Pokémon Trading Card Game (video game)
The Pokémon Trading Card Game (Japanese: Pokémon Card GB) is a Game Boy Color adaptation of the famous Pokémon Trading Card Game released in 1998 in Japan and 1999 in the United States. Containing every card released in the TCG's Base Set, Jungle, and Fossil expansions, except for Electrode of the Base Set and Ditto of the Fossil expansion, and including many game-exclusive cards which were never produced for normal play, the game mimicked the experience of the actual TCG very closely. It was later given a sequel, released only in Japan, only known as Pokémon Card GB 2.
The object of the game is very similar to the object of the games in the main series: Players must defeat the eight Club Masters, which each specialize in a certain type of deck. These decks correspond approximately to the types of the TCG cards, however, as there are eight Club Masters and at the time only seven distinct Pokémon types, two of the types are repeated: Fighting and Grass. After the eight have been defeated and their Club Medals obtained, a player can go on to face the Grand Masters.
After the four Grand Masters are defeated, they will allow the player to have their four rare cards, the centerpieces of their decks: Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Dragonite.
Two players can use a method known as Card Pop! to give each other new cards via the Game Boy Color's IR port, or use it to transfer deck configurations. They can also duel each other via the game link cable.
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