When did you get into pokemon? an how old where you?

[RandomUsername]

What the title says,
I "got into" pokemon in 2003, when the pokemon anime has just started to air here in india, and i was 9, i think...

 

[Rita]

I was probably around 12.

 

[Eruption]

2001.

I was around 6 I suppose.

 

[Ash&pikachuarethebest]

1998 when i first saw the anime I was about 7 then cause I remember getting Pokemon Blue on GBC for christmas the year after lol.
Bye for now.

 

[Jorah]

1999, I think that's when it came to the UK. So I must have been 8/9. I got into it through the anime, I was hooked by the SS Anne episode.

 

[pokejungle]

I got into Pokemon during about 3rd grade. Now I'm a senior.

That's...9 years. Sad.

 

[SilencedShooter]

I got into Pokemon during about 3rd grade. Now I'm a senior.

That's...9 years. Sad.

Same here.....wow.....same exact thing.

 

[PokemonRox]

I think i was in 2nd grade and i was 5/6 something like that.. i'm not sure what year though

 

[JX Valentine]

Around 1997 or 8, when the anime was having its first run here in the States. I was nine or ten at the time, definitely in fourth grade.

 

[pokejungle]

Same here.....wow.....same exact thing.

I guess we're just cool like that.

 

[J-Rad]

i honestly can't remember how but i stumbled upon the anime adn loved it... I wuz then asking for the games and everything I wuz like 6 I think...

 

[Gummy]

I think I was seven so I'm guessing it was 1999.

 

[BassFace]

I think I was around 12 when Pokemon first came out here. I remember watching the anime when it first started to air here, and getting into Pokemon Red shortly after. So, around 12-13 for me.

 

[txteclipse]

Same here.....wow.....same exact thing.

Same here. Awesome. Some kids had a strategy guide and I asked them what it was. Long story short, nine years later, here I am.

 

[gotron228]

well ever since I was 1 my mother says that when she accidently bought the japanese series on ebay I loved it and they and no subs plus they talked japanese

 

[~Swish~]

I think I was around 9-10 when I first came across the anime.

 

[Astinus]

The year was 1997, and I had received one of those promotional videos in the mail talking about the anime series and the games. I was eleven when it came out, because I remembered having my twelfth birthday cake covered in Pokemon decorations. (My mom made it.)

That's when I actually became a fan, but I knew about Pokemon since the Porygon fiasco.

 

[Kitoshi]

1996 - Nintendo Releases first VHS promotional of Pokémon
Age 05

Haha, I fell right within their target audience.
Nintendo sent out other promotional video like Star Fox 64 & Banjo-Kazooie; but Pokémon had that appeal to it, and then eleven years (and about six months) later I ended up here.
Promotional VHS is brainwashing material, it screwed up my psychology.

 

[Aegis]

1998 or 1999 I think. I had recently started kindergarten or first grade, can't remember which, at school and everybody was into it, so I eventually go into it.

I was.... 5 maybe? I'm really not sure.

 

[シーツー]

It was '99/'00 when it came out here in Europe.
My friend showed me one day Pokemon Red on his GBC and it didn't take long till I fell in love with it. But I don't know if I saw the TV show before or if the game was the first time I "met" it.
Anyway, I'm sure I was 6 when I got to know it.