One Pokemon Buying and selling Card Sport Pocket participant’s concept for a brand new growth would revive the traditional playing cards from the primary version of the tabletop Pokemon Buying and selling Card Sport, and it is getting numerous help from the group. Whereas Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket has simply wrapped up its one-year anniversary occasion, the bodily card recreation it is primarily based on has been round because the mid-Nineties, and honoring that legacy is one thing numerous followers appear to be supporting.
Since its launch on October 30, 2024, Pokemon TCG Pocket has breathed new life into the traditional buying and selling card recreation, providing shorter matches, smaller decks, no want for vitality playing cards, and a minimum of two free packs a day for followers who log in usually. The joint growth enterprise between Creatures Inc. and DeNa has had a wildly profitable run up to now. The sport has been downloaded greater than 150 million instances by gamers world wide, and Pokemon TCG Pocket had a record-setting launch year when it comes to income, producing an estimated $1.3 billion and knocking Pokemon GO out of its former number-one spot amongst cellular video games within the Pokemon franchise.
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Pokemon TCG Pocket Fan Proposes thirtieth Anniversary Version Growth
Now, one fan is hoping so as to add an additional dose of nostalgia to the cellular card battler. Reddit person Okay-Pie-3581 has shared an concept to herald a number of the classic Pokemon Trading Card Game cards from the sport’s first version in an growth that will see the unique bundle artwork Pokemon revived in digital type. This concept would see the Pokemon Purple, Blue, and Inexperienced variations of Charmander, Blastoise, and Venusaur every sporting their very own pack full of playing cards from the unique Pokemon TCG set that was first launched in Japan in 1996 earlier than making it to the Western market in 1998.
The kicker behind this concept is that the unique Pokemon Buying and selling Card Sport is popping 30 on February 27, 2026, and the wild success of its cellular model might be used to rejoice the three-decade-long legacy of the tabletop model that serves as its foundation. Pokemon TCG Pocket‘s own first anniversary event was a reasonably large deal for the sport, that includes particular missions, reward playing cards from all previously-released booster packs, and particular Promo playing cards that permit gamers acquire monsters and Coach playing cards they might have missed the primary time round.
A number of gamers have argued that providing up the very same playing cards as those that have been launched in the course of the bodily card recreation’s unique run can be a mistake, because the cellular model is experiencing a considerably totally different energy creep that’s already making a number of the most powerful cards in Pokemon TCG Pocket‘s first months appear out of date within the aggressive scene lower than 14 months later. With the current introduction of Mega Evolution to Pokemon TCG Pocket including in playing cards that may doubtlessly dole out a whole bunch of harm by a participant’s second flip whereas additionally sporting over 200 HP, essentially the most highly effective playing cards from Pokemon TCG’s first run are loads slower and weaker by comparability, with Charizard having solely 120 HP and needing 4 vitality to launch its solely assault, which additionally consumes two of that vitality. One other fan recommended that the traditional playing cards’ energy might be adjusted to compete in Pokemon TCG Pocket, however the originator of the thought likes the considered preserving them the way in which they’re and letting them be digital collectors’ items.
Whereas there’s been no phrase from the sport’s builders {that a} thirtieth anniversary occasion might be hitting the cellular recreation in February, it may nonetheless be a chance. The latest roadmap for Pokemon TCG Pocket exhibits {that a} Surprise Choose occasion for Drifblim and Eevee is ready to kick off on December 7, with the launch of the following booster pack to observe on December 17. There is not actually any clear indication of what is coming within the new 12 months, but when DeNa and Creatures Inc. have any plans to rejoice Pokemon TCG’s milestone anniversary within the recreation, they do not have a lot time left to announce it.
- Launched
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October 30, 2024
- Developer(s)
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DeNA, Creatures Inc.
- Multiplayer
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On-line Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
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Sure
