History Trivia / PokemonRedandBlue

* LateExportForYou: The games reached America in 1998, two years after the original release, and in Europe a year later. The delay was due to the significant amount of work that went into the localization; the code was revamped based on the later ''Blue'' version, every Pokémon was renamed and trademarked, and the all of the text displays were reprogrammed. Since it was in close proximity with the release of the Platform/GameBoyColor, this had the side effect of making the games look incredibly dated compared to its contemporaries, like ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening DX'' and ''VideoGame/WarioLandII''.

* KillerApp: ''Red and Blue'' singlehandedly reinvigorated sales for the aging UsefulNotes/GameBoy, which ended up getting [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor an upgraded version]] one month after the North American release of the games.
* LateExportForYou: The games reached America in 1998, two years after the original release, and in Europe a year later. The delay was due to the significant amount of work that went into the localization; the code was revamped based on the later ''Blue'' version, every Pokémon was renamed and trademarked, and the all of the text displays were reprogrammed. Since it was in close proximity with the release of the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor, this had the side effect of making the games look incredibly dated compared to its contemporaries, like ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening DX'' and ''VideoGame/WarioLandII''.

* DummiedOut: The Old Man Glitch in RBY, which was the optimal way to quickly encounter a MissingNo., was patched in ''Yellow''. It's still possible to find a MissingNo. in ''Yellow'' but it requires a lot more work and most likely will crash the game.

* TropeNamer:
** DittoFighter
** EliteFour
** EscapeRope
** MagikarpPower
** RareCandy
** SinglePaletteTown
** TeamRocketWins
** AWildRapperAppears

* SleeperHit: Nintendo of Japan thought [[ItWillNeverCatchOn the games wouldn't do well]] while releasing Japanese ''Red and Green'' and wrote them off as a loss. They didn't top the sales charts, but kept ''selling steady'' in a market where 80% of sales are made in the first two weeks. Game Freak made a few tweaks, released [[UpdatedRerelease an updated version]] (Japanese ''Blue''), and Nintendo got their cash cow.

* BreakthroughHit: Game Freak made a few games before this like ''VideoGame/MendelPalace'' and ''Pulseman'', but didn't achieve success until ''Red and Blue''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/GameFreak originally did not plan to have any PlayerVersusPlayer functionality-- just trading-- but Creator/{{Nintendo}} requested that it be added. This may partially explain all the FakeBalance in the games.

* RecursiveAdaptation: It's a game based on TheAnimeOfTheGame, and in addition to some {{Canon Immigrant}}s, there are some touch-ups on sprites and Pokémon used in Gym battles: Brock and Misty wear their respective outfits from the anime (in the original games, Brock was [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] and Misty wore a bikini), and Lt. Surge only uses Raichu in battle, which is what he also did in the anime.[[note]]He used three Pokémon in ''Red and Blue'', and the remakes and later games follow this instead[[/note]].

** Another accidental example with the attack Kinesis. It does exist in the game, but no Pokémon is capable of learning it, you'll only see it through usage of Metronome. ''Yellow'' made it the SignatureMove of Kadabra and Alakazam.

** Professor Oak is programmed into the game as a trainer and has a full team. It consists of five Pokémon that are even higher leveled than Champion Blue's team (capping out with a level 70 Gyarados), and one of his Pokémon is a fully-evolved starter, implying he would have used whichever one was left over from the beginning of the game. Whether he was originally intended to be the TrueFinalBoss or some sort of BonusBoss is unknown. You can trigger a battle with him by exploiting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeOPyntJ-k a glitch]] or using a cheat device, though he has no dialogue and beating him gets you nothing more than EXP and money.

** Professor Oak is programmed into the game as a trainer and has a full team. Whether he was originally intended to be the TrueFinalBoss or some sort of BonusBoss is unknown. His team of five Pokémon are even higher levelled than Champion Blue's team (capping out with a level 70 Gyarados), and one of his Pokémon is a fully-evolved starter, implying he would have used whichever one was left over from the beginning of the game. You can trigger a battle with him by exploiting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeOPyntJ-k a glitch]] or using a cheat device, though he has no dialogue and beating him gets you nothing more than EXP and money.

** A rumor has always been around that when the games were first released in Japan, many children [[BrownNote got ill and committed suicide]] because of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJJ-QkZ8cM Lavender Town music]] but this was later proven false as there was never any changes to the Lavender Town music between releases in Generation I.

** There is some claims that Gyarados originally had a Water/Dragon typing but was changed to Water/Flying after Game Freak realized how broken the typing would be (as in Gen 1 with there existing no real Dragon moves besides the FixedDamageAttack Dragon Rage and being many Generations before the Fairy type's introduction, this typing would have absolutely no type weaknesses). There exists no evidence however that Gyarados was ever meant to be part Dragon type, and even when it got a mega evolution in Gen 6 that gave it a new secondary typing, it still wasn't made part Dragon type.

** There is some claims that Gyarados originally had a Water/Dragon typing but was changed to Water/Flying after Gamefreak realized how broken the typing would be (as in Gen 1 with there existing no real Dragon moves besides the FixedDamageAttack Dragon Rage and being many Generations before the Fairy type's introduction, this typing would have absolutely no type weaknesses). There exists no evidence however that Gyarados was ever meant to be part Dragon type, and even when it got a mega evolution in Gen 6 that gave it a new secondary typing, it still wasn't made part Dragon type.