{"id":10912,"date":"2016-09-18T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T02:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=10912"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T02:41:27","slug":"yo-kai-watch-trading-card-game-quietly-released-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/09\/yo-kai-watch-trading-card-game-quietly-released-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo-Kai Watch trading card game quietly released last month?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today at my local Wal-Mart I happened upon booster packs for the <em>Yo-Kai Watch<\/em> collectible trading card game. I was taken by surprise as there has been virtually no news about the game aside from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/05\/yo-kai-watch-2-coming-to-north-america-on-september-30th\/\">very brief mention<\/a> during a Nintendo Direct many months ago. And with the second game(s) coming to the Nintendo 3DS in less than two weeks I was a bit surprised that this release flew under the radar for me.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems like it has for the rest of the internet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I can&#8217;t find any listing for the cards on Amazon.com besides from import cards, nor have I seen the cards in Toys&#8217;R&#8217;Us or EB Games in Canada. Heck, the official website for the cards features the Japanese cards which look nothing like the cards that are in the packs I opened.<\/p>\n<p>The cards are a product of Hasbro Gaming, which has the licence for toys and games, but their website is less than helpful. Doing a search for the cards on their website yields no results, including looking at &#8220;all products&#8221; in the Yo-Kai category. A google search does show two items on their website, which are both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/en-us\/product\/yo-kai-watch-trading-card-game-collector-s-box:A2C865C7-5056-9047-F569-751DDA038BD1\" target=\"_blank\">card boxes<\/a> with a few booster packs. A deep dive into their website also reveals a &#8220;how to play&#8221; which can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/en-us\/brands\/yokai\/videos?bctid=5067159847001\" target=\"_blank\">viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From a video someone shot and posted on YouTube about the game earlier it seems like these cards have been out for more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there will be more of a push as we get closer to the holiday shopping season.<\/p>\n<p><center> <\/p>\n<div class=\"tumblr-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/embed.tumblr.com\/embed\/post\/jQUko9niqkGxW6XoVVWQ4w\/150615831580\" data-did=\"53498727d8404aafcb73a078a0dc428f85b27a90\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darkainartsgamers.tumblr.com\/post\/150615831580\/more-at-httpgamersdarkainartscom\">http:\/\/darkainartsgamers.tumblr.com\/post\/150615831580\/more-at-httpgamersdarkainartscom<\/a><\/div>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/secure.assets.tumblr.com\/post.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today at my local Wal-Mart I happened upon booster packs for the Yo-Kai Watch collectible trading card game. I was taken by surprise as there has been virtually no news about the game aside from a very brief mention during a Nintendo Direct many months ago. And with the second game(s) coming to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21],"tags":[903,1220],"class_list":["post-10912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-3ds","tag-hasbro","tag-yo-kai-watch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/yo_kai_watch_tcg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-2Q0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10183,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/05\/yo-kai-watch-2-coming-to-north-america-on-september-30th\/","url_meta":{"origin":10912,"position":0},"title":"Yo-Kai Watch 2 coming to North America on September 30th","date":"May 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Nintendo announced today that the Yo-kai phenomenon will continue later this year. 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