Pokémon Trading Card Game (video game): Difference between revisions

|platform=[[Game Boy Color]] {{tt|*|also playable on the original Game Boy, but with several features disabled}},<br>[[Nintendo 3DS]] ([[Virtual Console]])

A [[Meowth (Wizards Promo 10)|promotional Meowth card]] was included with the English release of the Game Boy Color game. The Japanese version of the game included the special Legendary {{TCG ID|GB|Dragonite|1}}, only to be released in Japan.

The game contains every card released in the real Trading Card Game's {{TCG|Base Set}}, {{TCG|Jungle}}, and {{TCG|Fossil}} expansions, except for the Base Set's {{TCG ID|Base Set|Electrode|21}} and Fossil's {{TCG ID|Fossil|Ditto|3}}. (This only includes cards released in the Japanese expansions, so no normal counterparts of holographic cards are included.) Additionally, the first 14 tournament-legal [[Unnumbered Promotional cards (TCG)|unnumbered promotional cards]] are included (not counting glossy/non-glossy reprints). The game also features 18 game-exclusive cards which weren't produced for normal play, though some were released later on. The game emulated the experience of the actual Trading Card Game very closely.

The game contains pre-recorded data on all 228 cards featured (including Lv15 {{TCG ID|GB|Mew|1}} and Lv64 {{TCG ID|Wizards Promo|Venusaur|13}}). Despite this, not all Pokémon are available to the player through normal gameplay; [[Card Pop!]] must occur between players in order to complete their album without the use of cheats, as this is the only way to obtain the aforementioned Mew and Venusaur cards.

Cards can be obtained through booster packs from four expansion sets including {{GB|1|Colosseum}}, {{GB|1|Evolution}}, {{GB|1|Mystery}}, and {{GB|1|Laboratory}}, or by defeating specific challengers (for example, each defeat of the Grand Masters will award the player with a set of legendary {{TCG ID|GB|Moltres|1}}, {{TCG ID|GB|Zapdos|1}}, {{TCG ID|GB|Articuno|1}}, and {{TCG ID|GB|Dragonite|1}} cards). Among the aforementioned four expansion sets is a fifth set, the {{GB|1|Promotional Card}} set. However these cards can only be attained by defeating players such as {{TCG GB|Ronald}}, [[Tomoaki Imakuni|Imakuni?]], and the [[Grand Master]]s, defeating three [[Challenge Hall]] opponents in a row, trading with [[Ishihara]], and [[Card Pop!|Card Popping]].

Card Pop! is a two-player feature that randomly generates a card for each player. When the infrared ports of two Pokémon Trading Card Game cartridges are connected, each player will receive a random card. A player cannot Card Pop! with the same game again until both players have used the feature with so many others that their partner's ID is overwritten in both games.

 

This feature is the only way of obtaining the [[Phantom Cards]] ({{TCG ID|GB|Mew|1}} and {{TCG ID|Wizards Promo|Venusaur|13}}).

* The artwork for [[Jynx (Base Set 31)|Jynx Lv. 23]]'s face was changed from black to purple in international releases to avoid further [[Jynx (Pokémon)#Controversy|controversy]]. The background of the card was also changed from dark purple to light purple in the [[Virtual Console]] release.

[[Card Pop!]] is disabled, making the two [[Phantom Cards]] ([[Mew (GB 1)|Mew Lv.15]] and [[Venusaur (Wizards Promo 13)|Venusaur Lv.64]]) unobtainable and the {{TCG|Mysterious Pokémon Deck}} impossible to obtain normally. The Mysterious Pokémon Deck is still included in the Legendary Auto Deck Machine in certain versions of the Virtual Console release, making the [[Auto Deck Machine|Legendary Auto Deck Machine]] the only possible way to see those cards. Due to Card Pop! being disabled, a bookshelf in [[Mr. Ishihara's House]] is disabled, as the bookshelf refers to the Phantom Cards from Card Pop!.

* The promotional {{TCG ID|Wizards|Venusaur|Promo 13}} card that appears in the game (and can only be obtained by using [[Card Pop!]]) was included with the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game: Official Nintendo Player's Guide]] in North America and with the [[Pokémon Card GB Official Guidebook]] in Japan.