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Unless you have been hiding under a rock the past few days, you would have heard of Pokemon Go.
One of the most popular video games of all time, a childhood favourite for millions across the world, is back with a vengeance in the form of the new app.
And now it’s all everyone’s talking about.
Pokemon Go is an augmented-reality game, users must literally walk around streets to access new challenges and rendezvous with monsters. The app interacts with your GPS data and guides you to places of interest. Your live camera captures the scene around you, and Pokémon jump into your phone screen as you look at the world in front of you.
If you’ve spotted children, teenagers, twentysomethings and those in their 30s walking around, peering through their phones and getting excited, then the chances are you’ve spotted a crowd out to catch em all.
It’s popular enough that police are having to issue warnings to communities that chasing Pokemon isn’t a valid excuse for not watching where you’re going, using a phone while driving or entering property you’re not supposed to.
While Hunter Pokemon trainers have been spotted all over the region, the craze is a nationwide and worldwide phenomenon.
Up in the Top End, Darwin police – in typical Territory fashion – have had to let people know they don’t need to come inside the city station to keep catching the prize.
“For those budding Pokemon Trainers out there using Pokemon Go - whilst the Darwin Police Station may feature as a Pokestop, please be advised that you don't actually have to step inside in order to gain the pokeballs,” a post on the Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services Facebook page said.
“It's also a good idea to look up, away from your phone and both ways before crossing the street. That Sandshrew isn't going anywhere fast.
“Stay safe and catch 'em all!”
Their counterparts in New South Wales also offered similar advice.
So stay safe and good luck on your Pokemon hunt.
