12th April 2004, 5:48 PM
You forgot the Japan-only Green :D (well, there's a whole thing about that that's the ACTUAL truth, but no I won't confuse you all again) :D.
In all fairness, Red/Blue/Green/Yellow may have been 4 versions of the same game, but Gold/Silver/Crystal was a brand new game (with 3 versions), and Ruby/Sapphire is also a seperate game. So, it's 3 games with many versions, not just 1. Still, while red/blue was innovative at the time, really I had hoped Nintendo would be kind to it's customers and from that point on just release all the new games as ONE game. There could be a sort of random selection of what monsters don't appear so you have to still find friends to get them all. Also, no more Yellow/Crystal style remakes on the SAME system being sold. Then again, Nintendo isn't alone. Square-Enix, and Konami, have released many updated versions of their games, namely on the PS2.
If you want to see a game that was really run into the ground though, look to the very beginning... (Yes, I know the Oddysey was the real first here...)
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/
Behold, Pong was released like 3000 times IN A ROW before they finally gave it a rest and made something new.
In all fairness, Red/Blue/Green/Yellow may have been 4 versions of the same game, but Gold/Silver/Crystal was a brand new game (with 3 versions), and Ruby/Sapphire is also a seperate game. So, it's 3 games with many versions, not just 1. Still, while red/blue was innovative at the time, really I had hoped Nintendo would be kind to it's customers and from that point on just release all the new games as ONE game. There could be a sort of random selection of what monsters don't appear so you have to still find friends to get them all. Also, no more Yellow/Crystal style remakes on the SAME system being sold. Then again, Nintendo isn't alone. Square-Enix, and Konami, have released many updated versions of their games, namely on the PS2.
If you want to see a game that was really run into the ground though, look to the very beginning... (Yes, I know the Oddysey was the real first here...)
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/
Behold, Pong was released like 3000 times IN A ROW before they finally gave it a rest and made something new.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)