Hi everyone The shocking twist is that you start with pikachu as your starter and this was my 1st Pokémon game I have every played back as a little 6 year old So am gonna do a lot more of a official review because my nostalgia blinders are to big for this game well Here we go.

1st why I rated it what I rated.

9 over all as for the Pokémon games it was the best of the originals ones and one of the best games for the Plain >Game Boy< if you even remember that old thing.

Graphics 10 because they even changed the graphics to be more like the tv show for fans that didn't like how it was done in the 1st games. Also great for the 1st Game Boy ever.

Sound 10 Lets be honest everyone still plays Pokémon and we all have that one town or building or place or route with that tune we just stopped and listen to and still do to this day I mean the music in lavender town has more on it alone then the Harry potter books.

Addictiveness 10 Its Pokémon we still playing x and y and we are still playing Pokémon yellow For a new copy of the real game goes for over 300$ easy we are addicted to Pokémon worse then anything else.

Story Most i give a 3 but yellow added little parts from the T.V. show making it little better and for fans did a lot to not beat team rocket but Jessy and James themselves as ash him self.

Depth 3 short from becoming the very best their every was or glitches that i wouldn't count because their mistakes theirs only the 151 to get unlike the 700+ from new games and for 100% the game was still fairly short.

Difficulty i give the other games a 3 even for new comers or kids but this game was harder simple as you had no good starter for the 1st gym which make the start of the game so hard and you over leveled so hard that the rest of the game was so easy so 10 for the 1st 2 hours then 1 for the next 10 hours. so solid 5


Release dates


Japan: September 12, 1998
North America: October 1, 1999
Australia: September 3, 1999
Europe: June 16, 2000
Platform: Game Boy
Price: Originally: Around $20
Current: Around $5 or less for toss copy's for a mint in the box 300$


Now the game it's self.

Pokemon Yellow Version (Special Pikachu Edition)(aka the best) is set in the Kanto Region, just like the games before it Red, Blue, and Green. The game play is just about exactly the same, with the player starting out in Pallet Town in your little house with mom, but their are some slight changes. For instance, Jesse and James replace many of the Team Rocket Grunts normally found in the region, and the Pokemon they are using cannot be found in the game as it is not likely that Ash would catch any of them.(making the friends and link cable a must have with yellow if you really wanted to catch them all, also mew isn't a glitch anymore and you can get him fair and square) Strangely, the Team Rocket duo Jessy and James is never actually mentioned by name(for the life of me i couldn't find out why sorry guys). Several Pokemon that were in other versions are also not available in Yellow and can only be acquired by Trade with another cartridge. So sorry vizzed players you won't be able to do it without the hardware. The battle mechanics are the same, but the animations themselves have changed to be more like the anime due to people complaining that the Red, Blue, and Green sprites didn't look enough like the Pokemon from the show. The aesthetic changes don't stop there.(remember when nintendo wanted $ and cared for the user lol) Some trainers and parts of the region of the map have changed slightly, and Cerulean Cave has undergone a major layout change much welcomed changed if you ask me. (don't worry, Mewtwo is still there I assure you Go master-ball). As it is based more on the anime the starting characters default names are, of course, Ash and Gary. The storyline follows most of the same path of the previous games with a few small changes here and there nothing to special just a nice touch. An example of this being the "Walking Pokemon" feature that was later implemented in HeartGold and SoulSilver. (i personally loved this by the way i wish all the games did it.) This feature enables your Pikachu partner to walk around with you. Unlike in Red, Blue, and Green, the player does not get the chance to pick a starter and is forced to take Pikachu while the rival gets an Eevee (which eventually evolves into either Jolteon, Flareon, or Vaporeon depending on the player's actions early in the game). The usual starters are available later in the game. They also added in a different sound byte for Pikachu's voice. Instead of it's usual cry, the Pokemon speaks as though it is in the anime, using phrases like "Pika!" and "Chaaaaa!".(I'll put more about this in the end) The game is overall a good play, but the first gym battle can be a big pain if Pikachu ends up being your strongest Pokemon. Unless you cheat or go through a ridiculous amount of Wild Pokemon battles, the only real way to beat Brock's Rock Types is to use Double Team until it runs out and then use Struggle when Pikachu runs out of moves (Tackle and Quick Attack don't deal much damage to Rock Types it also doesn't help that you can't get a light-ball without trading it over from one of the other games also). After beating Brock, the game gets considerably easier as you catch more Pokemon of different Types and gain the normal Starter Pokemon. You have to be careful to remember that this is the original Kanto though. Steel and Dark Types haven't been created yet and the ability Levitate doesn't exist so it's nice to be able to crush Magnemite and Magneton with Dig. Also, as you play you'll probably run into the Evolution stones at the Celadon Department store. This would be cool, if it weren't for the fact that the game is based off the anime. Yes, your normal starter's can evolve (unlike Ash's Pokemon), but since Pikachu never evolved in the anime the game was programmed so that Pikachu will never evolve here either. (Though to be honest if i get a pikachu in a game i give him a ever-stone lets be honest) So really, unless you have an Eevee, the Thunderstones are a useless add on and a waste of money. Another big bummer is that no other Pikachu show up in the game. In other words, there are no wild Pikachu. The only way to get another Pikachu is by trading with Red, Blue, Green, or another Yellow cartridge via the Game Link Cable (which can be hard to find these days and this is as i was saying before the only way to get a light ball without cheating it in as if that 10% chance to fight a pikachu and a 10% chance to catch it and a 10% chance it will have a light-ball all i can say is Good Luck). Also, some of the Gym Leader Pokemon have been switched so if you were thinking you'd be facing the same old Pokemon, think again. The Gym Leaders themselves are the same however, with Brock (Rock Type), Misty (Water Type), Lt. Surge (Electric Type and only soild link to the huge myths about the Pokemon world war), Erika (Grass Type), Koga (Poison Type) Sabrina (Psychic Type), Blaine (Fire Type), and Giovanni (Ground Type). The Elite 4 are also the same with Lorelei (Ice Type), Bruno (Fighting Type), Agatha (Ghost Type), and Lance (Dragon Type). The Champion still ends up being your rival too(Gray). The game requires that you play around with TM's and HM's a little more as the Pokemon that can use them have changed, for instance Charizard can now use Fly(Thank you). Several glitch Pokemon are now gone (since the programmers found their glitches*cough cough* alone with 1000's of gamers) so any glitches you know from Red, Blue, and Green are obsolete(and why mew was added the right way). There are still a few entertaining, but useless glitches left. The game is the first in the series to employ a Friendship System that was later adapted for special Pokemon in Gold, Silver, Crystal,(An example would be espeons and umbreons) and really all subsequent Generations. Pikachu will respond to your actions and your wins and losses because of this. There is a special cheat that you can use to make Pikachu instantly like you though, not that it has that much of an effect on the gameplay (it does make Pikachu look cute faster though and eliminates the annoying angry noises it makes when it dislikes you). A minigame was programmed into the cartridge ad well. The game is called Pikachu's Beach and can only be accessed by teaching Pikachu Surf when connected to the Pokemon Stadium Nintendo 64 game cartridge from the system's controller.


Thanks for reading and here as promised is some more details about pikachu language


Pi-Kachu: Pochama (Piplup)
Pikachu-Pi: Kasumi (Misty)
Pika-Chu: Takeshi (Brock), Kibago (Axew)
Pikaka: Hikari (Dawn)
PiPiPi: Togepy (Togepi)
Pikachu-Pika: Fushigidane (Bulbasaur)
PikaPika: Zenigame (Squirtle), Mukuhawk (Staraptor), Goukazaru (Infernape) or Gamagaru (Palpitoad)
PiPi-kachu: Rocket-dan (Team Rocket)
Pi-Pikachu: Get da ze! (He says this after Ash wins a Badge, catches a new Pokémon or anything similar.)
Pikachu may not be the only one to use this phrase, as other Pokémon do this as well. For example, when Iris caught Emolga, Axew said Ax-Axew (Ki-Kibago in the Japanese).
Pika Pikachu: When introducing himself.

Local Mods : Not sure what you want to do about this. It is full of fillers and random info, and I am pretty sure the really long game description is stolen. The actual review is only like 400 words, but the post is almost 2000.

tgags123 : I don't think anything needs to be done with it, since all of the comments in the review are on topic with the game in one way or another.

koraza - This was indeed a treasure of a game for me as a child. And knowing the price it goes for now, I hate that I sold it for a few bucks. lol Anyway, this is a good start on reviewing, but if I could offer any suggestions, it would be to focus more directly on the gameplay and content inside of the game itself (first time I've ever suggested less info from a new reviewer. lol).

Anyway, keep on reviewing! I look forward to seeing more from you.

Eirinn : thank you my 1st review on the site was meta bots it was better people said

but like i said i have hours into this game that i shouldn't and i was trying to write it with a old review and not going ham and cheese cuz oh my deep love for this game and write it with the more typically feel of reviews i have seen on vizzed
thank you tho i don't love many games like this XD so it shouldn't be a problem

koraza : some advice, you could elaborate on your points in the actual review part.

Hidden Phantom : yea I know I try to not go fan boy op with Pokémon yellow it was a big part of my childhood lol my other reviews are better and easier

Really i just thought Pikachu just said things and ash made it up, as for the translations, thanks

Drackus : I don't know 100% if ash himself knew what pikachu was saying or meant but pikachu was speaking a real language with just parts of his name, (not that it happen in the show much with other pokemon) but it makes you think maybe all pokemon even through they just say their own name THAT is still how they talk to one another not with some other type of way and thanks i figured people would find that intresting its all over the web if you want to look more into and even the youtubers the national dex when they did a pikachu episode pointed this out.

koraza : I enjoyed reading this review. It's great and it's lengthy.