**This is assuming the regulations from 1996 haven't changed much in the past twenty years.**
Low-rise exclusive residential zoned areas have maximum building heights of 10 to 12 meters. Kyoto’s historical districts have a maximum building height of 15 meters. These rules apply to both wooden and reinforced concrete structures. For the purpose of my little study I'll take the average and just use 11 meters (~ 36 feet) for Red's home in Pokemon Red and Pokemon Fire Red for game boy advance. This puts the first floor of the home at 18 feet (~ 5.5 meters) and the second floor at another 18 feet since there is no evidence for an attic in either game. Why someone would need 18 foot tall ceilings is beyond me, but okay.
I dug deeper and found that for residential homes in Japan the maximum height of each step that's allowed in a staircase is 23 cm (~ 9 in.). Take a look at the staircase in Red's home in Pokemon Fire Red for Game Boy Advance; there are a total of 8 steps, assuming the eighth step leads straight to the floor of the second level of the house. Keeping that in mind, 72 inches equate to 1.82 meters (6 feet). The staircase in Fire Red is approx. 6 feet apparently.
I took an image of Red's home from Pokemon Red for the original Game Boy and zoomed in on the image to count the number of pixels from the bottom of the house to the roof. Red's house is 146 video game pixels tall.
Keep in mind I'm using 36 feet (11 meters) for the height of Red's house in the game. 36 feet is the same thing as 432 inches (10.972 meters) so take 432 and divide it by the number of video game pixels (in this case: 146) and you get a total of 2.958 inches (7.513 cm.). Take the height of each individual pixel (2.958) and multiply it by the number of pixels from the top of the house to the bottom (146) and you get 431.868 inches, which is the same as 35.989 feet (10.969 meters). <--- The average I stated earlier.
Wikipedia.org states that average height of an adult Japanese male is 172 cm (~ 5 ft. 7 in.) and from the video game Red stands only 51 pixels high. I stopped counting at Red's hairline and didn't count the pixels of his hat. A few steps later and we can calculate Red's total height at 5.369 feet (1.636 meters). The same as 5 feet 3 inches I think. The game never gives a real view of how tall Red is, only the squashed version from the birds-eye perspective the video game gives the player so I feel he could be taller than this.
Please, please, please don't quote me on any of this. This isn't official by any means, I did it for fun :sarcastic:
Here's the photo I used for my little project:
https://kdstitching.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/pokemon-sign-home-sweet-home.jpg
Here are the countries regulations I used for my project:
Building Regulations in Japan – Japan Property Central
