STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Michael Perina is seizing on the Pokemon Go phenomenon for a real-life adventure around Staten Island.

Perina, who owns a three-dimensional printing company in Stapleton, has printed out 500 plastic Pokemon figurines, and will soon hide them at the game's "Pokestops," for some non-digital fun.

The rewards are win-win-win: Pokemon players will have a chance to bring their gaming to the real world, win prizes and patronize local businesses. Prizes include tickets to Staten Island Yankees games and passes to the Amazing Escape room in Staten Island.

Pokestops, the map-points integrated into the highly popular and addictive augmented reality game, are already located around fun Staten Island destinations, like Historic Richmond Town and Conference House Park. Perina will hide his 3-D figurines near these Pokestops.

The game has brought patrons to these places in droves. Many are using the game as a segue to attract young visitors, like this Friday's Pokemon night at the Staten Island Yankees' Richmond County Savings Bank Ballpark. Some, like the Staten Island Museum, have been looking for ways to hang onto these newly-gained visitors.

"We hope that once the monsters are found, visitors will browse the galleries and be awed by the life-size Mastodon named Hollick, landscape paintings of Staten Island and World Art brought here by Islanders," said Cheryl Adolph, president and CEO of the Staten Island Museum (a popular Pokestop).

To encourage some of the most ambitious game participants to return, the museum is offering five complimentary family memberships to the winners of Perina's scavenger hunt. (See other prize opportunities below).

The problem, Perina says, is that players don't get much of a chance to look up from their phones at these iconic places.

A geo-cache fan himself, he saw a chance to bring newly-adventurous people into the fold.

"I love the idea of anything that gets kids and adults out of the house to socialize with people, even if it is with a phone in front of them," he said. "Technology usually gets blamed for making people fat and lazy. This is the first thing I've seen that has people take that phone that's glued to their hands and use it to be active and get out of the house in record numbers."

If a player finds one of his colorful figurines at a Pokestop, they can cash in on their prize at a local business, a pizzeria or store, for instance. Perina's still looking for more partners for redemption sites, but says it'll give businesses that aren't benefitting from being a Pokestop to get more foot traffic.

Printing out the figures ended up costing him about $100 out of pocket, but it was a good way to keep the fun of Pokemon Go alive, and promote his own business, Assembyl 3D Printing, primarily a manufacturing company.

The hunt starts July 30 and continues until all the 3-D Pokemon figurines are collected. He'll be announcing more details on the scavenger hunt's Facebook page.

Here's a list of all the prizes available so far on the scavenger hunt: