Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog. I'm AlexGuy and I'm doing a blog for a college project. My classmates and I were given free reign as to what we want to do for our topics, so what I chose for my blog is chronicling my first time playing Pokémon Red Version for the Gameboy Color and Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console. I'm hoping you all will enjoy this as I show you what dreams and adventures await in the world of Pokémon; now let's go!
The game opens, and we're greeted with a sequence that would start an almost 30-year legacy before getting to the title screen, and we press start on the mascot of the franchise (which made me realize, if I had a nickel for every time a soon-to-be big franchise made their mascot be some kind of mouse, I'd have two nickels; which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?).Immediately, we're greeted by Oak; a Pokémon professor named after a type of tree (that totally won't become a trend down the line/s), who asks for our name (and in the remakes, he'll also ask if we're a boy or a girl). He also asks us for the name of our rival (who is also his grandson, so make of that what you will), to which I respond RED for the player character (who is always a boy in the GBC games) and BLUE for the rival. We're then shrunk down to fit into the world we're about to enter and start in front of a CRT television with an SNES hooked up to it.
Going to the computer in the player's room will allow them to withdraw a Potion from the PC.
After going downstairs, watching some Stand by Me (yes, the 1986 film) and exploring the player's hometown, Pallet Town; we try to leave town when Prof. Oak stops us. Apparently, wild Pokémon might to maim us terribly without Pokémon of our own to defend ourselves with, so Oak brings us back to his lab to give us one.
Our rival is waiting there waiting for his gramps to also give him a Pokémon. Both the player and rival are given one of three choices: the Grass type Bulbasaur, the Fire type Charmander or the Water type Squirtle. It should be noted that the rival (BLUE in my game) will always choose the starter that is strong against the player's starter. For example, the player choosing Charmander will result in the rival choosing Squirtle, which is exactly what happens in my game as I choose Charmander and my rival chooses Squirtle. After choosing our starters, I try to leave but get challenged by BLUE to battle, which ends with me winning.
Afterwards, I head out from Pallet Town towards Route 1, battling anything I come across with Charmander. Upon getting to Viridian City, I head to the Pokémon Mart to pick up a package for Prof. Oak before going back to Pallet and Oak's lab.
Giving Oak his package reveals that he ordered a custom Poke Ball, for some reason... Anyways, Oak's dream was to create a Pokémon encyclopedia called the Pokedex, but is too old to do it now, so he's asking the player and rival to help him with this, giving each a Pokedex device for this purpose. Both the player and rival head out towards adventure to complete the Pokedex (with a map from the rival's older sister) by catching as many Pokémon as possible, as simply encountering a Pokémon isn't enough data, it has to be caught to obtain all possible data. Upon returning to Viridian City, I go into the Pokémon Center to withdraw some Pokémon I transferred in from the PC which leads to a problem I'll get to in a second.
I then go to route 22 to find a male Nidoran for a catching tutorial as well as an optional battle with BLUE, who now has a Pidgey in addition to his starter.
With my team I still win, but not without complications, Pokémon that don't originally belong to the player have a tendency to disobey a trainer that doesn't enough (or any) gym badges.
I don't have any badges, so most of my Pokémon (that are all from other playthroughs of Gen 1) will likely disobey me with exception of my starter, Charmander. In order to gain the respect of my Pokémon, I need gym badges from Pokémon gyms, the closest of which is past Viridian Forest and in Pewter City.
I start to trek through the forest, fight some bug catchers along the way when I stop and realize that Pewter City Gym uses Rock types, a type of Pokémon Charmander is weak against.
This means a lot of training, the fruits of which will be seen in the next blog.
Next time, we tackle the second half of Viridian Forest and Pewter City. See you all then.
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