Pokemon Go: Delhi’s hosts its own Poke Hunt

Delhi’s hosts its own Poke Hunt - Sakshi Post

New Delhi: Taking the Pokemon Go fever a notch higher, the city hosted its own Pokemon walk with ‘trainers’ hunting down the rarest of the digital creatures to add to their kitty of ‘monsters’ Organised by Performers’ Consortium, a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to put together heterogeneous art forms of unconventional structure, the PokeHunt: India Gate commenced at 5 pm and continued till 7.45 pm last evening.

The hunt began at around the canopy in the India Gate area which had pokestops around and people could collect as many pokeballs as they wanted, after which we took the alley between the High Court and the National Gallery of Modern Art, to Pandara road via Zakir Hussain marg, finally culminating at the Pokegym at the Khan Market, Manu Kamath, co-founder, Performers’ Consortium said.

The augmented reality game, which was first released in the USA, Australia and New Zealand, is now available in more than 30 countries has turned into a global phenomenon.

Although, the game is yet to be launched officially in India, it has already taken the country by storm and gamers are playing it by downloading the APK (Android application package) file.

Pokemon hunt in Delhi

In all, there are 151 unique pokemons that can be caught globally, although there are some that are exclusive to particular regions like, ‘Farfetch’d’ in Asia, ‘Kangaskhan’ in Australia and New Zeland and ‘Mr Mime’ in Europe.

Also, there are nine elusive of these digital monsters - Ditto, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Mewtwo and Mew - regarding the existence of which within the game there is no available information as of now.

The Poke Hunt which was created on Facebook as a purely whimsical act, garnered immense popularity. The hunt began at the starting point with nearly 40 people and many other joined in at different locations.

While organisers had previously decided to provide participants with maps detailing the location of pokemons, the event turned out to be more spontanoeous where people would rush to a particular spot as soon a monster was located.

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