Just like any other Japanese franchise that finds fiscal success, Pokemon has a ton of shitty spinoff games. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Coliseum, Ranger, Rumble, and of course Hey You Pikachu! are all giant piles of fresh baked shit. Nintendo seemed to excel at getting us pokemaniacs excited about a new game direction, only to leave us feeling like broke frustrated Cubans under a brutal dictatorship. Bleak as GameFreak's spinoffs have been, they got one right. Just one. The Pokemon Trading Card Game for the Gameboy Color.
Just like your regulars old red and blue, the Gameboy Pokemon TCG has you building a deck that you take around to the 8 card gyms, to earn badges and battle the elite four. The card game itself is very challenging in this medium, and I always found it way more fun than playing it for real. This was also a great way to pound the rules of the game into our young brains, something desperately needed at a time when all real life duels dissolved into arguments about cheating. The Gameboy color version of our favorite card game was really well-executed, putting an emphasis on type strategy instead of stacking your deck with legendaries. Nine times out of ten the deck with the Starmies and Seakings would beat the deck with the Mewtwos and Mews. Balance and strategy make this the best card video game of the 90's, and I can't think of any other franchise that could be legitimately argued into that distinction.
Do yourself a favor and find the ROM for this game. If I post a link to a ROM site, I would probably get a very angry email, so find it on your own with the power of google. If you love card games and are sick of Magic The Gathering, then learn a little about our roots and seek out this retro-treasure. And if anyone reading this has any info whatsoever on a new version, or plans for one, please let me know. My search has dug up nothing.
Coolrom( www.coolrom.com ) would have to be the best place to find roms for any type of games, even hacked roms
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