Pokémon TCG Pocket Fans Reveal More Gen 1 Locations Hidden In Card Backgrounds

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has adapted the 30-year-old card game to mobile devices and the modern age, but fans are discovering that the game has sprinkled some nostalgic Easter eggs within the virtual cards. The free mobile game allows fans to open booster packs, collect and display their favorite cards, and battle other players, just like they would with the physical cards. The cards featured in the virtual game have been overhauled for more streamlined digital play, and many of the game's illustrations are entirely new to the game.

Earlier this week, Redditor asch_win discovered that a Spearow card exclusive to hid some clues to its location in the card's background. The card, it appears, was set on Route 16, just outside Celadon City in the original, based on background details included in the drawing.

The same Redditor has found several other cards do the same, hiding clues to their in-game whereabouts in the art. Other Redditors have joined in with playing the version of GeoGuessr and uncovered several homages to the origins of the franchise that had been hidden in plain sight all this time.

The original finder of the Spearow spot hasalso found the locations of a few other cards in another Reddit post. The cards with location Easter eggs include the full art Diglett card (found on Route 11, next to Vermillion City), Haunter (in Lavender Town, in front of the Pokémon Tower), Doduo (by the bike path in Route 17), and Rattata (in a patch of grass just outside of Pallet Town).

Surprisingly, Pokémon aren't the only cards that have gotten this treatment, as several Trainer cards also include background details that place them in specific locations within the game, like Professor Oak's lab or the gym trainers within their respective gyms, also shared by asch_win on Reddit. player and Reddit user Lord_Snaps also had some insight into the location of the now-famous Exodia-like Snorlax (the Pokemon's limbs can be seen in a few other cards in the game), placing it in Route 12 in Kanto.

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