World of the Bizarre

Pokemon Go continues to take over the world

By T.K. Randall
October 6, 2016

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) Downloaded more than 500 million times since its release in July, Pokemon Go seems to have done what few mobile games have done before by gaining almost instantaneous mass appeal to the extent that accommodating its players has even become a matter of political debate.

In Singapore, a government environmental agency has had to request that the game's creators avoid drawing people to the city-state's small nature reserves due to concerns over damage.

Elsewhere, police departments have reported several hundred cases of hostile confrontations, accidents, assaults and even robberies involving Pokemon Go players.

There have also been problems concerning people taking time off work to play the game or who, while engrossed in their Pokemon-catching endeavours, have ended up walking in to things.On the positive side however, the game does seem to have been keeping even some of the world's most high profile individuals occupied during particularly boring times of the day.

While listening to a heated debate in the Norwegian parliament on Tuesday, the country's prime minister Erna Solberg was caught red-handed playing the game on her mobile phone.

When reporters later asked her about the incident, she stated that "[some people] have heads that listen better when doing something brain dead."

Apparently even prime ministers have to "catch 'em all" from time to time.

Source: Huffington Post

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