Pokémon Red
Game Boy
Game info
System: Game Boy
Genre: RPG
Developer: Game Freak
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1 - 2 simultaneous
Save: Battery
Pokémon Red screen shot
Release info
[USA] Pokémon Red
Date: 9/??/1998 ESRB: K-A Serial: DMG-APAE-USA  
[Japan] ポケットモンスター赤
(Pocket Monster Red)
Date: 2/27/1996 Serial: DMG-APAJ-JPN  
[Europe] Pokémon Red
Date: 10/7/1999 Serial:  
[Australia] Pokémon Red
Date: OFLC: G Serial:  
Cameo appearances and references

In Saffron City, find the girl who mimics everyone. Press A on her Super NES, and you will get this message: "A game with MARIO wearing a bucket on his head!" If you have not figured it out already, this is referring to Mario's role in the Japan-only Mario & Wario game, where you are a fairy with a wand, guiding Mario through a maze to find Luigi. The catch is, Mario cannot see, because Wario drops a bucket (or a barrel, or another object, depending on the stage) on Mario's head before each stage.

This same line appears in Pokémon Blue, Red, and Yellow versions.

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