My thoughs on game pricing, development costs, and microtransactions/paid DLC.

[Cloudman]

BasilZero said:

Cloudman said:

From what I've heard, they dropped the casinos from the Pokemon games in order to drop the overall rating for the games so it'd be E for Everyone. I think the gambling games caused it to get a 13 and up rating, which they didn't want. I think the digital re-releases of the old games have these higher ratings.

 

Its still rated E for Everyone across ESRB's site and on any site you go to buy the digital versions of the games (i.e. Amazon).

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/pokemon-red-version-3ds

Cloudman said:

I think it was just Gen 1, or possible Gen 2 as well. I don't remember...

Luckily in game purchases wasn't really even a concept back then. Though nowadays Pokemon just gives rare pokemon and items through timed events, which is not ideal, but at least it doesn't cost extra.

Gen 1 - celadon city gambling corner :)

Oh, looks like I was wrong. Whoops...! And it looks like it was just Gen 1...