How you can send your Red, Blue, and Yellow Pokémon to Sun and Moon

Nintendo is finally enabling fans to bring their favorite Pokémon from the first generation of games to the 3DS.

The company revealed today that players can transfer Pokémon from original Red, Blue, and Yellow games for Game Boy to the upcoming Sun and Moon releases for 3DS due out later this year. This only works with the 3DS rerelease of those 1996 classics that are due to launch tomorrow as part of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary (read all about that milestone here). But this is the first time that Pokémon from the Game Boy and Game Boy Color games will transfer to a new game in the series since the release of Gold and Silver in 2000. Considering that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are making a big deal out of their $45 billion franchise turning 20, it makes sense that they would try to pull in lapsed, aging fans to capitalize on that nostalgia campaign.