As with the vast majority of Pokemon games, the original Pokemon Diamond & Pearl from 2006 featured a variety of exclusive events tied to real-world locations. Basically, you went to a little sweaty shop full of little sweaty gamers and were given a little sweaty code to meet Arceus or Darkrai or little sweaty Manaphy. What’s that, Manaphy’s just out of the water? Sorry - bit hard to tell with all this sweat, innit.
Anyway, this was part of a trend that started right back with the original
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