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not the greatest game in the world

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There are 3 games to play, but for one of them you need 2 gameboys and 2 cartridges. For another one, you just walk around through buildings and do absolutely nothing. In the other one, you just make a deck but it has to have 60 cards in it and only one deck has 60 cards in it. This game is really confusing, especially if you don't have the instructions. Don't buy it!

THE AWESOME-EST GAME EVER!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is awesome! Don't let the other reviews fool you-you don't even notice the "faults" when you play b/c this game is so fun! I would reccomend this to anyone-even if you hate pokemon. It's that good. Now go get it!

This Game Stinks

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: July 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The first time I got this game I didn't like it very much. Then I let one of my friends borrow it and he never brought it back. Then I got it again in hopes of beating some people. So I walked into the Rock Club to defeat the master there and he told me I had to go find his pupils first. So I found two of them and I still can't find the others. I even went on a cheat website and I followed where it says she is and she's not there! This game is really boring. I mean really. Playing the TCG in real life is way more fun.

A very fun game with a through-the-roof replay value!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Here is my review:
Replay value: 10/10
Difficulty: 7/10
Educational: 10/10

This...game...is...GREAT! Even with Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire out in stores, I still spend lots of time trying to complete my Pokemon Card collection on the Game Boy. The game is very fun and will quickly turn newbies to the Pokemon TCG into experts. I'm a 12-year-old girl and a dedicated Pokemon fan, and I must say...Let your Ruby/Sapphire Pokemon take a little rest so you can pick up a copy of this awesome game. (Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire is an awesome game too ^.^) The basic storyline of this game is that you are a boy with the default name of Mark, who wants to inherit the four Legendary Pokemon Cards (special GB versions of Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Dragonite). You can carry up to four (4) decks at a time, but you can save your valuable deck configurations in a Deck Save Machine. You must defeat the 8 Club Masters (as you do Gym Leaders) then defeat the four ultimate experts of the Pokemon TCG (as with the Elite Four). Although the only deck expansions included are Jungle, Fossil, and Base Set, this is all in all an excellent game. Wonder when the Ruby/Sapphire TCG version will come out for GBA?

Great card game - but this isn't a very good port of it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: July 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In 1999, the success of Nintendo's Pokemon Trading Card Game was unrivaled. So, it seemed only natural that they release the card game in video game form. It would satisfy fans of the card game, and, of course, would give Nintendo extra cash. Read on for my views on this game.

The good:

It's the Pokemon Trading Card Game on Game Boy! Now you can play card games without a second person (although you can link up if you want, to trade or to battle.) And of course, being on Game Boy makes it portable. The game has a minor storyline (get eight medals and defeat the card champions so that you can get the legendary cards,) obviously added in to make the game more appealing. There are even cards that were made up exclusively for this game! And, of course, you can obtain booster packs by winning duels, so that you can build your dream deck.

The bad:

This game uses very little common sense. Here's a few "stupid questions" that will make you realize all the flaws this game has.

-When my opponent has no Basic Pokemon in his starting hand, why doesn't the game let me draw up to two cards? I'm allowed to in the REAL card game.

-Why does the game ask me to place Pokemon on the bench when I don't have any?

-Why do the starter decks have so many different types of Pokemon in them? This makes the decks so scattershot, that you'll rarely get the type of energy you need. Accordingly, don't plan on winning a lot of duels until you customize your deck.

-Why does this game only have cards from the Base Set, Jungle, and Fossil expansions? And why does the game divide them into four sets that the actual card game never did?

-Why does the game ask me to select a prize card when I only have one left? Wouldn't it be common sense which one I wanted to take if there was only one left?

-Why does the game do unneccessary coin flips? If an attack will knock out a Pokemon and it can also paralyze the Pokemon, there is NO REASON to do a coin flip if the attack is certain to knock out the enemy.

-Why is the text speed so slow in this game?

-How can Booster Packs be sent you you via the internet?

-Why is your character's name written in a different font than everything else in the game?

-Why can you only play as a male character?

-Why is "no" the default answer to most of the game's questions?

-Why is the music different on the subscreen than on the main screen?

-Why does the computer always seem to have so much luck, and you never do?

-Why are energy cards so hard to obtain in this game?

OVERALL:

Take my advice. Don't get this game unless you're a die-hard fan of the card game, or unless you're a Pokemon fan and you find it for a good price. You may be better off waiting to see if a sequel is released for the Game Boy Advance.

A pretty nice game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is basically a video game adaption of the card game. You can go battle, trade, and do card pop, where you and a friend use GameBoyColors infared thing to link up and get random cards. You can only do this once with each person for a set time period. (I think it might be a day.) YOu eventually go through a bunch of card clubs, defeat club leaders for medals, and in the end face off against the "Grand Masters" for a chance to beat the game and get four legendary cards.

Their is a small group of cards which only come in the game. Little custom cards, you might say. You can know this by seeing a little GB on the card information screen. (The Legendary cards are Game boy custom.)

But if you're a "newbie" to pokemon, or mabey just realizing it's existance, it only sports the basic, jungle, and fossil expansions. This is actually pretty good, considering the time it was made. (When those three sets were the only ones "on the shelves" at the time.) And unlike the YuGiOh card game games, youcan't upload cards you have into the game. You must get them by obtaining boosters which you can get by beating club members, leaders, and opening the occasional email from the professor. (There's about twenty of them throughout the game.)

So overall, if you like the card game, get this for protable pokemon tcg action. If you don't like the cards, leave it alone.

Very good game. :-)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is an exelent game for anyone who is a fan of the pokemon tcg or pokemon in general. There are a viriety of people you can duel with a viriety of difaculty levels. There isalso the chalenge of building a great deck and colecting all the cards. For maximum play, get a link cable and a friend to hook up with. You can duel, trade, and card pop!

Whoever is Board

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Have you ever been so board you will burst? Have you liked pokemon cards and games? Well now you aren`t board when it comes to when you buy I trading Cartridge. So you can defeat pokemon cards in a SNAP! All you have to do is play a Card Battle, Defeat Gyms, and win 8 medals! Plus win a Dragonite Card when you finish the game. Try to trade cards and stand up to the Mighty Dragonite Card!!!
You should get this great item!!!

lighter better cooler stronger

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Are you tierd of lugging around a 25 pound bag of pokecards? Then Buy this game. P.S. the title says it all.

A different yet great Pokemon game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Collecting, battling, customizing, trading, all these terms apply to the Pokemon game series, and it applys to this game as well. As a Pokemon Card Collector and battler, you can participate in numerous battles, collecting and constructing better decks along the way. The ability to earn new cards, construct decks anyway you see fit, easy learning curve, easy setup, and overall just a simple game layout constitute a great Pokemon game. Every element of the original games can be found in some way, shape, or form in this version. Aside from the substandard music, there's no true flaw to be found in this game.

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