@Zombo

It's gimped because it lacks features that were present with the original games. You can't do the same things with the VC version that you could do with the original cartridges. I thought I explained that pretty well but perhaps not... The fact that the poster directly above you (RadioShadow) mentions Stadium completely contradicts your comment that "most people don't care about Stadium", which I wasn't aware that you could speak for anyone other than yourself anyway. There are a few other VC titles that suffer this problem but none so blatant as Pokemon RBY. If they had given the game some form of online connectivity I could see the reasoning for all the excitement, but as it stands you're only getting a basic version of the game that you can't do that much with compared the original. Yes, I know they made the link cable functionality work which is definitely impressive (even getting those to work on an emulator is a challenge), but you still can't do everything with it that you could do with the original cartridge. Had they have given it some functionality it didn't previously have (such as wifi battle and trading, which many people were disappointed to find out it would lack), then I'd be hyped too.

@KTT gives the best response and honestly, that's a fair enough explanation. Having RBY on a single format is pretty convenient. I (like many others) just hope this is enough to convince them to release Pokemon Stadium for the Wii U and give it the functionality that the original game had. If they did that, I'd be more than happy to download both as playing with the Transfer Pak can be spotty at best due to the frequency of which the damn thing disconnects from the controller pak.