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[atomicwinter]

Who doesn't remember Pokemon?

I remember when I was 6, I got my first game boy and Pokemon blue version. I use to play all day and night, link up with the kids at school and trade and battle.

When did you get your first Pokemon game?

[warhammer651]

If we count spinoffs, then my first was pokemon pinball when I was in.... either grade school or preschool.

My first proper pokemon game was gold, which I unintentionally completed as a Nuzlocke run with regards to pokedeath. (I'd watched my dad play Rogue so often i thought permadeath was a standard feature of games)

[Burnt Pies]

My first was an inherited (From an older friend who was 'too old for POKEMANZ') Pokemon Blue, which I played to death on the GameBoy Colour he gave me with it. This was probably about 11 years ago, certainly before the second set of them came out.

I was in either year 3 or year 4 (English school system), 7 or 8 years old at the time. I thought it was awesome.

[Sowelu]

Um...I got a rom about a year or two ago.

I was too old for it when it first came out.  But, two of my recently-married friends first met on a Pokemon roleplaying newsgroup like nine years ago, so whatever...

[MasterFancyPants]

I always thought Pokemon was gay and only got into last year... I'm a Sophomore, so I was 15 at the time...

[Sowelu]

I'm a Sophomore

Which explains the language!

[Fanofgaming]

I'm pretty sure my first Pokemon game was Red, but it -might- have been blue. I was playing that game when I was 5, I think. It was fun, but I'm just not diggin' the concept anymore.

[alexwazer]

When did you get your first Pokemon game?

I can't remember the exact year, but I got my first, and only, pokemon game in 1999/2000 or something like that. I was around 17-18 years old 

I got into it because I bought gameboys for my little brother and sisters (around 7 and 10 years old respectively) and a different game for each: red for my brother*, blue for sister* and yellow for myself.

I never got into the other generations.

This kinda makes me feel old... yet childish. I dont care about the former and fully assume the latter



* I gave my brother the red version and my sister the blue as a way to say "Fuck the world and its stereotypes!" Aww, I miss those days where I considered a single seemingly meaningless action important.

[freeformschooler]

Heh, I remember Pokemon Silver (or maybe it was Blue)was my first handheld game, back when I was still young. It was bewildering to me. Probably the reason I have game boy color nostalgia -- there was a certain charm to it.

I played Pokemon for some time until I got older and then started playing other games.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Whoa. Is it 1996 again?

Seriously though, I did have some fun with my tacky little yellow version when I was younger.
I can't get into it anymore no matter how much I try and milk the whole nostalgia thing. Guess I grew up ... or killed that part of me who liked it with booze. Who knows?

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

Started with blue. Still playing, it help when your prospect is a finished fan. Ladys love them Pokemanz

[ductape]

Pokemon came out when I was in my mid-twenties I think. Never played it, and the cartoon looks sooo horrible. I just dont get it, do you have to have enjoyed it as a yungin to enjoy the whole thing?

[sluissa]

When I was in my childhood years I read an article in, I believe it was nintendo power, but possibly some other gaming magazine about a game called pocket monsters that was becoming a huge hit in Japan. I went to every game store in town, looking for a copy of it, not realizing that they didn't localize every game that came out. Every time I went into a store for years I would look in the game boy section for the game to no avail. Then, around the time I was in middle school, maybe 12 years old or so, I heard that a game called Pokemon was coming out. This instantly got my attention and I read everything I could about it and within the first week I had a copy. Red. I played it day and night, staying up too late very often. Never really traded much, but found a few people willing to. I finally got to the final four. Never finished it. Yellow came out. Bought that, played for a long time. Didn't get quite as far. Then silver came out. I loved silver, but by that time I'd gotten a bit burnt out on it. It wasn't until Ruby on the GBA that I got into it again, mostly at the behest of friends, finally finding a good group of gamers in high school. But by this time most of the magic was lost. The game was the same every time. I haven't touched another game of it since. I feel they've just driven the concept into the ground.

Pokemon formed a good portion of my childhood memories, but with the exception of cameo roles in things like Super Smash Bros. I don't really care to see them anymore.

[Rilder]

When I was a kid I got kinda swept up in it, First played Pokemon Yellow (Pikachu following your ass around) Still have that old gameboy colour around here somewhere...Good Times.

[DeKaFu]

Red version for me. I saved up for months and bought it along with a Gameboy Pocket with my own money.

I did that thing in it. That thing you're supposed to do?

I caught them all.

Then I restarted and beat the entire game including the Elite 4 using only Bug types. It was glorious. Monster-raising games are one of my favourite genres, forever.