Pokémon Day
The Pokémon Day was a fan meeting for Pokémon poker players, which of Nintendo 2004-2013 year in Germany was organized.
In addition to promoting new Pokémon products, the main purpose of the event was to bring the players together, and Nintendo usually distributed a special event Pokémon that was not available outside of Pokémon Days. The supporting program, which has been moderated by Oli P. since 2009 , consisted of quizzes and a cosplay competition . At some venues, prominent guests also came to give autograph sessions, such as Queensberry at Pokémon Day 2010 in Berlin .
Pokémon Day was mostly held in late summer or fall and visited several major cities for one day each. Pokémon Days never took place during the week, only on Saturdays and Sundays.
Pokémon Day was well received by the media. Photos of the event were regularly published in magazines about anime or video games . For many fans, Pokémon Day had the status of a convention . In 2010 it attracted 70,000 visitors.
From 2014, Nintendo decided to cancel Pokemon Day after ten years. Nintendo started the Pokémon Kids Tour, which introduces the children and newbies to the Pokemon games. In 2015, Nintendo announced another Pokémon Kids Tour. This took place from the end of May to September in nine different German cities. As of 2016, the term "Pokémon Day" was used for the anniversary day of the franchise.
Pokémon Days also took place in other European countries, such as Italy.
The Pikachu bus
From the beginning until 2010, a yellow Pikachu- themed bus was the hallmark of Pokémon Days. In the converted US school bus from 1983, visitors could try out the latest Pokémon games and charge their Game Boy or Nintendo DS .
As the bus was getting too old, Nintendo decided to auction it off for a good cause in 2010. The bus was posted on eBay and generated sales of 5,150 euros. The owner of Sky Automobile near Aachen was awarded the contract . At Pokémon Day in Munich , Nintendo boss Bernd Fakesch personally handed the keys to the winner.
Since then, a silver Pokémon Airstream caravan has been in use as the successor to the bus .
List of Event Pokémon distributed
- 2004: Aeon Ticket (Access to Latios or Latias)
- 2005: Aurora ticket (access to Deoxys)
- 2006: The 10 Most Popular Pokémon
- 2007: Mew
- 2008: Darkrai
- 2009: Regigigas + (Shaymin Tour)
- 2010: No event Pokemon, but event download for the game Dragon Quest 9
- 2011: Zoroark + (Celebi Tour)
- 2012: Pikachu (Lv. 100 + Item Ball Lightning + Attack Volttackle)
- 2013: Shiny-Dialga , Shiny-Palkia or Shiny-Giratina
Event Pokémon are also distributed at irregular intervals outside of the Pokémon Days. In the spring of 2011, Nintendo organized a smaller download tour for Celebi.
However, it has also occasionally happened that unknown hackers distributed hack events at the Pokemon Days that had never been distributed before or a year or two before. Such event items are hacked or self-created miracle cards that should not be downloaded as they endanger the game status.
Web links
- PokeDay.de - reports and photos of the Pokémon Days since 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement Pokémon Days 2010 at Nintendo ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christoph Kraus: Live from the Pokémon Days . In: N zone . Edition 12/08, p. 82
- ↑ Successful finale of the Pokémon Day Tour 2010 in Munich ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Filb
- ↑ Announcement Pokémon Day in Italy (Italian)
- ↑ Pokémon Day 2010 on Videogameszone
- ↑ Pokémon Caravan / Nintendo Airstreamer . In: Airstream4u.de . Retrieved September 13, 2011.
- ↑ Celebi Tour 2011 at Nintendofire
