just asking...?

i want to play it..

The very first version was Green, but it's only available in Japan. Red and Green were, I believe, released at the same time over there, and then Blue started coming as a 'bonus' game of sorts, packaged with Red. Eventually Red and Blue were translated and released in English, leaving Green out of the trilogy.

After that the series moved on to Yellow, Gold/Silver, Crystal, and so on.

so you said yellow was the first right?

the yellow is the same with fire red and leaf green?...

No no. Sorry, I suppose I was being a little presumptuous. Let me be a little more specific.

First, Green and Red were released in Japan for the Game Boy. Those were the first two games, ever.

After that, Blue was released to complete the original trilogy. When they were translated and released to the English audience, they only translated Red and Blue, so those were the first two English pokemon games in the series.

Next they released Yellow in both nationalities as a specially modified and more anime-like version of the original Red and Blue games. I think the anime came out shortly before Yellow, but don't quote me on it. I'm not familiar with the timeline.

After Red, Blue, and Yellow came Gold and Silver - the first two titles of the "second generation" games and the first ones released on the Game Boy Color. The difference was that these new versions came with a whole new array of species, two new elemental types, and a whole new region to explore called the Johto region. (The Red, Blue, and Yellow games took place in Kanto, which is also explorable later in the Gold/Silver games.) The second generation was also the first one to allow players to choose between a male and female character - Red, Blue, and Yellow only allow male.

Crystal came shortly after Gold and Silver. Like Yellow's relationship to Red and Blue, Crystal was a modified version of Gold and Silver that had a more character-specific storyline and some key differences in encounters and the game's "main" legendary pokemon. Like they did in Yellow, they also fixed most of the glitches found in Gold and Silver when they released Crystal, most notably the duplication glitch, making Crystal considerably less popular than its predecessors.

Next were the third generation titles, released on the Game Boy Advance in glorious 32-bit. Ruby and Sapphire came once again with a whole new array of species to find and catch as well as a new region to explore, called the Hoenn region. While it still contained all the previous species from the first and second generations, neither Johto nor Kanto were accessible in these new games. However, despite all the new content and quality graphics, this generation lost many original fans because it removed many of the first and second generation's original features, such as the real-time clock introduced in Gold and Silver and the ability to trade pokemon to and from past games.

Emerald was the third generation's version of Yellow and Crystal - I haven't played it personally but I can assume that it follows the same story-intuitive formula.

Also with Emerald came the new Fire Red and Leaf Green games for the Game Boy Advance. These were remakes of the original Red and Green games, in the Kanto region, with third-generation graphics and features, as well as second- and third-generation evolutions and a few new areas to explore. Trading between Fire Red, Leaf Green, and Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, a player was able to capture loosely all of the first and second generation species along with the third ones.

Next came the fourth and most recent generation: Diamond, Pearl, and later Platinum, all for the Nintendo DS. Again, new species, new region, same gameplay, for the most part. Similar to how second generation titles were able to trade with first generation games using an ingame feature called the Time Machine, the fourth generation games were able to use the DS's multiple ports to "transmigrate" pokemon from third generation games over onto the DS titles.

Following the same pattern as Fire Red and Leaf Green, they recently released remakes of Gold and Silver (titled Heart Gold and Soul Silver) for the DS in Japan. Just like Fire Red and Leaf Green could interact with the third generation titles, these remakes will be able to trade, battle, and interact with the fourth generation games, Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. Heart Gold and Soul Silver are the most recently released titles in the series, and as far as I'm aware, have not been released in English yet.

Personally, my favorites are the second generation Gold and Silver games, but I'm a sucker for nostalgia. I love both the first and second generations. After that the series just got more and more commercial and, sadly, I think the recent games have lost most or all of the series' original spark.

ya what he said.... Dude nice info about pokemon history

I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.

By the way, I made at least one mistake. The ability to play as a female wasn't until Crystal - Gold and Silver were still male automatically.

so you want to say is..
pokemon leafgreen and firered is the first pokemon not yellow?...

Fire Red and Leaf Green are the 9th and 10th.

1) Red
2) Blue
3) Yellow
4) Gold
5) Silver
6) Crystal
7) Ruby
8) Sapphire
9) Fire Red
10) Leaf Green
11) Emerald
12) Diamond
13) Pearl
14) Platinum