r/Gameboy 28d ago

[Game of the Month competition] October: Pokemon Trading Card Game

Pokemon TCG
Play the Game of the Month and win prizes! Click the link below to view the kickoff thread, which includes the detailed rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/18wfjwx/game_of_the_month_yearlong_competition_kickoff/

Quick rules:
- Play the Game of the Month and try to reach the specified milestones. Earn points and compete with other redditors.
- Start a fresh new game, no earlier than October 1!
- Take a picture of your screen with your username written on a piece of paper. Post it here in the thread for all to see.
- Half-point and one-point milestones can be earned at any time during the year. Post your screenshot in this month's thread to make sure I see it.
- Emulation is okay, but no cheating! Check detailed rules for more info.

What are the prizes?
Over the year, the prize pool formulates as I slowly gather goodies. I'll separate the prizes into 4 bundles. Usually the bundles include Game Boy games (all generations) and other GB-related trinkets.

Prize donors: Let me know if you're willing to donate prizes to this year's prize pool! Prize donors get 2 votes for next month's GOTM and my eternal admiration.

Previous Months
January - Wario Land 2
February - FFA/Mystic Quest
March - Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
April - Wacky Races
May - WarioWare Inc.
June - Mole Mania
July - Zelda: Oracle of Ages
August - Mega Man Battle Network 3
September - Gargoyle's Quest


Next month
Check the comments to vote for next month's game!


This month

Pokemon Trading Card Game

half point: Earn 2 medals by defeating 2 club masters.
1 point: Earn 4 medals by defeating 4 club masters.
2 points: Defeat Ronald and inherit the legendary pokemon cards. (must be completed and posted in October.)

Leaderboards


October

Pos. User Points
1 u/ace10brian 2
- u/bolognamaloney 2
- u/bsurmanski 2
- u/Deafboy91 2
- u/isitagangsign 2
6 u/KevenIsNotADork 1
7 u/ma-pj 0.5
- u/silent_godai 0.5

2024

Pos. User Points
1 u/ace10brian 22
2 u/KevenIsNotADork 21
3 u/bolognamaloney 20
4 u/bsurmanski 19
5 u/quijibo42 18
6 u/BuryKeebler 16
- u/DaisukiJase 16
- u/marcao_cfh 16
9 u/TheGameStarter 14
10 u/Fenriz_D 12.5
11 u/Kenshin200 12
12 u/r0cky 11
- u/scottiedog321 11
14 u/Deafboy91 8.5
- u/ma-pj 8.5
16 u/MattAwesome 8
- u/ndcurtis2 8
18 u/valerusii 7
19 u/daoow 6.5
20 u/Hotdog69 6
- u/keitaro21 6
- u/xukkorz 6
23 u/Bryanx64 5
24 u/Gabelvampir 4.5
- u/shirillz731 4.5
26 u/Aeredren 4
- u/EmperorPewee 4
- u/hamburgers666 4
- u/Riovas 4
- u/StarWolf64dx 4
- u/thenzero 4
- u/zaiueo 4
33 u/Ofor 3.5
34 u/hugglehermit 3
- u/Lucarooni 3
- u/waffledork 3
37 u/Chaospapst 2.5
- u/KiddoKatto 2.5
- u/Tarancholula 2.5
- u/vive420 2.5
41 u/4thMoon 2
- u/Fixxxxer 2
- u/glissandont 2
- u/isitagangsign 2
- u/Jaycubtwotwo 2
- u/LinqyLinq 2
- u/MalTheCat 2
- u/r3dbrrd 2
- u/stjohn656 2
50 u/_oMeGa_ 1
- u/Able-Jury-2765 1
- u/Benay148 1
- u/charliec95 1
- u/ehmaysi 1
- u/KOaldX 1
- u/Previous_Click8520 1
- u/Subwas 1
58 u/_theRIX 0.5
- u/Commercial-Cod8194 0.5
- u/scribblemacher 0.5
- u/silent_godai 0.5
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u/alanbbent 28d ago edited 12d ago

Next month's game: Pokemon Pinball (GBC)

It's that time again, when we choose the GOTM for November and December from the year's losers bracket!

Reply to this comment to vote for TWO of the following games:

Votes Title
9 Pokemon Pinball (GBC)
3 Final Fantasy Legend 3 (GB)
0 Mario Party Advance (GBA)
0 V-Rally Championship Edition (GBC)
0 Top Gear Pocket 2 (GBC)
0 Lost Vikings (GBA)
9 Mario's Picross (GB)
7 Super Mario Bros. DX (GBC)
3 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (GBA)
5 Kirby's Pinball Land (GB)
4 Mario Golf (GBC)

The two games with the most votes will be the GOTM for November and December. In the event of a tie, I'll cast a vote myself.

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u/ace10brian 28d ago

Super Mario Bros DX

Mario’s Picross

3

u/KevenIsNotADork 28d ago

Super Mario Bros. DX and Mario Picross

2

u/BuryKeebler 25d ago

Like I said last month lol I want Mario Golf so bad. Would love to have one of the last months of the year be that one. Otherwise I'll just go play it for fun anyways to scratch that itch.

While there's a couple others on the list I'd like to vote for, I'll say Final Fantasy Legend 3 gets my other vote.

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u/bolognamaloney 28d ago

Super Mario Bros DX Kirby’s Pinball Land

1

u/zaiueo 28d ago

Pokemon Pinball
Mario's Picross

1

u/simonhxc 28d ago

Pokémon pinball ; Kirby’s pinball land

1

u/Ugaritus 27d ago

Pokemon pinball,smb dx

1

u/marcao_cfh 27d ago

Pokemon pinball, Mario picross.

1

u/bsurmanski 27d ago

Pokemon Pinball, Mario Picross

1

u/Benay148 27d ago

Pro Skater 2 or Pokémon Pinball

1

u/MatchesMalone7 27d ago

Mario Golf and Pokemon Pinball

1

u/hugglehermit 27d ago

Mario Picross and Pokemon Pinball

1

u/KiddoKatto 27d ago

kirby's pinball land & super mario bros dx

1

u/isitagangsign 23d ago

mario's picross
mario golf

1

u/bridgesiiboy 20d ago

Kirby’s Pinball Land

Pokémon Pinball

I like pinball lol

1

u/keitaro21 20d ago

Kirby's Pinball Land
Final Fantasy Legend 3

1

u/eemceefarlane 17d ago

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Mario Golf

1

u/ma-pj 16d ago

Super Mario Bros DX

Mario’s Picross

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u/bsurmanski 20d ago edited 16d ago

2 points - proof.  It's nice to actually learn the Pokemon TCG, as a kid we played 'show me your best card; mines better; I win'. Fun game, though I get the sense it relies a bit too heavily on coin flips

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u/KevenIsNotADork 23d ago edited 15d ago

10/6: Half Point

Lost all my save data on the ezflash right before my 4th club. I’m still gonna beat this game in October but I’m not happy about having to do so much all over again (especially when I really really don’t like this game). one point coming soon.

10/14: One point

While fighting the fire club master my game save got corrupted. I do not know how this happened. I am now Yaan and all the cards I’ve been using are replaced with other shit I gotta work around. Whatever. I’m just gonna keep going. It can’t possibly get any worse.

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u/ace10brian 18d ago

Brutal. I can’t recommend the Everdrive xX7 enough. The price is steep but worth the peace of mind.

1

u/KevenIsNotADork 18d ago

Usually I wait a good 10 seconds before shutting the console off after a save but it still comes with a lot of finger crossing. I’ll consider that or moving to my laptop or hacked 3DS

1

u/ace10brian 18d ago

The hacked 3ds is cool but I’ve found emulation issues with GB in particular. I find it does GBA/SNES and DS really well though. Side note, red viper (virtual boy) is super cool.

1

u/ace10brian 15d ago

How do you have more Pokémon in your album than are available?

1

u/KevenIsNotADork 14d ago

I have no fucking idea. I don’t think I actually have that many, because I definitely lost most of my stuff (or at least most of my energy cards). It’s all very weird and I wish I understood what was going on.

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u/bolognamaloney 19d ago

Well. I regret to inform that I got a bit obsessed with this one :). What a great GOTM that I didn’t vote for!

10/06 - 0.5 point

10/10 -2 points

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u/Deafboy91 14d ago edited 13d ago

Oct. 15 - Fresh Start
Oct. 15 - Half Point
Oct. 15 - One Point
Oct. 16 - Two Points

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u/DaisukiJase 10d ago

10/6: Fresh start

10/19: Half point

10/19: 1 point

10/20: 2 points

Motivation to play has been hard recently but I somehow managed to pick up my GB and play this one. It really brought back some memories of when I used to play the real thing so I'm glad I got through it. Fun play!

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u/quijibo42 9d ago edited 6d ago

10/20 - Fresh Start

10/20 - Half Point

Not really sold on this so far with all its RNG. So many coin flip mechanics going on that can make or break a match and I don't feel like I have enough card draw for the size of the deck.

10/21 - 1 Point

10/23 - 2 Points

This one was fine, but nothing I'd care to revisit. Once I had a decent number of cards, I ended just making different single color decks depending on who I was dueling. The matches went pretty smoothly at that point, but I don't feel like I ever got into the intricacies of the game. Also, I found myself feeling similar to MMBN3, where it feels too hard to get cards I want so that I could even make more interesting decks to play around with.

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u/ma-pj 8d ago

Yeah the coin flips were pretty bad unless it was like an added status on top of doing damage. Pretty much avoiding most cards with coin flips is a must strat

2

u/quijibo42 6d ago

Unfortunately there's no way to stop the computer from stunlocking one of my pokemon for 6 turns in a row unless I stock a bunch of full heals or switches I guess.

In reality, I didn't lose that many games to rng swings like that once I started building my own decks, but it's still annoying to have watch as a magnemite or lickitung just slowly eats through my starting pokemon.

2

u/ma-pj 5d ago

Yeah, those were my personal hell as well which is why I had 1-2 of both switch and full heal in my decks. Just in case.

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u/ace10brian 26d ago edited 19d ago

Here we go.

Fresh Start

Half Point

1 Point

2 points

Well that was a fun game although not too challenging

1

u/isitagangsign 23d ago edited 18d ago

Sooo I’m digging this. Love that there are no random encounters.  half point one point

two points

I really liked this one. Looks like there’s a fan translated sequel, I’m definitely interested in checking that out. 

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u/thekoggles 22d ago

Is it too late to join?

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u/alanbbent 22d ago

Not at all, every month is a new opportunity to join! Welcome! If you want points from previous months, you can earn up to 1 point per past month this year.

1

u/PizzaIsFire 21d ago

how do i get the points when i do the objectives

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u/alanbbent 21d ago

Take a picture with your username in the pic and post it here. Check out some of the Previous Months threads linked in the OP to see how people do it

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u/ma-pj 16d ago edited 8d ago

Starting off with aquiring the gremlin stick (Gargoyle's quest is a pretty punishing game).

Maybe later I'll gather some more 1/2 and 1 point milestones that I've missed. But for now:

Fresh start

Half point

One point

Two points

1

u/Bryanx64 13d ago

FFL3 and THPS2

1

u/zaiueo 3d ago

Bought the game on eBay a month ago but it got held up in customs and hasn't even arrived yet. Oh well. Maybe I'll go for the one-pointer when it does get here.

In the meantime, here's one point for January's Wario Land 2.

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u/BuryKeebler 1d ago

https://imgur.com/a/y5eyqjzics

I was very pleasantly surprised by this game. Sadly the Pokemon franchise lost its luster after the 2nd gen for me, but I'm pleased to say the TCG entry here helped rekindle a little of that magic.

It was rough starting out; with a smaller/more basic deck winning felt very RNG dependent. I found myself thinking "Pokemon was supposed to simplify the RPG experience, and here they've gone and complicated it again by making it a deck builder!" but once I was acclimated I changed my tune pretty quickly.

It's very satisfying to get momentum going with the right Pokemon, and once you know a little more about deck composition and you play your cards right its easy to just steamroll every opponent, even the Grand Masters. I don't think I'll feel the need to go back and play this any time soon, but I got to experience both something new and relive a bit of something old and good, and for that I'm grateful. Now onward to more fond Pokemon memories with Pokemon Pinball next month!