Pokémon TCG

Players battle each other using a deck of 60 cards. Players had 3 different types of cards to use, Pokémon cards (the cards players use to battle with), Energy cards (used to power up Pokémon so they can attack) and Trainer cards (supportive cards that can benefit the user in various ways). Later on Supporter cards and Stadium cards were separated from Trainer cards. A deck always had to have at least 1 Basic Pokémon and can only have up to 4 copies of each card in their deck (but were allowed to have any number of Basic Energy cards).

There a large variety of different types of Pokémon. Each Pokémon has an elemental type that makes it stronger or weaker against certain elemental types. There are also Evolved Pokémon, which unlike Basic Pokémon, can only be put into play ontop of the required Pokémon.

The main objective to winning in a Pokémon TCG battle is to take all of your Prize cards by Knocking Out the opponent's Pokémon before they take all of their Prize cards. Taking all of your Prize cards is not the only way to win, players can also win if their opponent has no Benched Pokémon to replace their Knocked Out Active Pokémon or if their opponent has no cards left in their deck at the beginning of their turn.

Many Pokémon TCG card tournaments are held worldwide and are even set up and handled by Nintendo.