Nintendo rally invokes history lesson

Taipei

SOMEONE needs to start throwing some Pokeballs at Nintendo's share price after the stock jumped as high as its daily 25 per cent limit, the biggest gain since the gamemaker started trading 33 years ago.

Investors are getting excited about the success of Pokemon Go, a new augmented-reality smartphone game that integrates the original Pokemon story line - of chasing mythical creatures - into real-world surroundings using a phone's camera and GPS.