Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue combined Red/Green/Blue for release outside of Japan.
The games were later released as Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue in North America and Australia in 1998 and Europe in 1999. They were first released in Japan in 1996 as Pocket Monsters: Red and Pocket Monsters: Green, with the special edition Pocket Monsters: Blue being released in Japan later that same year. They are the first installments of the Pokémon video game series. Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version are 1996 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.
