1st Gen Is it just me, or did everyone used to name their character "ASH"?

[7Mufasa7]

ehhhh i remember calling myself ash like 3 times out of the hundreds of pokemon re runs i played.
my cousin still names his character Ash lol.

he played from 3rd gen-b/w

 

[bobandbill]

I never called myself Ash in any of the game; but with Pokemon received from trades from RBY I sure got a lot of Pokemon with OT names of Ash. XD Not surprising I suppose given the popularity of the anime then, and the fact many of said trades were from Yellow.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

My brother did one time. I never did, even back then I knew I didn't want myself associated with that n00b, and it didn't take long for my brother to realize that, too.

Closest I've come is naming my female character in White, "Ashley."

 

[Meganium]

I'm a lady, so I never named my character Ash. xD I don't find myself naming myself Ash in the future when I get around to playing the games again. lol It would be Ani since I used that name so much back then.

 

[gvgisdi]

I'm a lady, so I never named my character Ash. xD

You could name your character Ashley. :P

 

[Shining Raichu]

I always named my character either Ash or Andrew (which is my name). There was always something gratifying about being able to pretend that you were Ash XD

 

[Raizhu]

I've never done it. I see it quite a lot when I look at Battle on the GTS, though.

 

[Avishka]

I only did that maybe once or twice. i don't like the name much

 

[Binary]

Yes, quite a few times. As a kid, naming my character Ash made me feel like I was Ash. It made my young heart content, so I had to. :x

 

[Guest123_x1]

When I first got Yellow (which was my first Pokémon game), I named the character Ash (seeing as Yellow was designed to follow the show's storyline). However, when I later got Blue, I named the character after myself (seeing as you could choose between the standard starters: Bulbasaur; Charmander; and Squirtle, on most of the save-files I've ever done on it, I almost always chose Bulbasaur.)

 

[DowntownDumpling]

I've never named my character Ash.

 

[Demon.]

Like, once. And after that i started naming my character Red in all of the games. Except emerald.

 

[mikey]

I named my character Ash in my Red Version, but other than that no.

 

[Rocket Grunt Cali]

I've always called my character Cali, even when I was stuck playing as a guy, haha. I've always liked feeling like the game was talking to me :P

 

[U.Flame]

Even though Ash is based on Red, it still bugs me that everyone names Red Ash. Red isn't Ash, Red is Red. Weirdest name I ever chose was Heyexow. (For the best Missingno. results, as it is based on name.)

 

[Sydian]

I don't think I've ever used the name Ash. The closest I've gotten to that is naming myself Satoshi in Blue, but that's only cause I was going for a theme of naming my Pokemon their Japanese names, so I did the same thing for the player and the rival. I hate seeing people with the name Ash though. Makes me think "wow you couldn't come up with something better?" or "yah dats original lolz."

 

[sherreamethyst]

LOL, i love trading with people in yellow/red/blue/gold/silver/crystal that give me a pikachu and their name is ASH. i find it soo cool, LOL. But no, i didnt name myself ASH in my yellow. I named myself Ren instead, since when I was starting it, I was watching Footloose(the 1984 film) in class.

Ren was so hot in that movie... X)

 

[Juzey]

I normally call my character Juzey, or my real name, and because I'm a girl, that would just have been weird in Gen 1, so I called the character Ash.

 

[donavannj]

At one point or another, all my first generation games were named Ash. It was popular then, and I wanted to name my character the "proper" name for the character. I did that for second gen, too, naming my main character "Max", since that's what the game guide I was using called him.

 

[M4]

Never did Ash since i played the games before the guy even came out. soo