by Matt Tate from Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics on (#73Q2D)
It's a big month for Pokemon, with February 27 marking 30 years since the world's highest-grossing media franchise first introduced itself in the shape of two Game Boy games. Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green, which later arrived in the West as Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue, kicked off a craze in Japan that would soon spread worldwide. And to mark the series' 30th anniversary, the little turn-based RPGs that started it all are being re-released on Nintendo Switch.Well, sort of. The versions we're actually getting are the Game Boy Advance remakes, Pokemon FireRed Version and Pokemon LeafGreen Version, which originally came out in 2004. Explaining its decision to bring back the enhanced GBA titles rather than the originals, Nintendo said in an FAQ that it thought Switch owners would like the opportunity to revisit the "ultimate versions of the original Pokemon adventures in the Kanto region."