with a year full of new products, re-releases and huge doses of nostalgia around the world.
Up first is a re-release of the very first Game Boy games (¡°Red,¡± ¡°Blue,¡± ¡°Green¡± and ¡°Yellow¡±), which will be available for purchase on ¡°Pok¨¦mon Day,¡± Feb. 27, exactly 20 years since their initial launch. Trainers can download digital copies of the game for their Nintendo 3DS or 2DS, or they can buy .
comes with a colored, clear-plastic handheld system, a digital copy of the game, stickers, a town map and a code to download the legendary Pok¨¦mon Mew. Those wanting?something a little more modern?should check out the other?games coming to later this year.
If the original game¡¯s 8-bit music doesn¡¯t hold up, you can always hear an orchestrated version of the Pok¨¦mon soundtrack in person with the Pok¨¦mon Symphonic Evolutions concert.
of all places, but promises more dates and locations in the future.
And when there is a Pok¨¦mon celebration, there must be gratuitous amounts of Pok¨¦mon swag. U.S. fans can buy , featuring a special logo, along with an updated version of ¡°.¡± There will also be , featuring some of the original Pocket Monsters, as well as to commemorate the newest Pok¨¦mon Center in Japan¡¯s ancient capital.
For some gamers, this will definitely pull up memories of watching the cartoon after school and demanding that Mom buy new batteries for the Game Boy. If you¡¯re one of them, feel free to join the nostalgia fest with the #Pokemon20 hashtag on and ?Post your favorite moments and memories from the Pok¨¦mon series, whether it¡¯s or . Users are also posting and other to the hashtag.
So whether you did indeed catch them all or if you were just content with only Pikachu, the 20th anniversary of Pok¨¦mon celebration will have something to make you feel like a kid again.
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