(This is, of course, just a quick overview of the game for a far more in-depth explanation, including a brief breakdown of how Go compares to the original, 20-year-old Pokemon entries, be sure to check out Vox’s excellent feature.) 1. This is accomplished by using your smart phone’s GPS, camera, and clock (since the various creatures only come about at certain times of the day), and this is why there’s been all those bizarre news stories about users getting in car accidents or tripping down hills or why certain institutions, such as various police departments and, even, the Holocaust Memorial Museum have been asking Go enthusiasts to refrain from playing at their premises. Pokemon Go is the first of these smart phone titles (no, Miitomo doesn’t count), reviving the aging-but-still-popular Pokemon franchise by physically and literally making gamers go out and about in the really-real world in order to find, catch, and then train the various mythical Pocket Monsters (where the Japanized compound word Pokemon originates from). Nintendo is a company that’s been around the block since 1889, and it’s seen its fair share of different products or business bents: hanafuda playing cards (including, ironically enough, Disney-licensed ones in the 20th century), love hotels (seriously – look that up sometime ), videogames, and, now, mobile games, since the company has fallen on some hard times within the console space over the course of the past 15 years, generally speaking. We here at Orlando Informer HQ have sketched out four major ways Go-inspired attractions can be implemented at Universal Orlando Resort – but before we can dive on into them, we first need to ask a very simple, expositional question: What the heck IS Pokemon Go, anyway? Not to put too fine a point on it, but the new mobile Pokemon game can very well point to the future of themed entertainment. Well, at least, it will, starting with the fact that the themed operators already have dipped their toes in the augmented-reality game craze (Disney has Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom, while Universal has been experimenting with the technology behind-the-scenes – more on this in a moment) and ending with the specific possibilities that the Nintendo-Universal alliance offers. What’s lesser known is that it’s also making quite a few waves in theme park circles. Pokemon Go has, over the course of the past week, dominated news stories (thanks to its being used on smart phones more than Tinder and Twitter, to it adding $9 billion of value to publisher Nintendo, and, of course, thanks to all the various real-world mishaps it’s been wreaking across the country, including a teenager finding a dead body while playing).
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