No. You choose from Cyndaquile, totodile, or chikorita, just like silver and gold versions.
While you can catch it in Viridian Forest, you can't get it as a starter. In Pokemon Yellow, an original Gameboy game, you can get Pikachu as your starter.
His starter pokemon is Pikachu.
you cant
of coure you can, nothings changed but you can only get pikachu as a starter on Pokemon yellow .it will follow you around .cool!☺
No.
pikachu
if you mean "pikachu" then no, pikachu is his starter and it would spoil pokemon in general if he left pikachu.
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You don't.
You can't
You can only get it as a starter Pokemon.
When you begin your starter is Pikachu, you can't change that. It has to be Pikachu.