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What was the first time you heard of G/S/C?
Come on. You know the nostalgia is tempting you... (If there's a thread already like this, feel free to delete/lock/whatever.)
In my case, when I was younger and the entire world seemed to genuinely like Pokemon (meaning when I went to elementary school) one kid brought a game guide to summer camp. Since it was a small camp and everyone was sorted into age groups, almost everybody his age - including myself - was flocking around him to check it out. I, myself, was one of those people who genuinely liked Pokemon at that age, and was playing through my first Pokemon game ever: Fire Red. I don't remember exactly what the kid's game guide looked like, but it was very beat up and had a Lugia and Ho-oh on it that was among the coolest things I had ever seen (at the time). I didn't actually own a copy of the game until four or five years later, which I only had in my possession for a few months anyway, but it was awesome while it lasted. |
My brother borrowed Gold of his friend and let me have a go for one measly night :P
I already owned Blue so I knew about the games anyway. I got Crystal for Christmas that year ^^ |
I honestly can't remember first hearing about the games. I recall that shortly after Red and Blue saw their American release, some pokemon websites at the time were showing official art of next-gen pokemon and passing them off as secret pokemon in R/B...the most notorious example of this is Marill/Pikablu. It must've been around this point somewhere that I realized after some research that these were indeed pokemon from new games.
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I owned Red and Yellow when Gold and Silver came up, so I knew about them that way, I guess. I got up early and bought Silver on the day it was released. :D
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As soon as it came out, i saw a commercial.
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I got Pokemon Gold for my seventh birthday. First Pokemon game I ever had. After that I got Yellow, Blue, Sapphire, Emerald, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Diamond, and Platinum. In that order. :D
And, to this day, Gold remains my favorite Pokemon game. |
It was a Magazine some kid had a school. It was talking about the (at the time) Japan-only Pokemon Gold and Silver. It showed all 100 of the GSC Pokemon and their Japanese names(Other than the 4 or 5 of them that had been officially revealed in the US).
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When I went to the store and saw a Nintendo Official Magazine (UK) Pokemon Guide that had information concerning 100 brand new Pokemon. XD I spent hours pouring over that little book.
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I think I found out right before they came out, along with the release of the Neo Genesis set in the TCG.
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One of my friends had a Silver game and made me want to get one.
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While I was searching online, I saw that Japan was making another Pokemon game called Gold/Silver and Crystal
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Well my friend was getting out of pokemon so he gave me his silver version. I thought it was the best until i found out about gold and crystal. I liked crystal alot better.
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It was long ago, maybe 6 years, but i never played on console, i finally played in xbox gameboy advance emulator and it was a great game
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It was probably through a commercial or a Toys 'R' Us flyer. I miss the days before I could use the internet; everything was heard about through the TV or word of mouth. Just imagine not even knowing about HG/SS until Spring, when it's released. How awesome of a surprise would that be?
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One of my cousins from England came over while I was living in Florida, and she brought Gold with her. I had always been a giant Pokemon fan, but that was the first time I even knew they had made games haha. I just watched her play a little bit, it was the coolest thing I had ever seen...
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I got it on my fifth birthday, along with my first Gameboy. First video game I ever played.
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My sister found it at our house. I think the people who used to live there left it behind... ;)
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I had never played any Pokemon game at that point. The only exposure to it I had was that obnoxious TV show that was playing in the background over the years. Then, all of the sudden, my parents came home from a garage sale with Silver version. "You're a fan of Pokemon, right?" "No!". Then I started playing and I got hooked.
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I'd never played any of the games, like Apostrophe, before getting Gold. I had only watched the TV show occasionally. But my parents heard that the game was amazing and got me it for Christmas. They regretted it, though, as I had an addiction and never put it down.
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I saw the commercial and also my friend had silver and gold so i decided to be different and get crystal...lol...
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I first heard of it when I was 8 and had no idea what Pokemon was. On Christmas, when I saw my Christmas present, it was from my uncle who lived far away, I wondered what was inside of it. When I opened it, I found out it was a video game "Pokemon: Crystal Version". A few years later, I eventually "knew" about it because friends and neighbors.
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I remember reading about "Pokemon 2" in a magazine and they showed Cleffa , Marill (Known as Pikablu) and Chikorita I think. Couple of months later my mum came home with Gold and Silver for my brother and I.
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The first time when i heard about G/S is when I saw their commercials on TV....
A few days later, my parents bought for my brother's b-day a Gold Version, Of coarse I had to borrow his gold version to try it out but I already know how to play it cuz I already had a yellow version(which was my first pokemon game).. When Crystal came out in stores, I immediately bought it for myself....! |
I think I was about 14 or just 15 and I saw the shots in the japanese pictures of it. I got the japanese rom of G/S and had this abysmal patch for english langauge which was a mixture of english and random symbols , but I thought it was so cool (I mean colour,and better graphics were awesome compared to the blue edition (which I also bought from my pocket money which was left over from a holiday camp were I hardly spent any ^^)
so must have been somewhere in summer of 2000 I think. lol it is a long time ago I can trememeber properly but I saved my pocket money and waited patiently for the uropean release lol and bought it a day before it was released and extra went into town by bike because my small village hasnt got a electronics store. ^^ unlucky for my parents though that I hardly had any money left for their birthday presents ^^' that was a tad bit unlucky ^^' (and it resulted in my mother confiscating the game boy with the game when she found out that it was because of this game xD) (btw we had ISDN Internet in 1997) |
I believe I saw an article about it in my brother's copy of Nintendo Power way back when. Between the two of us, we already had the first three games, so... He got Gold and I picked up Silver.
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