Editing Pokémon (section)

====''Blue Version''====
After the release of ''Pokemon Red'' and ''Green'', Game Freak continued to grow, and a number of new employees were hired. For training purposes, they were ordered to study and make bug fixes to the [[source code]] of ''Red & Green'', and to create new [[Sprite (computer graphics)|sprites]] for it;<ref>{{Harvp|Tomisawa|2000|p=14}}.</ref> the test was later dubbed ''[[Pokemon Blue|Pocket Monsters Blue]]''. It was originally not meant to be sold. Only a small number of handmade copies were made, intended as a special gift to "20 to 100 people".<ref>{{Harvp|Hatakeyama|Kubo|2000|p=210}}.</ref> After Kubo learned of it, he encouraged Tajiri and Ishihara to allow an official release of ''Blue''. President [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]] initially rejected this, fearing it would confuse people into believing it was an entirely new ''Pokemon'' game. Kawaguchi then suggested an alternative, which Yamauchi agreed with: ''Blue'' would not receive a normal retail release, but would instead be made available only through mail order for a limited time as a special offer.<ref>{{Harvp|Hatakeyama|Kubo|2000|p=212-213}}.</ref> It was announced in the November issue of ''CoroCoro'', which explicitly stated that ''Blue'' was not a new game, but rather a special, limited edition to celebrate 1 million sales of ''Red'' and ''Green''.<ref name="CoroCoro_May_96" /> The offer was a surprisingly big success: 300,000 units were expected to be sold, but over double was ordered.<ref>{{Harvp|Tomisawa|2000|p=16}}.</ref><ref>{{Harvp|Pokemon Business Study Group|1998|p=88-89}}.</ref>