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Also known as Pokemon Yellow, Pokémon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition, Pokemon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition, Pokémon Yellow Special Pikachu Edition, Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition

1998 video game by Nintendo

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Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition is a video game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo and Gradiente. It belongs to the Pokémon franchise and features single player and multiplayer game modes. The title is classified under the Adventure, Action, RPG, and Turn-based strategy genres.

The game was released on the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Nintendo 3DS platforms. Publication dates vary across sources, with one listing 1998-09-12 and another citing 1996-02-27. The release year is also noted as 1998.

User ratings for the game include a score of 4.38 and a separate rating of 83 based on 527 counts. A critic rating of 80 is recorded from two critics.

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, RAWG, IGDB. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Game data

Released
1996-02-27
User rating
4.38 / 5
Genres
Adventure, Action, RPG
Platforms
Nintendo 3DS, Game Boy

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Game details · IGDB

80Critic score · 2 ratings
83User score · 527 ratings

Pokémon Yellow is an enhanced version of Pokémon Red and Blue that allows you to start the game with your very own Pikachu following you around on-foot and collect the 3 other starters from strangers you meet around the region. However, your goal remains the same: catch them all and become the ultimate Pokémon Master.

Released
1998
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms
Game Boy Color, Nintendo 3DS, Game Boy
Game modes
Single player, Multiplayer
Franchise
Pokémon
Developer
Game Freak
Publisher
Gradiente, Nintendo

Key facts

Developer
Game Freak
Publisher
Nintendo
Director
Satoshi Tajiri
Producers
Shigeru Miyamoto Takashi Kawaguchi Tsunekazu Ishihara
Designer
Satoshi Tajiri
Programmers
Junichi Masuda Shigeki Morimoto Tetsuya Watanabe Sousuke Tamada
Artists
Ken Sugimori Atsuko Nishida
Writers
Satoshi Tajiri Ryosuke Taniguchi Fumihiro Nonomura Hiroyuki Jinnai
Composer
Junichi Masuda
Series
Pokémon
Platform
Game Boy
Genre
Role-playing
Modes
Single-player , multiplayer

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
video game
Named after
yellow
Country of origin
Japan
Publisher
Nintendo
Narrative location
Kanto
Developer
Game Freak
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language of work or name
Japanese
mascot
Pikachu
publication date
1998-09-12
title
ポケットモンスター ピカチュウ
Commons category
Pokémon Yellow
distributed by
Nintendo eShop
Sources (5)

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Encyclopedic overview

Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version are 1996 role-playing video games (RPGs) developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. They are the first installments of the Pokémon video game series, and were first released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green, followed by the special edition Pocket Monsters Blue later that year. The games were released internationally in 1998 and 1999 as Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, while an enhanced version, Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition, was released in Japan in 1998 and in other regions in 1999 and 2000.

The player controls the protagonist from an overhead perspective and navigates the fictional region of Kanto in a quest to master Pokémon battling. The goal is to become the Pokémon League Champion by defeating the eight Gym Leaders and the best Pokémon Trainers in the Kanto Region, the Elite Four. Another objective is to complete the Pokédex, an in-game encyclopedia, by obtaining all 151 Pokémon. Red and Blue use the Game Link Cable, which connects two Game Boy systems and allows Pokémon to be traded or battled between games. Both versions feature the same plot, and while they can be played separately, players must trade between both games to obtain all of the original 151 Pokémon.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pokémon Yellow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.