Pokemon Red and Blue (Gameboy) Review Generation One Memories | Video Game Thoughts.

Pokemon. Wow. During the following weeks I'll be making a video about each generation of Pokemon. I won't be going too deeply into each game, just because I don't have time to replay each game in each generation right now. Additionally, I think there is some value in stopping to reflect about what Pokemon has meant to me and what each generation meant to me throughout my life.

So more than anything, this is a memories video. So I'll start by saying I started with the originals. And I know how some people either say Red and Blue are the only generations worth playing, and how some people say Red and Blue are horrible, and I'll say right now, Red and Blue are the generation closest to my heart.

And that is not to say I don't think the other generations made huge improvements, because I do. That's why I like this series, because unlike Spyro and Crash, I have grown up with Pokemon, playing the Pokemon games throughout my life because the series is on-going, and it's only gotten better with each generation.

I wouldn't have kept playing if the series had gotten worse. That said, each generation built on the foundation of Red and Blue, and if for nothing else, those games deserve credit for being the blueprints that got tweaked and modified and updated to make a really wonderful series.

The starter Pokemon, the gyms, the Elite Four, the system of towns and wilderness that make up each Pokemon world. Storywise we still use a lot of the bare bones elements of generation one: a rival, a villainous team to defeat. But again, rather than having a rival because he randomly disliked the player character and a villainous team who are essentially a mafia and talk about enjoying being evil for evil's sake, today Gamefreak has tried to change things up by giving both the rivals and villains some depth.

Ultimately, we've see huge improvements, but the basics are still there and we have Red and Blue to thank for it. It's also the generation closest to my heart because I was there. I was a young girl when it was super popular and I played the games. My dad bought me Blue and then like a year later on Valentine's Day he bought me Red, and I played and replayed Red and Blue so many times.

I would always get to the Elite Four, and would just restart the game. The fact that there was no turning back after the Elite Four meant I often got scared, and restarted the game. So it was the the best feeling ever when, I think I got this game in the second grade and I finally beat the Elite Four in the fourth grade.