To be honest, I don't know what all the fuss is about this Pokémon Go craze that is sweeping the world and has even had an impact on the Bay.
For those of you who have never heard of it, the new Nintendo game is the spawn of the original Pokémon launched in the 1990s. The whole concept of the game is "augmented reality" - a game and the real world interacting.
It uses your mobile phone's GPS and clock to determine a player's location and the time. It then plants Pokémon virtual creatures around them and people have to go out into the real world and catch all the Pokémon they can. Apparently there are about 150 in the new game.
While the game may sound silly to some, I suppose it does achieve a lofty goal of getting people, especially children, off the couch playing games and outside doing exercise, even if it is walking around hunting for Pokémon.
So, if you happen to see people alone or in groups aimlessly wandering around with their eyes locked on their mobile phone screen, don't worry they are probably hooked on Pokémon Go.