Inspired by Pokemon Snap, MMO fan builds their own RuneScape Pokedex by spending 4 years tracking down over 500 players with Pokemon usernames worth billions of gold
Charizard is priceless in the Pokemon TCG, and also in RuneScape
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One MMO player’s fun Pokemon Snap-style challenge has turned into more than four years of hunting down RuneScape and Old School RuneScape players who hold coveted, one-of-a-kind Pokemon usernames, all so they can say hello and log them in one of the most unique Pokedexes ever made.
This is about more than confirming these players exist, too. That would be boring. Instead, Zarmos will physically go say hello in-game for the Pokedex photo. Pokemon players have been found in both RuneScape and its Old School sibling, but Zarmos is the common denominator in the photos.
“Rare usernames in RuneScape are really cool to me because it’s a 23-year-old database, and unlike other MMOs, there’s only one of each name for the rest of time,” they say. “I thought it would be a fun challenge to see how many owners of these names I …