Pokemon Red was a GameBoy Colour game, as it says "GameBoy Colour" on the cartridge. It is in colour on GBC because it was intended to have colour, it just remains compatible with the original GameBoy. The original GameBoy games released before GBC will remain black and white on GBC, GBA or whatever, as colours were not programmed into them, it is an impossiblity for the colours to change on a different console, other than playing GBC games on the original GameBoy, which cannot play colours, and so it's converted into shades of black and white instead.
The only GameBoy games in colour on the GBC are the actual GBC games, with "Colour" clearly denoted on the game cartridge.
Considering the age of the device, if it's purely for the games, I would suggest an emulator perhaps (that's bad here, though), it's more likely an item that will be bought for nostalgia value, and the fact that it will likely be worth alot more in years to come.
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