Pokémon Blue Version · Game Boy
Fourth print — black ESRB badge
How to identify it
The ESRB badge on the front is solid black instead of white, which is the quickest tell of the four and visible from the front alone.
- Back screenshot: Pidgey against Rattata, text corrected.
- Folding tab code:
DMG-APEE USA-1— note the-1. - Cartridge:
DMG-APEE-USA-1, with a black ESRB badge on the label. - Box bottom: Y-fold. Insert: removable. Fiber stamp: 83% / 81%.
The -1 suffix on both the box and the cartridge marks a revised product code, so a loose DMG-APEE-USA-1 cartridge belongs to this print.
Traits
- Insert
- Removable
- Box code
- DMG-APEE-USA-1
- Revision
- Print 4 of 4 documented US box prints
- Back text
- Corrected
- Cart code
- DMG-APEE-USA-1
- ESRB logo
- Black, solid
- Box bottom
- Y-fold
- Fiber stamp
- 83% / 81%
- Back screenshot
- Pidgey vs. Rattata
- Label variation
- Black ESRB badge on the cartridge label
- Folding tab code
- DMG-APEE USA-1
Notes
About 11% of adamw's survey. This is the only print whose cartridge code differs, which makes it the one print identifiable from a loose cartridge.
Source: Community variant guide, cross-checked against graded auction listings — the Elite Fourum Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow variant guide, with the population survey by adamw (elitefourum.com and videogamesage.com, read 22 October 2026).
Photos
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Other versions of Pokémon Blue Version
- First print — "Red version" back textFirst printNorth America · FP-000295
- Second print — corrected "Blue version" textPrint 2North America · FP-000296
- Third print — Pidgey and Rattata backPrint 3North America · FP-000297