Pokemon GO Craze Strikes Reston Town Center

This mans set up a lawnchair at a lure module in reston town center pic.twitter.com/6RJwwp1sw2
— Jeff Rieder (@jeffrieder7) July 11, 2016

The arrival of Pokemon GO has created quite the nationwide sensation, and Reston has fallen victim to it in the last few days -- to the amusement of many in the area.

People flooded social media to report that players could be seen walking all around Reston Town Center looking for Pokemon on their phones, with one person even capturing a photo of someone setting up a lawn chair just to sit there and capture Pokemon at a hot spot.

Pokemon GO is a free-to-play augmented reality mobile game that allows users to play the wildly popular game that caught fire in the 1990s -- but with a catch. Players actually have to walk around the city to come across Pokemon or visit "Pokestops" that have free items like pokeballs and potions. When they come across a pokemon, it appears on their iPhone screen as if it were in the real world, and players flick a pokeball at the monster to capture it.

It's resulted in a lot of amusing scenes at Reston Town Center, with players wandering around seemingly aimlessly trying to catch Pokemon on their phones. And a lot of people have noticed, as you can see from the tweets below:

I find it amusing watching people look like idiots as they walk around Reston trying to catch Pokémon on their phones
— Sean Ahearn (@Ay_hearn25) July 10, 2016

The entirely of Reston Town Center is playing Pokemon Go RN. Its quite the site to see
— Bees? (@Curtis_Rhoa) July 9, 2016

I just caught three straight Pokemon in Reston.

It's been a good day. #PokemonGO
— Laura Roman (@Laura_Roman_) July 9, 2016

Pokemon Go at Reston Town Center
— Bok Choy Boyz (@LawdBen) July 11, 2016

Pokemon Go is cleaning up the streets of Reston
— Patrick Kelley (@PatrckKelley) July 11, 2016

let me find out that Pokemon Go is teaching me how diverse and cultured #Reston is.
— Kayo (@ogknyb) July 10, 2016

Lol a 30 min roundtrip commute to reston town center by bike became like 2 hours due to Pokemon go #PokemonGO #pokemon
— DK Kim (@dkaznboi91) July 9, 2016

Got Pokemon Go last night, Reston trails are gonna be an adventure
— Lindy Westenhoff (@spatialcase) July 9, 2016

Image via Pokemon GO