Pokémon Yellow Version

Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition (Japanese:  Pocket Monsters: Pikachu), often known as Pokémon Yellow Version, is the third Pokémon game for Game Boy released worldwide, as a solitary version of Pokémon Red and Blue Versions. In Japan, the game was the fourth Pokémon game released, as a second solitary version of. Unlike other games, Pokemon Yellow was inspired by the.

Similar to Red and Blue, Yellow arrived towards the end of the Game Boy's lifespan. It managed, though, to receive the title of second best-selling non-bundled game for its console, losing only to its predecessors.

On November 12, 2015, a Nintendo Direct announced that Yellow will be released in Japan, North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on February 27, 2016, the Pokémon 20th Anniversary, for the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console.

Generation VII games heavily inspired by Pokémon Yellow, titled Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, are slated to be released worldwide for Nintendo Switch in November 2018, two months after Yellow's 20th anniversary in Japan.

