10 Awful Video Game Spin-Offs That Insult The Original
4. Pokémon Channel
Professor Oak has need of your services. Not as a Pokémon Trainer eager to take an unruly Pikachu off of his hands, mind, but as the beta tester for a new television network he's created as a means of bringing people and their 'Mons together. What a guy.
What the good professor has failed to mention, however, is that, as an early trial participant, your job is to park your keister in front of the box and watch whatever channels are on offer alongside a wild Pikachu that has decided that it, too, wants nothing more than to be a couch potato.
That's the premise, so don't expect Pokémon Channel to provide any gameplay features like battling, training and catching, or really any gameplay at all, for that matter. The channels you flick through take on the form of shallow mini-games to engage your digits, but nobody beyond the age of five will have their brain stimulated by their contents.
What else is there to do? Glad you asked. You can watch how your pal Pikachu reacts to what's on screen and receive repeated pats on the back from Oak for making his network a success, or so he claims.