“Pokemon Purple” seems to be a promising title to longtime “Pokemon”-playing calc owners. This version features a beautiful grayscale title screen, at which you press a key to continue. I have found that pressing [Enter] will sometimes generate a flash in which the picture loses its grayscale, but any other key safely advances to the menu.

The actual gameplay is primarily a walking engine based on the homescreen--ASCII, the best graphics around. You can walk around the town and the path to the north, eventually coming to where the maps stop. Also is the option of reading signs with [2nd]. Note that pressing [2nd] on the top line causes a Domain error.

Map loading is slow, but is to be fixed. I recommend you play this on a calculator of higher speed and memory.

Graphics - 9/10 - Great title screen, greater text graphics.
Playability - 5/10 - Keep in mind this is a demo.
Memory - 10/10 - The programs are fairly small, and there are no memory leaks.
Speed - 4/10 - Something will be done to fix this.
Overall - 7/10