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Pokemon Yellow
@pokemon-gamesPokemon Yellow made Pikachu the face of the RPG and welded anime energy directly onto the cartridge.
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Pokemon Yellow launched in 1998 on Game Boy. It made Pikachu the face of the RPG and welded anime energy directly onto the cartridge. It sits on the canon-defining RPG backbone that decides regions, monsters, battle systems, and the assumptions every other Pokemon project eventually reacts to.
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Example
Its 1998 release on Game Boy immediately became part of the benchmark fans used to judge its whole generation.
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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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