Pokemon Green Edition - is there?
There is a green edition of Pokémon, but it was only released in Japan. Only the remake - Pokémon "Leaf Green" - made it to Europe. This has created a myth about the Japanese green edition of Pokémon. In this article, we clarify exactly what it contains.
Pokémon: Green Edition - the myth about unit 731
The red and green edition of Pokémon were the first published versions of the game. They have only been released in this form in Japan. Only the red and blue versions were subsequently available in Europe and America. The green edition has been completely removed from the market.
- Since then, a myth has been surrounding the mysterious green edition:
- There is said to be a Pokémon named "731" at a certain point on Route 7, which the developer Shin Nakamura is said to have installed.
- The Pokémon 731 is based on the Japanese unit 731, which killed numerous people through chemical weapons in the 1930s.
- If you see the Pokémon 731, portraits of the members of Unit 731 and pictures of autopsied corpses appear, as shown for example by this YouTube video.
- If you catch the Pokémon 731, the Gameboy crashes and the game is broken.
- Another myth: The music of the city of Lavandia in the green edition is said to have driven more than 200 children into suicide.
- However, the real reason for the disappearance of the green edition is the low sales in the Japanese market.
- This further developed the green edition and replaced it with the blue edition. That is why only the red and blue editions have appeared on the European and American markets.
- Only the remake - Pokémon leaf green - made it to Europe and America. Incidentally, this was very successful compared to the original green version.
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