Michiel van Kooten (24), student of Innovation Management (wearing a red shirt in the photo, bike in hand)

Why do you catch Pokémon?
"Pure nostalgia. I got my first card, Onyx, from a friend when I was six years old. Every morning before I went to primary school, I would eat my sandwich while watching Pokémon on TV. I saved cards, swapped them and played games with them."

Most pleasing catch?
"Haven't had it yet. I've just started. But I did just score a nice victory in a Gym [where Pokémon Trainers train their Pokémon]. The pond by the Main Building is a kind of arena where you can get Pokémon to fight each other."

Quintin Reisenberger (on the right in the photo) and Jochem Marinissen, both aged sixteen and secondary school pupils

What makes it so much fun?
"At PokéStops [real-world locations on the game map] you can nab items, like Poké Balls or eggs. An egg hatches when you have covered a certain distance, that's why you sometimes see players running. The best Pokémon hatch in grottos. But you can't get a signal there. So you need 4G. We think this game is driving sales of 4G."

What is the game's appeal?
"It gives you the feeling that now you can catch Pokémon in the real world. We used to dream of that and now it has come true. When I'm walking the dog, I walk farther, and it's more fun doing the grocery shopping. But it is dangerous when you are cycling."

Leon Pals (23), student of Embedded Systems

What makes it so much fun?
"Once you have reached a certain level, you can place a Lure at a PokéStop. That draws Pokémon which you can catch, but other players also come to it. From level 5 upwards you can play in a team. I'm in the Instinct team, my friends are in Mystic or Valor. Then we play against each other."

What is the game's appeal?
"It is an adventure of sorts. You visit places you have never been and you meet people there who are also players."

Pim Booij (20), bachelor's student of Applied Mathematics

Why do you catch Pokémon?
"It's fun. I've been playing this game since I was a kid. I had a pile of cards and I used to play it on my Gameboy. I've had this app since it was released last week Wednesday."

What makes it so much fun?
"Catching everything. There are now 150 different Pokémon, so that may be possible. If I have to wait for a bus or a train, I play. And at GEWIS study association on Friday, everyone was playing it. I think there's a battle going on between Fontys and TU/e involving challenges in the Gyms."

Mark Willemen (41), ICT Service

Why do you catch Pokémon?
"In the past, when I was doing higher vocational education, I had the Pokémon card game. I used to play ‘Magic the Gathering’, but my younger nephews were playing Pokémon and that's how I learned it."

What is the game's appeal?
"You know, I expect this hype will only last another couple of weeks. I actually find Hearthstone more fun. And especially board games."

Kim van der Slik (28, on the left in the photo) and Bodine van der Lubbe (21). Kim graduated in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, where Bodine is doing an internship.

What makes it so much fun?
"It gets us outside. You walk past interesting things. PokéStops are works of art or special buildings. We didn't know how popular it was until we saw guys here on campus calling out, 'Oh, look, we need to be over there.'"

What is the game's appeal?
"Everyone who used to have Pokémon really wanted to live in that world. And now in a way that's possible."