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Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald

76 16 September 2004

Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald is an adventure, released 16 September 2004.

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What Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald is

Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald was released in 2004.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Emerald Version is a 2004 role-playing video game developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It was first released in Japan in 2004, and was later released internationally in 2005. It is the fifth version, after both Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire and Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, and is the final game of the third generation of the Pokémon video game series.
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How it was received

Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald launched on 16 September 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Burnout 3: Takedown. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

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When did Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald come out?
Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald was released on 16 September 2004.

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