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5 Responses to “Pokemon, Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition”

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   Laura Haggarty
   Jul 31st, 2010 at 7:37 pm

   Review by Laura Haggarty for Pokemon, Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition
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   My kids and I all love the Pokemon Gameboys (the three of us each have our own Gameboy). The blue Pokemon game is very similar to the red, with the Yellow having some slight differences.The foremost of these is the fact that Pikachu just won’t stay in his Pokeball! He follows you around in the game, and you have to keep him happy or you lose points and various opportunities. I also like the addition of Jesse and James (characters from the cartoon), and the additional battles they provide. If I had to pick just one of the three, this is the one I’d pick.I like the way the Pokemon game challenges kids. I suggest also buying one of the books which shows the various routes and places. This allows kids to work at the tasks without getting frustrated. The idea is to start at Prof. Oak’s house, get your first Pokemon from him, and then journey all around the land of Pokemon, collecting various wild pokemon (which you catch by battling them until they faint), and doing battle with other trainers along the way.In the process, kids learn to manuever through mazes of increasing complexity (which is why the manuals are a help), to gather and use items, and to develop strategies for fighting various types of Pokemon. My five year-old even started to read while using her Gameboy, from needing to know which items she had with her (in her Item List)!All in all these are great games which can be played over and over (although only one game at a time can be saved), and which will provide your kids with hundreds of hours of fun.

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   Anonymous
   Jul 31st, 2010 at 7:48 pm

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   Pokémon Yellow is a great game! It has BETTER pics, BETTER Pokédex data, and DIFFERENT attacks for Pokémon(including a new psychic attack called KINESIS)! You can get Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and Charmander(a.k.a. the starters). You start off with a Pikachu and Gary begins with an Eevee. I don’t care if you already have any other version, THIS IS A BEST BUY!

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   Anonymous
   Jul 31st, 2010 at 7:56 pm

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   I am a middle-aged mother who bought this game for my 5 year old son for Christmas. However, upon plugging it in, I found that unless a child is a pretty good reader already, this game would be difficult for them to play. I was going to put it aside for him, but thought I’d give it a whirl myself first. It hooked me completely! I love it. It’s given me a great education into the Pokemon phenomenum, which is good since my son likes Pokemon. It’s non-violent. And, although challenging, not too difficult or frustrating – a plus for both kids and adults alike. This is the first video game that I have played to the end. I highly recommend it for anyone with children who are already competent readers. For those with younger children, buy it but wait until they can read to let them play it. I’ll be waiting impatiently for Nintendo to release the Gold and Silver gameboy cartridges here in the states.

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   Anonymous
   Jul 31st, 2010 at 8:08 pm

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   When I got this game I was so exited! I couldn’t wait to play it! I’ll do a quick story of the game. You start off from your house just like the red and blue. When you get out of your house and try to leave town, Profesor Oak stops you and he runs into Pikachu and catches it. He takes you to his lab. This time there is one pokeball on the table. Gary snaches it. That pokemon was supposed to be for you! Then Oak gives you the Pikachu he caught earlier. After you battle your rival, Pikachu comes out of it’s pokeball and he follows you on the screen and he will do very cute things in the game if you talk to him. Then you do that whole thing to get to Pewter. After you defeat Brock you go to Mt.Moon. After you deafeat Super Nerd Jessie and James are there to try to stop you. You can find Jessie and James throughout the game. That was just a little taste of what else you can do in this game. Pokemon can be found in different places like Farfetched can now be found in the wild! I recomend to get this if you have never played the game before or if you love pokemon!

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   Anonymous
   Jul 31st, 2010 at 8:40 pm

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   I’m a first time GameBoy owner and I found this game to be pretty impressive given the limitations of the GameBoys power. I have Pokemon Stadium for N64 which is outstanding and found that without Pokemon raised in the Red, Blue or Yellow games that you can only get so far. I resisted buying a GameBoy just to play the N64 game better but now I’m glad I did. I haven’t played Pokemon Red or Blue but Yellow is simply a better version of both from what I’ve read. The graphics (especially the battles) are very good given the before mentioned limitations. I would say it is original Nintendo 8-bit Game system quality. The sound is as good as possible given the tiny speaker and fits right in with the N64 game and the cartoon series. The gameplay itself is very absorbing and easy to pickup. I’m a novice but I can see where I’ll be playing this game for quite awhile accumulating Pokemon I can export into my N64 game. The only criticism I have is the fact that you almost have to have both game systems to enjoy the Pokemon games, although they are very fun as stand alone products. You also have to have the Red, Blue and Yellow games to collect all the Pokemon as there is a handful missing from each game. For example, there are 12 of 150 missing from each version. I recommend this game highly however. Now go “catch ‘em all!”