Decades later, these Pokémon games remain the benchmark for the series and the gold standard fans still talk about today.

Julián F.L. is a Video Game & Anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He knows every single Pokémon by ...

Game Freak and Nintendo’s wildly successful monster-taming RPG series, has been out for a week now, and it’s safe to say that player reception to the title is…mixed, at best. There’s a lot that ...

The Nintendo Game Boy and its semi-successor, the Game Boy Color, weren't exactly known for boasting a large variety of first-person shooter games. Titles like Faceball 2000 (1991) and Ultimate ...

When a franchise reaches the hulking size of Pokémon, it finds its way into everything. The Pokémon Company’s games have touched almost every genre, we’ve seen its characters rendered in almost every ...

Andrea is an editor at Game Rant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly three years. She became a gamer for life at 7, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy ...

And if you’re still itching to play after the first 8 badges, well, you can actually visit a massive number of regions, both new and familiar. Naljo and Rijon are both fully realised, yet you can also ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Pokemon is one of the most recognizable franchises for a reason. The series has expanded in so ...

The longevity of Pokémon as a series is incredibly interesting to me. It’s one of the few franchises which has survived since the very beginning of gaming as we know it, and continues to be an ...

WTF?! When Nintendo and The Lego Group announced plans to release a Game Boy replica Lego set in late July, Australian retro gaming modder Natalie the Nerd jokingly promised to build a working circuit ...

The LEGO Game Boy has been one of the best-selling sets for 2025 so far and it only just came out. And it's not really hard to see why. It strikes the perfect balance of nostalgia and affordability ...

A Raleigh game store opened its doors Saturday after the store owners said someone broke in and stole some Pokémon cards. It happened Friday night at Hidden Block Games at 2409 Crabtree Blvd. Suite ...