It may seem limited by comparison, but it’s an extremely competent adaptation that couldn’t possibly feel any more streamlined and approachable.Ĭhances are, even some avid collectors at the time weren’t quite sure exactly how to play and remained perfectly content to just throw cards at each other, create their own rules, and horde the holographics like they were sacred relics. The whole appeal here is the card game itself, battling other collectors and earning booster packs to assemble the ultimate deck. You move straight from club (this game’s version of a gym) to club, collecting medals with no messing around in between. There are no towns or routes to travel along, no Pokémon centers or item shops. For all intents and purposes, the main experience appears very similar to Red and Blue, as you take on the role of a budding champion who collects badges to challenge the final Elite Four, but exploration is stripped down to a bare minimum. Hudson Soft was tasked with adapting the tabletop card game for Game Boy, bringing things right back to their roots with another RPG-style Pokémon adventure. Can a Game Boy Color title truly recreate the ferocious rivalry and friendship-destroying power these physical cards held? Wizards of the Coast first brought them to the US in 1999, and the rest is school playground history. ![]() Airplanes, cars, buildings all were infected by the Pokévirus, but none were quite so potent as the powerhouse that was the Pokémon Trading Card Game. When Red and Blue first hit Western shores in 1998, those 151 legends would bring with them a wave of merchandise, cementing the series in history as the cultural epidemic it really was. ![]() It’s almost surreal nowadays to think that there was ever a time when portable gaming didn’t have Pokémon. ![]() This review originally went live in 2014, and we're updating and republishing it to mark the game's arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy / Game Boy Color library.
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