Mantova invaded by monsters: You Go Pokemon craze – Gazzetta di Mantova

 MANTUA. Video games, kid stuff. At most by teenagers who do not know the razor. Or maybe not since the app Pokemon Go in a week showed a + 93% from the strength Nintendo (remember Mario Bros.?) To the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We are talking about a cascade of money without end, the crazy numbers. A deal worth billions of dollars, thirty according to estimates published these days in financial circles. The Go Pokemon craze, the game for smartphones that is to hunt in the real world to the virtual monsters thanks to GPS and augmented reality, in recent days has also infected Mantua.

 
 

  There’s a monster in the newsroom. We tried the app for a few days starting from the drafting of the journal in the square Mozzarelli and then we walked through the center of Mantua. Just started, the game put us right in front of a challenge of its own: get rid of a Pidgey, a pokemon steering wheel that had settled on the snack machine. It took a few touches to the mobile phone screen to make it our thanks to poke a ball, a ball that has the power to imprison pokemon. Not even time to recover and this is now another mission: a second Pidgey lay in wait for a reporter intention to print the draft of a sports page of the newspaper leaving the next day. Also in this case capture the pokemon has not been difficult. And two.

 

 

Pokemon Flying in the journal

 

  Pokemon and the hero of two worlds. Playing indoors with Pokemon Go is not very inspiring, the application is designed to replace the combination sofa gaming with that smartphone-legs shoulder. So we move ourselves and Valletta Valsecchi we walk towards the old town. In Piazza dei Mille, precisely at the statue of Garibaldi, our mobile phone we report the presence of a poke-station, ie a physical place in the virtual reality of the game corresponds to the check point from which to derive useful gadgets for our adventure. Specifically, the hero of two worlds gives us three spheres useful to catch monsters. Thank you and continue. Corso Garibaldi we also come across one Zubat and a crab that we capture mercilessly.

 

 

Corso Garibaldi invaded by monsters Nintendo

 

  The nightlife Nintendo. E ‘in the center, however, that Pokemon Go is at its best: to see appear on your smartphone as a pet jumping on the steps of St. Andrew is a special experience, as it is unusual to catch a pokemon as we stroll from Piazza Erbe parts . Day or night, with the sun or in the rain: in Mantua the monstrous human fellow creatures are everywhere. In the middle of Piazza Sordello we met a boy of about 25 years dealing with the capture of a particularly resistant monster. Here and there through the center intersect kids staring on the screen of your phone. And in many cases WhatsApp has nothing to do.

 

 

Pokemon in the city center, including night life and lunch break

 

  The group Facebook. On Facebook Pokemon-Go Mantova group has a hundred members: there are many considering that the app is available in Italy from July 15. On the board of the group we talk about strategies, swap ideas on how to enhance the pokemon and above all trying to figure out together where they hide the rarest specimens.

 

 

Una the first game screens

 

  The no Sunni. So much for the happy notes of Pokemon-mania. Yes, because in the first half of July (the game is available from 6 in the USA, Australia and New Zealand, from 15 in Europe) are not without controversy. Abbas Shouman, Deputy Chief and Assistant Imam of Al Azhar, the highest Sunni Muslim authority in Egypt has dicharato that “Pokemon Go is forbidden by Islam, it is like alcohol, because it influences the mind in a negative way and it hurts and algiocatore others without which there is awareness. “

 

 

Aldo, John and James version pokemon on Fb page of the comic trio

 

  The warning Telefono Azzurro . At the same time there are those, such as Telefono Azzurro, points out the danger of Go Pokemon, especially for teenagers. “The augmented reality and geolocation, which are the basic principles of the game, are likely to expose young players to many dangers, first among tutt priming by malicious adults, with the aims most diverse, from robbery to sexual abuse, “said in a statement the association that defends the rights of the child. “This is because the application combines the basics of the game with the real world: to capture pokemon must physically move in space. Episodes such as the Missouri, where by applying four armed robbers have attracted and 11 teenagers robbed in an isolated area, must not happen again. As well as to be neutralize the risks of investments or traffic accidents to distraction “. Violent controversy about Pokemon Go have also been raised in Israel, Poland and the United States.