Your pocket monsters are not just cute little pets that like to pee on your car wheels (at least my pets do), these little buggers can fight. The more they fight, the more experience you can get and maybe they can get a few new moves as well. You can carry up to 6 pocket monsters at once but you can also find other monsters and store them in a Pokemon data base so you can help Oak get some info on these wild creatures. Finding certain pocket monsters is easier said then done though.

Some Pokemon are pretty common and you'll be fighting them a lot in grassy areas but some of these other rarer little critters can only be found in oddest places and better hope you have the right Poke Ball to capture it. You also have to worry about how much health is left on the Pokemon you want so it won't break your balls (I hate broken balls).

To unlock these new areas and towns you need to gain new abilities, beat the right kids and their Pokemon, and by getting special Badges by the fighting Pokemon masters first. If you wish to find them all. Amazingly there are 150 Pokemon here altogether so it's going to take awhile so this is no short game. Sadly, you also need to trade between both versions if you to get them all which made you talk your friend into getting the other version (you hear that, that is Nintendo laughing all the way to the bank).

Versions Blue and Red are the original two games that started this whole Pocket Monster craze in the first place (so you want to blame something blame this). Really the only difference between the two games is that they have a few exclusive Pokemon in each cart and the cart itself is a different colour and yeah that's pretty much it. All the stages, bosses, and locations are exactly the same which sucks. Sure, its a little commercial and the graphics and sound are not too impressive either but when it's all said and done there is no denying that monster collecting game play is a cool idea. You not only have 150 wacky monsters to find here that are powerful enough to hurt the children they're target market is, but the game lets you almost Save the game anywhere and the replay value is pretty too because since you can trade with your friends. It is easy to see why it took the public by the nuts in a tight vice grip, eh? Although the other games in the series haven't deferred too much from the first ones here, it just goes to show you how good the originals actually were so don't expect the next one to feature anything cool like porn stars, bloody zombies, or rocket launchers.