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Pokemon Blue (Japan) repackaged Kanto with cleaner data and a different monster mix, showing how early Pokemon was already iterating on itself at absurd speed.
Pokemon Blue (Japan) launched in 1996 on Game Boy. It repackaged Kanto with cleaner data and a different monster mix, showing how early Pokemon was already iterating on itself at absurd speed. It sits on the canon-defining RPG backbone that decides regions, monsters, battle systems, and the assumptions every other Pokemon project eventually reacts to.
Example
Its 1996 release on Game Boy immediately became part of the benchmark fans used to judge its whole generation.
Why it matters
Mainline Pokemon releases are the load-bearing beams of the franchise. If you want to understand why the rest of Pokemon looks the way it does, these are the games that set the rules.
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