Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow
Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version are 1996 role-playing video games (RPGs) developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. They are the first installments of the Pokémon video game series. They were first released in Japan in 1996 as Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green, with the special edition Pocket Monsters Blue released in Japan later that year. The games were released as Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue in North America and Australia in 1998 and Europe in 1999. Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue combined Red, Green and Blue for release outside of Japan.
Junichi Masuda (pictured in 2007) composed the music for all versions.
Pocket Monsters Green in original packaging box on display at the Stockholm Game Museum (Stockholms Spelmuseum).
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles.
Headquarters in Kyoto, Japan
Original Nintendo headquarters (1889–1930) and workshop in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, c. 1889. The right section was eventually rebuilt (pictured below), and the left section was reportedly demolished in 2004.
Nintendo karuta poster from the Meiji era
Former Nintendo headquarters (1933–1959), rebuilt from the right section of the original building
