NOCLIP Pocket E13 - #Only90%ofKids - Pokémon Trading Card Game

Dueling is more fun than just listening to podcasts! Welcome back
to NOCLIP Pocket! This episode, we’re going to revisit a childhood
favorite of, I think, every single kid who grew up in Pokémon’s
heyday. Even more than an adaptation of the card game everyone was
playing and collecting at the time, the game seemed almost like a
full-fledged Pokémon game, with a similar conceit and art style.
While that seemed good at the time, almost too good to be true, in
fact, reflecting on the game in the current landscape of Pokémon
the way that it is colors our opinion a little. Still, the game is
still the same, being based on a TCG means that the rules are close
to timeless and the things it did well in adapting a card game to
the limited hardware of the Game Boy are still impressive to this
day. We’re going to talk about our experiences with this and other
physical card games, the narrative aspects of the game that would
go largely overlooked in a modern TCG adaptation, and debating the
voracity of the most prevalent of urban myths: can you just press
“A” when the coin is heads up to win every flip? Thank you for
joining us again this week, and hopefully you will proceed to
absolutely JAM to this game’s soundtrack over the next few days
like we have been since we started playing it. Next time, we’re
going to be talking about Only If, which is currently still free to
play on Steam as of this writing. Got a sweet deck list for Pokémon
you want to share? Want to tell us that games from 1998 should stay
in the ground where they belong? Join our Discord to have
conversations about all this and more! https://discord.gg/tRNNSJ6