Pokemon FireRed Version

This game is great, I left pokemon a year ago, came back, all Pokemon games rock,. One thing about fire red and it's counter part leaf green, is that it does lack what the other pokemon games do have is a post story, a guided adventure after you beat the pokemon league, it does have the seven islands, but that is not quite as much activitey to it, the other one's have this "post story advanture" a little if not wildly better, this is still a great game to buy! It is upsetting that to have pokemon lay eggs you must go to the 4th island, witch is blocked off until the main story is complete, in all other regions of pokemon games you have that ability as soon as you reach the first few towns. It does draw out the fun though to a longer time period, One mor sad thing about this series it that the company that make pokemon games make sure to completley filll your pok'e dex(an in game thing) you must have many games, in fact if you have no pokemon buddies you need the following to do that: A copy of pokemon Firered, leafgreen, and Emrald, plus 2 game boys, can be sp', micros, or gameboy advanced's or any combo, plus a link cable, or two wirless adapters, but this is a great series, as for the games do as the pokemon slogan tells you.GOTTA COLLECT EM ALL!I highly suggest you buy this game!,And the whole series!

You know, when I played Pokemon Red and Blue for the first time on the Gameboy, I admit that I kind of got into it. A hundred and fifty unique monsters, each with strengths and skills of a unique and oftentimes supernatural nature, and you had the responsibility of bringing them all together and training them like RPG characters. There's something about the concept that I find appealing, and while Pokemon is an RPG with very little plot (the main reason I like RPGs is that they tend to have pretty good plots,) it does have one other thing that attracted me, at least during its initial release; Pokemon gives you the chance and mission to collect and assemble data to form an encyclopedia on something that is arguably a very interesting form of life. This emphasis on collection is more obvious in Pokemon than in any other franchise, with "Gotta Catch 'em all!" being rammed down our throats from a hundred directions.In the first game, there was a secret pokemon than couldn't be gotten (except through a game enhancer, or a nintendo event that may as well have been a lottery,) but it was the last in the pokemon encyclopedia, so if you missed out on it, there wasn't a hole in your pokedex or anything.Fortunately, back then, video game enhancers were simpler and more reliable than they are today, and I managed to get hold of Mew, although it wasn't easy, fun or fair, in my opinion, of Nintendo to put a pokemon in the game they didn't intend to let the gamer catch for themselves.This factor of Pokemon games has always infuriated me, particularly since the genre of catching and training strange animals is woefully small. Pokemon seems to be the only one of its kind that's made it to America.When I played Gold and Silver, the same sort of thing happened. Once again, Nintendo gave us a huge number of monsters to find and train, this time closer to 250, and once again, Nintendo stiffed the gamers, both on the chance to fill in Mew's slot legitimately and reliably, and on a new Pokemon as well; Celebi.Ruby and Sapphire was even worse, since they actually subtracted from the total number of pokemon available since the previous games, but then I heard news of two new pokemon games that promised to make it possible to complete the Pokedex, while returning the gamer to Kanto; the region I was most able to tolerate, of all the Pokemon games.Well, I had a feeling I was about to be suckered again, but I gave this game a shot. I don't have a working Action Replay, but I do have a reasonable-quality gameshark that works on Ruby and Sapphire, so I played through this game once. I got the first 150 and aquired the gemstones to enable trade with Ruby and Sapphire (a nice touch,) only to find that I couldn't get Mew. My gameshark worked on R&S, but not on FR&LG, and I thought I'd be able to just catch Mew in Ruby and trade it to Firered.Problem is, for whatever reason, Nintendo made Mew untradable. Once I found that out, the game was ruined for me. If Nintendo wanted to give gamers the chance to 'catch 'em all,' they could at least have had the courtesy to do the thing all the way. This makes me sad and disappointed with Nintendo and with the world of video games for failing to offer what I was hoping against hope for, but to be honest, I'm not terribly surprised. This is something like the hundred and twenty seventh time Nintendo has gipped gamers and fans they could easily have satisfied and I'm sick of it. As I said, the genre and layout of this game, and of all pokemon games are enticing at first, but unless they can permit the gamer to complete the mission set for them, I'm just not interested in them anymore.

Thank you to DKOldies for delivering an AUTHENTIC copy of Poke’mon Fire Red. I can verify it’s authenticity with the hidden numbers on the sticker, and the Nintendo code on the circuit board itself. The cartridge came packaged very well, and the game works on my NDS Lite. I can now play Fire Red for the first time in forever, and it’s a huge bonus to have the authentic game. I really wanted to write this review to let people know that DKOldies is a legitimate company that delivers what it advertises. I will definitely order from them in the future if they carry another game I want.

I can't help but feel a little nostalgic when I see the younger gamers talk about Lt. Surge and Fuscia City. It brings back memories when I started playing 10 years ago. Wow, 10 years, and I got every main Pokemon Gameboy game. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, allow me a moment here. ...Okay, we're good. First of all, the graphics are just amazing for a GBA game, better than everything I'd seen so far. Secondly, if you're a Pokemon vet like me, you'll enjoy the return to the Pokemon roots, though the replay that occurs every time you turn the game back on gets annoying after a while. Also, if you're a Pokemon newbie, or are too young to know the original Pokemon games, FireRed and LeafGreen are a good place to start. A tip for the newbies, start with Bulbasaur. A wily old vet like me will pic Charmander and have that bad boy, or girl, (Pokemon gender, nature, and everything else that was introduced between Gold/Silver and Ruby/Sapphire is in these games FireRed/LeafGreen) know moves/be powerful enough to take out every oter type of Pokemon no problem. Now, back to the game itself. The inclusion of Johto region Pokemon like Lugia and Ho-oh and Suicune is pretty good, if you ask me, because it's not every game you get to catch every rare Pokemon, though, in true Pokemon spirit, you really can't on your own with only one version, but still, more rare Pokemon on one cart is definitely a good thing. To come to a close, would I reccomend Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen to newbies and vets alike? Yes.