5 rules to play Pokemon Go as you traveling

5 rules to play  Pokemon Go as you traveling

You don't need to know your your Superman skoertli to realize that, wherever you travel, the world is currently in the midst of an epidemic Pokémon go-statistics says it is even more popular than porn on the Internet right now. If the two biggest questions about popular video game numb the mind, "wait, didn't Pokemon thing in the 1990s?" and "what the heck is a Pokémon go anyway?," you're not alone.

First, a brief Primer: "Pokémon" craze and started again in the mid-1990s as a series of video games, "Nintendo Game Boy original, which proved popular enough to spawn a whole media franchise, complete with games and trading cards, tv series, more than a dozen movies and pretty much anything else you can stick brands. The players, who are known as "Pokémon trainers" and immersed in the game and charged with catching a variety of types of Pokemon, kind of like Entomology crowd games.

Go Pokemon, now available as a free download for Android, IOS, takes this challenge in the real world (or "augmented reality") using GPS cell phone and clock to determine exact whereabouts and make small Pokemon characters "appear" all around you (read: appear on your phone screen so that you can be arrested or, in the language of Pokemon, "catch them all"). And it's not just a phenomenon here in America, people playing in Europe and Australia, too, while more countries embracing the whole time – man in Oakland until you quit his job to become full "Hunter Pokemon".

If this is all second nature for you, sounds interesting enough that you want in the game, it's time to enroll in an estimated 9.5 million who are already exploring the world with one eye on Smartphones. But before you do that, we would like to offer some tips are priceless — based on some other lessons we learned the hard way – on how to stay safe while fishing the Pokemon on the go.

1. Beware of a sudden drop in altitude.

Earlier this week, two men, both in their early 20s – playing Pokemon go Encinitas, California, was so engrossed in the default characters on their phones as they fell from a cliff. Both of them! As firefighters worked to rescue one of the men, who fell 75 feet to the estimated 100 down trick, they found the second man, who dropped from about 50 feet, and he was unconscious. According to the "Los Angeles Times", transferred to the trauma center close to all individuals were said to be moderately. Fire Department noted that players had encroached into the fenced off area in order to continue playing.

"I think people just need to realize that game," said Sergeant rich management Eaton "San Diego County Sheriff. "It's not worth your life. Any game worth your life. "

2. be respectful of sacred landmarks

While interacting with the real world is part of what makes going Pokemon so much fun, it might be safe to say that the species lacks some respect for places and things that should be sacred. Maybe they don't know any better. But many of the more formal sites worldwide uptick in the number has seen visitors who come not praise, but to catch charizard. A number of landmarks in the world become into PokéStops (places you know that crawling with Pokemon). Among these? The Holocaust Museum and Arlington National Cemetery in memory of 9/11 in New York City and Washington, d.c.

In danmor, Pennsylvania, three people were locked inside the Tomb while playing the game.

In Amsterdam, the Pokémon trainers ' "restricted areas" academic medical centre "in the name of this game. In response, hospital tweeted a picture of Superman bandages, noting that "there is already a Pokémon patients on AMC, but we'll look after him well. Please don't visit him. "

The White House also saw some action Pokemon.

3. should not be traversed subway tracks inside a subway car.

Concerned about the injuries that may be, MTA New York City has issued a warning of "trainers Pokemon," and urged them to be careful while playing the game and stay behind the yellow line when in the subway. " They have reason to worry: players in the Netherlands has been toured regularly on the railroad tracks because of the promise of the target Pokémon creatures. The problem got so bad that a representative from the rail, broril, reach Nintendo asked they update game.

4. keep your eyes on the road.

Road trip can be one of the most scenic and enjoyable life. But you'll miss everything if your eyes are glued to your Smartphone — and if you are the driver, you might miss even a standing tree right in front of you. Driver in Auburn, New York, smashing his vehicle smack dab in a tree before 11:00 pm this week because he was playing go Pokémon rather than looking at the road. Sadly, he's not the only one.