How Long Would It Actually Take To Catch Them All?

Thomas Codd

Abstract


One of the most popular gaming franchises in the world, Pokémon, involves the player acting as a Pokémon trainer and taking an adventure through various regions, in an attempt to train and to “Catch ‘em all!”. But how long would this feat take? The Pokémon games red, yellow and blue have been used as a model for the original region of Kanto to calculate this. The results of this analysis show the time taken to do this is almost 5 years.


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Computer game; Probability/Statistics; Pokemon

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