Pokémon Red, Blue, & Yellow rereleases are almost like riding a time machine back to 1996

Get ready to feel old.

It’s been 20 years since the first Pokémon games — Red and Green for the Game Boy — debuted in Japan, and since then, the Pokemon series has sold 275 million video games worldwide, shipped 21.5 billion trading cards to 74 countries, launched an 18 season animated series, and become an industry defining brand for both Nintendo and the Pokémon Company. To celebrate the anniversary, they are rereleasing the original, classic adventures that started the creature-catching phenomenon. For us here in the States, that means Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, out via the 3DS Virtual Console on February 27.