When you first turn this Game Boy/Game Boy Color game on, you see the symbols of the card types move around the screen and three different booster packs are shown (base, jungle, fossil). I thought that the intro was pretty good, but it wasn't great. The first part of the game much resembles Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow a great deal.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Game Boy game is based on the real Trading Card Game, and you have a goal: to inherit the rare, powerful cards of the 4 Grand Masters, and you of course have a mentor to send you speeding down your Pokémon Trading Card Game path (Dr. Mason). You are given your first real (piece of junk!) deck from Dr. Mason, to be followed by your first battle with his assistant, Sam (which Dr. Mason will coach you through).

You will certainly want to modify the deck with other cards (I won't go into to in-depth deck building strategies now, that's a whole other story). Deck building is made easier by the way you can get cards. The cards you receive in a Booster Pack are dependent on where you get them. For example, inside Dr. Mason's Lab is a man whom you may battle to receive a Booster pack of only energy cards. However, most other Booster Packs aren't this narrow in the range of cards you receive .

All the card sets (Base, Jungle, Fossil, and Mew) are in the game and I think even more. All versions of cards that appear in different sets are available. For example, I have four Pikachu Cards, two from the original Base Set and two from the Jungle Set. In addition to getting cards from Booster Packs within the game, you may trade with a friend.

Something new however, is called the card POP. You, a friend, two Game Boy Colors only (use of the infrared ports), and two Pokémon TCG game paks are required. You and your friend each receive a random card. However, once you have done a POP with another friend's game pak (call it game pak 54), you can't POP with that game pak 54 again:(

The stereo music, if any, didn't jump out and grab you like it does in Yellow when using headphones. The music isn't as impressive as I had hoped. One of my friends detected what he felt were Super Mario Bros. and Zelda: Link's Awakening elements in the music/sounds.

Here's how I feel about game play on the different GB systems: Game Boy Color is the best way to play. It uses more colors than the Super Game Boy, it has the Game Link and the infrared port. Next is Super Game Boy. There are at least two borders for the game that change during play. Last comes Game Boy pocket and Game Boy.

Keep up your hopes though 'cause this game is great. You can have more than one deck built at a time, and the game makes deck building easy. It's a great buy in my opinion and on a scale of one to ten, I give it a nine.