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Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire

Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire (Japanese: ポケモンボックス ルビー&サファイア Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire) is a Nintendo GameCube Pokémon utility. Pokémon Box itself is not so much a game as it is a storage system for Trainers'…

30 May 2003

Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire is a video game developed by Game Freak, released 30 May 2003 on Nintendo GameCube.

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What Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire is

Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire was developed by Game Freak and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire (Japanese: ポケモンボックス ルビー&サファイア Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire) is a Nintendo GameCube Pokémon utility. Pokémon Box itself is not so much a game as it is a storage system for Trainers' Pokémon. Trainers can store up to 1,500 Pokémon in twenty-five boxes that hold 60 Pokémon each and trade between Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, as well as FireRed and LeafGreen. All of the Pokémon can be stored on a GameCube memory card, requiring the full 59 blocks for save data. A special edition Ruby and Sapphire Memory Card 59 is included with most versions of the game for players to use (the European version just comes with a normal memory card).
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire is the 77th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Battle e Card: Freezing Ray in 2003.

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What it launched against

Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire launched on 30 May 2003, within three weeks of Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut.

Released around the same time: Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon, Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut.

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When did Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire come out?
Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire was released on 30 May 2003 for Nintendo GameCube.

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