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What are your earliest memories that you have concerning the Pokémon franchise? These can include when you first heard about it, when you started with your first game, or when you first started watching the anime, or whatever you remember about it.
My earliest memory of the franchise was when I heard a report on ABC World News Tonight (?) about the seizures in Japan caused by the Porygon episode, although I didn't really know what it was all about.
By mid-1998, I started hearing about Pokémon from some of my classmates, and it increased greatly by the end of the year, and well into 1999.
I had been hearing about the trading card game, the Game Boy games (Red and Blue), and the anime that had just started its English dub run in syndication, followed by the first Movie, which I heard hyped to no end at the time of its US theatrical release.
I didn't want anything to do with all this at the time. However, come Christmas 1999, my aunt (or grandma?) gave me Pokémon Yellow for Christmas, telling me that I would like it. When I first loaded it, needless to say, I got hooked on it almost immediately, and then started watching the anime, which by then moved to Kids! WB. (Incidentially, the Burger King Pokéball recall popped up around this time, and I did get some Pokémon toys from Burger King at that time, and also with the promotion of the 2nd movie.)
My earliest memory of the franchise was when I heard a report on ABC World News Tonight (?) about the seizures in Japan caused by the Porygon episode, although I didn't really know what it was all about.
By mid-1998, I started hearing about Pokémon from some of my classmates, and it increased greatly by the end of the year, and well into 1999.
I had been hearing about the trading card game, the Game Boy games (Red and Blue), and the anime that had just started its English dub run in syndication, followed by the first Movie, which I heard hyped to no end at the time of its US theatrical release.
I didn't want anything to do with all this at the time. However, come Christmas 1999, my aunt (or grandma?) gave me Pokémon Yellow for Christmas, telling me that I would like it. When I first loaded it, needless to say, I got hooked on it almost immediately, and then started watching the anime, which by then moved to Kids! WB. (Incidentially, the Burger King Pokéball recall popped up around this time, and I did get some Pokémon toys from Burger King at that time, and also with the promotion of the 2nd movie.)
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