Pokemon Red / Blue / Yellow. 14 RPG bestsellers

Darius Matusiak

Pokemon Red / Blue / Yellow

Developer: Nintendo

Year of release: 1996

Estimated number of copies sold: 47.5 million

NOTES

The record number of over 47 million copies includes 31 million sold of Blue and Red, 14 million of Yellow, and the remaining part constituted by the digital re-releases for Wii, Wii U, and 3DS. The different color-coded editions are generally the same game with only minor differences in the Pokémon rosters.

No Skyrim, nor The Witcher, nor Final Fantasy characters could match Nintendo's amiable monsters. An unassuming game for the pocket Game Boy console turned out to be the most popular RPG of all time. As it is in Pokemon – the player had to collect more monsterres, defeat other trainers, and complete the Pokedex – an encyclopedia of the game's Pokemons. In the mid-1990s, there was even a multiplayer mode available on the tiny Game Boy, where you could exchange Pokémon and fight duels.

Pokemon Red and Blue have begun a triumphant journey into a billion-dollar franchise. Despite the lack of a quick and easy online purchase option, the game sold like hot cakes, especially in Japan and the United States. Back in 2009, the colorful Pokemon series turned out the best-selling entry for the Game Boy, and the best-selling RPG in history – at that time the result was over 31 million copies. Even if we didn't have the opportunity to play those classics ourselves, the enormous power and popularity of this type of gameplay, or a certain charisma of Pokemon, is confirmed today by the mobile version of Pokemon GO, which almost every smarphone user has played. The Japanese have simply created a game that ignores all differences in age and taste.

  1. Pokemon series in our encyclopedia

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Darius Matusiak

Author: Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.