The profession of a professional Pokemon trainer might soon become reality, thanks to the Pokemon Go application developed by Nintendo and Niantic.
Israeli volleyball player Yuval Yellin, and Haoyu Yang, a volunteer from China, have embarked on the adventure of searching for the legendary Pikachu in the Athletes’ Village.
At the very beginning of his adventure of becoming a Pokemon master, Yuval was attacked by Pidgey. Fortunately, Yuval was skilled enough to catch him in his first attempt.
He shared with us that Pidgey was one of his favorite Pokemons, and that he liked Pidgey’s evolutions Pidgeotto and Pidgeot even more.
Yuvalu was familiar with Pokemons from before, as he used to play the first Pokemon games as a child. He played the games, entitled Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue, on his old Gameboy, the first portable video games console launched by Nintendo.
Since he started playing Pokemon Go, Yuvalu has caught about fifty Pokemons, and the strongest one in his team is Primeape, whom he caught in his garden in Israel. For Yuvalu, this is a way of fulfilling a boyhood dream: now he doesn’t watch the Pokemon cartoon to feel like a Pokemon trainer.
Haoyu Yang, a volunteer from China, plays Pokemon Go, because it makes her remember her childhood days.
She downloaded the app a few days ago and has already managed to catch sixty Pokemons. Yang considers herself an amateur, but many Pokemon veterans would envy her for catching so many Pokemons.
We asked Yang if she knew where the legendary Pikachu was. She answered that a colleague of her had told her he was somewhere near, but she couldn’t find him.
As we find out from reliable sources, Pikachu should be in the center of Zagreb, at Ban Josip Jelačić Square.
We noticed that Yang twisted her finger across the screen, rotating the Pokemon ball. When asked why she did that, she said that it was the easier way of catching a Pokemon and getting more points needed for advancing to the next level.
Yang shared some advice on how to catch Pokemons more easily.
One piece of advice says that future Pokemon trainers need to stop by Pokemon stations to fill their poke balls or to get Pokemon medicine, which is always helpful.
As far as the search for Pokemons itself is concerned, Yang recommends that young Pokemon trainers should just walk and a Pokemon would surely come.
While she was answering our questions, Yang was attacked by a female Nidoran. Luckily, Nidoran was caught at the first attempt, thanks to the perfect knowledge of Haoyu Yang, the Pokemon master.
Unfortunately, we have not found Pikachu, but you never know, maybe he is laughing behind our backs while we write this text.
Twenty years ago, a small yellow rodent named Pikachu appeared on TV screens, and immediately won the hearts of both little and big children all around the world. However, twenty years later, Nintendo have prepared a real treat for their faithful fans: they can now catch Pikachu on their smartphones, using the Pokemon Go app.
Pokemon Go is an application which finds the location of the player using the Internet and GPS, and the goal of the game is, as it was twenty years ago, to catch all Pokemons.
