Pokémon Trading Card Game Cover

IGDB / 4567

Pokémon Trading Card Game

1998 74 / 100 Adventure Card & Board Game
Your goal in life is to become a Pokemon Card Master. In order to do that, you must pick a deck from three starter packs of cards based on Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur and travel to the eight card clubs and defeat their leaders. Along the way, you will challenge many players to collect new cards and the helpful Professor Mason will aid you by giving you cards as well. While becoming a card master is a laudable Show full summary

Your goal in life is to become a Pokemon Card Master. In order to do that, you must pick a deck from three starter packs of cards based on Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur and travel to the eight card clubs and defeat their leaders. Along the way, you will challenge many players to collect new cards and the helpful Professor Mason will aid you by giving you cards as well. While becoming a card master is a laudable accomplishment, the real goal of the game is to collect all of the cards over 200 in all. If you want to collect all of the cards, you must play human opponents in the Pop mode to get a chance to earn rare cards. All of the complexity of the real-world game has been captured here. Play Pokemon Trading Card Game and become a Pokemon Card Master.

World design Nicht eindeutig GameplayCombat-focused Game modeMultiplayer

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Your goal in life is to become a Pokemon Card Master. In order to do that, you must pick a deck from three starter packs of cards based on Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur and travel to the eight card clubs and defeat their leaders. Along the way, you will challenge many players to collect new cards and the helpful Professor Mason will aid you by giving you cards as well. While becoming a card master is a laudable accomplishment, the real goal of the game is to collect all of the cards over 200 in all. If you want to collect all of the cards, you must play human opponents in the Pop mode to get a chance to earn rare cards. All of the complexity of the real-world game has been captured here. Play Pokemon Trading Card Game and become a Pokemon Card Master.

GameplayCombat-focused Game modeMultiplayer GenreAdventure GenreCard & Board Game ThemeFantasy ThemeKids Traitachievements Traitanime Traitbackwards compatibility Traitcard based combat Traitcard collection Traitcollectible card game Traitcollecting Traitcommerce Traitdigital distribution Traitfan translation - portuguese Traitfictional currencies Traitgame boy color infrared support Traitgame boy link cable support Traitloot boxes Traitmanga Traitmicrotransaction Traitmonsters Traitnintendo 3ds virtual console Traitnintendo gateway system Traitnintendo switch online Traitonline Traitpax prime 2014 Traitpikachu Traitplaying cards Traitrock paper scissors Traitsuper game boy enhancement Traittrading Traittrading card game Traitturn-based Traitvirtual console

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Studios & ownership

Studio & publishing

Developer
Hudson Soft
Publisher
Gradiente, Nintendo
Franchise
Pokémon
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So spielt es sich

Spielprofil

Modi
Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric, First person
Themes
Fantasy, Kids
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Wo & wann

Platform releases

  • Game Boy Color 2000
  • Game Boy Color Dec 08, 2000
  • Nintendo 3DS Dec 24, 2014
  • Game Boy Color Apr 10, 2000
  • Nintendo 3DS Jul 11, 2014
  • Game Boy Color Dec 18, 1998
  • Nintendo 3DS Nov 13, 2014
  • Nintendo 3DS Jul 10, 2014

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