The Pokemon Game We NEVER Got! (Pokemon Green Version Differences)

Pokemon Green was the first Pokemon game released in Japan along with Pokemon Red, however the international versions of the game dropped Green from the title in favor of Blue. What exactly happened, and what are the differences in Pokemon Green? Today we will be talking all about the Pokemon game we never got outside of Japan, Pokemon Green!
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[@arrogantgodjealous]

You’re wrong about the rivals name. It’s neither blue or green, his name is actually douche, and oak admits it

[@alyr.4640]

lmaoo

[@Acacius1992]

True, but still a far better rival as Silver ever will be xD

[@dedchanel4002]

@@Acacius1992 you mean '???'

[@Acacius1992]

@@dedchanel4002 Yeah for me Blue is still and will always be a better rival then Silver. Especially in Team an character.

[@monotromatic2951]

@@Acacius1992 eh i like silver more he has in my opinion a more intresting character like being giovanni's kid is an intresting idea and he kinda gets an arc after lance beats him up making him realize that being a power hungry trainer isnt the right way of being a trainer but we was kinda poorly managed back then but in the manga and anime like pokemon generations made him a better character

[@dstinnettmusic]

My favorite ‘real world’ connection is that Lt. Surge is called “the lightning american”, meaning that the American revolution happened in the Pokémon world. Like lol wut? Did Washington cross the Delaware on a Lapras?

[@beastio3583]

No but its true that Paul Revere risked his life on a pony....ta

[@brandonchavez9924]

It also means that the civil rights movement happened in the pokemon world. Protestors getting sprayed by Blastoise.

[@jakec.1136]

I feel like Surge was more of a reference to the Vietnam War, but who really knows

[@darkzerk7]

@Rick K I just felt they were outsiders who settled into that world. Like rather than the world being american, Lt Surge is an american who just moved to live in Vermilion CIty. And he wasn't necessarily in the Vietnam war, he is just one of those wannabe soldiers.

[@chad_bro_chill]

@Jake C, I'm a lot more inclined to believe he's a typical American stationed in post-WW2 Japan, since that also explains why nearly everyone is either female or a young or old male, with few non-senior adult males aside from Surge. This is further backed by the fact that Kanto is a real region in Japan (Tokyo), and has Gen 2 taking place in Johto, to the West of Kanto and with buildings that match real life Kyoto (to the West of Tokyo).

[@megatronacepticon]

So that's how Ash got Sabrina's badge despite not winning.

[@zinmayoo6800]

@Ferniand Von Edgelord Man...how do you miss the joke....

[@bewd4310]

The feels are real in that episode. 😟

[@dannigro8794]

Should’ve caught that haunter. Now he’ll never get a Gengar.

[@johnhouston1590]

@@dannigro8794 You're joking right? He actually currently has a Gengar lol

[@dannigro8794]

@@johnhouston1590 Yes I am joking. It’s funny Gengar is one of the most popular Pokémon and he finally gets one in the most recent “fan service” season

[@kortkunig2291]

Green is fun. It’s literally so glitchy, that my sprites sometimes just spontaneously corrupt.

[@deez2037]

Lmfao

[@johnwest6690]

That might be your emulator.

[@kortkunig2291]

John West I play on console with an original japanese cartridge. It seems do be an issue with de- or encoding the buffer, since the graphical issues are (as far as I can tell) exactly the same for all images displayed that way. Simple sprites are fine. Once I get a dumper for the cartridge I’ll run a comparison of the roms though to really know. Whenever that’s going to happen, haha.

[@ReactiveTraction]

@@kortkunig2291 just do it, man. I believe in you. You should too.

[@kortkunig2291]

Cuban Pete gotta buy something to read the cartridge first. Not really keen on spending 40€ on a reader to rip a single game. If I can flash my EMS cartridge with the ripped Pokémon green rom and still get the error that would be the first step currently in figuring where the error comes from.

[@ElladanKenet]

Here's how it works: Japan makes Red and Green Japan makes Blue, which is basically just Pokemon v1.1. The world gets localized versions of Blue, and then make a slightly different version with the original Red's available pokemon. Yellow is more or less the same in Japan and the World, just locallized differently. By the time FireRed and LeafGreen came out, Game Freak was a lot better at programming and localization, so the same games released internationally with just the languages switched out.

[@WTXYN]

What about the 2 gen?

[@ElladanKenet]

@@WTXYN This video didn't cover Gen 2 (and I'm admittedly less versed in its programming history). I brought up Gen 3 only to the extent of the remakes. I can tell you that Game Freak had developmental problems and the game was delayed and famously required Satoru Iwata's assistance, but as far as localizations go, I am unaware of significant differences. In fact, I think Iwata's help is why the game code is so solid. Well, with the exception of Vietnamese Crystal. That said, all games have errors, and if you want a list of them, just google it.

[@WTXYN]

@@ElladanKenet true, thanks for the clarification :)

[@WannaKnowMyName]

Not exactly. When they localized Blue, they never used Blue’s available Pokémon. They used Red’s available Pokémon and launched it in the US as Red, and then used Green’s available Pokémon and launched it in the US as Blue.

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

I find it interesting that Pokemon Yellow was the last original Game Boy game released in Japan, and it released so late that by the time they localized it for every other country they made it a Game Boy Color game with added colors.

[@hermit6123]

As Game Freak notoriously was known for terrible programming skills, I definitely theorize that the delay from 1995 to 1996 was because they broke the game somehow and almost shipped a completely broken game.

[@PaPaSea]

The Bizarre Hermit they kinda did that anyway

[@cashnelson2306]

Terrible? Is this a joke? Game Freak basically worked magic to create the original games. The presence of glitches doesn't make a program bad, especially when said glitches are no more numerous than any other game, just more well-known because the notion of catching a new, secret pokemon fit right into the lore of this new cultural phenomenon.

[@dreadalex]

I like Missigno actually and in fact all of the glitches are easter eggs being triggered by the gamer. You can get Mew in Yellow by triggering a glitch as well. So wtf are you talking about?

[@notafan9774]

@@dreadalex you could basicly trigger any Pokémon you wanted, just needed to know how.

[@dreadalex]

Well it's not like the game was stuck or some error from the game during playtime and for very first time the programming was stellar. Ruby/ Sapphire had the battery run dry thing. Gold and Silver you could clone Pokemon.

[@Cookberg]

I remember the one kid who actually had Green back after Red & Blue came out...so crazy

[@Curlyheart]

Man that crazy

[@Slothfulgamer-cb6lx]

Do I know you?

[@Cookberg]

I doubt it, you live in Ohio?

[@thealarm7057]

Thinking back, the only green games I saw here in EU-west were crappy fake bootleg Pocket Monster Green games. I even remember being in Spain and they were selling obvious rom-hacks on cartridges, lol. And the whole 100 in 1 games. I remember seeing people play Gold/Silver hacks with weird ass sprites that weren't pokemon, on original game cartridges that were obviously made by some shady shop cleric claiming it was an unreleased leaked pokemon game to parents and younger kids that didn't know better.

[@pirateclick1d169]

@@Slothfulgamer-cb6lx answer

[@amatthew7861]

I live in Japan and last year bought the original Red and Green games used, in their boxes, everything included, Good condition for 1 dollar a piece 😁

[@northstarr9838]

DOLLAR A PIECE!?! truly I am jealous :P

[@nestorsalvador9236]

@@northstarr9838 same

[@alantyron7707]

Big bargain

[@samusranzer]

@@northstarr9838 I remember reading about some store in Japan that sells all sort of Pokemon retro games/merchandise. I've been wanting to find the neo genesis thyplosions since I was 13 and those came out 😅 Plus Japan has all of the anime videogames for ps1/2/3...

[@VideInfra]

Fakes?

[@retrogamesmadeeasy8058]

Imagine if Pokemon would have made Red, Blue, and Green international releases and made it so depending on your color, that would be the starter you'd get. Charmander for Red, Squirtle for Blue, and Bulbasaur for Green. That would have probably been highly unique.

[@TheDeathmail]

Are you trying to humiliate Bulbasaur? Give it numerical proof that it's the least favorite?

[@Michael-mg5kq]

@@TheDeathmail I mean it's still the best out of the three

[@kevinpatterson8901]

@@Michael-mg5kq that’s what i always thought

[@samusranzer]

@@TheDeathmail I have never ever met anybody nor remember anyone choosing Bulbasaur, or even Chikorita or Treecko as a starter. Even in yellow, Bulbasaur was one of my weakest pokemon...but that changed when I traded a Bulbasaur from Blue to Silver, and things got a little different.

[@Slothfulgamer-cb6lx]

@@samusranzer i always pick bulbasaur. And treeko is cool.

[@marksammie830]

There is a version of pokemon stadium that didn't come out in the west either. Thats why the original stadium is stadium 2 in Japan.

[@ShadowSora8491]

Also, the original Japanese Stadium is the only way for Japanese players to get a Surfing Pikachu. The Surfing Pikachu was carried over to what Japan got as Stadium 2, when it was released internationally as Stadium 1.

[@Sybry605]

It only had 42 pokemon and America wanted all of them so they just made stadium 2 stadium 1, it actually happened a lot back then(sonic drift 1 didn't come out but it's sequel sonic drift 2 did so in some regions they named it sonic drift racing, on the cover at least, and also with most of the final fantasy games, like 2 and 3 were not localized until a decade or 2 later and final fantasy 5 didn't get localized as well)

[@pastelshadows6437]

Fun fact: The American versions of Red and Blue use the Pokemon distributions/exclusives as Red and Green respectively, rather than taking them from Japanese Blue, which had the distributions changed. And of course, Green version is also why the remakes are called FireRed and LeafGreen, rather than FireRed and AquaBlue or something ^^

[@EWOODJ]

Who doesn’t know this?

[@giftheck]

The trademark filed was 'WaterBlue' IIRC, so they definitely considered it. It was probably just easier in the end to just keep LeafGreen in the end, since they'd have to make less changes to the game itself.

[@ImAFatNerd90]

0:10 Facts about that commercial. Not only do we see a young Drake Bell, but the voice of Pikachu in that ad was Rachael Lillis who was the original voices of Misty and Jessie.

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

Was that Drake Bell on the Pokemon commercial???

[@PaPaSea]

It was

[@johntheodosakis3501]

I knew it !

[@evagelospappous8056]

@@johntheodosakis3501 are you a greek?

[@johntheodosakis3501]

Evagelos Pappous Yes I am Greek I’m 50 percent Greek

[@johntheodosakis3501]

But I was born and live in America

[@silverXI22]

*ALSO THE TEXT WO* *NT FIT ON THE WHO* *LE SCREEN IN A TE* *XT BOX AND TEXT C* *OMES OUT LIKE THI* *S*

[@silverXI22]

@Katz Meowski im too lazy to edit this rn

[@grima5788]

@@silverXI22 but you did do it, and I appreciate that

[@mamoru_zombie]

I mean, that was one of the other big reasons to make a better version which code will fit enough symbols for english text. The original japanese versions couldn't afford that cause they were, well, japanese.

[@timothyroehm4307]

Leaf does exists as she’s in Smash Bros.!!!

[@kris1110]

Pokemon let's go too

[@whatdoiputhereman]

@Pyro Flare bad joke

[@whatdoiputhereman]

@Pyro Flare wtf is wring with you.... i was just sharing my honest opinon... why you so salty..

[@Web720]

That's a fan game given, since she has no real name. That will be like saying Green/Blue is Terry cause one of his filename was called that. I prefer to call her Blue/Green since the Manga came before FR/LG.

[@EWOODJ]

“Leaf” was in the data files in FR/LG. Which is why people call her that.

[@EclipseHedgehog]

i always thought bulbasaur was cooler than charmander anyway.

[@nawaal4452]

Dinosaur > Dragon

[@ultr8870]

Fire lizard > plant toad

[@Acacius1992]

I never see Bulbasaur as anything else as a placeholder Squirtle and Charmander the only choice for me in Kanto xD

[@Acacius1992]

@Ghoul Gaming Fire Lizard & Turtle (If you mean Blastoise) >>>>>>>>>>> Fat Plant Toad

[@magatsujoji]

I personally think all three are pretty cool.

[@Phoenixqueen69]

My mom somehow bought me a green version but it is terribly translated to English 😂 I have no clue what any move is because they're like squirt or throw lol

[@urieldaboamorte]

your mom buying you it was really wholesome :) she probably didn't quite understand this pokémon thing, but wanted to see you happy anyway

[@Phoenixqueen69]

@Top 3 I have the original box it came in from Japan so 🤷‍♀️ it's real, just poorly translated

[@ell3655]

There’s a bunch of funny counterfeit translates carts of the first two gens

[@David315842]

The Japanese Blue Version would later be available in Japanese stores soon after it's limited release and red and blue were most likely chosen to compliment each other since the Pokemon on the covers represent fire and water, they most likely chose this pairing as fire and water are seen as being natural opposites to each other, as well as the colours of red and blue themselves.

[@trapez77]

The creator has said that Japan see’s red and green as opposites and Americans see red and blue as opposite. That’s why it was changed. Both is actually true. Green is the opposite of red but if your talking about warm vs cool then blue is the opposite of red.

[@David315842]

@@trapez77 Genuinely it was changed as the west sees red and blue as true opposites unlike in Japan.

[@trapez77]

@@David315842 that’s what I said

[@David315842]

@@trapez77 And what I was meant to convey with my original comment.

[@Web720]

Red and Blue being opposite isn't true. It's Red and Green ffs. We are representing colors here.

[@RetroArcStudios]

If you've played US blue and red a lot you can play through the original green version with minimal difficulty. I really enjoy it

[@zacknelson8918]

Besides all the glitches

[@brovid-19]

you can play through literally any of them the first time with minimal difficulty. pokemon has never been hard. the difficulty is in catching them all.. because it requires that you have friends or make them. it's always been about bringing people together.

[@Bearbytez]

​@@brovid-19I think they meant without being able to read Japanese...

[@Goro_Maj1ma]

​@@brovid-19WITHOUT HAVING THE CAPABILITY TO READ JAPANESE YOU CAN STILL GET THROUGH GREEN EASILY IF YOU'VE ALREADY PLAYED RED OR BLUE. Actually think before you post such a stupid comment...

[@nelsonlai8184]

I remembered buying Pocketmonster Red cuz my neighbor bought Pockermonster Green so we can traded for version exclusive pokemons. As far as i can remember Red has Gardie(Growlithe), Strike(Scyther), Nasonokusa(Oddish), Mankey, Erebu (Electrabuzz), Arbo (Ekans) Green has Rokon(Vulpik), Kairos(Pinsir), Madasubomi (Bellsprout), Buba(Magmar), Nyasu(Meowth), Sando (Sandshrew) I forgot the rest.

[@trapsarentgay4195]

聞いてねえ

[@sleazymeezy]

Buba for Uber

[@aeg9065]

Pokemon: this 2D pixel game is way too heavy and complicated, it takes 5 years to release it. Id: here's Doom, we, bunch of dudes put it together in like, idk months Also Id: here's Doom 2 some months later :d

[@martinbaraldilobe3334]

The doom 2 is not the surprise because making another game with the same stuff is easy, but making a game from scratch in a few months is very impressive

[@xXxChAmPoChOpxXx]

Don't forget that Pokémon was created for hand-held Gameboy, which was a bit innovative and memory-limited, for its time.

[@bg4164]

@@xXxChAmPoChOpxXx plus balancing all those types and moves. That took generations to get right

[@zakazany1945]

Id released a lot of games that time. It was impressive even back then.

[@ezio934]

@@bg4164 balancing in gen 1... really?

[@tekunachikushi9847]

People who lives in Japan: *looks away*

[@MortenLongbottom]

I think Green version should have being released internationally, with the Green sprites and with Pokemon and Trading available in the Japanese Blue Version.

[@ryangallagher9723]

it WAS released internationally. they just called it pokemon blue.

[@MortenLongbottom]

@@ryangallagher9723 Actually that's not true, that's an urban myth in pokemon community. Pokemon Blue and Red in english were an enhanced version of first japanese Red and Green games mixed with the japanese Blue version, where there are slight changes and different sprites. In the original intro of Green/Red japanese versions appears a Nidorino against a Gengar, however in the Blue japanese version there's a Jigglypuff against a Gengar. Almost all dialogues for Red/Blue (USA) are also from Blue japanese version, however the gameplay are from the original Red/Green, that's why there are some mistakes, as the old man in Cinnabar Island saying that his Raichu has evolved. And more... Maybe we just needed the original japanese Red/Green/Blue translated into english and released internationally.

[@obvfw]

I love Venusaur's sprite in Red/Green. He's so derpy!

[@SuperJM9]

Basically: In February 1996, Pokémon Red and Green were released in Japan. Just before release, Mew is added to the game, an extremely risky decision, since untested code could mess up the game. The games are in black-and-white, but have partial colour support when played on the Super Gameboy. In October 1996, Pokémon Blue is released in Japan, exclusive to subscribers of Coro Coro (a Japanese magazine). All pokémon sprites are changed, but not because of the animé, which isn't out yet. Some overworld sprites are also changed, and many glitches are removed. Cerulean Cave's layout is completely changed. This version allows you to catch pokémon only obtainable through in-game trades or evolution in Red and Green, such as Jynx and Rapidash. In April 1997, the Pokemon animé comes out. Like the games, it is hugely popular. In December 1997, the Pokémon seizure incident happens. This changes attitudes to flashing lights in media all around the world, particularly in Japan. In January 1998 the Super Gameboy 2 is released in response to complaints that the original Super Gameboy didn't contain a link cable port. In October 1998. the Gameboy Color is released. On September 12th, 1998, Pokémon Yellow is released in Japan. All pokémon sprites are once again updated, this time to look more like the animé. Backsprites in all versions are unchanged from the original Red and Green. Flashing lights for moves such as Thunderbolt and Explosion are toned down, due to new awareness after the animé inicident. It does not feature support for the upcoming Gameboy Color, but retains its predecessors' support for the Super Gameboy. Some of the overworld sprites are again updated. The story follows the animé a bit more, allowing you to obtain all three Red, Green and Blue starters. Jesse, James and Meowth also make an appearance. Just over two weeks later, Red and Blue are released in North America. These are based on Japanese Blue, but have the version differences (pokémon appearances, in-game trades, etc.) of Japanese Red and Green. This led to anomalies such as a trainer on Cinnabar Island saying that the Raichu you traded him "just went and evolved". In Japanese Blue, you traded him a Kadabra. In the localisation process, Game Freak introduced the now-infamous Missingno glitch, which allows you to catch pokémon next to Cinnabar Island that you shouldn't be, and also allows for item duplication. This exists only in the English-language version of Red and Blue. The mount of pokémon in boxes was reduced from 30 to 20, probably because of language issues. Also, in the localisation, the positions of Item and PKMN on the battle screen were switched. Pokémon Red and Blue were released in Europe on October 5th, 1999. Two weeks later, Pokémon Yellow was released in North America. This was identical to the Japanese version, but in addition to Super Gameboy support, it also added support for Gameboy Color, so the partial colour support that already existed for Super Gameboy is also supported on Gameboy Color. The Missingno glitch was fixed. Pokémon Yellow came out in Europe on June 16th, 2000.

[@abrahamgamer8331]

Hey this is awesome thanks

[@marksmithwas12]

My favourite glitch in the original Red & Green games is getting any party Pokémon to level 100 before Brock just by simply having 7 items in your bag, doing some Select button stuff and winning a Pokémon battle

[@marksmithwas12]

So yeah, to anyone that wants to try it out, you need to put the Pokémon you want to be level 100 at the front of your party. It needs to know at least 3 moves and your bag needs to have at least 7 items. Open your bag on the overworld and scroll down to the 7th item. Exit your bag and go into a Pokémon battle. Go to the fight menu and move the cursor to the last option. Press select. The move name will now be something different. Defeat the enemy and your Pokémon will be level 100

[@trapez77]

Nobody would ever do that on accident

[@Acts19quiz]

Besides the goofy sprites, some of the funniest things in the Green version (at least from what I've seen) are the absolutely goofy names for moves. Ledder is apparently Night Shade, and Explosion... isn't Explosion as we'd call it. I think Tackle is called Go All Out.

[@scottvergin4732]

Hold up a bit!.... anyone else notice how the box art for the Japanese games is used in the FireRed/LeafGreen end credits?

[@PaPaSea]

Scott Vergin i didn’t know that

[@caseysanders5356]

Watching them pokeballs float around and that blue background while I'm high as f*** is trippie lmao

[@mellowlando2017]

"Unknown Dungeon"... that phrase triggered some old memories. Good job man, those kinds of KZbin moments give me chills of joy

[@customtoggle7938]

Word on the playground was that green was the mythical rare version of pokemon where you could catch wild starters and mew

[@TheBadGuy15]

Lmfao is that Drake Bell in the beginning with Pikachu? 😂😂

[@UkuleleJones2]

Lol yup 😅

[@OrigenalDarkMew]

I'd love to own a copy of Green just for collections sake. Then my collection of original GameBoy Color/Advanced games would be complete.

[@YamiYume69]

You can order one second hand from japan. I got my green edition for 3$

[@OrigenalDarkMew]

@@YamiYume69 I'd be afraid of losing it tbh but I'v thought about buying one online

[@Togekiss.]

I remember finding a copy of green at a garage sale. I started it and decided to overlevel my starter to evolve it. I got the parcel, returned to oak… and he began to tell me about my Pokédex stats. Doing this means you cannot obtain the Pokédex and are softlocked

[@giftheck]

A coding issue that they fixed in Blue, thankfully. For some weird reason, the game assumed if you had 'owned' more than one Pokémon (ie by evolving, though I suspect trading one in works as well), you had the Pokédex. They might actually have been aware of the issue on a basic level and that's why you can't obtain Poké Balls before you deliver the parcel. They just didn't think to test the other scenarios which would put you at a 'greater than 1' Pokémon Caught count.

[@kjtgp1]

I had Pokémon American red as kid as well as Japanese Green. But I never played green much because at the time I just thought it was the same game

[@MiamiTots]

I've watched a lot of Pokemon fact and "did you know" vids but this is the first time I am learning of the swap in Rival names in Japan

[@destruxandexploze2552]

i just got pokemon red, yellow, blue, and green (all Japanese) with all new batteries for 25 bucks on eBay. Can't wait to see how they all work. Got to catch 'em all!

[@NickRyanOfficial]

I wish they released a Green version here in the US with the old sprites and the Pokémon in Japans Blue version! I think it would have done well! Red is still my favorite because I love Vileplume, Arcanine, and Scyther! (I always choose Bulbasaur so I usually only used Vileplume in the later games) 🌺

[@BarneySlack]

Red and blue was pretty bad quality wise let’s be honest. And as someone who owns a copy of green, it’s like a horrible fever dream in comparison. It’s a wonder how this series became what it is if not for the anime helping it along. And the rival? He’ll always be green in my heart.

[@nothingchannel6402]

Gravalite Niforia it’s bad quality compared to the rest of the games to come forth but that’s usually the case for any series. The game for its time was amazing besides the glitchy tendency it had

[@vitamintechno6695]

It was amazing back in the days it was the coolest thing ever ! You must be pretty young if you dont remember these days We played the game with no knowledge of the game so much to Explore thats why it is such a big thing

[@playyuh]

"lets be honest" lol speak for yourself . you're looking at it from the perspective of someone in 2020 . not 1998. when you're in 1998 & its a brand new game you don't think that , nobody thought that. the games got critical acclaims worldwide for how good they were. nobody in 1998 said , "man as someone who is alive in 1998 at this very moment, i must say .. these games suck by 2020 standards." lmao

[@lopezdad30]

Rival will always be Red in my pokemon fantasy world 🌎

[@ArcadianLegend]

There are large graphical changes between the overworld tileset in R/G and BlueJP with the former looking pretty bare and the latter being way more detailed. Also pokeballs were added to window boxes alongside the town map border being removed. Gen II Kanto is mostly based off of the former. Yellows overworld partially reverts to R/G but with its own unique differences to things like water, doors, windows, signs, fences etc. Interior tileset is the same across all of Gen I.

[@johnmarks4944]

Your channel was suggested to me and now I want to binge watch all your videos

[@dannigro8794]

Nice video. I figured there was more to the differences between blue and green and looked it up years ago but probably forgot. This video helped me remember without me actually having to do any reading.

[@EvyDevy]

Great video BUT ONE THING YOU LEFT OUT, Blue version actually does have more than graphics and bug fixes. Blue version had different pokemon available like other versions of pokemon games. So it's more accurate to say we DID get Green, and Red, but Blue is what we never got from a version view point. Though from a graphics/bugs standpoint, it's the other way around.

[@jf148]

When you said you were 8 when pokemon fire red and leaf green came out, I immediately felt my age. I was 10 when red and blue came out in the states lol

[@PaPaSea]

Justin Franklin If that makes you feel old, I get comments from people who say diamond and pearl came out before they were born. They came out (outside japan) in 2007

[@jf148]

LMAO I was a junior in High School! Btw great video!

[@kourii]

@@jf148 Wait a minute, you were 10 in 1998 but still a junior in high school in 2007? Wouldn't you be like 19?

[@jf148]

@@kourii I born in 89

[@jf148]

@@kourii I'll take 19 over 31 any day lmao.

[@shayne537]

Then we never got Pokémon WaterBlue in 2004. Gen 1 Remakes.

[@bg4164]

The change in the way storage boxes work has something to do with resource management. It's be better for the game to address a box of a smaller size, so this fixed one of those many glitches you mentioned

[@jrenchanted]

Omg every time I try to explain the characters names thing everybody looks at me like I’m crazy! To make it worst Blue (the female trainer) was renamed Leaf in redfire and leafgreen games...

[@Web720]

It wasn't lmao, it's a fan game given since she has no actual name.

[@cpacoustic]

I thought the rival's name was Ballsac...

[@kstanni87]

Fun fact in Red and Green Venusaur sprite looks like it got crushed by something invisible.

[@Ravist-P]

Actually I have Pokemon green on my Gameboy emulator but it's in broken English so.....;-;

[@PaPaSea]

It's probably a fan translated version then since no official english version exists

[@SuperJM9]

@@PaPaSea There's a hack of Pokémon Blue that turns it into Green with proper English. The only thing is that it likely doesn't have any Red/Green-specific glitches, like the extremely annoying glitch where the game sometimes registers pressing A and B as pressing it twice. It would also probably have the Missingno glitch, which no Japanese version of Pokémon has.

[@nicholascurbelo5308]

I've played the version you're talking about, and it's the closest representation you get to playing the original green. The reason the english is broken is because the originals only had a 5 character limit because that's all you need in Japanese and thus the engine doesn't know how to input more characters.

[@obvfw]

@@SuperJM9 I've been searching and searching for a hack like that! Or an easy-to-use sprite editor...

[@SuperJM9]

@@obvfw This is it: www.romhacking.net/hacks/876/ and another hack to turn it into Japanese Blue, which has unique wild Pokémon appearances and different in-game trades and game corner prizes: www.romhacking.net/hacks/2909/

[@Slickcactus]

Look! It’s Drake Bell!

[@PaPaSea]

the best part of that commercial

[@MarcusMaddox91]

@@PaPaSea I wonder who the other kid is...

[@jeiku5041]

Another difference is the map in Blue's house actually says Kanto (カント) while the English map didn't have it named. It wouldn't get a name until gen 2.

[@jeiku5041]

Putting it in the replies so my heart doesn't disappear. カントー. Based on the real region of Kanto (関東)

[@BonScottForever1]

Some of the red and green sprites look better, but most look just plain bad Lol 6 hidden items exist in red and green that are glitched and 5 vanish when you pick one up.

[@benschiemer]

I always wanted them to put green on the english virtual console, using the original red/green sprites and japanese blue’s pokemon locations

[@milotic3333]

Papa do you know what I sea in the sky?

[@milotic3333]

honeytos28 I DONT REMEMBER

[@rasubosu355]

Man just trying to get through the translation is difficult and knowing what symbols are potions 🧪

[@taylorswan8587]

I’m conversational in Japanese, I bought green recently and I’m so glad I never got rid of my GameBoy color

[@alexanderstilianov]

Pocket Monsters Blue Version didn't have updated sprites because of the anime. Blue came out on October 15, 1996, whereas the anime premiered in April of 1997 in Japan.

[@squidgaurd6927]

i had a copy of green when i was a kid i found it in a warejouse but coulnt understand a damn thing. still managed to play through to the elite four. no idea how

[@rocvalleycreations]

With how used game prices are I dont think fans wouldve minded a celestial crystal version to go along with heartgold and soulssilver

[@cljoe35]

If the 1998 Japanese only knew about red kaiso blue kaiso and yellow kaiso games from 2019.....they would lose their minds

[@tonpalacios2964]

Had green version and couldn't speak or read japanese. had to memorize what attacks were in what slot what items were where. Super hard to do as a 6 year old kid. Helped that I had and played red and blue

[@ltccherno2536]

Imported and played all of Gen 1 and 2 in Japanese. Had an absolute blast. Pokemon Green and Japan’s Red just hit different. They’re so cool.

[@ztothepunk]

I had a copy of this. My step dad nabbed it at a garage sale. I have no idea what happened to it but i remember trying to sell it and nobody wanted it

[@EllionGrey]

I played Pokémon green roughly around the same time as blue and red. I just downloaded it on my pc with dial up lol

[@dradonie]

We all know that Rival's name is actualy AssFart🗿

[@willowwhisper6575]

So Blue's sprites are an improved version of Green ones? Have you looked at them? Geez, thank God for Yellow 😂

[@PaPaSea]

They are, and then yellow improved them even more to look closer to the anime which wasn't out when Red and Green first released in Japan

[@norterenotamao9085]

A lot of the original sprites are better than the fixed ones

[@SonicChao113]

I know im 4 years late but the reason its Red & Blue internationally compared to Red & Green in Japan is because Red & Green are considered opposites in Japan while for the US it's Red & Blue (one of the devs said so)

[@MadeInChina06]

Fun fact: the reason why the box art has Charizard and Venasaur for the different versions is because of how the rival chooses his starter Red gets bulbasaur and blue or green in Japan gets the starter strong against it being charmander therefore Red chose bulbasaur this isn’t up for debate it is simply fact (Red has Venasaur in Let’s go in addition origins and masters aren’t canon and Red choosing charmander due to his name is dumb)

[@CityAnimate]

Fun fact: FireRed, LeafGreen, Lets Go Pikachu, and Lets Go Eevee, the remakes of these games, use the original cerulean cave layout, even in western releases,

[@Zeturic]

I've always thought Japanese Blue was the more interesting game than Green. Beyond looking generally worse (there are a few sprites that are better in RG), minor script changes, and having more glitches, there really isn't a lot separating RG and RB. Japanese Blue, though, has entirely different wild pokemon encounter lists and in-game trades. I'm not sure if trainers changed between versions, but I could definitely see that happening. It's interesting because it's a Kanto journey we never got.

[@corlgrimes5960]

Hey, thats Drake Bell in the red shirt in the beginning ad. That is all I got.

[@ChicagoMel23]

One change was with the old man. He’s passed out drunk in the Japanese version

[@saturnfay9356]

Hi there. I have some good questions. I downloaded the English translated Green Version rom through VisualBoy Advance on my computer. I understand that the original green version was in in Japanese so maybe that's why all the grammar is poor in the game. But what I wonder is why everytime when someone mentions the word 'Pokemon' it is replaced with the word 'PET'? And most importantly the attacks of my 'PETS' are renamed. Such as my Pikachu's thunderbolt being named 'electron shock' and it's growl being renamed 'chirps'. Same with tackle being renamed as "Go All Out' and string shot being "Spin Silk' and my items bag being called 'Goods'. The Pokedex is named Book and a lot of the 'PETS' are renamed as well. Is this what happens to an old Green Version game when translated? Like because it's so old that there were things that were named differently back then?

[@PaPaSea]

It's not an official translation, I'm guessing they just dumped everything into google translate and left it

[@eeveenation64]

PaPaSea You can download the game in English in Romsmania I play it on openemu

[@HellHathNoFuryAtAll8]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the glitch where if you evolve your starter before getting the Pokedex, Oak will never give you the Pokedex because the game assumes that with more than 1 Pokemon registered, you already have the Pokedex. The guy in Viridian never moves, and you can never progress... well, without exploiting other glitches. I know you mentioned the link where we could find more glitches, but that one’s so huge I thought it would have made the video. Anyway, cool video.

[@PaPaSea]

This video wasn’t just about glitches which is why I didn’t mention every single one

[@HellHathNoFuryAtAll8]

@@PaPaSea I get that. I just thought it’d be the most interesting glitch, but that’s just my opinion. Anyway, good video.

[@leafgreen20cruz]

I buy Pokemon Green 2DS collection package few weeks too play the Green Version Im a huge fan of Green and Leafgreen Im having a blast on this Green version games Im glad that I watch this video for the difference

[@paulo.esguerra21]

Very helpful!

[@RetroArcStudios]

Fun fact: I don't speak or read Japanese. But the game is similar enough to yellow that I can play it though with no issue what so ever. It's a fun way to test your play though memory. A bit challenging but a ton of fun to do!

[@RealLifeZatoichi]

WAIT SO, I was told green was a demo which only went up to Pikachu? Like you cna find American versions of green version right now Gameboy color cartridges and it says green version and then you can also find the Japanese versions. So what happened there?

[@VG_Winch]

Thanks for this! Just started Green today! Bit of a headache but i'll manage!

[@deez2037]

Wait.. so Mew wasn't even in the original Red and Green?!?! S-so d-did the PokéDex end at 150?!?!

[@STikER326]

No, Mew was present in the original Red & Green, they just decided to call it a new Pokémon for Blue Version for marketing reasons

[@PaPaSea]

Mew was in the game just wasn’t catchable without glitches

[@marcostrindade9457]

​@@PaPaSea i think Mew is catchable on Green without glitches or codes, using strengh on the truck in S.S. Anne spot, from left to right. Mew will show up in the back of the truck and it's level 50. I remember watching that some time ago, dunno if some trick was used cuz all the text on that part was japanese.

[@PaPaSea]

@@marcostrindade9457 oh the classic truck

[@marcostrindade9457]

@@PaPaSea yes, i saw in a japanese video someone using strentgh on the truck from left to right in the green version. The truck is placed on 2 spaces, with one single push, the truck will move the 2 spaces to right and Mew will be in the second space.

[@katieb9428]

Supposedly part of the reasoning behind the rest of the world receiving Pokémon Red and Blue was the Pokémon Company thought the games might be well received in the United States. The colors of the US flag are red white and blue, so they decided to stick with red and blue for the international releases

[@shawnp8076]

One word "missingno"

[@thealarm7057]

It's spelled "MissingNo." Also, he's not as scary as his big brother 'M and their transformed 3TrainerPoké $

[@cjbaerastafa5421]

Damn im old. 1996 i was getting arrested selling crack weekly

[@PaPaSea]

Cjbae Rastafa what were the going rates for some crack in 1996?

[@lopezdad30]

😄

[@cjbaerastafa5421]

PaPaSea dirt cheap 3$ a vile

[@AydenDiaz]

This will sound crazy, but I remember seeing Green version being displayed at Walmart, And my mother asked me which one I wanted for my birthday. I told her I wanted to flower toad, because I didn't know what pokemon was at the time. A month later she purchased me red version because green was "out of stock"

[@krmiistudios2479]

I saw the English translation of the game, and it’s quite messed up. It was a good decision to rewrite it with Blue version.

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

can you link to something

[@BaronX29]

Drake bell...the og pokemon trainer lol

[@pigbeners4527]

The change in box numbers seems to be so they can display the new sprite icons at a bigger size, rather than having more Pokémon crammed onto a smaller screen.

[@dylanbianchin2418]

My first pokemon games were green and emerald ❤

[@captainrobots1]

Yet pokemon does reference real-world animals and plants.

[@PaPaSea]

captainrobots they do occasionally, I never said they didn’t, but that doesn’t mean that Pokémon takes place in the real world despite having some parts loosely based on it

[@oliverleonard7730]

I'd love a Japanese Red, Green and Blue to play the original versions - Yellow is pretty much the same in Japan except it's a Game Boy game rather than Game Boy Color.

[@RealLifeZatoichi]

OK SO THATS WHAT THE KID ON MY BUS MEANT WHEN HE SAID HIS BROTHER GOT A BLUE VERSION FROM JAPAN WITH MEW ON IT! I thought he meant the Easter egg in the international versions he mightve meant the original blue version because he said something about his brother got it in the mail. That confused me my whole life.

[@wkk222]

The Japan version of gold and silver had some neat things English didn't. ( Celebi method) Should do a video on that next.

[@fedbar]

Wait TOMORROW IS POKEMON DAY (as of writing this)

[@KeinNiemand]

Actually I think the encounters in the international blue version are based on green not on blue and we never got the set of encouters that's in blue.

[@RaiuTheEevee]

6:48 "All of these take place in a fictional region" Me: *Looks at a map of Japan and sees Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh, plus Alola in Hawaii, and Kalos looking like the entire country of France, then Unova takes the shape of part of Manhattan.* The Kanto region of Japan: "Am I dead to you?"

[@PaPaSea]

just because they're loosely based on a place in the real world doesn't make them a real place

[@RaiuTheEevee]

@@PaPaSea All I'm saying is even though it's a fictional universe, the locations are based on real places.

[@jrodriguez9017]

Forgot to mention Jynx is obtainable in the wild

[@---oq5kb]

I have seen the thumbnail multiple times before looking into the regional differences, and from what I understand it's pokemon blue that we never got, and green was released under the name of the blue. Or maybe I am just misreading bulbapedia? The version exclusive page says "pokemon under green version are from the western blue, while pokemon under the blue version is the japanese version of blue" or something like that. I hope that somebody makes a hack called "Pokemon green" and adds things from the Japanese version of blue, making the third version thing complete in the west (and maybe adding the pokedex entries from firered, because the ones in red/blue seem like a slightly different translation from leafgreen)

[@Eckoman18]

I’m guessing the extra boxes was so you could have a box dedicated to each type of Pokémon