Pocket Card Jockey

Pocket Card Jockey
Developer(s)Game Freak
Publisher(s)Game Freak
Nintendo (3DS)
Director(s)Masao Taya
Producer(s)Tetsuya Watanabe
Designer(s)Go Ichinose
Masao Taya
Toshihiro Obata
Artist(s)Kenkichi Toyama
Kumiko Ito
Masumi Sugiyama
Masato Misaki
Writer(s)Masao Taya
Composer(s)Go Ichinose
SeriesPocket Card Jockey Edit this on Wikidata
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch
ReleaseNintendo 3DS
  • JP: July 31, 2013
  • WW: May 5, 2016
iOS, Android
  • JP: November 26, 2014
Genre(s)Card game
Mode(s)Single-player

Pocket Card Jockey is a card video game. It was published by Game Freak with Nintendo doing the publishing for the 3DS version. The game was also developed by Game Freak.

It was released on July 31, 2013 in Japan and May 5, 2016 in the rest of the world. The game would later be released for iOS and Android on November 26, 2014.

In the game, the player controls a jockey. Depending on if the player chooses their character to be a male or a female there are two different goals they want to complete. The male wants to inherit the orange farm of his father and the female wants to get married and start a family. The player's jockey is killed during a race and is told by an angel to play the horse race like a game of solitaire. To win a race, the player has to win rounds of golf (card game).

A remake titled Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! was released on January 20, 2023 through Apple Arcade and on February 21, 2024 for Nintendo Switch.

Reception

The game recieved good reviews by game critics. Critics said that it was fun and that they liked the art style, music, and writing. However, some critics said that they didn't like the hard difficulty, the horse breeding mechanic was limited, and said that the tutorial for the game was too long and confusing.

References

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  4. ↑ "GAME FREAK 株式会社". Game Freak (in Japanese]. Archived from the original on December 18, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Pocket Card Jockey: A Fun New Game from the Makers of Pokemon". IGN. 6 May 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Game Freak announces Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! for Apple Arcade". Gematsu. 3 January 2023. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Pokémon Developer's Brilliant 'Pocket Card Jockey' Bolts To Switch Today". Nintendo Life. 21 February 2024. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Pocket Card Jockey (3DS) Review". NintendoWorldReport. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Pocket Card Jockey (for Nintendo 3DS) Review". PCMag. 27 July 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Champion colts and card combos: You should be playing Pocket Card Jockey". GameRadar+. 16 May 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Pocket Card Jockey Review". Game Revolution. 5 May 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Review: Pocket Card Jockey (3DS eShop)". Nintendo Life. 5 May 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2024.

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