Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow (Red & Green in Japan) are traditional role-playing games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. Red & Green were released in Japan on February 27, 1996. A updated version, Pokémon Blue was released on October 15th, 1996 in Japan. Pokémon Yellow, another updated version that took elements from the Pokémon anime at the time was released on September 12th, 1998 in Japan and October 18th, 1999 in the United States. The original pair of games were released in the United States as Pokémon Red and Blue, omitting Green - these were released September 28th, 1998.