Pokemon Red/Blue
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Pokemon Red and Green boss says the RPGs needed "a great deal of trial and error" to realize the devs' "simple concept"
By Catherine Lewis published
News Game Freak only had "limited resources" to work with, too

Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto says one of the reasons Pokemon Red and Green were made was because creator Satoshi Tajiri joked Mario couldn't be surpassed unless fans were sold 2 copies of a game
By Scott McCrae published
News And hey, that worked out pretty well for him

Pokemon fan finds holy grail that's been "sat in the closet for decades" – an immaculate, sealed copy of Pokemon Blue with a rare error that makes the RPG even more valuable
By Catherine Lewis published
News A collector's dream

Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu "huge breasts" during localization according to The Pokemon Company's CEO, who "won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live"
By Scott McCrae published
News "Pikachu was changed into a character shaped like a kind of a tabby cat"

Google AI is worse at Pokemon than I was when I was 5 – taking 800 hours to beat the Elite 4 and having a breakdown when its HP got low
By Issy van der Velde published
News It won't be competing in VGC any time soon

Pokemon logo designer speaks up after 27 years, shares unused designs and says Nintendo gave him a month to draft one of the most iconic logos in history before Red and Blue reveal
By Issy van der Velde published
news It's amazing what artists can do so quickly

An AI's mission to 'teach' itself Pokemon Red is going as well as you think - after escaping Cerulean City after tens of hours, it went right on back
By Issy van der Velde published
news Even fish can play Pokemon better

An AI is trying to 'teach' itself Pokemon Red after its previous versions weren't smart enough to solve it, and it's very slowly working its way through the Kanto gym leaders
By Catherine Lewis published
News But can it do it faster than Twitch Plays Pokemon?
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