{"id":16481,"date":"2024-11-07T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T09:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/at-36-years-old-i-am-once-again-obsessed-with-pokemon-cards-this-time-on-my-phone\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T09:38:37","slug":"at-36-years-old-i-am-once-again-obsessed-with-pokemon-cards-this-time-on-my-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/at-36-years-old-i-am-once-again-obsessed-with-pokemon-cards-this-time-on-my-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"At 36 years old, I am once again obsessed with Pok\u00e9mon cards \u2013 this time on my phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new smartphone version of the trading card game has captured me as effectively as a Master Ball \u2013 but I\u2019m enjoying this daily nostalgia shot<\/p>\n

Any millennial \u2013 and any parent \u2013 will be familiar with Pok\u00e9mon cards, newsagent pester-power mainstays since the turn of the century. Contained within shiny metallic plastic packaging are critter-adorned trading cards of varying rarity, from a humble Squirtle to a special-edition illustrated Snorlax. There have been a few attempts to bring these lucrative illustrated cards (and the competitive battling game that you can play with them) to smartphones, but until now, they\u2019ve all been poorly received<\/a>. Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game Pocket, released last week, is by some distance the best yet. It has truly gotten its hooks into me.<\/p>\n

Here, for the first time since Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game on the Game Boy Color in 1998, we have a decent virtual version of the incredibly popular card game. This is good news, because it\u2019s very entertaining, but also bad <\/em>news, because it is worrisomely compelling. I\u2019ve played for at least couple of hours every day this week, though I\u2019m starting to run out of things to do now. I probably won\u2019t let my children play it, because if I am rendered this powerless by the prospect of shiny Charizards, they surely have no hope.<\/p>\n

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\nThe new smartphone version of the trading card game has captured me as effectively as a Master Ball \u2013 but I\u2019m enjoying this daily nostalgia shot
\nAny millennial \u2013 and any parent \u2013 will be familiar with Pok\u00e9mon cards, newsagent pester-power mainstays since the turn of the century. Contained within shiny metallic plastic packaging are critter-adorned trading cards of varying rarity, from a humble Squirtle to a special-edition illustrated Snorlax. There have been a few attempts to bring these lucrative illustrated cards (and the competitive battling game that you can play with them) to smartphones, but until now, they\u2019ve all been poorly received. Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game Pocket, released last week, is by some distance the best yet. It has truly gotten its hooks into me.
\nHere, for the first time since Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game on the Game Boy Color in 1998, we have a decent virtual version of the incredibly popular card game. This is good news, because it\u2019s very entertaining, but also bad news, because it is worrisomely compelling. I\u2019ve played for at least couple of hours every day this week, though I\u2019m starting to run out of things to do now. I probably won\u2019t let my children play it, because if I am rendered this powerless by the prospect of shiny Charizards, they surely have no hope. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new smartphone version of the trading card game has captured me as effectively as a Master Ball \u2013 but I\u2019m enjoying this daily nostalgia shot Any millennial \u2013 and any parent \u2013 will be familiar with Pok\u00e9mon cards, newsagent pester-power mainstays since the turn of the century. Contained within shiny metallic plastic packaging are …<\/p>\n

At 36 years old, I am once again obsessed with Pok\u00e9mon cards \u2013 this time on my phone<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}