History Trivia / PokemonRedandBlue

* TropeNamer;

* AscendedFanNickname: Originally, "Leaf" was not considered an official name for the female trainer in the GBA remakes.[[note]]She is given this name as a placeholder in the game's data, but this data also refers to Blue as "Terry" and therefore should be taken with a grain of salt.[[/note]] However, it was a popular enough FanNickname that her Kotobukiya [=ArtFx=] J figurine, [[https://twitter.com/kotobukiyas/status/1048377301530947584 revealed]] in 2018, officially gives her the name リーフ (translated as "Leaf"). However, ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' overrode this by naming her "Green", but then ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' released afterward would go back to calling her Leaf. If Leaf and Green are meant to be separate characters is unknown, but in either case Leaf is now a recognized official name for at least one version of the character.

* LateExportForYou: The game reached Europe after three years, well within the [=GameBoy=] Color era, which made it look incredibly dated compared to "older"[[note]]but not really[[/note]] games like ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening DX''.

* AscendedFanon: The fan theory that Giovanni and Team Rocket had ''some'' connection to Mewtwo (whether it be in its creation like in the anime and ''Pokemon Adventures'' manga, or as what they wanted to capture when they gained control of Silph Co. and its Master Ball) has been given credibility with [[spoiler:Giovanni possessing Mewtwo in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.]]

** There's a creepypasta about a hacked version known as Pokémon Black (not to be confused with ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''), found on a black-painted cartridge. The player is given a Pokémon known as 'Ghost' instead of one of the starters, and it cannot be put into the PC. It attacks opponents with Curse, and if you return to an area after beating a trainer, it's indicated they died as there's a tombstone present. After beating the game, the player character's Pokémon are all gone and the sprite is swapped for an old man sprite. Going back to Pallet Town results in the character being attacked by the spirits of the Pokemon they killed on their way to beating the game, with the character using Struggle until they die. Its existence is questioned, but a ROM like this does exist online. [[http://www.gameinformer.com/blogs/members/b/omegaspartan08_blog/archive/2010/07/30/pok-233-mon-black-a-hacked-game-of-death.aspx Article here]]

* 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 3 Pokemon in ''Red and Blue'', and the remakes and later games follow this instead[[/note]].

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The model of the space shuttle in the Pewter City Museum is no longer referred to as the "Columbia" anymore, most likely in response to the destruction of that particular space shuttle in the year prior to the remakes' release.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: It's said that if you have a fake copy of the game, or play the game in a very outdated emulator (preferably, one that was released before the game itself), the Seagallop ferryman in Vermillion City will say "By the way: If you like this game, buy it or die." This message is actually only in some very early ROM dumps of [=FireRed=], and in reality, was the work of the pirates who managed to leak the game early.

!!Trivia for ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]''

* RoleReprise: Creator/IkueOtani reprises her role as Pikachu, albeit bitcrushed.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: It's said that if you have a fake copy of the game, or if you play the game in a very outdated emulator (preferably, one that was released before the game itself), the Seagallop ferryman in Vermillion City will say "By the way: If you like this game, buy it or die." This message is actually only in some very early ROM dumps of [=FireRed=], and in reality, was the work of the pirates who managed to leak the game early.

!!Trivia for ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'':

!!Trivia for ''Red'' and ''Blue'':

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At one point, there was to be a special music track for link trading, that would be played on both Game Boy systems as a duet. The data for it still exists in an incomplete form in the final game; this is the well-known DummiedOut music track which was originally speculated to be town music. More information, as well as a restored version you can listen to, is available [[https://tcrf.net/Pokémon_Red_and_Blue#Unused_Song at The Cutting Room Floor]].
** An NPC's Spearow was originally going to be nicknamed [[Music/BritneySpears Britney]] in the English localization. For likely legal reasons, it was shot down by Nintendo and renamed Speary. Other localization 'what could haves' are detailed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yheM8RqvqFQ here]].

* AscendedFanon: Originally, "Leaf" was not considered an official name for the female trainer in the GBA remakes.[[note]]She is given this name as a placeholder in the game's data, but this data also refers to Blue as "Terry" and therefore should be taken with a grain of salt.[[/note]] However, it was a popular enough FanNickname that her Kotobukiya [=ArtFx=] J figurine, [[https://twitter.com/kotobukiyas/status/1048377301530947584 revealed]] in 2018, officially gives her the name リーフ (translated as "Leaf"). However, ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' overrode this by naming her "Green", but then ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' released afterward would go back to calling her Leaf. If Leaf and Green are meant to be separate characters is unknown, but in either case Leaf is now a recognized official name for at least one version of the character.

* FanNickname: The name "Leaf" for the female PlayerCharacter was initially never stated to be her actual name, and is based on one of the placeholder names on the ROM for ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]''. This name would be officially adapted as her canon name for some versions of her character.

** Some old cheat lists claim that your {{Mons}} will receive a "revenge boost" to their Attack when their other stats are decreased. This one is actually partly true; while nobody ''intentionally'' programmed that feature into the game, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_glitches_in_Generation_I#Stat_modification_errors one of the game's myriad bugs]] causes badge boosts to be reapplied every time any of their stats gets modified. That said, any move that modifies a stat will force a proper recalculation of that stat, wiping away these glitch boosts. It's not revenge, it's just a glitch.

* FandomNod: As a reference to the famous truck rumor, the pier that the truck sits on contains a Lava Cookie, which is normally unavailable until you reach the Sevii Islands.

** Item sprite for a Bug-type TM exists, despite them not existing in Generation III.

** 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 the one neither the player nor Blue chose. 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.

** An accidental example: Dragon-type moves deal super-effective damage against Dragon-type mons, however, this behavior never actually occurs in ''Red'' and ''Blue'', because the only Dragon-type move that existed at this point was Dragon Rage, a FixedDamageAttack that always dealt 40 damage and ignored any type effectiveness.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/GameFreak originally did not plan to have PlayerVersusPlayer support-- just trading-- but Creator/{{Nintendo}} requested that it be added. This may partially explain all the FakeBalance in the games.
* KillerApp: This game singlehandedly revived sales for the aging UsefulNotes/GameBoy, which ended up getting [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor an upgraded version]] the same year as the North American versions of the games.

** 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 has neither been confirmed as true or false.
** [[GlitchEntity Missingno.]] (or Missing Number) has had a number of rumors around it, some said catching it would damage your cartridge others say that it would erase your data, and Nintendo itself would tell players encountering it would be harmful to their games to dissuade players from pursuing it, but in reality all it does is give you 128 copies of your sixth item and mess up your Hall Of Fame data. Other glitch pokemon, on the other hand, can cause more severe effects to your file when encountered and caught.

** There were prominent rumors back in the day about rare hidden pokemon like the infamous "Pikablu" and "Mewthree", with extremely convoluted methods to finding them. Of course Mew is the only hidden pokemon in the game, and none of these other rumored hidden pokemon existed.
** The unreachable tall grass seen outside the fences in Pallet Town and the seeming path beyond Bill's house were a hotbed source for rumors, often connecting with the Mew and other hidden pokemon rumors, with people claiming that were where you found them. But there exists no additional area that Bill grants you access to and the Pallet Town tall grass is merely just aesthetic, with the game even crashing if you use a walk-through-walls cheat or glitch to walk into the grass.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At one point, there was to be a special music track for link trading, that would be played on both Game Boy systems as a duet. The data for it still exists in an incomplete form in the final game; this is the well-known DummiedOut music track which was originally speculated to be town music. More information, as well as a restored version you can listen to, is available [[https://tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue#Unused_Song at The Cutting Room Floor]].

* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The games were completed in October 1995 and set for release in December, but for whatever reason, they were delayed by two months to February 1996. This is why the games bear a copyright date of "1995" in both their original versions and foreign re-releases.

** [[TheMissingNo Missingno.]] ([[TropeNamer or Missing Number]]) has had a number of rumors around it, some said catching it would damage your cartridge others say that it would erase your data, and Nintendo itself would tell players encountering it would be harmful to their games to dissuade players from pursuing it, but in reality all it does is give you 128 copies of your sixth item and mess up your Hall Of Fame data. Other glitch pokemon on the other hand, can cause more severe effects to your file when encountered and caught.

** TheMissingno

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At one point, there was to be a special music track for link trading, that would be played on both Game Boy systems as a duet. The data for it still exists in an incomplete form in the final game; this is the well-known DummiedOut music track which was originally speculated to be town music. More information, as well as a restored version you can listen to, is available [[https://tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue#Unused_Song on The Cutting Room Floor]].

* TooSoon: The model of the space shuttle in the Pewter City Museum is no longer referred to as the "Columbia" anymore, most likely in response to the destruction of that particular space shuttle in the year prior to the remakes' release.

** [[TheMissingNo Missingno.]] ([[TropeNamer or Missing Number]]) has had a number of rumors around it, some said catching it would damage your cartridge others say that it would erase your data.
** There's a truck sprite that only appears once in the game. The only way to see it is to go way out of your way to avoid triggering a certain plot event that closes off the area and returning when you can travel on water. People believed that it had to have been put there for a reason, leading to hundreds of rumors about this thing. As it turns out, it's just a graphical easter egg with no actual benefits associated with finding it. As a reference to these rumors, in ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]'', checking under the truck gives you a Lava Cookie.

* AscendedFanon: Strictly speaking, "Leaf" was not considered an official name for the female trainer in the GBA remakes.[[note]]She is given this name as a placeholder in the game's data, but this data also refers to Blue as "Terry" and therefore should be taken with a grain of salt.[[/note]] However, it was a popular enough FanNickname that her Kotobukiya [=ArtFx=] J figurine, [[https://twitter.com/kotobukiyas/status/1048377301530947584 revealed]] in 2018, officially gives her the name リーフ (translated as "Leaf"). However, ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' overrode this by naming her "Green".

* FanNickname: The name "Leaf" for the female PlayerCharacter has never been stated to be her actual name. It is based on one of the placeholder names on the ROM for ''[=FireRed and LeafGreen=]''.

** Averted in that exploitation of how the game engine processes data will allow you to trigger an encounter with any Pokémon (or trainer class, [[GameBreakingBug but that might not end well for you]]) of your choosing...[[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch including Mew]].