Kanehisa Satoh, a 56-year-old gamer who currently lives in Hokkaido, Japan, has been placed under arrest for assaulting his 55-year-old friend. The main cause of the scuffle, which could astonish some people, was due to the well-known game title Pokemon Go. According to Kotaku, these two elderly companions first met each other at the time they started to step into this game together several years ago.
Also reported by Sankei, the fight happened in Pokemon Go’s virtual gymnasium while both of them were in a car. “I was extremely blasted when he took away an ideal place in the gym before me”, said Satoh. After that, our bad-tempered 56-year-old man admitted having grabbed his friend’s shirt and kicked the automobile mirror on the driver’s side that made it broken into pieces.
His 55-year-old friend could not be more amazed at that anger, so he realized that he had to call the police. They arrived at the scene soon after to arrest Satoh for committing assault and property damage. Obviously, Satoh showed no desire to rebel persons on duty and accepted to be in charge of everything he had done.
Regarding the game title which directly led to this scuffle, it was first launched in 2016 and quickly become the most-played virtual interactive game in Niantic’s Pokemon game series. It is exclusively released by The Pokemon Company for almost all devices that run iOS and Android.
Pokemon Go rapidly became one of the most-downloaded apps on smartphones right after its kick-off, even broke the previous record of Candy Crush Saga. However, despite its temptation, all players of Pokemon Go should bear in mind that they should solve gaming-related problems in a gentle way, not by kicks and punches. Before trying to argue with your best friend, remember that you are all just in a virtual game.