The Pokémon series has turned 25 this 2021. One of the unexpected consequences of the celebration is the fact that video game collectors look at the most classic installments with renewed interest. So a lot of the prices for Game Boy games and the like have spiked. Attention because if you have them you can have a small fortune hidden in their cartridges.
Note: The Price Charting portal has been used to find approximate prices. These correspond to impeccable versions of the games that have not come out of the box and that have been officially evaluated as such. The more used a game is, the more its value will drop.
10. Pokémon Pearl Version
The price of Pokémon Pearl skyrocketed shortly after Nintendo announced its remake, scheduled for late 2021, and its prequel (Pokémon Legends: Arceus). Both titles will be released for Nintendo Switch. Along with Diamond, Pearl included 107 new Pokémon and was the first time it was possible to compete against others online.
9. Pokémon Blue Version
Along with Pokémon Red, Blue is the edition that started the whole Pokémon fever. It arrived in Spain at the end of 1999, just when the Game Boy portable was already falling behind in sales. Well then: these were reactivated thanks to Pikachu and company. At the time, if you wanted to change Pokémon with friends, you had to buy the famous Game Link cable.
8. Pokémon FireRed
The remake of Pokémon Red Version. In addition to a graphical overhaul, it includes a new region: an archipelago of islands where you could hunt Pokémon previously exclusive to Johto. It had a function that ended up being forgotten, which was extremely useful. It consisted of reviewing your last movements when loading a game so that you would quickly remember what you were doing.
7. Pokémon Stadium
A year after the western launch of Pokémon Blue and Red, Nintendo 64, Nintendo's home console, received a spinoff that consisted of a parade of Pokémon battles, one after another. It became the beginning of a long subseries that unfortunately today seems to have ended.
6. Pokémon LeafGreen
The remake of Pokémon Green Version, a game that never left Japan. Perhaps because of this, LeafGreen is worth more than FireRed on the collectors' market. If you completed all the main and secondary content, you could trade Pokémon from the Ruby and Sapphire editions.
5. Pokémon Crystal Version
The only game in the main Pokémon saga that was 100% exclusive to Game Boy Color. Among its novelties, an exclusive subplot related to Suicune, one of the Legendary Dogs, stands out. The player could also find out more about the mysterious Pokémon called Unown. And this installment meant the debut of the great Battle Tower mode.
4. Pokemon Box
Pokémon Box is not a typical game, but its price is well worth its inclusion in this list. It was a special disc for the GameCube that allowed you to store all the Pokémon captured in the Game Boy Advance games on your console's memory card. In the United States and Japan it was only included in a special pack and in Europe it could only be obtained by exchanging it for Nintendo Official Club points. The shortage of units has caused it to be worth so much.
3. Pokémon Yellow Version
Pokémon Yellow was a game/update to Red and Blue. Its great novelty is that it made Pikachu the main star, due to the popularity of the anime. Also featured were Jessie, James, and Meowth, recurring villains from the series, and some well-known characters were redesigned to resemble their anime versions.
2. Pokémon Red Version
Pokémon Red may be more sought after among collectors than Blue because Charizard has always been a popular Pokémon. If you've never tried it and want to delve into the origins of the series without spending a fortune, there is a very cheap digital version in the Nintendo 3DS online store.
1. Pokémon Emerald Version
The Ruby and Sapphire game/update. In this installment you must defeat 2 criminal gangs at the same time, instead of just one, it incorporates Pokémon until now exclusive to Gold and Silver, and you can capture the Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza. Rayquaza's story was expanded upon in the 3DS remakes Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
