Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue are RPG games where you travel around the Kanto region catching wild Pokémon and training them to battle as part of your team. As you explore, you will visit many towns, battle other trainers and their Pokémon, complete your Pokédex, and become the best Pokémon trainer.
Overworld
You start off in Pallet Town where you live with your mom. Professor Oak lives nearby. You walk in a grid layout, moving up, down, left, or right. Through your adventures you'll visit many towns and meet many other characters.
There are areas where you may encounter wild Pokémon, who you can battle and catch. These will appear as tall grass. You can also encounter wild Pokémon at any time inside caves or in the water. These areas also often have other Pokémon trainers who will want to battle you.
Catching Pokémon
Trainer battles
Battling consists of fighting an opposing trainer's Pokémon with your own.
Evolution
Trading
Characters
Red
Red is the protagonist in Red, Blue, and Yellow. He lives with his mom in Pallet Town. Red has extremely pale brown hair that looks grey, a red and white cap and grey eyes. Matching his cap, he wears a red, sleeveless jacket with a white collar and stripes. He has a black undershirt with a yellow backpack over his shoulders. He wears light blue shaggy jeans with black and red shoes. He appears to have a watch on his wrist and tosses a Pokéball in one hand and puts his hand in his pocket with the other. In earlier artwork of him, he had dark black hair. He has a fierce stern expression on his face and a solemn demeanor. In any of the Pokemon games, he never says a word. When dialogue does happen, the only text that appears is "..."
Blue
Blue is the grandson of Professor Oak. He's not a playable character, but he makes appearances in Red, Blue, and Yellow. Although Blue is annoying and cocky, he's an amazing Pokemon Trainer. Blue has orange hair with a black shirt and shaggy, purple jeans. He has 2 purple wrist bands and is holding an Ultra Ball. He wears a pouch wrapped around his waist and a necklace with a some sort of precious stone hanging from it. He also wears black shows with a small amount of light blue. He has pretty long legs. Other artwork of him shows brown or pale brown hair, like Red's. Blue posseses a "bring it on" or "show me the best you got" expression on his face. He usually ends conversations with "Smell ya later!" He's a cocky, confident, and competitive young boy who seeks the same goals as Red.
Menus
The main menu does not have many features at all. Upon pressing the 
button you'll be brought to a screen with two options: NEW GAME and OPTION. NEW GAME will start a new game and get on with things. However, you might want to visit the OPTION menu to tune things to your idea of perfection. Below is a list of the settings and information about those settings.
| Setting | Description | Options | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text Speed | Determines the speed at which letters and words appear in a text box. | Fast, Medium, Slow | All versions |
| Animation/Battle Animation | Determines whether the appearance of graphical animations appear in battle, such as Moves, Weather, and Status Condition. | On, Off | All versions |
| Battle Style | Determines whether or not the player is asked to change Pokemon when the opponent changes their Pokémon for any reason. | Set, Shift | All versions |
| Sound | Determines the output of audio. | Mono, Earphone1, Earphone2, Earphone3 | Yellow |
| Determines the contrast of printing. | Lightest, Lighter, Normal, Darker, Darkest | Yellow |