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I don't remember this at all, and I played all of the games from Red/Blue to Crystal I think. Was there shortages of cartridges or something in some countries?

LegitShady 3y ago
i think they're talking about pokemon go, where people would wander around like zombies and enter into places that may or may not want them there to "collect" pokemon
- np_tedious 3y ago
  Ah, but it was not like zombies! It was actually a very social phenomenon. I played during that summer (2016?) after not thinking about Pokémon for 15+ years. It was "dumb" but it was cool to have a shared mission, however arbitrary, with so many others. Coworkers pooling money to buy lures, strangers on the street recognizing what you were doing and pointing you the right way wishing good luck, massive groups in city parks. You are correct that respect for private property or business purpose was likely violated by Pokémon Go players. But "zombie" is not a good description.
  - doubled112 3y ago
    Sometimes I wonder. Did nobody end up someplace they shouldn't have been as kids/teens/young adults, even without Pokemon Go leading them there?
  - bitwize 3y ago
    I was just looking at my phone while walking down the street, not even playing Pokémon Go, and a group of people on the other side called out and said, "Hey, there's a Poliwhirl just up the road there." I felt like I had entered into a new, bizarre, wonderful social reality.
    - klyrs 3y ago
      I was a bystander to this, but I was always amused to see flocks of doting grandparents (I presume) with clipboards of 2-6 phones in the park by my house during school hours...
  - willcipriano 3y ago
    More Consoomers than Zombies.
drewzero1 3y ago
It sounds more like a Pokemon Go related warning from just a few years ago... people were wandering into all sorts of places where they shouldn't have been, trespassing, sometimes even getting injured or killed, just looking for Pokemon.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
  Back when that was new, some dark part of me imagined a future of mobile gaming where hoards of kids were running amok playing wildly active games with other players that we muggles could not see. I didn't want to see any kids get hurt (which would probably happen due to the complexities of navigating multiple realities at once--you have to dodge the bullet and the shopping cart), but I really wanted to see Walmart security be overrun by kids who were mostly trying to ignore them. I just like chaos.
- cholantesh 3y ago
  Oh; I thought this had to do with schools curtailing or even banning trading Pokemon cards and playing the Pokemon TCG for various reasons, some more arbitrary than others.
amelius 3y ago
It was about the Pokemon Go game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go

LegitShady 3y ago

i think they're talking about pokemon go, where people would wander around like zombies and enter into places that may or may not want them there to "collect" pokemon

np_tedious 3y ago
Ah, but it was not like zombies! It was actually a very social phenomenon. I played during that summer (2016?) after not thinking about Pokémon for 15+ years. It was "dumb" but it was cool to have a shared mission, however arbitrary, with so many others. Coworkers pooling money to buy lures, strangers on the street recognizing what you were doing and pointing you the right way wishing good luck, massive groups in city parks. You are correct that respect for private property or business purpose was likely violated by Pokémon Go players. But "zombie" is not a good description.
- doubled112 3y ago
  Sometimes I wonder. Did nobody end up someplace they shouldn't have been as kids/teens/young adults, even without Pokemon Go leading them there?
- bitwize 3y ago
  I was just looking at my phone while walking down the street, not even playing Pokémon Go, and a group of people on the other side called out and said, "Hey, there's a Poliwhirl just up the road there." I felt like I had entered into a new, bizarre, wonderful social reality.
  - klyrs 3y ago
    I was a bystander to this, but I was always amused to see flocks of doting grandparents (I presume) with clipboards of 2-6 phones in the park by my house during school hours...
- willcipriano 3y ago
  More Consoomers than Zombies.

drewzero1 3y ago

It sounds more like a Pokemon Go related warning from just a few years ago... people were wandering into all sorts of places where they shouldn't have been, trespassing, sometimes even getting injured or killed, just looking for Pokemon.

__MatrixMan__ 3y ago
Back when that was new, some dark part of me imagined a future of mobile gaming where hoards of kids were running amok playing wildly active games with other players that we muggles could not see. I didn't want to see any kids get hurt (which would probably happen due to the complexities of navigating multiple realities at once--you have to dodge the bullet and the shopping cart), but I really wanted to see Walmart security be overrun by kids who were mostly trying to ignore them. I just like chaos.
cholantesh 3y ago
Oh; I thought this had to do with schools curtailing or even banning trading Pokemon cards and playing the Pokemon TCG for various reasons, some more arbitrary than others.

amelius 3y ago

It was about the Pokemon Go game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go