LeafGreen

LeafGreen Version is a role-playing video game in the Pokémon series released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004. It was developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. The game is a faithful remake of the 1996 Japanese release Pokémon Green, updated with graphics, sound, and features drawn from later generations. Set in the Kanto region, LeafGreen follows a young trainer who travels across towns and routes to collect eight gym badges and challenge the Pokémon League, while confronting the criminal organization Team Rocket.

LeafGreen is designed as a companion to FireRed Version; the two games share the same world and can trade and battle when connected by a link cable. A Pal Park facility allows transferring eligible Pokémon from older games (Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green) into LeafGreen or FireRed, enabling players to bring classic favorites into the contemporary remake. The game preserves core Pokémon mechanics such as catching, training, and evolving Pokémon, and introduces updated spritework and color palettes that suit the more advanced hardware.

Development and release information indicate that LeafGreen was part of Nintendo’s effort to modernize the Gen I experience for the Game Boy Advance, while preserving the nostalgia of the original. It has since been included in discussions of early 2000s remakes and is noted for strengthening the link between Generation I and Generation III titles within the Pokémon series. In 2016, LeafGreen was re-released on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, extending accessibility to a new generation of players.