Pirate Pokemon Green??

[Big Papa Husker]

Today I went to my local pawn because I had a feeling that I was going to find something. Well, I went and was digging through this one tub and found Pokemon Green. I was freaking out because I had never found an import at a store before. Anyway, I bought it freaking out.

I get home and look on EBAY to see how much these things are going for and saw that the game itself is gray, not green like the one I have. I immediately thought it was a pirate and I'm thinking it is. Looking at the label, it says Pocket Monsters II which is weird.

I snapped some pictures of it. Anyone seen anything like it? Is this actually a later release of Green?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/HuskerFan/game.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/HuskerFan/back.jpg

Unfortunately I don't have my Gameboy here (I'm at my dorm), but I might run home tomorrow to pop it in and see if it really is Pokemon.

[DefaultGen]

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[Mr.collection]

Yeah I have seen at least 50 copies. But none of mine have gameboy in the little ridge. As far as I know that is the only box in exsistance.
My thread is here (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75670)

[PentiumMMX]

Looks a little fake...I don't think Nintendo started with the colored cartridges for the Japanese PKMN games until Gold\Silver. Also, why would it say that PKMN Green is "Pocket Monsters II"? That's the old name for Gold\Silver, and Green was one of the first PKMN games...

It does look more realistic then that first Bootleg PKMN Green seen in the topic that Mr. Collection linked to in his post. But there are still problems witrh it...

(Possible Boootleg PKMN Green Cartridge added to Court Record)

(Yeah, I got through playing some Pheonix Wright earlier...)

[dcescott]

I think was out after red/blue
Pocket Monsters is the correct name for Pokemon in Japan. But part II??
Green should be Gold/Silver or some of both. Play it a while as see what you catch. I stopped the craze after red and blue, started a family, got busy, no time to catch em all I guess.
Ebay would most likely flag it for pirates (arrr!) They tried to get me on my Sega CDX a few weeks ago. So ebay is not a good place to check. Try goggling pirate game boy carts or Fake pokemon games. You never know...

[XxHennersXx]

I think was out after red/blue
Pocket Monsters is the correct name for Pokemon in Japan. But part II??
Green should be Gold/Silver or some of both. Play it a while as see what you catch. I stopped the craze after red and blue, started a family, got busy, no time to catch em all I guess.
Ebay would most likely flag it for pirates (arrr!) They tried to get me on my Sega CDX a few weeks ago. So ebay is not a good place to check. Try goggling pirate game boy carts or Fake pokemon games. You never know...

*head/desk*

the japanese had a release of green and red. not blue and red. blue was a limited mail order release afterwords. Blue had enhanced graphics. In America our red and blue had japanese blue versions graphics, and blue had the monster setup from green.

but yes, this is a pirate. plain and simple.

[Blitzwing256]

there are tons of differnt pirates of the pocket monster games, in fact its harder to find a legit copy of it. still a legit copy will set you back about 20$ or less complete (play-asia had new copies for 10 at one point though) still its a neat find in the wild, if you do want to play it be warned, most pirate poke games then to have very weak batteries that die very easily.

[tom]

Yes, Pokemon Green was the first Japanese game. I used to own it, but i cannot remember if it was housed in a green cartridge. It could be, I own the JAPANESE Tamagotchi game, which comes in a white cart, whilst my JAPANESE Tamagotchi 2 game is in a regular grey cart.

My Pokemon RED and Yellow come in red and yellow cartridges, but they are European releases.

[Oobgarm]

but yes, this is a pirate. plain and simple.

:wink 2:

[Funk Buddy]

Seems odd to me that they'd use the same art work if it was real. Since it's been determined to be a boot, I thought I throw up a picture of the Pocket Monsters Green if anyone wanted to see it.

- edit

Since I can't get the picture to work for some reason here is a link instead.

click me (http://www.combobento.com/photos/JPN%20Game%20Boy/DMG-APBJ-JPNF.html)

[Slate]

It looks like it says nintesno game boy. (?)