pocket pogo

Heads up! Over the weekend, some Target stores started carrying the Pocket Pogo handhelds in their toy departments. Our readers report the inventory has been pretty hit-or-miss — some stores don’t have them at all while others have the full range of both touchscreen and regular versions. (The touchscreen versions are more in demand, by the way, because you can earn tokens and badges — both versions give you a free month of Club Pogo.) Pogo’s web site states you can purchase them offline at K-mart and Wal-mart too, but nobody’s reported being able to find them there yet. Here’s a Pogo marketing page on the handhelds.

If your local Target doesn’t have them yet, consider ordering or pre-ordering your handhelds from Entertainment Earth. (The non-touchscreen versions are available now.) They’ll be shipping shortly, though a few of the handhelds are already out of stock. My early pre-order is currently “processing”.

More information about Pocket Pogo handhelds, including a peek at the badges you can earn, can be found in the Pocket Pogo category archive.

If you have seen these at your local Target, K-mart, or Wal-mart store(s), or if you pre-ordered and received yours, please let us know! (Only comments about the availablility of Pocket Pogo handhelds will be approved.) Thanks!

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Pogo’s added instructions for all of their upcoming Pocket Pogo games to their help site. (These Pocket Pogo games will be released in August.) Each of these goes over the different game modes and gives you a pretty good idea of what the games are going to be like. Also included are details of how you’ll be redeeming your tokens and “badges”. (We put quotes around “badges” because these will not show up with the normal badges in your Club Pogo badge album.) Here are direct links to each game’s instruction page:

Touchscreen:
* Pocket Pogo Touch Screen Battleship Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Touch Screen Casino Island Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Touch Screen Jewel Bash Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Touch Screen Scrabble Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Touch Screen Solitaire Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Touch Screen Word Whomp Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Touch Screen Yahtzee Instructions

Non-touchscreen:
* Pocket Pogo Battleship Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Connect 4 Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Yahtzee Instructions
* Pocket Pogo Monpoly Slots Instructions (not yet posted?)

If you’re interested in owning one (or a few, or all!) of these Pogo handhelds, we’ve paired up with Entertainment Earth and they’ve got all of the handhelds — both touchscreen and not — available for you to pre-order. (Reminder: the touchscreen versions are the only ones that have the “earn badges and tokens” feature.)

The release of the Pocket Pogo touchscreen handhelds has been rescheduled, from the original release date of July to August. The release date of the non-touchscreen versions is still listed as July, however they may be subject to the same delays that the touchscreen versions were. (All dates listed are subject to change.)

If you previously pre-ordered and your order was canceled due to delay, we’re so sorry this happened. There was a miscommunication that caused Entertainment Earth to list them as “Cancelled” even though their production was just delayed. The web site has been updated, and they are available to pre-order once again if you’d like to do so.

Thanks everyone for your patience in this matter, rest assured we’re currently on schedule for an August release now!

A few readers have written in to ask how the Pocket Pogo games will be able to transfer the tokens and badges they earn to their Pogo accounts. We’re not entirely sure, and even the FAQ is a little fuzzy (at least on how we’ll be able to transfer tokens, if at all), but we do know that the badges (a.k.a. “in-game awards”) will have a code associated with them that you’ll be able to enter.

(For what it’s worth, we tried to register using that registration number up there, and it came back with an error. Don’t bother trying it for yourself. *smirk*)

At this point we still don’t know if the advertised “earn tokens” means you’ll get tokens for just registering the device or you’ll also be able to earn tokens by playing the games. We also don’t know if the badges you’ll earn as “in-game awards” will count toward your badge total or if they’re just a separate entity confined to the Pocket section of your profile. Time will tell!

If you’re interested in owning one (or a few, or all) of these handhelds, we’ve paired up with Entertainment Earth and they’ve got all of the handhelds — both touchscreen and not — available for you to pre-order. (Reminder: the touchscreen versions are the only ones that have the “earn badges and tokens” feature.)

Have you looked at your profile today? Maybe you should… Pogo’s added a section called “My Hasbro Pocket Page” to all of our profiles, for both Club and non-Club members. Right now it’s just marketing text — and we assume it’ll stay that way until (unless?) you buy one of the Pogo Pocket handhelds, link it (them?), to your account and start earning badges.

If you’re interested in more information about the Pocket Pogo handhelds straight from Pogo, check out Pogo’s FAQ on the left hand side of the registration page. You can also click through to each individual (touchscreen) handheld’s page, which has some nice marketing text and the requirements and badges that we told you about earlier.

Some of you may not be sold on these handhelds (especially after this unannounced and non-optional change to your profiles) but if you don’t want to wait until they hit stores, we’ve teamed up with Entertainment Earth so you can pre-order Pocket Pogo games so they’ll be shipped to you when they’re released in July.

Below are images of the Pocket Pogo badges along with the requirements needed to earn each “badge award” in each handheld game.

Battleship Pocket Pogo Badges

Bronze
Score 60 points to earn this badge award!

Silver
Score 70 points to earn this badge award!

Gold
Score 80 points to earn this badge award!

Casino Island Pocket Pogo Badges

Bronze
Get a Straight Flush to earn this badge award!

Silver
Get a Joker Royal to earn this badge award!

Gold
Get a Royal Flush to earn this badge award!

Connect 4 Pocket Pogo Badges

Bronze
Win 200 games to earn this badge award!

Silver
Win 400 games to earn this badge award!

Gold
Win 600 games to earn this badge award!

Jewel Bash Pocket Pogo Badges

Bronze
Score 4000 points to earn this badge award!

Silver
Score 6000 points to earn this badge award!

Gold
Score 8000 points to earn this badge award!

Scrabble Pocket Pogo Badges

Bronze
Score 200 points to earn this badge award!

Silver
Score 300 points to earn this badge award!

Gold
Score 400 points to earn this badge award!

Solitaire Pocket Pogo Badges

Bronze
Score 500 points to earn this badge award!


Silver
Score 700 points to earn this badge award!

Gold
Score 900 points to earn this badge award!

Word Whomp Pocket Pogo Badges

Bronze
Score 50 points to earn this badge award!

Silver
Score 70 points to earn this badge award!

Gold
Score 85 points to earn this badge award!

Yahtzee Pocket Pogo Badges

Bronze
Score 300 points to earn this badge award!
Silver
Score 500 points to earn this badge award!
Gold
Score 700 points to earn this badge award!
If you’re interested in pre-ordering the Pocket Pogo games, we have teamed up with Entertainment Earth so you can buy Pocket Pogo games on pre-order so they’ll be delivered to you in July when they are released. Each of the Pocket Pogo Touchscreen games will give you the opportunity to link the handheld to your Pogo account so you may earn tokens and badges.

Here are images of the badges you can earn in the handheld Pocket Pogo games coming this summer. We suspect the black and white versions are the placeholder badges that will show in your profile when you’ve registered one of the game devices and attached it to your account, but before you’ve actually earned the badges. (This is similar to the black and white badges that show in a premium album after you’ve purchased it but before you’ve gotten the badge.)

As you can see, these are not the typical size nor shape of Pogo Badges. They will have a special place on your profile page, just underneath the Favorite Badge book and just above your Guestbook.

Battleship Pocket Pogo Badges


Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Casino Island Pocket Pogo Badges


Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Connect 4 Pocket Pogo Badges


Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Jewel Bash Pocket Pogo Badges


Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Scrabble Pocket Pogo Badges


Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Solitaire Pocket Pogo Badges


Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Word Whomp Pocket Pogo Badges


Bronze, Silver, and Gold

Yahtzee Pocket Pogo Badges


Bronze, Silver, and Gold

When you purchase one of these handheld game devices, you’ll be able to visit a page on Pogo’s web site to “attach” the device to your account. Registering Touch Screen devices will give you the ability to earn tokens and badges. Registering non-Touch Screen Pocket Pogo devices will give you a 30-day Club Pogo membership (and if you already have a Club Pogo membership, you’ll receive an additional 30 days at the end of your current subscription).

We’ve teamed up with Entertainment Earth so you can buy Pocket Pogo games on a pre-order basis so they’ll be delivered to you in July when they are released.

As always, we’ll keep you posted with the latest developments on these cool devices. Stay tuned!

Kiss your free time goodbye! This summer, you’ll be able to keep Pogo in your pocket. There are a bunch of Pocket Pogo handheld games coming out that are similar to the games you already love on Pogo, and in addition with the touchscreen versions you can earn up to a million tokens and badges you can transfer to your Pogo account. Each handheld also appears to come with a free month pass to Club Pogo.

Here are the touch screen Pocket Pogo games that’ll allow you to earn tokens and badges offline and redeem them online: Yahtzee, Scrabble, Word Whomp, Battleship, Solitaire, Jewel Bash, and Casino Island.

 

 

 

There are also Pogo Pocket handhelds that don’t appear to have the capability to earn badges and tokens, but they still come with a free month to Pogo: Monopoly Slots, Battleship, Yahtzee, and Connect 4 non-touchscreen versions.

These handhelds will be released sometime in July. The touch screen versions should be under $30 and the regular handheld Pocket Pogo games should be under $15. We’ve teamed up with Entertainment Earth so you can buy Pocket Pogo games on a pre-order basis so they’ll be delivered to you in July when they are released.