The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune

IT HAS been less than a month since ‘Pokemon Go’ was released and has been taking the world by storm.

Pokemon Go is a classical remake of the 1990s hand-held game on the Nintendo Gameboy, as it was a great success about nearly 26 years ago.

Now, this month, Pokemon Go was released onto smartphones on Google Play and is dominating the market.

When you get the free-to-download game, it uses a GPS tracking system in your location, you have the inventory and when you see random monsters (which are Pokemon, known as pocket monsters), you go to that creature and use the Poke-Ball (Which is a ball made to capture Pokemon). There’s Pokestops which refill your supplies as well. Gyms are where you battle other players’ Pokemon’s.

Combining the classic monster hunting elements from the 90’s and successful virtual reality tech mixed into finding rare creatures has dominated all of the US, UK and starting to spread throughout the world.

What makes it bigger that restaurants and hotels in Los Angeles are using the game’s Poke-Stops as means of making money, which is giveaways, guides and deals. The tourism board has already started several programmes related in the game, despite Pokemon Go’s related accidents. It is the US’s biggest selling app.

Even government officials, which usually sends out advice not to drive while catching Pokemon, is even playing the game. A UK union member was walking around with the reporter introducing him to the game, then there’s Hillary Clinton using the Pokestop system in her convention along with Trump as well. Along with the police issuing warnings, they seemed to joke around with the game. The San Diego police officers had used their sirens for Pokemon’s theme song from the cartoon, then there’s the US Marines who used it for their jokes at shooting ranges and in Iraq alone.

People of all types are now taking advantage of this very fun game alone, and it’s a good idea to use this for our tourism market, and due to the various numbers of visitors from European nations and American tourists.

AMMAKA RUSSELL

Nassau,

July 18, 2016.