The Pokémon Company announces iPhone, Android app: Difference between revisions

Sega Pico and Advanced Pico Beena had 7 games between them. We also had Pokémate, which was for mobile devices too. And laptops are portable devices, so the PC games would qualify too
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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}}.
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}}.
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.


==Information==
==Information==
* [http://www.pokemon.co.jp/info/2011/07/c110701_01.html?a001=news Pokémon.co.jp]
* [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]
* [http://blogs.forbes.com/insertcoin/2011/07/06/pokemon-getting-into-the-app-game/ Forbes.com]