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What was your first Pokèmon game??

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Pokémon Yellow. Gold & Silver were actually out when I bought it, but I preferred having Pikachu walking behind me to the vibrant colors and plenty more pokémon of G/S. Regretted it a bit afterwards, especially since Johto could have been my very first region <3 But also somehow it felt good to start with a gen I game.
 

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Pokémon Ruby. It was Christmas of 2003 and I was just 11 years old at the time. It was also the first GBA game I ever got along with my GameBoy Advance SP, Silver. Suffice to say, it was one of the best Christmases ever!
 
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FireRed was the first game I played. I borrowed it from a friend. Diamond was the first game I owned. They were both really good games, in my opinion. :D
 

Vairan

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I started with Pokemon Red. Squirtle was my starter and i had no idea what withdraw and deposit meant. I thought i couldn't get him back out and ended up releasing my starter. Tears were shed :(
 

TouretteUnicorn

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Pokemon Gold, back in 2000. I'd of owned the R/B/Y series earlier had I known Pokemon was a game series to begin with; since I was already big on the anime and TCG.
 
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Blue was my first one.

I actually got Pokemon Project Studio: Blue next. It doesn't seem like a lot of people picked those up. Honestly, I still have the CD around here.

I never missed a generation, by the way. Even as I grew older, I'd pick up a copy of each Gen (though I kept that fact to myself sometimes). The only one where I didn't pick from the two main ones was Platinum instead of Diamond or Pearl. I also got one version of each of the remake pairs when those came out.

Since then,. I have filled out my collection a little bit by finding the versions I hadn't chosen. Ebay is the easy way, but I prefer going to physical stores while I still can. Sometimes I give up and use the internet though.
 
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Pokemon Red and Blue were my first games. So I was around when it first began. I was still in high school when Red and Blue debuted. I spent my entire summer vacation playing Red with the Nintendo player's guide that I actually got for free from Nintendo Power.

And now here I am playing X and Y to death.
 

Itchy M3rcy

What's the plan Hitmonchan?
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Pokemon Red was my first then after beating it moved on to my sisters yellow then gasped in awe a couple of years later while playing silver of a 10$ pokemon blue a store was trying to give away so i snatched that right up.
 
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Pokemon Blue. It was about '99, Yellow was out. I think the reason my brother let me start a new game on his Blue was because he got Yellow.
 

Charcoal92

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Pokemon Blue Version received on Day 1 of Pokemon in America. My brother had Red as well. It is my start. Squirtle was my first Pokemon and my brother chose Charmander. Ever since until Gen 5 we picked the same Type of starter.
 
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Pokémon Ruby about four years ago. I had wanted to play a Pokémon game earlier but hadn't been allowed to purchase things online before then.
(And my parents understandably didn't want to buy me a whole new game console for the games when I was a kid - I already had a Playstation 2 and could use our computer.)

I don't know why I picked Ruby though. I guess something just clicked.
 

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It was Pokémon Pearl, and I was 9 when I got it. Back then, it was the best game I had gotten EVER. I'm 14 now, and I own at least one game from every Gen :') I have Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Emerald, Pearl, Black, White 2 and X.
 

Quinn

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A broken copy of crystal i was young and put in 12 hr into it with a friend then saved and turned it off... all of it was gone...
then is was blue>red>gold>pearl>Heartgold>soulsilvler>white>Dimond>White 2>X>Y
 
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I was in 5th grade. I got both Red and Blue versions. I started the blue first. Haha, I had NO idea what I was doing. Picked Charmander, only raised him. At one point in the game Charizard was like level 60 something, and my next highest leveled Pokémon was a Pidgey at level 17!! So I have been playing Pokémon for 17 years!!! :)
 
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Listen, well this is a pretty crazy story...

When the anime started airing in Lithuania (around 2005) I was 7. None of my friends were following it as much as me and my best friend were. I was dreaming of a pokemon game, at the time i had no idea that such thing existed, since video games weren't a thing back then, so guess what i did..
I made my own pokemon game. XD SOMEHOW i managed to download myself a gen I and II offline pokedex, i also found the list of all anime episodes, so for every episode i would randomly choose a pokemon in that pokedex, and battle/catch it while acting the battle using my hands... It gets worse...
Somehow i found a bag of thrown away circly thingies with pokemon pics on them, i took it home, remeber some of them were wet so i dried them, and used them to act the battles instead of my hands..

a year or 2 later my friend sent me an emulator with pkmn ruby destiny(i didn't know it was a hack at the time) and still am very grateful that he did that. Later i found more about emulators and got in to Nintendo. And the first OFFICIAL pokemon game I played was Yellow, since some douche in Yahoo! Answers inaccurately answered "What is the first pokemon game?"

Later i beat the rest of the games excluding Silver,HeartGold,Black,Black2.

So that's the story, hope it's not too boring to read :D
 
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My first pokemon game was Blue, I think. I wound up getting all of the versions up until Gen 3, where I never got Emerald nor did I own Platinum or any of the remakes, at least not until very recently.
 

braixen

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my first game was red while my older brother had blue, but i honestly don't remember anything from back then lol. the first game i remember playing was gold.
 
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