History YMMV / PokemonRedAndBlue

** Misty and her overpowered Starmie. In the re-release, it is level 21. If you didn't take Bulbasaur, you're in for some power grinding for your whole team. And it's not even as hard as it COULD have been, had it been given a psychic move to match its subtype. All the available grass types are subtyped poison at this point in the game, unless you keep Bulbasaur unevolved...

* BreatherBoss: Giovanni is rather easy for being the final Gym Leader, since most of his Pokémon are rather slow and all of them have common weaknesses.

*** On the Pokémon side of things, we have [[SeriesMascot Pikachu]] ([[BaseBreaker say what you will]], but it was a ''[[{{Understatement}} huge]]'' darkhorse when the games were first released), [[{{Badass}} Charizard]] and [[OlympusMons Mewtwo]].

* FanPreferredCouple: If fanart is anything to go by on deviantart or pixiv, Red is most shipped with [[TheRival Blue]], [[DistaffCounterpart Leaf]], and even [[PokemonGoldAndSilver Lyra]].
** Blue likewise is most shipped with Red, and the same 2 girls listed above... interesting.

* GannonBanned: It's "Leaf", not [[PokemonSpecial Blue or Green]]. It's "Red" not "Ash Ketchum" or "Satoshi".
** Blue. Not ''Gary'', or Shigeru, or Green. Though, like basically every other nameable character that has a counterpart in [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} the anime]], both names come from their "top" game name.

* [[MissedMomentOfAwesome Missed]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Music]] [[MissedMomentOfAwesome Of Awesome]]: The three legendary beasts from Johto are available in this game, yet they don't have their battle theme from ''[[PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Crystal]]''. Which is ironic, because said battle theme is instead found in the ''[[PokemonRubyAndSapphire Ruby and Sapphire]]'' versions as [[DummiedOut unused music data]].

*** On the Pokémon side of things, we have [[SeriesMascot Pikachu]] ([[BaseBreaker say what you will]], but it was a ''[[Understatement huge]]'' darkhorse when the games were first released), [[{{Badass}} Charizard]] and [[OlympusMons Mewtwo]].

** The item duplication glitch in Red Blue, which allowed one to have as many Master Balls and Rare Candies as they wanted.

* GameBreaker: The Psychic Type. On top of being an InfinityPlusOneElement, the move "Psychic."[[hottip:*:Psychic attacks are classified as "Special", which go off the user's and the target's Special stat. The move "Psychic" is not only very strong, it can lower the opponent's Special stat, making it even ''stronger''.]]

* NostalgiaFilter: There's a fair base of the Pokémon FanDumb as well as the spawned HateDumb (towards the newer gens) who refuse to admit that there were ever any other Pokémon, or see any flaws in these games. Many of the game's fans tend to value this game over all other games in the franchise despite the high amount of glitches (that actually ''don't'' require some form of strategy guide to trigger), and the ''hideous'' imbalances.

* ThatOneBoss: Erika, because of her over-use of the move Wrap, one of the most obnoxious moves in the first generation. It became a far less troublesome move in later generations.

* ThatOneBoss:
** Brock is a WakeUpCallBoss for those that started with Charmander or Pikachu. In the latter case, Yellow did make Mankey and Nidoran (that eventually learned Double Kick) available to offset this, but they still require some LevelGrinding to access the Fighting-type moves.
** Due to the previously mentioned [[GameBreaker overpowered]] Psychic-types and the fact she has a powerhouse of a team, Sabrina was a lesson in frustration in the original games. On the other hand, it's entirely possible to accidentally SequenceBreak if [[GuideDangIt you couldn't figure out how to get into Saffron]] and fight her much later than you're expected to, resulting in a somewhat easier battle, especially if you've got [[AwesomeYetPractical Surf]].

* ThatOneBoss: Due to the previously mentioned [[GameBreaker overpowered]] Psychic-types and the fact she has a powerhouse of a team, Sabrina was a lesson in frustration in the original games. On the other hand, it's entirely possible to accidentally SequenceBreak if [[GuideDangIt you couldn't figure out how to get into Saffron]] and fight her much later than you're expected to, resulting in a somewhat easier battle, especially if you've got [[AwesomeYetPractical Surf]].

* NostalgiaFilter: There's a fair base of the Pokémon FanDumb as well as the spawned HateDumb (Towards the newer gens) who refuse to admit that there were ever any other Pokémon or see any flaws. Many of the game's fans tend to value this game over all other games in the franchise despite the amount of glitches (That actually ''don't'' require some form of strategy guide to trigger), and the ''hideous'' imbalances.

* BreatherBoss: Bruno of the Elite Four can be easily taken out by any decent Psychic type. This was true in later generations as well, but because Psychic Pokemon were no longer [[GameBreaker Game Breakers]] players were less likely to have one in their teams.

** 2. [[FridgeBrillance He is out of his gym a lot planning stuff for Team Rocket.]] Also IIRC it was an old man who can't remember what/who Giovanni was/looked like, so it's likely old age is against him mentally.

** Blue. Not ''Gary'', or Shigeru, or Green. Though, like basically every other nameable character that has a counterpart in the anime, both names come from their "top" game name.
* LargeHam: Koga- "Fwahahahahahahahahaha!"

*** 2. [[FridgeBrillance He is out of his gym a lot planning stuff for Team Rocket]] Also IIRC it was an old man who can't remember what/who Giovanni was/looked like, so it's likely old age is against him mentally.

** Also...how the ''hell'' did no-one remember Giovanni was once a gym leader!?

** Blue

** Misty. Was made into a major character in the anime ''and'' PokemonSpecial.

* NostalgiaFilter: The games tend to ''run'' off of the NostalgiaFilter. There's a fair base of the Pokémon FanDumb as well as the spawned HateDumb (Towards the newer gens) who refuse to admit that there were ever any other Pokémon or see any flaws. Many of the game's fans tend to value this game over all other games in the franchise despite the amount of glitches (That actually ''don't'' require some form of strategy guide to trigger), and the ''hideous'' imbalances.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The three legendary beasts from Johto are available in this game, yet they don't have their battle theme from ''[[PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Crystal]]''. Which is ironic, because said battle theme is instead found in the ''[[PokemonRubyAndSapphire Ruby and Sapphire]]'' versions as [[DummiedOut unused music data]].

* GoodBadBugs: Missingno., M, Glitch City, the Safari Zone glitch, and the Mew glitch, among many others. These games pushed the Game Boy cartridges to their limit, and the majority of the more famous glitches stem from shortcuts the programmers took in order to be able to fit the game within the relatively tiny amount of memory available. TheMissingno and [[MinusWorld Glitch City]] bugs are the result of the games having no actual memory protection, so the game would try to create a Pokémon encounter or environment from the wrong sets of data with no failsafe to notice the difference. As a result, it's possible to break the game to ridiculous extremes and ''still'' have it keep on trucking through everything.

* ThatOneBoss: Due to the previously mentioned [[GameBreaker overpowered]] Psychic-types and the fact she has a powerhouse of a team, Sabrina was a lesson in frustration in the original games. On the other hand, it's entirely possible to accidentally SequenceBreak if [[GuideDangIt you couldn't figure out how to get into Saffron]] and fight her much later than you're expected to, resulting in a somewhat easier battle, especially if you've got [[AwesomeYetPractical Surf]].

* FridgeLogic: When you thwart Giovanni's plans to take over Silph Co and use it's technology for Team Rockets' fossil operation, he swears revenge. But when you beat him in a gym match, which has ''nothing to do with Team Rocket'', he disbands Team Rocket and leaves you on good terms. The hell?
* GameBreaker: The Psychic Type. On top of being an InfinityPlusOneElement, the move "Psychic."[[hottip:* :Psychic attacks are classified as "Special", which go off the user's and the target's Special stat. The move "Psychic" is not only very strong, it can lower the opponent's Special stat, making it even ''stronger''.]]

* GoodBadBugs: Missingno., M, Glitch City, the Safari Zone glitch and the Mew glitch among many others. These games pushed the Game Boy cartridges to their limit, and the majority of the more famous glitches stem from shortcuts the programmers took in order to be able to fit the game within the relatively tiny amount of memory available. TheMissingno and [[MinusWorld Glitch City]] bugs are the result of the games having no actual memory protection, so the game would try to create a Pokémon encounter or environment from the wrong sets of data with no failsafe to notice the difference. As a result, it's possible to break the game to ridiculous extremes and ''still'' have it keep on trucking through everything.

* BaseBreaker: Just like Lyra from HGSS, Leaf suffers from this. Don't get into a conversation whether or not she exists in the game universe.

** Blue likewise is most shipped with Red, and the same 2 girls listed above...interesting.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In one "interpretation", your rival is the good guy. [[hottip:*:In Lavender Town he asks you "What brings you here? Is your Pokémon dead?" before challenging you, without explaining what he's doing there. You then fight him and if you've been paying attention you will notice that he no longer has a Raticate. The theory is that the player character wounded their rival's Raticate so severely that it died of its injuries, spurring him on to beat the Elite Four before the player. But shortly after he has defeated the Elite Four, he must fight the player... who defeats him... and then is congratulated by none other than his grandfather Professor Oak who scolds Blue and claims he lost because he did not treat his Pokémon with love and trust. This gives the fairly one-dimensional rival character a deep story and portrays him as a tragic hero with terrible luck. It also makes your character's actions fairly despicable as all this guy wanted was to be a great Pokémon trainer and win his grandfather's love. Easy to poke holes through this.]] This does require some [[EpilepticTrees big assumptions]] and doesn't change the fact that he acts like a {{Jerkass}} towards you.