Second print — corrected "Blue version" text

Sandshrew on the back, and the back-of-box text is correct. The last paragraph says "Blue version" and sends you to a friend with Red, which is how it was always meant to read.

This box is physically identical to the first print in every other respect: white pixelated ESRB badge, double-ended box bottom, glued-in insert, U/DMG-APEE USA folding tab, 100% / 55% fiber stamp. That is exactly why the first print is worth a page — the two boxes are the same object apart from one word.

This is also the print people most often mistake for a first print, because "Sandshrew back" gets quoted on its own as a first-print marker. It is not one. It is the commonest of the four prints.

About 55% of adamw's 203-copy survey, which makes it the print you are most likely to be holding.

Listed here because it is the first print's near twin. Without this row, "Sandshrew back" reads like a first-print marker, and most Sandshrew boxes are this one.

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).