Gamlet Trivia #32 — 2026-08-03
The answer was Pokémon Red and Blue — The pair sold over 31 million copies and seeded the highest-grossing media franchise on Earth..
That day's clues
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- A 1998 Game Boy pair (1996 in Japan) that made the link cable mandatory playground equipment.
- A creature-collecting RPG: catch wild monsters in capsules, trade with friends to complete the encyclopedia, and stay one badge ahead of your rival.
- Developed over six long years by Game Freak — nearly bankrupting the studio — and published by Nintendo.
- Shipping two versions with exclusive monsters was social-engineering genius, and a certain glitch beyond the shore taught kids about memory corruption.
- The silent hero and his smug rival carry the initials R. and B.