Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version are 2004 remakes of the 1996 role-playing video games Pokémon Red and Blue. They were developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. FireRed and LeafGreen were first released in Japan in January 2004 and in North America and Europe in September and October 2004. The games are part of the third generation of the Pokémon video game series and hold the distinction of being the first enhanced remakes of previous games within the franchise.

  • Pokémon FireRed
  • Pokémon LeafGreen
North American box art for Pokémon LeafGreen, depicting the Pokémon Venusaur. The box art for Pokémon FireRed depicts the Pokémon Charizard (not pictured).
Developer(s)Game Freak
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Junichi Masuda
Producer(s)
  • Hiroyuki Jinnai
  • Takehiro Izushi
  • Hiroaki Tsuru
Designer(s)Junichi Masuda
Shigeru Ohmori
Programmer(s)Tetsuya Watanabe
Artist(s)Ken Sugimori
Writer(s)
Composer(s)
SeriesPokémon
Platform(s)Game Boy Advance
Release
  • JP: January 29, 2004
  • NA: September 7, 2004
  • AU: September 23, 2004
  • EU: October 1, 2004
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

As in previous games, the player controls the player character from an overhead perspective and participates in turn-based battles. Throughout the games, the player captures and raises Pokémon for use in battle. Based in the Kanto region, new features include a contextual help menu and a new area (Sevii Islands) the player may access after a certain point in the story. The games have compatibility with the Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter, which originally came bundled with the games.

The games received mostly positive reviews, obtaining an aggregate score of 81 percent on Metacritic. Most critics praised the fact that the games introduced new features while still maintaining the traditional gameplay of the series. Reception of the graphics and audio was more mixed, with some reviewers complaining that they were too simplistic and lacked improvement compared to the previous games, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. FireRed and LeafGreen were commercial successes, selling a total of around 12 million copies worldwide. Nearly two years after their original release, Nintendo re-marketed them as Player's Choice titles.

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