How To: Pokemon Cards, and Video Game How to Guides

Pokemon started out as just a television series where Ash played the leading role, but since then Pokemon has gained in popularity and evolved into an entire game play genre, with everything from video games, to card games, and more.

At the end of this article you will find many helpful links to how to guides for each individual Pokemon game. Because these guides cover specific games they can and will go much further into detail then I will here.

How To: Pokemon; A brief history on Pokemon.

Pokemon made its debut on Sep 8, of 1998 Ash began his adventure to become the best Pokemon trainer ever and set forth with his first Pokemon ever Pikachu, as the series progressed Ash gained more followers and captured even more Pokemon. This led to the creation of two new sinister characters to play the role of the bad guys in Pokemon.

These evil doers of the Pokemon world where called Team Rocket. Team rocket had a sinister cat called Meowth who was always up to no good, and Team rockets sole purpose was to steal Pokemon.

How To: Pokemon; The first game.

The first Pokemon video game was of the RPG genre and was released in the US on September 30, of 1998. This first game marked the start of an entire line of Pokemon RPG games and the beginning of a new phase in Pokemon marketing.

How To: Pokemon; The short of how to play Pokemon Video Games.

The entire line of Pokemon games with the exception of the N64 Pokemon snap is of the role playing genre and plays much like final fantasy dragon warrior or any other related console RPG title.

The Pokemon games typically start you out at some point in the series timeline and progress you through to the end of that series, along the way you encounter both random and staged battles. The battle element is played on a round by round basis where you have the ability to conjure up any previously captured Pokemon much like a summons and have it do battle for you. you will take turns with the opponent controlling your Pokemons.

How To: Pokemon; The short of how to play Pokemon card games.

1.) To start you and your opponent will each need a deck with at least 60 cards in it, and a coin to toss.

2.) Toss your coin to determine who goes first.

3.) Now each of you shuffle your deck and draw 7 cards to play with.

4.) check your cards if you have no cards which say "Basic Pokemon" on them then display them to your opponent and repeat step 3. Your opponent may now draw 2 additional cards.

5.) Select a card to play as your primary active Pokemon and set it face down so that your opponent can't see it.

6.) Each person should now choose up to 5 Pokemon to "bench" face down in front of you.

7.) flip your Pokemon cards over and begin battle.

How To: Pokemon; What you can do during your Pokemons turn.

1.) Draw a Card

2.) You can do any of these as often as you like during your turn, put a basic Pokemon on the bench, evolve a Pokemon in play, attach an energy card to a Pokemon (only once per turn), play a trainer card, retreat your active Pokemon, or use a Pokemon power.

3.) Attack with your active Pokemon, after you make an attack your attacking turn is over.

4.) Your turn is over now

How To: Pokemon; How Pokemon cards damage is calculated.

Each Pokemon card has a damage counter on it, this counter displays how many times a Pokemon can be hit before it will fall, for every 1 hit take 10 damage off the total damage points a card has. When the damage counter reaches 0 that card is knocked out of play.

How To: Pokemon; What about Pokemon status effects?

Each status effect causes a different ailment to your active Pokemon and they can be acquired through a number of different attacks.

1.) Sleep - If your Pokemon is asleep when your turn comes flip a coin if it's heads your Pokemon will wake up, but not before your turn is over.

2.) Confusion - A confused Pokemon has a 50/50 chance of retreating or attacking a failed attack will decrement it's damage points by 20. Heads you succeed tails you fail.

3.) Paralysis - A Pokemon in this state can't do anything neither attack nor retreat, yet you are fortunate, because this state only lasts for one turn.

4.) Poisoned - A poisoned Pokemon will take 10 damage points each turn that it remains active it's best to immediately bench a poisoned Pokemon.

How To: Pokemon; Closing,

While I've tried to cover as much as I can in this one little Pokemon how to guide, I need your help. Comment below if you would like to see anything added to the Pokemon how to, or even if you just want me to make some minor corrections. If perhaps I got something wrong, let me know.

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