Pokemon Go allows users to catch the characters in the real-world. Due to the game’s GPS tracking, it is possible to see the characters in your immediate real-world surroundings and record the places where they are caught. Evan Scribner, a Sunnyside, Queens resident told the New York Post that during a visit to his ex’s place in Bushwick last week, the thrill of the hunt overcame him and he opened up the app to catch a Pokemon bat. However, he didn’t take the game’s advanced GPS tagging capabilities into account when he decided to open Pokémon Go and start playing it while at his ex-girlfriend’s house in Bushwick. “She saw that I had caught a Pokémon while at my ex’s house,” he told the NYC. When Scribner’s then (current) and now ex-girlfriend asked why he had been in his ex’s neighbourhood, he was unable to come up with a good excuse. “She found out last night [Sunday night] at my house and hasn’t contacted me since then.” Scribner added of his lost love. Created by Niantic and the Pokémon Company, the game has re-induced Pokémania, a frenzy over the cute creatures, that were originally created in the mid-’90s by Nintendo for the Game Boy console worldwide since it was released last week. Nintendo, which partly owns the game, has already added $7.5 billion to its market value since last Wednesday and increased its stock shares by 25 percent.
