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 at the (ripe old) age of 18, actually, when Pokemon Blue came out. That was the first game I played, and I was hooked. I have owned, and played, every version since it came out (aside from Pearl, which I never bought). I will keep playing as long as the games keep getting released.
The first game I played was Blue, back when I was 8. I got it and a Game Boy Color for my First Communion. Since then I have owned every game, except for Gold and Emerald, but some of the older ones have been lost (All 3 in Gen I and Silver)
I was around 3 in 1999 when my grandma got me red but I never really understood it then I got yellow when I was 4 and didn’t get very far.I never got any Gen 2 games but in Gen 3 I got ruby and sapphire from my grandma and those were the first games I actually understood but I have since beaten red and yellow though.
I was around 5, and my first game was red it was a gift from my aunt and since then I’ve just been hooked. All of my friends have played pokemon but I’m the only one left, I love having it as my own little secret 🙂
i was 7 and i got pokemon red and my sister got pokemon blue. and i had NO idea what i was doing but i loved the game. and soon my sister got pokemon yellow and i was jealous but we shared it until she got out of pokemon (she was 2 years older than me) and so she gave me the game. and when i got that game, i became more knowledgeable about pokemon. and after that i got gold and then crystal. and then i got ruby and sapphire from my dad (he came to my class on my birthday lol) and then i stopped getting pokemon games during FR LG and emerald and then i got pearl. And then after that, i got platinum, then heartgold and finally black. Yeah i just gave a whole history lol but i couldnt help it lol
I was 11 when I got Pokemon Red in the Summer of 1999. (Yeah… I started into the series a bit late.) My first run-through, I had to restart because I couldn’t find Nugget Bridge and I couldn’t beat Misty. My second I restarted because I couldn’t beat the Elite 4 (with my level 70-something Venusaur and virtually NOTHING ELSE >_<). How times have changed. LoL
Same problem I ran into when I was 8 I think. Agatha’s brutal! Course I had a team of 40 somethings too,
I started from the beginning with red and got all the games after that even now, i was in middle school when it came out and i remember walking in a mall and saw gold and silver in japanese, but it was like $60 which i somehow got and i remembered playing thru it and getting stuck because i couldnt read japanese and didnt figure out i had to get the egg from the center, it took me forever to figure it out and ever since then i kinda knew what things were lik what pokeball would be in japanese and etc, which helped me out since i also got white from japan..it made things a lot easier…being almost 26 now i think i might retire soon or maybe when i have kids try to make it part of their lives lik its been a huge part of mine
My first game that got me hooked into pokemon was pokemon blue which I got given to me with a original gameboy about 6 years ago a would of been about 9 years old but I have been a fan since I was 6 collecting the cards and stuff
When I was extremely young I always watched the show before I even knew there were games, then when I was probably seven, I can’t remember for sure, my parents bought me a red GBA SP along with Ruby, and bought my sister a blue one with Sapphire, and I played that game all the time.
My first Pokemon was a Torchic which I oh-so-creatively named “Blaze”.
got my gameboy colour and pokemon red bundle back in 96 when they were released. god how i loved them back then 😛 however the first game i played was blue on my mates gb ^^
i found it cool and wish it still had the same atmosphere 😀 lol
well i got the colour and red for xmas however on new years i got yellow myself from argos 😀
I cant remember my age but i all started when i received 2 pokemon cards. A Onix and Magnemite. I still have does cards!!
They are framed and hang on the wall.
Then I bought a game boy with pokemon Yellow. and thats the beginning of my pokemon addiction!! im 21 now and still play pokemon every day!
I was six or seven, and my first game was Pokemon ruby. It was an early present for my birthday from my aunt. I tried out all of the starters, but played through the game until the cycling road 20 times before figuring out how to save with Mudkip, the only time I don’t pick the grass starter.
I started playing Ruby and Sapphire when it first came out I was about 10 years old. I chose treeco. one thing is that I need more revives and max potions but I cant earn any money because I’ve battled everyone in the Hoenn region but I need medicine to beat the elite 4
My story is very different from the rest-On fathers day a few years my wife and sons bought me a Nintendo DS with a Pokemon Diamond game. My boys are big Pokemon fans and they taught me how to play and traded me some pokemon to get me started. Now we trade and battle quite a bit now that I know what Im doing. Im hooked now and since then Ive gotten Heartgold and White also. My oldest traded me a Relicanth when I started and said that was my mascot because he was the “Ancient one”-gotta love that sense of humor.
When the Star Wars, Episode 1 was being released in 1999, my brother and I decided to wait in line to buy tickets and I wanted to play something on my gameboy and there was this new Pokemon Red game. So I bought it and I was hooked. I was 28 at the time..
My first game was silver which I got from my cousin however I was really young and didn’t get past whitney. Then I got pearl and I loved it. Maybe that’s why sinnoh is my favorite region, cos it was my first. I picked chimchar as my first. I seem to prefer the newer fire starters than the older ones and many people disagree :/. For me, Kanto= squirtle , Johto= Chikorita or totodile, Hoen ( I don’t really adore any ) = Torchic, Sinnoh ( My favourite starter wise) = Chimchar( The others are great tooo) Unova= All of them. They’re not the best, and remind me of hOEN but they are still alright, EMboar edges it out for me though. Legendary wise it would be Reshiram>Palika>Groudon>Ho-oh> Kyogre>Zekrom>Dialga> Lugia> Girentina>Rayquaza>Mewtwo>Kyurem
The first game I ever got was Blue Version. I was four years old when I started playing. At the time, I sold my deluxe dollhouse so I could get a GameBoy Color, because my mom said it was a waste of money and wouldn’t buy it for me, ha ha! It makes me feel old to think that I was around in a time that a small child’s allowance and garage sale earnings could pay for a game system, even if it was just a handheld.
I remember I had the biggest crush on my neighbor’s older brother, and that’s probably why I originally got into the game. I didn’t really become a serious player until when I was about seven and I got Crystal for Christmas. Being able to play as a girl, and the improved graphics, really made the game a lot more interesting. I loved Sapphire when it came out, but by that point Pokemon wasn’t “cool” at my grade school any longer, most kids were playing Yu-Gi-Oh! and Digimon.
I don’t think I found a game really interesting again until I got to high school and Pokemon was finally “cool” again. I made a lot of friends who also play, and I kinda went nuts and bought every main-series gen. IV game, heh heh.
And now I’m going to a college with a ton of other Poke-geeks. 😀 I’d say that the hype for Pokemon now is close to what it was around RBY and GSC, which makes me really excited and nostalgic at the same time.
tl;dr I know this was just supposed to be the first game I played (Blue) and I’m sorry for pretty much ranting my life’s Poke-story up ’til now, ha ha. It just makes me realize how much Pokemon’s been a part of my life.
ahhh, memories.. (“:
it was year 2000, like 11 years ago when i got my first pokemon game, blue version! i was the coolest kid in class cuz i was able to kick Lance’s ass(people at my school had a hard time beating him than gary) lol, well we were 2nd graders so yeah, then came crystal, and ever since im hooked, i influenced ALL my cousins into playing pokemon and im pretty proud about that (:
I first played my brother’s Pokemon Blue when it was newly released, but the first game I owned was Yellow. I received it the Christmas that it was released along with a teal Game Boy Color. I must have been about.. Ohh.. -checks date-
I was 9.
I got Red and a GameBoy Color for Christmas when I was in first grade.
I actually used to hate Pokemon but with most things that i “hate” i actually havent tried. So one day in 2005 (now that I think about it it was probably the release date for Emerald) my now best friend who is also my neighbor came over. He brought all of his Pokemon games and naturally I was able to try one. When i first started to play i really had no concept for the game and was more interested in collecting all of the colors (versions) than actually collecting the Pokemon. So immediatly I wanted the Leafgreen version cuz green is my favorite color but my other friend informed me that Emerald version just came out so I got that. I started with Mudkip and the rest was history. I still have that Emerald Version with like 700+ hours on it. I’ve been hooked on Pokemon ever since then. 😀
oh yeah I was 8 then…
i got blue in 1998 when i was 15. when it’s coming out for a new system, i get that too. i’ve had at least 2 versions of each generation (like i’m guessing most of us do) and i always pre-order asap and pick up my games when the store opens. lol
i REALLY hope they don’t go to 3ds before some serious improvements are made on that system…
I started with the 1st Generation of games, Pokemon Yellow to be exact. I must have been around 7-8 at the time. A while after my cousin gave me Pokemon Blue.
I was five, and my cousin gave me his old red version. As soon as i finished it, i got gold. By then i was hooked.
I think my first game was yellow which I played on my fantastic gameboy color. I was so high tech >.> I actually kinda stole it from my sister when I was 4-6 and barely got past viridian forest…maybe past Brock lol. It wasn’t until diamond and pearl came out that I actually beat a pokemon game XD, I just watched that anime for all those years in between.