9 Trick Video Game Items You Must AVOID

8. That's Not A Pokéball... - Pokémon Red & Blue

Maybe it's the increasingly Old Man in me, but the original Pokémon run was something else - a pure escapist energy that Nintendo have seldom captured again, apart from the mad scramble that was Pokémon GO's first few months.

Regardless, that literal gotta catch 'em all feeling extended across the original TV series and into the games, where if you were playing Red or Blue and headed to the Power Plant, everything from Magnemites to Machops, Poliwags to Kinglers was there to be battled and hoovered up.

One devilish surprise though, and essentially an in-game comment on how much the pokémon looked like a pokéball anyway, were trick pokéball items that were actually Voltorbs minding their own business.

Interact and you're immediately put into a fight, potentially netting you one of the elusive 151... or it being one duel too many for an already challenging area.