Pallet Town. Mt. Moon. Fuchsia City. Cinnabar Island. Indigo Plateau. For many, many gamers of a certain age, those locations (and more) are a deeply embedded part of their childhood, as they represent some key places in the seminal 1996 video games Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. (The games were first released in Japan under the “Pocket Monsters” name — Poketto Monsutā in Japanese — before coming stateside as “Pokémon” in 1998. The renaming was due to a potential copyright conflict with the popular toy line “Monsters in My Pocket.”) Few games have been as historically significant as those two…
