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45 sats \ 9 replies \ @Satosora 23 Nov \ on: Parent’s Corner: my boy loves Pokemon, so do I alter_native
I dont know if you have these, but in Taiwan, there were arcade machines that you could put a special card into and play with.
People would have binders full of them.
When I went to visit family in Taiwan last year, there was one of these machines in a nearby 7-Eleven. My brother in law would drive his kids and my kids there, almost every other day, and the kids would line up and wait for their turn to play at the machine. It's like an arcade machine where you insert coins to play, they give you a choice of 3 random pokemons to choose from in the beginning, which is the one you can battle with. Pokemons will spawn in the wild, you battle them with the pokemon you chose to try to capture them. You can also scan your own pokemons to help fight more powerful pokemons. In the end, the pokemon you picked in the beginning and all captured pokemons gets printed on a plastic card. There are rare spawns that were being sold at online markets for relatively high prices. The kids were hooked on the whole gaming plus collection mechanic.
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I think depends on which series. Their official site lists all the series and each rarity seem to have different colors.
The machines are called Pokemon Ga-Ole and it seems they are available in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan. See their site https://world.pokemongaole.com/
@cryotosensei, you can probably bring your son to check it out since it's available in Singapore. But word of warning, these things could become a money sink if you do try to catch 'em all.
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These special cards double up as trading cards as well?
We have trading cards here.
Otherwise, we use tokens for arcade machines. Though I don’t know if our arcades have Pokemon-themed machines. I burn my money at indoor playgrounds as of now lol
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