ポケットモンスター（ポケモン） プラコロ
These two portable playsets of dices, cards, and cute Pokémon figures had been laying around in my room since I moved to Oregon in 2001. I only knew they belonged to my sister, but she grew out of her Pokémon crush long before. I had never done any in-depth research on them till now.
There is no visible name to be found anywhere but a small text in the back of both clear carrying cases and it reads “Bandai 1997 Made in Japan”. A quick search online brought me to a page on, of course, Amazon Japan. There were 3 images on the page. This game is called プラコロ, and the name could come from “Play(プラ)” and “Dice(コロ)” or “Plastic(プラ)” and “Dice(コロ)”.
Besides the cube looking figures in mine were not colored, all the key components checked out. I also didn’t see the clear cases that store all of the components, but I am pretty sure this is it and it’s definitely a (dice) game!
This single search took me 20 years to complete but I am glad I finally did it. This is a look back into the dark age of my life when I abandoned my love of toys and games for a taste of the “grown-up life”. After some more research, I found out the ones above were boosters. The playsets with clear cases that my sister owned were from the DX boxsets below. Now I just need a time machine to go back in time and ask my sister to buy more.
ルール:
- Game Preparation
- Character Dice (キャラコロ) x 1
- Energy Dice (エネコロ) x 3
- Skill Cards (ワザカード) x 4 – only 1 special card per game
- Life Counter (ライフカウンター) x 1
- Mini Character Dice (チビキャラコロ) x depends on skills
- Set life counter to 120 and determine the play order by Rock paper scissors, winner goes first.
- Show a skill card and declare the skill and its effect
- The same skill can’t be used consecutively
- The special card can only be used once in the game regardless if it was executed successfully or not.
- if there are no skills to use, the turn is over.
- Roll 1 character dice and 3 energy dices at the same time
- if a skill requires more than 3 energy dices, the player can reroll any of the three in order to satisfy the requirement.
- Check the result of the roll and determine if the skill(s) is successfully executed, if not, change turn.
- To succeed, the sum of marks on energy dices has to be equal or greater than the number required on the skill card.
- Based on the description of the skill card, apply the skill effect(s).
- bonus skill(s) only applies when the skill is successfully executed
- if a skill requires mini character dices, the player must have them in order to apply the skill effect.
- if a skill requires more mini character dices, the player can include the character dice in the roll or reroll the existing mini character dices.
- if a skill requires both players to roll mini character dices, and if one of the players doesn’t have mini character dices, the player who has them must share. Whoever shares dices decide who rolls first.
- Repeat 3 ~ 6 every turn
- The game is over when one of the players’ life points went down to 0.
- If both players reach 0 at the same time, the player who is using the skill is defeated.
https://w.atwiki.jp/purakoro/pages/18.html
