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Pocket Monsters : Green Version

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Pocket Monsters: Green Version Pokémon Green ポケットモンスター緑

Capture, train, and battle creatures to earn eight gym badges and challenge the Pokémon League.

Pocket Monsters: Green Version was released for the Game Boy in Japan on February 27, 1996, and was the first version of the original Pokémon games, making it the original release as well.


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About Pocket Monsters : Green Version

Pocket Monsters: Green Version centers on a young trainer's journey to become champion by collecting eight gym badges. This requires navigating the Kanto region, interacting with its inhabitants, and engaging in turn based creature battles.

Encounters with other trainers or wild creatures trigger a separate battle interface. During these fights, commands allow for direct attacks, switching active creatures, using items, or attempting to flee from wild encounters. Combat concludes when one side has no creatures remaining.

Progress is opposed by a persistent rival and the criminal Rocket Gang, whose schemes must be thwarted. A link cable connection to Pocket Monster Akai enables trading and battling, which is necessary to obtain every creature as some are version exclusive.

Pocket Monsters : Green Version Screenshots

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Opening animation
Title screen
Welcome the world of Pocket Monsters.
Your first pokemon... awaits you on that desk.
Pokemon sure looked a lot more terrifying at their inception...
Badges, bosses cleared and those yet to be beaten.
Checking the map...
A dark cave will need a special move to light it up.
Agh! A ghost! Nothing we can do!
Leech seeding the opponent, now my beast will absorb its health...
Trimming the flowers.
Aww... it leveled up ^^