16th June, 2000
Liable to atmosphere up a lot of you – and us, we would perhaps perhaps add – truly feel dangerously aged, this day marks the 20th anniversary of Pokémon Yellow‘s European commence.
The game well-known its ‘just’ 20th anniversary just a few years ago, attributable to its fashioned Eastern commence date of 12th, September 1998. Those of us in Europe needed to back moderately bit longer, but we imagine the Poké-memories it made for the franchise’s finest fans modified into as soon as extra than price the wait.
Pokémon Yellow is, indubitably, an enhanced model of the series’ debut entries, Pokémon Crimson and Blue. It adopted a nearly identical place of abode and modified into as soon as basically basically based in the same utter, but incorporated miniature variations that fell per the ever-licensed anime series that had captured the hearts of fans since Crimson and Blue’s liberate.
Who would perhaps perhaps put out of your mind seeing Team Rocket’s Jessie, James, and Meowth on their Game Boy for the first time, or having your small Pikachu trek spherical behind you as you explore everything Kanto has to give for a 2d time spherical? Ah, nostalgia’s an excellent thing, huh?
Carry out you’ve got any swish memories of playing Pokémon Yellow help in the day? Be at liberty to half them with us in the comments beneath.
