What is PokéROM?

The Pokémon craze continues with Mattel Interactive’s PokéROMs, educational quiz software shaped like the popular trading cards. Fifty different PokéROMs will be released by the end of the year, capitalizing on that popular “gotta catch ‘em all” marketing phrase. We’d suggest skipping them all. In each PokéROM, Professor Oak guides players through various activities, including a math and puzzle solver; an observation tower, where you can observe Pokémon characters in their natural environment; and a quiz contest. The quiz is the only worthwhile activity, allowing up to three friends to test their knowledge of math, science, and reading from a choice of five different skill levels (grades 1 to 5). With 11 questions per quiz game and only 2,000 questions total, you would go through all the questions in less than 200 games. We played 10 times and already began to see repeat questions. The math and puzzle solver is too easy, and the observation tower, which displays a slide show of Pokémon screen shots, seems a little pointless except to the Pokémon-obsessed, So unless you’re one of the zealots, you’re probably better off buying a trivia game that offers more questions for your money.

Devincenzi, Keelin. (October 2000). Kidz Stuff. MacAddict. (pg. 66).

Download PokéROM for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver