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Hasbro: Pokemon-e Aquapolis
TAKE YOUR OPPONENTS DOWN --- BY THE SEA WITH POKEMON-E: AQUAPOLIS - New Set to Deliver Most Cards Ever and New Unique Energy Types
January 15, 2003 (Renton, Wash.) Where the POKEMON trading card game (TCG) EXPEDITION left off, the all-new AQUAPOLIS expansion takes over. Set in a mysterious coastal city, the new AQUAPOLIS expansion introduces 186 cards, the largest release in POKEMON TCG history. This new set comes packed with brand new attacks to build your decks with as well as 3 new, unique energy types!
Releasing this week, the POKEMON-E: AQUAPOLIS set will be available in theme decks (Abyss and Rock Garden MSRP $9.99 each) and booster packs (MSRP $3.29) at retail outlets nationwide. Additional POKEMON-e card TCG releases are slated for early 2003.
The POKEMON-E: AQUAPOLIS set has something to offer all POKEMON aficionados. The new set maintains playability within the TCG universe but also comes encoded with revolutionary Dot Code strips that are "swiped" (think credit card) into the new e-Reader attachment for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. With a slide of the card, POKEMON-e TCG players will enter a new world of POKEMON, as TCG tips and strategies, sound effects, graphics and mini games are revealed on the Game Boy Advance screen.
Anticipation for the new set is high. Aaron Giles, a 9 year-old from Renton, Washington proclaims "Me and my friends really like playing the trading card game and collecting all the new cards. I can't wait to get the AQUAPOLIS cards."
Since its U.S. launch in January 1999, Wizards of the Coast's POKEMON trading card game has taken the country -- and the world -- by storm. The POKEMON TCG continues to be a bestseller, becoming one of the newest game "classics" for kids of all ages. Much more than a game, the POKEMON TCG has created a community of dedicated fans and players, more than 100,000 of whom enjoy competing in organized leagues and tournaments in more than 40 countries around the globe each year. In addition to the trading card game, the POKEMON phenomenon includes Nintendo's GAME BOY and N64 video cartridge games, a very popular animated children's television program on the WB network, a POKEMON center retail store in New York City's Rockefeller Center, comic books and a vast assortment of toys.
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