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-tagline=A new TCG-based app for iPhone and Android phones is to be available in Japan this summer. |
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-blurb=A new TCG-based app for iPhone and Android phones is to be available in Japan this summer. }}
+tagline=TCG-based game to be available this summer |
+blurb=Nintendo has plans to release an app for the iTunes and Android markets in Japan this summer. Pokémon Say Tap, a TCG-based game, will be available for free download. }}
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+[[File:Pokémon Say, Tap - screenshot.jpg|200px|thumb|Screenshot for the app.]]
+Nintendo has plans to release an app for the iTunes and Android markets in Japan, it was announced last week. '''Pokémon Say Tap''' (ポケモン言えTAP ''Pokémon Iie Tap''), a TCG-based game, will be available for free download this summer.
+The game is rhythm-based: players tap on trading cards in time with music and sounds. One known backing track is {{bp|Can You Name All the Pokémon? BW}}, the current ending theme of the {{bp|Pokémon anime}}.
-[[File:Pokémon Say, Tap - screenshot.jpg|200px|thumb|Screenshot for the app.]]
+At its release, this will be the only official Pokémon game playable on portable hardware that is not on a Nintendo-produced console. It is also the first Nintendo-endorsed app for smartphones.
-Announced on July 1, a new official app called Pokémon Say, Tap (ポケモン言えTAP) will be available for free in the AppStore for iPhone, the Android Market, and other platforms. This game is rhythm-based upon the {{bp|Pokémon Trading Card Game|Pokémon TCG}}. Players will essentially tap the Pokémon in rhythm to the music and sounds going on and matches {{bp|Can You Name All the Pokémon? BW}}. More information about this app will be avaialbe when it comes.
 ==Information==
-* [http://blogs.forbes.com/insertcoin/2011/07/06/pokemon-getting-into-the-app-game/ Forbes' info on the Pokémon app]
+* [http://www.pokemon.co.jp/info/2011/07/c110701_01.html?a001=news Pokémon.co.jp]
+* [http://blogs.forbes.com/insertcoin/2011/07/06/pokemon-getting-into-the-app-game/ Forbes.com]