Status georgeypoorgey Nov 4, 2024
Some of these cards are gorgeous
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Pokémon Trading Card Game (1998)
3.61 from 1233 ratings
2389 members have it in their collection · 36 playing now · 197 backlogged · 128 wish listed
How long? Main story 21h · with extras 19h · 100% 33h (from 13 logged playthroughs)
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 …
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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.
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Details
- Developers
- Hudson Soft
- Publishers
- Gradiente, Nintendo
- Genres
- Adventure, Card & Board Game
- Themes
- Fantasy, Kids
- Franchises
- Pokémon
- Series
- Pokémon, Pokémon Trading Card Game
- Event
- Pokémon Presents | 8.8.2023
Release dates
- Dec 18, 1998 (Full Release) (Japan) Game Boy Color
- Apr 10, 2000 (Full Release) (North_America) Game Boy Color
- Dec 08, 2000 (Full Release) (Europe) Game Boy Color
- 2000 (Full Release) (Brazil) Game Boy Color
- 2000 (Full Release) (Australia) Game Boy Color
- Jul 10, 2014 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo 3DS
- Jul 11, 2014 (Full Release) (Australia) Nintendo 3DS
- Nov 13, 2014 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo 3DS
- Dec 24, 2014 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo 3DS
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Rating distribution
5 stars
247
4 stars
425
3 stars
421
2 stars
110
1 star
30
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status ClaireValle Oct 11, 2024
Yikes, building a collection in this game is rough. There's no currency to buy cards, you can only get them by opening booster packs which you get by defeating other players. You start with a low power, low synergy deck that relies too much on RNG for you to win, so you're stuck in a loop where you can't …
Read moreYikes, building a collection in this game is rough. There's no currency to buy cards, you can only get them by opening booster packs which you get by defeating other players. You start with a low power, low synergy deck that relies too much on RNG for you to win, so you're stuck in a loop where you can't defeat the other trainers because you don't have enough cards, and you can't get better cards because you can't defeat the other trainers. It's very grindy
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Status ClaireValle Oct 10, 2024
Just randomly remembered this game was on NSO. It's still gonna be a few weeks until Pokemon Pocket comes out globally, so I think it's time to check this one out while I wait.
Status romulocg Jan 9, 2024
I really liked this game. Although the RNG can be of a pain sometimes, the gameplay is solid and fast, there is no grinding and you get boosters all the time to change/adapt your deck. It starts slow and then it grows on you. I can't recommend it enough if you like collectible card games.
Status TheBeautifulEric Sep 6, 2023 Completed
I'm not really into deck building, so I'm not really a reliable person to listen to for this game, but I still had fun. I had this game when I was a kid, but I never beat it because I never understood how to play back then, so this is actually my first time beating it. The art in this …
Read moreI'm not really into deck building, so I'm not really a reliable person to listen to for this game, but I still had fun. I had this game when I was a kid, but I never beat it because I never understood how to play back then, so this is actually my first time beating it. The art in this game is great, I'm super impressed with how accurate the card art looks to the real life cards. Getting cards in this game is a bit of a pain. I went through the 8 clubs using my starter deck because you have to grind enemies for booster packs to get more cards. I wish they had some system to get currency for winning matches that you could use to directly purchase the cards you want instead of winning random packs. I think if they did that, the game would have felt less grindy and would make it easier for players to customize their decks the way they want to. I am genuinely surprised they didn't make more video games based on the trading card game. This one was fun and it's not like they stopped making more cards.
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Status SailorV Aug 8, 2023
Have this game with my Gameboy Color (and they both still work) and I really enjoyed it when I was in primary school so I picked it up again in the Switch online service thing. This game is difficult. I remember I had to ask someone older to finish the game for me and make me a good deck when …
Have this game with my Gameboy Color (and they both still work) and I really enjoyed it when I was in primary school so I picked it up again in the Switch online service thing. This game is difficult. I remember I had to ask someone older to finish the game for me and make me a good deck when I was younger, and after playing today, I still don't know if I can make it by myself. The gameplay is unstructured which feels liberating so I think I just have to fight and fight until I get good cards and then make various decks to progress. Still fun.
I really like card games, and the Pokemon trading card game has always tempted me with their pretty cards. It's very expensive though so I just placate myself with the occassional booster pack giveaways gameshops sometimes do.
Status Inc Apr 7, 2021
I thought I'd give Pokemon Trading Card Game for Gameboy a go (something different!) and at first, I didn't get it. But now I've won a couple of matches and I'm like, HOW has this never got a sequel?? I can see why this has a bit of a cult following. Seems like there's a lot of fellow trainers to …
Read moreI thought I'd give Pokemon Trading Card Game for Gameboy a go (something different!) and at first, I didn't get it. But now I've won a couple of matches and I'm like, HOW has this never got a sequel?? I can see why this has a bit of a cult following. Seems like there's a lot of fellow trainers to beat so I wonder if the novelty will wear thin or if the challenge level will get too high. Those early battles were pretty close but I'm an absolute novice so maybe it just takes time.
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