Ozy is away on holiday and with PJ being very busy this week I’m the one who has to update the site. Normally I would have written a new Focus On, but I haven’t got the time to write it past weekend. So I’m doing a small update now, and I hope to have some new articles ready in a few days. If you have suggestions, please PM me.
So, now, the question of today: When did you guys start playing Pokémon? What was your first game? How old where you back then? And so on…
My first game I played was Red, which a played on my cousin’s Gameboy pocket, because I was too young to own the game myself. The first game I owned myself was Yellow, which I received as a Christmas gift combined with my green Gameboy Color. It guess that was around the year 2000.
Enough of me, it’s your turn to start discussing in the comments!
I was 7 or 8, and my parents just bought me a GBC with a Tom and Jerry game, but I couldn’t pass a level so the next day I went back to the shop with my dad to trade it, and before we left my mother had said to me NO, Pokemon so what did I choose Pokemon 🙂 first I didn’t get it, was looking for a point to save so the first days I started over and over untill a other boy told me how to play.. and since then I’m hooked 😀
I played first when i was 9
My parents bought me gbasp and pokemon blue when summer holiday 2005.
I later stucked in fuchsia city and i havent know how to get out there until NOW lol xD. Then i rage-quit pokemon blue and buy a ruby version and start with torchic
It was greeeeeeaaaat. I later have lv 100 blaziken swampert groudon kyogre and requaza.( I transfered swampert and kyogre pokemons from my sapphire)
Then about one years later my save game corrupted WTF
So unlucky me
I was seven or eight. My cousin had Sapphire version and the lime green special edition GBA SP, and I would beg her to let me play it (which she grudgingly did some of the time). My granddad saw that I wanted a GBA, so he bought me a black one. THen, my aunt chipped in with Sapphire, and… the rest is history. xD I can’t even describe all of my experiences with that game…. So many memories. <3
i remember I was about 4-6 (i can’t really remember how old i was) and I was in a car watching my brother play Yellow on GBC, I was fasinated when, on route 1, he jumped down the ledge with Pikachu following him, I was soooo hooked. Then I got my brother’s GBC while he got Gold and a GBA (I always got his old model of the hand-held Nintendo until I got my DS first =P). My dad’s friend (who is coincedently called Ash) went into a shop (dunnoe which one) and got me Silver and the original Gold & Silver walkthrough which I still have (even though it’s a lil bit tattered & torn)… and that’s when my Poke-journey!!! And I’m still learning new things every other day- my latest lesson is about EV’s!
Late 1999 when Red and Blue were released in Europe – I would have been seven at the time.
Well……. my first pokemon game was Pokemon Pinball R&S, lol!! XD. I was like 7 years old at the time. My first real pokemon game was Leaf Green version a year later when i was 8. I remember….. when you had to press the left or right buttons on the + pad thing to scroll through your bag like the pokeball section, tm hm, medicine and stuff. When i went to the poke mart for the first time, i bought some pokeballs. Well, my first time playing it, i didnt know that you had to scroll to go to the pokeball section so i kept buying pokeballs thinking that i never got any and the poke mart was stealing my money!! lol. So i learned when i got to Lt. surge with only my squirtle and i think it was level 30? O_o.
My favorite game though of all time was actually diamond/pearl. Im not gonna lie, i think i had the most fun playing that game than any other game. I was like, 11, and i actually bought a ds just to play that game too. I remember that the summer before the game was released, i worked for money to buy it and a DS. I washed cars, did the dishes, cleaned the house, stuff like that. Maybe thats why i enjoyed that game the most.
Anyway, sorry for the long post, just, pokemon….. so many memories……..
Since I'm 21 too, I first heard about pokémon when Nintendo began a promo in the french mag "la revue de Mickey" before the release of Red and Blue in 1998 if I'm right. So I was there to buy it (thanks mom and dad) with my brother the day when it came out. My bro' take the Blue and me Red version. My firsts pokémon were Charmander (Salamèche in french), Butterfree (Papillusion fr), Pikachu of course, and Clefairy (Mélofée fr): my favorite of the first gen. So many memories… GAME FREAK are still my favorite game developpers. 🙂
When I was a kid my dad used to take me to Japan town all the time. While we were there, I discovered these little toys of really cool creatures called Pocket Monsters. Shortly afterwards I discovered there were packs of trading cards with cool art of these monsters on them. After a long time of collecting the monsters, I showed my friend and he told me that they were called Pokemon and they were from a game that was coming out in a few months. One day I was at school in my third grade class and all of my friends were playing Pokemon on gameboy and it blew my mind that I could actually play a game with the monsters I had been collecting. My friend saw I was excited and told me he would bring me a copy tomorrow and sure enough that night he stole his little brothers blue version and gave it to me. So yeah the answer is 8 years old and Blue version. I was part of the original sales demographic. Not this “Pinball Ruby Sapphire” craziness.
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Someone’s self-righteous. xD
More like these third gen babies make me feel like an old person..
Ughm, maybe bkuz you are old… Just saying!
Gonna get my say in here… People like you bug me. It’s not like there’s a superior generation or anything. We’re all Pokemon fans, just because you started in an earlier generation doesn’t mean you’re a better sort of Pokemon fan. I started with the first generation too, but third generation is still my favorite. And, let’s be honest, like any of us that were seven/eight around the time of playing the first generation really knew what we were doing.
Just wondering, who was that directed to?
Just wondering, who was that directed to?
Stealing is we0rong 🙁
Ahh taking a trip down memory lane lol it was just under 12 years ago! :O i was 6 in 1999 when Pokemon first came over to Ireland (same time as UK) and i got Pokemon Red for Christmas and a Gameboy Colour/ Color. Fell in love immediately and have been obsessed ever since owning all of the main series games bar HG (which will soon change)
Like others i was part of the phenomenon and remember it well when every child loved it and schools were taken over by it and it was mentioned on the news at least once a week
Random fact: didn’t know it was japanese or that the anime was dubbed until 05 :O :L
The first Pokemon game I played was Gold Version. I got it from my nanny, who also worked as a substitute teacher, and she confiscated a GameBoy and Gold Version from a misbehaving student. I guess I have to thank that stupid student for getting me started with all this!
i started when i was 3 but back then i couldnt get out of pallet town couldnt read so i official start on pokemon ruby when i was 7
I wish I could remember what age I was when I started playing Pokemon…I wanna guess between 5-7 years old. First game I played was Blue version. I remember having no clue to what I needed to do and where to go. XD I use to go over my friends across the street with my brother and we’d just sit on the porch and play on our Gameboy’s..those were the days. Then I got Silver while my brother got gold and played through that…then later on bugging my mom for Crystal so I could actually play as a girl. XD I’ve played every main stream Pokemon game after that.
I did awhile ago, go on mine and my brothers Blue and Fire version since we haven’t touched it since we were kids to see the old Pokemon I still had, the game is so glitched XD One of the joy’s though of having them. and now here I am, 17 years old, and loving Pokemon more and more. (: Oh the stories and memories you can tell from back in the days of Pokemon adventuring, all the inside jokes about Joey’s top percentage Rattata.
the first time i’m sure that i played pokemon was when i was 7-8 years old: until then, i hadn’t got a GBC and i was a bit frustrated because i saw a lot of smallers kids than me who owned their own GBC. When I was 8 and i was going to make my first Holy Communion (i toke it from wordreference), my parents bought me a green GBC and pokemon silver. That’s was great, i enjoyed every time i saw a new pokemon, i was so happy. xD
At the end of 03/beginning of 04, i got my first handheld console, the gba sp,
sometime after, i picked up a copy of … Ruby i believe, and from that day on 🙂 never missed a main game of the series =D
the first pokemon game i played was ruby and my starter was treecko. i think i was 10 or 11 at the time lol
WOW this brings me back….hmmmmm i must have been 5 or 6… i was a pokefan from the get go, also one of the fans of the original demographic- my first game was Blue, me and my friend had been into pokemon for a while before the games came out…. we collected the cards so he got red and i got blue- the obsession kinda started immendiately and exists still to this day XD, must say though i learn new things about the games all the time…EV’s were new to me 2 years ago and now i never start a game without taking them into account XDD
when i first pick up a pokemon game i couldnt get through the intro to name your trainer
Hmm… I was somewhere around five or six. Pokemon was my first ever video game. My mom used to be really into television-shopping. They had a cool deal when Pokemon first came out, you could get two gameboy colors and red and blue version and two guidebooks. She surprised my brother one day after school with them. It was awesome! Blue version was mine, and I had a blue gameboy color to go with it! I’ve been hooked ever since… Wow.. That’s the majority of my life ya’ll.
I’m still pretty young now… TEN! Hey you guys drop the guns! I maybe young compared to you guys but boy I know every pokemon of by heart, I EV train my pokemon, and I caught all the legendaries on my game and my friend’s game.
I knew pokemon since I was six, Pokemon Silver, On the airplane. My freind told me about the Pokemon and what the did. Later when I was nine, I got a DS. The first game I played on it was Soulsilver, Now Platnuim.
i was about 7. My first games were red and blue, but my best memories were from ruby and sapphire 😉 great games
Same here my first game was yellow and I was like in pre-k at the time so I had no idea what I was doing I couldn’t even get past veridian city those were the days…
The first game I actually knew how to play was sapphire way back when
I remember coming home from school on my b day to a new gameboy SP and a sapphire cartridge where I started with a torchic… Ahhh memories sadly that carriage is lost now. :’-(
Speaking of which do any of you guys remember when the Elite four where the best Of the best the hardest trainers in the game to beat next to the champion?
i was like 8 and i was playing the johto games 🙂 pokemon silver to be exact. my little brother had stolen it from his friend and i played it more than him because i already loved pokemon. back then i used to collect pokemon cards. and A LOT of them! i had like 4 or 5 binders full of them 🙂 after that i think i got pokemon sapphire right before i went to the doctor and i bought it with my money 🙂 i was like 10. then after 5th grade in the summer, i got a nintendo ds lite with diamond and that was my favorite game. then my friend sold me emerald for 5 bucks
Well, my brother got me into Pokemon back when I was four- he gave me a Charmander card. Then one day he showed me the Charizard card. As my fifth birthday was coming up, I was already hooked onto Pokemon, so naturally for my birthday I got a Clear Purple Gameboy Color and Pokemon Red version (and a Godzilla game that was mediocre, since that was another obsession of mine). You can guess which Pokemon I started with. 😀
Lol, I can still remember when I first learned of the Elite Four. I was genuinely amazed- I heard stories of how powerful they were from my brother and his friend. Of course, nowadays they aren’t too much trouble. 😉
Oh, I forgot to mention. Even though my first game was Gold, which I played around age 8, I never actually beat the game. Back then (and for a while afterward) my strategy was “train the starter to Level 100 and have an army of HM slaves at Level 6 to back him up.” I eventually got to Elite Four Will and basically did a big rage-quit. The first game I ever actually played all the way through was Sapphire.
Well, my older cousins had a GBC and Gold or Silver version in it, and one day when I was at their house I picked it up and started playing it, but they had already beaten the game so the first Pokemon I ever ran into EVER was by total luck, a Raikou. And that was when I was errr….4 or 5? >< This mixed with the fact that I grew up in Asia and Pokemon is as popular as a stripper is to a political leader, the game/anime/card game kinda became my herione. I got a GBA for my next birthday and got Red Version, I don't remember anything besides me picking Bulbasaur as my starter, it evolving into an Ivysaur and having nightmares from Lavender Town. ;__; I then for whatever reason didn't know about GSC's existence and actually didn't even really play through it until HGSS, BUT IF ASKED IF I PLAYED THE ORIGINAL GSC I WILL DENY THIS COMPLETLEY (for whatever reason...:p) So then I got Ruby and Emerald shortly after and those two were the games I consider as the funnest just because I could undersatnd it completely. >< Then I started going on the internetz and finding out about the fandom in the pre DP era (which is how I found PJN btw), after DP came out I didn't think about Pokemon for like 3 years or so then got back on it during the pre BW era. :3 Anddddddd that brings us to here. :D ahahahah
Also, just wanna point out that back when DP came out in Japan, being the snot-nosed bloke that I was, I thought I was the sheeeeeeeeeet for having Diamon in Japanese when living in America because no one else had it. xD
I used to always turn up the volume and loudly exclaim stuff like “Ohmygosh! Totally just beat the E4 in my DIAMOND VERSION!” whenever I saw other kids with their not as cool Emerald versions. ><
I think I was 4 or 5 or so when I started playing Pokemon. Haha, I’d just learned to read. My brother hooked me up with an emulator of Silver. It was the best, and I remember having a level 63 Meganium that knew a bunch of HMs, an Espeon, a Togetic, a Pidgeot, a Lanturn and a Persian.I kind of lost sight of it until I was 7 because my other brother accidentally deleted it. That was when I bought Leafgreen. Been securely hooked ever since. 😀
It was my tenth birthday. My parents had just given me a Game Boy Color, and Pokémon Yellow and Red versions. I started Yellow version with a Pikachu named “Shocky” (intended to name it after Ritchie’s Pikachu, Sparky, but forgot the name at that time), and caught a Pidgey named “Sandy” (because it knew Sand-Attack), and a Metapod named “Hardhead” (because it knew Harden). Very, very quickly I realized that I stunk at nicknaming stuff and restarted. Never nicknamed anything since. I picked up the concept of catching Pokémon and saving the game quick enough. Finding out that the “dead end” in Viridian Forest was in actuality the exit, however… that took time.
Oh man that dead end as the exit took me ages to figure out. I remember raging and throwing down my GBA. I thought there was something wrong with my game.