Does games treat pokemon differently overtime? Anime was pretty consistent I think although I could be wrong in about being friends. RBY 1st generation pokemon were more like slaves at worst or half willing gladiators at best from what I recall (memory fuzzy). Although to be honest gameplay seems to treat them like it. What do you say dude?

Well, it’s sort of not easy to draw detailed conclusions from the games, because they’re just less detailed on the world-building front (especially the earlier ones, which also suffer from limited characterisation all around), but I don’t think I would describe Red and Blue that way.  The rival character seems to act at times as though he sees Pokémon that way, so it’s important to note that callous views of Pokémon training do exist (up to and including Team Rocket) – but Blue gets called out on that, hard, by Professor Oak, who emphatically attributes your victory over Blue at the Pokémon League to your stronger relationship with your Pokémon.  The Gym Leaders are pretty vague on all this.  Agatha’s position, though, is very interesting – she is convinced that Pokémon are meant to fight, and that scientific or cultural pursuits are a waste of time.  There are several ways you could interpret her vehement disagreement with Professor Oak here – it could be that there’s a wider ideological conflict over the status of Pokémon going on in the background, or it could be that Agatha is a relic of a much older tradition of Pokémon training… or, perhaps more worryingly, it could be that Professor Oak is the radical (after all, Agatha does single him out when she describes her training philosophy to you), and is pushing for change in a world that mainly views Pokémon as Agatha does – not necessarily in a systematically abusive light, but more callous overall than later portrayals suggest.  I think the subsequent games, particularly Black and White, establish something of a consensus on the matter, but if you want to read Red and Blue alone, as though when they were first released, there’s a bit more room for elaboration if you’re willing to downplay Professor Oak’s authority.