Who here remembers playing Pokemon Red/Blue on their Game Boys when they were younger? Most likely 90% of you reading this post. How young? Well the game was first released in Japan in 1996, followed by a North American release in 1998, then in Europe in 1999. That makes Pokemon Red and Blue 17 years old, older than the original Starcraft by 2 years.
After beating the Elite 4, catching Mewtwo and eventually collecting all of the Pokemon what else was there to do? Well fortunately for us Nintendo followed up with another series of Pokemon with the Gold/Silver generation and the rest is history with the franchise still going strong to this very day with a very popular fan base mostly consisting of Children.
Fast forward to this day, I would imagine that most of us don't really keep up with Pokemon anymore and it remains as a fond memory of our childhood. Let's test your Pokemon knowledge for a second.
What Pokemon is that? Wait, thats a Pokemon? Well at least it probably has a cool sounding name like Charmander right? Nope it's called a Bidoof.
If you still keep up with the series today you are probably disappointed in the latest designs of Pokemon and how much of an idiot Ash Ketchum is in the anime. Well looks like Nintendo has a way to fix that with their new anime EDIT:Special
The special will be based off of the original Pokemon Red/Blue games with our badass protagonist "Red" learning how to finally speak and presumably our Rival being "Green". The new show will feature the original 151 Pokemon with Red choosing Charmander as his starter pokemon.
I can't help but think that series is aimed towards an older audience and the hype and nostalgia level is HUGE. I hope you are all hyped about this as much as I am! What are your thoughts TL?
Also for good spirit I have added a poll.
Poll: What Was Your Starter Pokemon?
Charmander (564)
37%
Squirtle (504)
33%
Bulbasaur (389)
26%
I didn't play Pokemon :( (61)
4%
1518 total votes
Your vote: What Was Your Starter Pokemon?
(Vote): Charmander (Vote): Bulbasaur (Vote): Squirtle (Vote): I didn't play Pokemon :(
EDIT: It looks like it's just a special episode made to commemorate the next season of Pokemon
Seems like a good idea. I've never followed the show after the first two seasons and until a few years ago, only knew the 151 guys. After that...well, they were not as cool.
Well I had the blue edition, my best friend the red one. So he had charmander and I chose squirtle. We battled through all off elementary school with a link cable . Good memories, good times.
without any knowledge i picked bulbasaur, how could i know grass/poison was food for so many enemies??? I did have a breeze in the beginning of the game tho
Holy crap. You're right about the nostalgia level.
The anime was great when you were little and you were just like "YEAH GO ASH BEAT THOSE OTHER POGEYMONS", but a lot of us in the west played the games first and watched the anime after (or alongside). It was still fun to watch, but the fact that every trainer seemed to be severely brain damaged and battles happened completely at random ("Aim for the horn!") spoiled it a bit.
This trailer looks promising though. Everyone's had that moment where they take their invincible Charmander to Pewter City, scratch a Geodude and did... absolutely nothing. You can almost see the words "it's not very effective" when you watch the trailer :D
I remember starting my pokemon blue with charmander. A friend at scool started with Venusaur so when the TCG came out and I got a Venusaur and he pulled a Charizard we swapped them 1 for 1. Score!!
Charmander all day errday. If you pick the ez squirtle and the crappy ass bulbasaur then you were a noob that couldnt beat rock with pidgey sand attack.
Oh man you can not go wrong with Squirtle! That little guy grew on me, however I picked Charmander in my first game. Second game and on though I played Squirtle or the water starter first every time. : ]
Not sure who I should have picked in the poll, my heart says Squirtle but my first starter ever was Charmander and I can never forget that!
Pokemon: The Orgin will have me interested that is for sure, I am assuming it is going to be Japanese release so the only way to watch it here in the states anytime soon would be fan subs?
No love for Bulbasaur? Which 8 years old kid doesnt dig a green dinosaur with an onion on its back? It remains my most favorite pokemon design after like 15 years and 500ish monsters
EPT![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Pok%C3%A9mon_Bidoof_art.png)
. Good memories, good times.
