Pokémon Blue Version 1996

Is it still worth playing?

Game Freak's 1996 role playing game for the Game Boy, directed by Satoshi Tajiri, with Blue first sold in Japan by mail order and Red and Blue reaching North America in 1998. You explore Kanto, catch Pokémon with Poké Balls, battle turn based with up to four moves, level up and evolve them, and beat eight Gym Leaders and the Elite Four, with 151 Pokémon to find. Trading and battling run over the Game Link Cable, and trading between versions is needed to complete the Pokédex. The goal is easy to state: eight badges, the Elite Four and a full Pokédex. The loop of catching, training and battling is simple enough to pick up now, and the version differences make trading with friends part of the design.