ONM Remembered – #450
“Card games with a Poké twist!”
from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 114 (March 2002)
Who remembers the Pokémon Mini, eh?
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Thought as much.
Besides the thrill of owning yet more Pokémon merchandise to milk our wallets dry, I never really saw the excitement behind these. I think even as a young’un, I knew when something was little more than a quick distraction. Why shell out £45 for a Pokémon Mini and game when I could get a proper Pokémon instalment on Game Boy for less that cost and octuple the content?
Of course, now I can see the excitement of a handheld cheap enough to not bring a frown to a parent’s face, and games that could probably be bought with a few weeks’ allowance. If the main games weren’t enough to satiate you, this must’ve been a great extra to a Poké-crazy kid. Not to mention it’s neat that there was even a Pokémon-centric handheld to begin with. Imagine if other franchises got the same treatment! A handheld Legend of Zelda where you could buy new adventure packs in separate cartridges would be a real treat, if fanmade projects hadn’t conquered that avenue already.