Taiwanese grandfather tries to catch ’em all playing Pokemon Go on 15 phones
- Pokemon Grandpa, 70, spends several hours a day playing game, using up to 15 mobile phones to aid him in his quest
Chen San-yuan turns heads as he cycles through a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan’s capital.
Attached to the front of his bicycle are 15 mobile phones which Chen, 70, uses to simultaneously play the augmented-reality game Pokemon Go, which requires players to “catch” animated characters that appear in real locations.
Known as Pokemon Grandpa, videos of Chen and his fan-shaped phone set-up cycling between “Pokestops” have gone viral on the internet and made him a minor celebrity in Tucheng district, where he lives.
“I used one cellphone and then kept playing and playing,” Chen, dressed in a crisp, white long-sleeved shirt and trousers, told Reuters Television on a recent outing.
“After a month, it became three cellphones, six cellphones, nine cellphones, 12 and then 15,” he said, crediting his grandson with introducing him to Pokemon Go in 2016.
