Remember The Game? #374 - Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen

About this episode

In this episode, Adam discusses the remakes of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, exploring their improvements over the original games and their nostalgic value.

Are you on social media? Of course you are. So follow us!  Twitter: @MemberTheGame Instagram: @MemberTheGame Twitch.tv/MemberTheGame ⁠⁠⁠Youtube.com/RememberTheGame⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Facebook.com/RememberTheGamePodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠TikTok.com/@MemberTheGame⁠⁠⁠ And if you want access to hundreds of bonus (ad-free) podcasts, along with multiple new shows EVERY WEEK, consider showing us some love over at Patreon. Subscriptions start at just $3/month, and 5% of our patreon income every month will be donated to our 24 hour Extra-Life charity stream at the end of the year! ⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/RememberTheGame⁠⁠⁠ And you can find Mark on TikTok @barkmccue Like so many of you, I grew up playing Pokemon. I was 12 when I started playing Pokemon Blue, and while I've been in and out of the series since, Gen I has long been a favourite of mine. So when Nintendo dropped the remakes of those games on the Switch, I knew it was time to show them a little RTG love. FireRed and LeafGreen are absolutely the definitive way to play Pokemon Gen I. Better graphics, more Pokemon, quality of life improvements, deeper mechanics, they're phenomenal games. Are they good enough to break my nostalgic ties to the OGs? Have a…

People in this episode

Host: Adam Blank

Topics covered

• Pokemon
• video games
• remakes
• nostalgia
• gaming mechanics

Keywords

• Pokemon
• FireRed
• LeafGreen
• Nintendo
• remakes
• gaming
• nostalgia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nintendo

Products: Pokemon FireRed, Pokemon LeafGreen

Books & works: Pokemon Blue

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