because it’s just that: a faithful re-release, and not a marked up quasi-remake or upscaled port. Yet, I’ve become consumed by the re-release of the 20-year-old original Pokémon games on 3DS, more than anything else thus far in 2016. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Re-releases have become so prevalent I’ve become accustom to indifferently glancing in their direction and lethargically rolling my eyes, like a disinterested teenager forced to be in attendance by overexcited parents desperately trying to recapture their youth. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content. ![]() Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does. ![]() Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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