The journey off the analogue plane is a harrowing one, however. The trick is to bring your beloved monsters to the Pokemon Bank, a sort of digital waystation that makes it easy to withdraw and deposit Pokemon from Wi-Fi enabled games. It's possible, but the process is a Gogoat rodeo-and it's potentially expensive. What about those Pokemon parked forever on your FireRed and LeafGreen cartridges, though? Is it possible to help your prized childhood Charizard 'PUKE FART' ascend to 3DS games like Pokemon Sun and Moon (and presumably into Gen 8)? A journey of a thousand miles begins with a click on an eBay link. Nowadays, the Nintendo 3DS's built-in Wi-Fi lets people trade Pokemon with ease the average person has their cranium pierced by atomized Bidoof data whizzing through the air at least twice a day. Trading Pokemon between players was still performed with the Game Boy Advance link cable, though FireRed and LeafGreen dipped a claw into wireless tech by packing the games with the Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter. The internet was certainly a thing by then, but the Game Boy Advance wasn't exactly internet-ready. The remakes were born in an awkward time. Limited resources on the Game Boy made it impossible for Game Freak to let us see a Rattata before we bumbled into it, but modern systems are more than capable of letting us observe Pokemon as they frolic in their natural habitats.īut even as Pokemon grows along with us, it's not always possible for Game Freak to go back and modernize older games like FireRed and LeafGreen. The elimination of random encounters in Pokemon Let's Go is a good example. Though Pokemon's core concept hasn't changed much across its 20+ years of existence ('Catch 'em All, baby'), many of the franchise's parts have changed to accommodate players' changing tastes. Before Pokemon Let's Go for the Switch remade the Kanto region in living color, FireRed and LeafGreen came to the Game Boy Advance and let us experience a bright new take on 1996's Pokemon Red and Blue. Happy 15th anniversary to Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen.

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