Pokémon Go craze is sweeping the nation, and Newcastillians enthusiastically embraced the trend this weekend.
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Team Instinct (yellow) and Team Mystic (blue) gathered in the parking area of the Newcastle swimming pool this past weekend to catch the elusive Pokémon critters and add them to their virtual collection.
Stefan Theunnisen, from Team Mystic, explained their weekend activities around town:
“Before we arrived at the pool parking area on Saturday morning, we were at the cemetery with a lure (there is a ‘Pokéstop’ at the entrance), but didn’t catch anything interesting besides a couple of Ratata and Pidgey’s. We claimed a gym while there too, then we drove to the swimming pool. There, we saw a Meowth and captured a few more critters. Then we went to battle and regained control of gym at the nearby post office. We wanted to go on a similar route on Sunday evening to catch some night Pokémon, but the servers were down.”
The smart phone game launched recently, and uses a concept similar to an augmented reality application, where the game overlays a heavily modified version of Google maps.
The player uses the new interface to hunt down Pokémon in the real world and visit places of interest around the town to train up the Pokémon critters players have captured.
Have you been on any Pokémon Go hunts recently? Comment below and let us know which Pokémon you found, and where.
