Unless you've been hiding under a rock since 6 July 2016, you will at least know that millions of people all over the globe are now spending every spare moment out hunting Pokemon. (For the uninitiated who are about to correct my grammar, I'm assured... moreUnless you've been hiding under a rock since 6 July 2016, you will at least know that millions of people all over the globe are now spending every spare moment out hunting Pokemon. (For the uninitiated who are about to correct my grammar, I'm assured that Pokemon is both singular and plural, there's no 'Pokemons'). It's an international obsession, that saw the new 'Pokemon Go' app downloaded more than 15 million times in the first 6 days after its launch in Australia, Japan and the United States.
What's a Pokemon? Technically it's a small critter found in video games. Catch one, and you can train it to help you battle others. The basic concept hasn't changed, even though (believe it or not) Pokemon are now 20 years old. That's how long ago it was when some clever computer people dreamed up the Pokemon video game for Nintendo's hand-held Game Boy device. At that stage, most people didn't have access to the internet, and Pokemon were strictly offline beasties. Even so, according to Wikipedia the... less
