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Taiwan grandpa catches 'em all playing Pokemon Go on 15 phones

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<p>TAIPEI - Chen San-yuan turns heads as he cycles through a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan&#x27;s capital.</p><p>The reason why?</p><p>Attached to the front of his bicycle are 15 mobile phones which Chen, 70, uses to simultaneously play the augmented-reality game Pokemon Go.</p><p>The smartphone-based game requires players to &#x27;catch&#x27; animated characters that appear in real locations.</p><p>Known as Pokemon Grandpa, videos of Chen and his fan-shaped phone setup cycling between &quot;Pokestops&quot; have gone viral on the internet and made him a minor celebrity in Tucheng district, where he lives.</p><p>&quot;I used one cellphone and then kept playing and playing,&quot; Chen, dressed in a crisp, white long-sleeved shirt and pants, told Reuters Television on a recent outing.</p><p>&quot;After a month, it became three cellphones, six cellphones, nine cellphones, 12 and then 15,&quot; he said, crediting his grandson with introducing him to Pokemon Go in 2016.</p><p>Chen said his gear cost more than $4,800 and he spends about $300 a month on virtual currency to use in the game.</p><p>Playing on multiple phones allows him to get to higher levels in the game more quickly and capture rarer creatures, he said.</p><p>The pensioner said he sometimes plays all night thanks to the custom-made portable battery packs that recharge the phones.</p><div class="media-content"><div class="slider-for"><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/overseas/11/13/20181113-grandpa-pokemon-rtr-1.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/overseas/11/13/20181113-grandpa-pokemon-rtr-2.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/overseas/11/13/20181113-grandpa-pokemon-rtr-3.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/overseas/11/13/20181113-grandpa-pokemon-rtr-4.jpg"/></div><div><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/overseas/11/13/20181113-grandpa-pokemon-rtr-5.jpg"/></div></div><div class="media-content slider-desc"><div class="item-desc"><p>Taiwanese Chen San-yuan, 70, known as &quot;Pokemon grandpa&quot;, plays the mobile game &quot;Pokemon Go&quot; by Nintendo, near his home with 15 mobile phones, in New Taipei City, Taiwan November 12, 2018. <cite>Tyrone Siu, Reuters</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Taiwanese Chen San-yuan, 70, known as &quot;Pokemon grandpa&quot;, plays the mobile game &quot;Pokemon Go&quot; by Nintendo, near his home with 15 mobile phones, in New Taipei City, Taiwan November 12, 2018. <cite>Tyrone Siu, Reuters</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Taiwanese Chen San-yuan, 70, known as &quot;Pokemon grandpa&quot;, plays the mobile game &quot;Pokemon Go&quot; by Nintendo, near his home with 15 mobile phones, in New Taipei City, Taiwan November 12, 2018. <cite>Tyrone Siu, Reuters</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Taiwanese Chen San-yuan, 70, known as &quot;Pokemon grandpa&quot;, plays the mobile game &quot;Pokemon Go&quot; by Nintendo, near his home with 15 mobile phones, in New Taipei City, Taiwan November 12, 2018. <cite>Tyrone Siu, Reuters</cite></p></div><div class="item-desc"><p>Taiwanese Chen San-yuan, 70, known as &quot;Pokemon grandpa&quot;, plays the mobile game &quot;Pokemon Go&quot; by Nintendo, near his home with 15 mobile phones, in New Taipei City, Taiwan November 12, 2018. <cite>Tyrone Siu, Reuters</cite></p></div></div></div><p>Chen&#x27;s fellow players are amazed at his energy.</p><p>&quot;He&#x27;s able to take care of fifteen cellphones at once,&quot; said Shih Wun-sheng, 45. &quot;From going out until returning home, Chen can remain energetic for six to seven hours, not feeling tired. That&#x27;s really impressive.&quot;</p><p>Pokemon Go, jointly developed by Nintendo Co and Niantic Inc, has been the biggest hit so far among games using so-called augmented reality, where digital characters are superimposed on the real world. </p>

<p>Attached to the front of his bicycle are 15 mobile phones which Chen, 70, uses to simultaneously play the augmented-reality game Pokemon Go.</p>

Attached to the front of his bicycle are 15 mobile phones which Chen, 70, uses to simultaneously play the augmented-reality game Pokemon Go.