Pok�mon Card GB Official Guidebook

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Pok�mon Card GB Official Guidebook
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ISBN: 4889918019
Published: January 29, 1999
Publisher: Media Factory
Author: Shusuke Motomiya and One Up
Preceded By: N/A
Succeeded By: Pok�mon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR! Official Guidebook
(Japanese: ???????GB???????????? Pok�mon Card GB Official Guidebook) is a strategy
guide for the Pok�mon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color. It also contains an
overview for rules of the TCG in general. It was authored by ???? Shusuke Motomiya
and ????? One Up under the supervision of Creatures, Inc.. This book came with the
promotional card Venusaur.

Contents
1 Content
1.1 Playing Manual
1.2 Rule Book
1.3 World Guide
1.4 Communication with Pok�mon Card GB
1.5 Data File
Content
Playing Manual
The opening section of the book overviews the premise of the Pok�mon Trading Card
Game video game. It introduces concepts such as the Auto Deck Machines, Club
Members, Club Masters, new features like Card Pop! and the ability to print out
cards with the Game Boy Printer, Game Boy-exclusive new cards, the different
expansion sets included in the game, and also shows a demonstration on how a real-
life card transitions to the Game Boy game.

Rule Book
This section overviews the rules of the Pok�mon Trading Card Game using screenshots
from the video game as visual aids. It also explains the rules of how to build a
deck, explaining things such as limits on how many of the same card may be included
in a deck.

World Guide
This section contains a walkthrough of the Pok�mon Trading Card Game video game. It
has a guide for each area, beginning with the Mason Laboratory, each of the eight
Clubs, the Grand Masters and Ronald; as well as guides for the Challenge Hall,
encountering Imakuni? and trading with Mr. Ishihara. At the end of this section,
there is a page showing the four Legendary Cards and the two Phantom Cards, with
spaces for players to place stickers of their cards printed out on the Game Boy
Printer.

Communication with Pok�mon Card GB

This section explains the various connectivity features of the game which use the
Game Boy Color's infrared port and the Game Boy Game Link Cable. It further details
how Card Pop! works, including the ability to obtain the Phantom Cards, sending and
receiving cards and deck configurations via infrared, dueling other players via the
Game Link Cable, and the various print-out possibilities with the Game Boy Printer.

This section also shows comparison photos of various Club Members and Club Masters
which were based on real-life people, followed by interviews with several of the
creators of the game, many of which appear in-game as characters.

Data File
The final section of the book is a database of all the cards in the game, organised
by their type in the TCG, followed by Trainer cards and Energy cards. Promo cards,
Legendary Cards, and Phantom Cards are each listed separately following the Energy
cards. Finally, all the expansions in the game are listed, as well as a guide on
how to obtain each promo card in the game.