This special Pokémon DS was released in Japan and is a simple pink Nintendo DS with a small Mew silhouette on the middle of the top cover. It was released in Pokémon Centers in Japan Contemporaneous materials refer to the game as Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition, [8] [9] [10] [11] or Pokémon Yellow for brevity. The instruction manual refers to the game as "the Yellow version of Pokémon", "Yellow" is one of the selectable preset names for the player character, and Yellow Version can be seen on the game's title screen.

Pokémon.com refers to the game as Pokémon Yellow Special Pikachu Edition in full, but Pokémon Yellow Version and Pokémon Yellow in general usage. [15] Pokémon Yellow Special Pikachu Edition is also the title used in the Nintendo World Pokémon Series Showcase. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U refers to the game as Pokémon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition in Pikachu's trophy description. If a Pikachu owned by the player uses Surf outside of battle, this Pikachu appears as the sprite instead of the generic aquatic sprite. The two available starter Pokémon of this game, Pikachu ( player) and Eevee ( rival), are the only Pokémon introduced prior to Generation V to evolve with a Thunder Stone. Pokémon Daisuki Club I Love Pikachu! Edition - Same as the other I Love Pikachu edition, except the Pokémon Daisuki Club logo on the front is changed. Only 40 were released.This special coverplate for the New Nintendo 3DS comes with various Pikachu covering the entire console. This special Pokémon DS was released in the special PokéPark amusement park within Japan, and later was briefly released in Wal-Mart in the US

Pokémon Red Version 20th Anniversary cover plates - Cover plates depicting Charizard as seen on the box art for Pokémon Red, sold to celebrate the franchise's 20th anniversary. The credits of Pokémon Yellow now include Gengar as the 16th Pokémon silhouette, as opposed to the previous games with only 15 Pokémon silhouettes in the credits.There are two different types of cries available for the same species depending on whether the player is the Pokémon's OT (the starter Pikachu has a vocalization cry like in the anime, while a non-OT Pikachu still has a chiptune noise cry like in earlier games). The entire trio of starter Pokémon introduced in the game's own generation can be obtained without trades, transfers, or events. These are games made for the Game Boy Color. Non-Japanese Pokémon Yellow has Game Boy Color features, but is officially classified by Nintendo as an original Game Boy game. This was also the first game to have a single available Pokémon species with this kind of cry, which was also the case later for Pikachu in Pokémon X and Y.