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Many of us remember the good old days almost 20 years ago when the first Pok\u00e9mon games came out. Pok\u00e9mon Red, Blue, and Yellow were part of the first generation of Pok\u00e9mon games that would spawn an incomparable franchise. Personally, I found myself feeling a bit of nostalgia recently for these old games and took the time to start playing the games again. I started playing Pok\u00e9mon Yellow, so some of the events and Pok\u00e9mon might be different from those of Red and Blue.<\/p>\n
Pikachu and the Three Starters<\/strong><\/p>\n The best feature of Yellow was the fact that the player could get all three starter Pok\u00e9mon and a Pikachu that would follow you around when it was in your party and not fainted. Pikachu was the first Pok\u00e9mon you would get after your rival takes Eevee from Professor Oak\u2019s lab. Bulbasaur was found in Cerulean City, Charmander near Nugget Bridge, and Squirtle in Vermillion City after defeating the gym there. Since the character you play was the basis of Ash in the anime, having all four of these Pok\u00e9mon is similar to how Ash started his journey.<\/p>\n Team Rocket Blasting Off<\/strong><\/p>\n Who could forget the comical villains of Jesse, James, and Meowth in the Pok\u00e9mon anime and movies? Team Rocket originated in these Generation I games and will appear several times throughout to hinder your progress. Similar to the anime, their primary Pokemon are Koffing, Ekans, and Meowth along with their evolutions, Weezing and Arbok, later on. Players meet this dastardly trio a total of four times at each of the locations Team Rocket is committing their crimes at.<\/p>\n In addition to Jesse and James, the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni, is an important character in Pok\u00e9mon Yellow and acts as a \u201cfinal boss\u201d in several places. Players fight him at the Rocket Hideout in Celadon City as well as at Silph Co. in Saffron to obtain the Master Ball from the President of Silph Co. Upon reaching the Viridian Gym, a twist reveals that he is also the 8th<\/sup> and final gym leader that the player must beat.<\/p>\n Rival Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n In the anime your rival is called Gary, but in the game his official name is Blue (you\u2019re called Red) although you can name him anything you want. Although Blue starts off with an Eevee, it can evolve into any of the three evolutions depending on how your first few battles went with him. Assuming you\u2019re a top-notch trainer and defeated him every time, his Eevee evolves into a Jolteon by the end, probably the most troublesome of all the evolutions due to its high speed. After defeating him numerous times throughout your journey, it turns out that Blue defeated the Elite Four before you did and is the current reigning Champion. His team turns out to be quite powerful, but with type advantage it\u2019s not too hard to defeat his Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n The Legendary Birds<\/strong><\/p>\n We all remember those pesky legendary birds who just wouldn’t get into those Ultra Balls no matter how many we threw. To be fair, they aren’t as hard to catch as some of the other legendaries in other games (I’m looking at you Raikou, Suicune, and Entei), but they were the first ones players had to catch. Zapados and Articuno were particularly powerful with Zapados having Drill Peck and learning Thunder while Articuno had Ice Beam and would learn Blizzard. Moltres was surprisingly underwhelming in terms of moves, but if you had Fire Blast from Cinnabar, it would help it greatly.<\/p>\n Game Complete<\/strong><\/p>\n In the end, replaying Pok\u00e9mon Yellow was quite satisfying as I got to experience the whole journey of the game again. If you have some free time in the future, turn on that old Gameboy Color and play some of the older Pok\u00e9mon games. The experience will have you humming along to all the tunes throughout the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many of us remember the good old days almost 20 years ago when the first Pok\u00e9mon games came out. Pok\u00e9mon Red, Blue, and Yellow were part of the first generation of Pok\u00e9mon games that would spawn an incomparable franchise. Personally, I found myself feeling a bit of nostalgia recently for these old games and took… Read More »A Blast to the Past: Pok\u00e9mon Red, Blue, Yellow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":8147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2732,2741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-gaming-reviews-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16092,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions\/16092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}