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Pokemon Trading Card Game (Game Boy Version) (Prima’s Official Strategy Guide)
How to collect all 228 cards
Strategies for building awesome decks
Easy explanations of complex rules
Earn all eight Card Badges and defeat the four Grand Masters
Tips on trading cards and battling your friends
Complete card catalogue
Learn to use the link up cable and Comm Link Infrared lasers
Customer Review: FUN
The Pokemon Trading Card Game is a great way to be able to play the game without having to waste all the time by shuffling the deck and taking the cards. It is a fast, fun and effective way to play the game.
Customer Review: Overall good strategy guide. Lacks some details
Prima’s guide for Pokemon is pretty darn good. The layout is done nicely and explantions of the different parts of the game are done well. Maps and key figures are identified and the screen captures are nice and clear.

Out of the 226 cards that can be collected in this game, Prima does an excellent job in cataloging each one by power and energy type. They also give very helpful pro’s and con’s on each card and tell you which ones are worth having, and a few that you probably don’t want to use in your deck.. An intersting side note: Prima also gives the origin on many of the card, that is, if they debuted in Japan or America first and when. Also, unique to the Gameboy are special cards only obtained in the Gameboy version.

There are some strategies on how to build certains decks that will aid you in defeating some of the club masters, and a nice feature is Prima identifies the club master and other boss decks so you can build a great deck before you encounter them.

The one drawback I see with this guide is the lack of card combinations descriptions. Though there are some, there are a lot more to be discovered that could have been written about. Also, if they can break down the decks of the club masters and bosses, they could have also done the same for other NPC’s within the game, but give very vague guidelines/hints on most of the NPC’s

Overall, a good buy for the price.

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