Description
In this game you are a 10-year-old boy, now old enough to receive your first Pokémon. You train this Pokémon by using it to battle with other Pokémon. Your main objective is to collect 8 gym badges to face the Elite Four and Pokémon League Champion of Kanto. You do this by defeating each gym leader in a Pokémon battle.
There are two parts in gameplay to this game. The first is your main character. You walk from place to place, goes up to talk to people, and find items. The second part of the gameplay happens when another Trainer has seen you, or you come across a wild Pokémon.
In the Pokémon battle, you can select from four options: Attack, Pokémon, Item, and Run. In the attack option, you choose from the Pokémon's attacks to use on the opponents Pokémon. This either drains their HP (lowering a Pokémon's HP to zero will knock them out), inflicts a status condition (like sleeping or poison), or changes stats (attack power, speed, etc). In the Pokémon option you can switch the active Pokémon in battle. In the item option you can either use items on your Pokémon (to heal them), or in a wild Pokémon battle you can throw a Poké Ball to catch them. The run option is only available in battles with wild Pokémon, you cannot run from a Trainer. The battle ends when one Trainer has no remaining Pokémon.
Your rival is always one step ahead of you, and challenging you to battles. You will run into the Rocket Gang, a group of criminals who use Pokémon for evil purposes. You must defeat many of their grunts and their leader in order to foil their evil schemes.
You can also link up to
Pocket Monster Akai in order to trade Pokémon or battle with your friends. This is necessary to get all 150 Pokémon, because not all of them appear in Midori.
Alternate Titles
- "ポケットモンスター緑" -- Japanese Spelling
- "Pokémon Green" -- Informal English Title
- "Pocket Monsters: Green Version" -- In-game title
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Trivia
There is an early sketch of the first two
Pokémon games. The sketch shows three trainers: The main character with a Bulbasaur, his rival with a Charmander, and an unused female trainer with a Squirtle. This early sketch suggests that there were plans for a female player character in this game. Whether she was supposed to be a playable character or if (like Brendan and May from
Ruby and
Sapphire and Lucas and Dawn from
Diamond and
Pearl) she was supposed to be the player's companion and friend, or if she was supposed to be both, depending on who you chose to play as, is unknown. However, possibly due to technical limitations of the original Game Boy, she was not implemented into the final version of
Pokémon Red and
Green. However, in the Game Boy Advance remakes of the first two Pokémon games, players can choose whether they want to play as a boy or a girl.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Pikachufanboy (105) on Jan 10, 2009.
