>>54357338Well, they're gen 3 games, so if you actually care about playing gen 1, then play gen 1. Whether you actually care about splitting hairs like that, I don't know, but that's what you asked. If you like Pokemon in general, I'd recommend you to play both originals and remakes anyway. There's a lot of fun observations to make about the differences in design along the way, and you get to play two fun video games instead of one.