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Pokemon Trainer R3d May 27th, 2012 6:14 PM

What did you name your character and rival in Pokemon Yellow?
 
Well I just got the game yesterday, and I named myself Ash and my rival Gary, because it loosely follows the anime.

LadyFaust May 27th, 2012 6:19 PM

I can't remember what I named my actual character, think I may have called him Pete or something. As for my rival...It's probably too rude to post here x) I'm one of those highly immature players who likes to give my rival some pretty messed up names :P

Brendino May 27th, 2012 11:32 PM

I never had Yellow myself, but I remember that when I borrowed my cousin's for a few weeks, he had named himself Ash and his rival Gary, too.

mikey May 28th, 2012 7:44 AM

Ash and Gary just like you. I named myself Ash and rival Gary for Red and Blue also.

Yoshikko May 28th, 2012 10:20 AM

I was way too young to understand any of that, so I think I called myself AAAAA lmao and rival idk, the same?!? XD Was wayyy too long ago to remember hahaha.

Ephemeral Euphoria May 28th, 2012 10:25 AM

I called myself Sora back then when playing Yellow, named my rival Brett as well. I was pretty young myself at the time but I happened to like the name Sora an awful lot so I decided to apply that to my character for the hell of it.

DanTheBib May 28th, 2012 12:41 PM

I called my character Dan (my name) and called my rival Robbie (the name of my best friend at the time).

Since then I nearly always use Red as my name, and whatever I think of as the "rival" character.

Mr Cat Dog May 28th, 2012 1:13 PM

I assume it was Ash and Gary as Yellow came out at the time when I actually watched and cared deeply about the anime. Also, my wonderful originality and sparkling wit weren't as entrenched in 10-year-old me as they are now. Also, I'm really lazy. :D

electro12 May 28th, 2012 4:15 PM

I cannot remember what I named myself or my rival. But I remember playing this game, up to the point of getting Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. It has been ten years, so my memory is fuzzy. One thing is certain, my Pikachu became delighted. He was very moody in Pallet Town, remember?

Aurielle May 28th, 2012 5:54 PM

Probably Ash and Gary. I deleted it later and started over, but the cartridge doesn't work anymore, so.

The Fallen May 28th, 2012 10:39 PM

I was typical I feel. I just named the main character my name and my rival one of my siblings or Ash/Gary. I'm sure I would and could come up with better adversary names now, but in the mind of a ten-year-old your siblings name or Ash/Gary is pretty good.

blackmorale May 29th, 2012 4:21 AM

I followed the anime, naming my character Ash and my rival Gary. I remember thinking "Who the heck names their kid Red or Blue?"

Tru Eagle June 1st, 2012 2:31 PM

Tru, and Roy. Easy names haha.

Zephele June 1st, 2012 2:42 PM

My brother had the names Ash and Gary on his Yellow, if I recall correctly.
We were fans of the show at the time, and I suppose the idea of naming them something ohter than their 'official' names was beyond us at the time.

The one time I went back to replay Yellow relatively recently, I also used Ash/Gary. Though I think that time it was just laziness, haha.

Teddy-Pain June 3rd, 2012 7:05 PM

I named myself Gary and my rival Ash.
I thought it would be funny and maybe it would destroy the universe, but sadly the universe is still here. I will try dividing by 0 next time.

Jacinth June 3rd, 2012 7:08 PM

I hated the fact that I had to play as a male character, so I named myself Disguisr. (It didn't fit all the way, if I recall) I named my rival Gary, since I was a big fan of the anime back then. Not so much now, though.

Sydian June 4th, 2012 9:20 AM

My name is Jackson in Yellow. I can't remember what I named my rival, but it was probably Kiss me because at the beginning of the game, if you name him that it's like "Kiss me: Gramps, I'm tired of waiting!" or something lol. Immature, but much more clever than Ass or Dick or something.

Mentalii June 4th, 2012 9:46 AM

First, I named my character Laura, my real name. Then, I realized that the character was a boy and didn't look like a girl at all, although I wad trying to convince me of that, so I made a new game.
In this one, I called my character Sacha and my rival Régis... Because I was 5 years old, and had no idea of which name to choose so I chose the french animes names of Ash and Gary. Not very original, unfortunately.

TheFinalBrandon June 4th, 2012 6:36 PM

I first played Yellow about 3 years ago. I think I named him Hairgel because his hair was extremely spiky. I named myself Brandon, naturally.

Max210 June 8th, 2012 7:25 PM

Well, I got my Yellow back in 1999, so I named them Ash and Gary of course. I was like 4 or 5 years old.

Treecko June 8th, 2012 9:18 PM

Ash and Gary. When I was younger, I would always name my characters that and occasionally I would name my trainer my name.

.:CoralSoda:. June 9th, 2012 12:07 PM

I think I named them Ash and Gary as well. I didn't know what else to call them :I.

Altairis June 9th, 2012 10:32 PM

I called myself Ash and my rival ??? because I didn't know what else to do, lol.

T!M June 13th, 2012 5:07 AM

I named Red; Tim after myself as I like to involve myself in the story and I named Gary; Ben.

Ben being chosen because I use to play Hearts on my computer all the time before I had the internet. And Ben, the AI player always to the immediate right of me, kicked my arse... consistently.

NightmareCore June 13th, 2012 5:10 AM

Ash and Gary if i'm right. man those were the days <3

Plasmette June 13th, 2012 12:11 PM

Everyone names him (excuse my language) "Asshat", "Dickface", and things along the line of that. I just named him Green, because thats his original japanese name.

timebroken June 13th, 2012 2:27 PM

I always name myself my initials, "JF". I had Pokemon Yellow in Kindergarten, so I named it after a kid I didn't like, "Alex". xD

8bitSilence June 13th, 2012 7:12 PM

I only played the game for the first time a few years ago, so I named them Red and Blue, because I'm not a fan of the anime and I have no originality.

Unknown# June 13th, 2012 8:23 PM

My character's name is always "James", because that is my name. However, my rival's name is always different but to say the least its always very...colorful.

Altairis June 14th, 2012 1:35 AM

I named him Gary because thats who he looks like in the anime and I was too unoriginal.

Aureol June 25th, 2012 12:23 PM

I usually named myself "Patrick" (RL name), and my rival "James" (my brother's name). I liked that idea.

bluebandit216 July 4th, 2012 9:47 AM

I named him Rival because I was so orginal.

Squirrel July 5th, 2012 5:34 AM

I remember one time I named by character "I suck" just so Oak would say "Hello, I suck!" at the start... Ah, good times. c; But yeah in my main games I called my character Alex and my rival was Rasmus. There's a long story behind this that I've told several times before so I won't again, but yeah, those are the names I chose. c: Incidentally my rival has kept this name right up until now :3

Ravenfreak July 9th, 2012 4:38 PM

The very first time I played Yellow I named them Ash and Gary like in the anime. However, as I got older his name got more immature and inappropriate so you could probably guess all the things I named him... :V And I can't remember what I called him this time around. Probably something immature again. xD

Fangking Omega July 10th, 2012 9:35 AM

Yeah, I was of the age where it had to be Ash and Gary. It was Gen II that that I called the characters by the Version names, and then Gen IV when I used my own name and a suitable friend's.

Flute July 10th, 2012 10:01 PM

I was a small child when I played them, and I always named the protagonist "Terry" and the antagonist "poop." I know it was immature, but I thought it was hilarious at the time.

ShinyUmbreon189 July 10th, 2012 10:05 PM

Well, I played Yellow again and I'm not gonna lie. I named him Obama.

LightningAlex July 15th, 2012 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ravenfreak (Post 7246058)
However, as I got older his name got more immature and inappropriate...

I'm gonna come out and say that this is quite a paradox :P

I've always named the rival Gary. Never changed it. I once named him "Gray" by mistake, and when I noticed it in Lavander, I just had to restart the game xD I know it's stupid, but it just bothered me too much.

As for the protagonist, the name was usually Alex all the time.

Guest123_x1 July 15th, 2012 1:39 PM

Seeing how Yellow was modeled with a similar storyline to the anime, with the player always getting Pikachu as the starter, I always named my player ASH and the rival GARY.

blue July 15th, 2012 1:54 PM

I honestly don't remember, once I grasped that his name was Gary I started to call him by his real name but before that, I think it was random.

Sephirothxx July 16th, 2012 11:31 AM

When I first went through yellow I named them Ash and Gary. Now I name them Red and Blue when I play Red version. And when I play Yellow I name them Yellow and Blue. Sometimes Yellow and Green.

MirandaxPikachu July 17th, 2012 8:48 AM

I always name the main character Miranda, just because it's my name, or if I was a guy, just Red or Blue. :P
And my rival was usually Gary, or Paul. (Paul is my friend :P)

Krazzikk July 17th, 2012 8:54 AM

I named myself Josh cuz that's mah name =D and I called my rival ozzy, cuz Ozzy was the only boy who came to mind when I named my Rival (I just started lastnight =DDD)

Olli July 18th, 2012 9:24 PM

Rival = douchebag.

I usually named my character all sorts of things in the games, though I guess I usually stuck with either Oliver or Olli, as those are my real name and nickname. I always lacked originality with my rival though, and usually ended up naming him either Gary, as that was the only name I knew the rival by at the time. It wasn't till much later that I learned the main character and the rival's actual names, and by then I didn't own Yellow anymore :/

ZetaZaku July 19th, 2012 1:08 PM

Actually made me check my game. Can't really remember what I named them in my first run of Yellow, but in the last (and never finished), it's Ash and Gary. Nowadays I give them random names.

death_note July 20th, 2012 10:02 PM

with my own real name and a person I know xD

Polizard'12 July 26th, 2012 6:54 PM

Same here, I named him Ash and Rival Gary, since I noticed (as a kid) they resembled their anime counterparts...

Arceus8888 July 28th, 2012 2:13 PM

Lately, ive been naming my character in blue version red and my rival blue, in yellow version i named my character yellow, and my rival blue, my 1st time in silver, i think i named my character Chris, and my rival ??? since i thought that it was his name xD

zombie101 August 11th, 2012 5:52 PM

[SIZE="a"]Ok im messed up

Me
Idiot

Rival
Poop


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Gym_Leader_Zechariah August 11th, 2012 7:59 PM

When I was younger, I named myself Zech and my rival Andrew (idk, some kid I hated in school). Started Yellow again recently though, and I kept the names as Ash and Gary.

DusknoirZac August 22nd, 2012 12:54 PM

I named myself SIWEL (no idea why) and my rival "A dummy". So when I battle him it says "A dummy wants to battle!"

Elzar August 22nd, 2012 5:26 PM

Almost always Gary or Blue and some other inappropriate names i wont list here lol. For myself it was Red or Ash. Typically i didn't care to venture outside of a generic name or the intended character game. Had the main characters not been made after real characters i may have choose original names.

Pinta77 August 22nd, 2012 9:05 PM

I named him gary, then I lost my file after I restored my iphone... I might name him something inappropriate the next time around just cause I'm mad.

Gerokunz August 23rd, 2012 3:13 AM

I always named him "AAAAAAA". :)
Why? I don't know. :(

zephyr6257 August 23rd, 2012 7:04 AM

I named myself Bene (my first name), and my rival Notbob. :3

Squirrel August 24th, 2012 3:28 AM

I named him 'I smell' or something similar so that Oak said "Hi this is your rival, I smell." I was very young at the time so don't judge me ;;

o Pikachu o August 24th, 2012 6:56 AM

I named myself Red and I named the rival Blue because I had Pokèmon Red and my brother had Pokèmon Blue lol.

Bourne-mouth August 24th, 2012 5:20 PM

I named my character Red and my rival Blue. I just named them by default.

Blue Emerald August 24th, 2012 9:08 PM

Like most here, Ash and Gary, but not because I couldn't think of anything better, but because I thought when they asked for my character's/rival's name, I thought Ash and Gary were simply the correct answers. =P Well, this was the first time I was ever exposed to naming my characters in a video game, I guess.

BrandoSheriff August 26th, 2012 2:09 PM

Because it was made to be like the anime, I named them Ash and Gary. Though I also did this in Red and Blue as well, seeing as I saw the anime first before I got the games, so I thought I really was playing as Ash in Red and Blue.

digimonqueen September 10th, 2012 5:45 AM

I have Yellow, and every time I start a new game, I change the names of the Hero and Rival. My last one was Seth for the Hero, and Paul for the Rival. I HATE Paul with a passion. Every time I saw him on the show abusing his Pokemon, I was like "You don't deserve to be a Trainer!" His Chimchar release made me furious. He didn't even care about its feelings. Ash cares about his Pokemon, and only releases them to a good home.

Bounsweet September 10th, 2012 12:45 PM

I always named my character Ash for two reasons.
  1. The anime, derp
  2. My name is Ashley so I already go by Ash a lot

And the rival was usually Gary.

Pokemon_Geek September 19th, 2012 9:53 AM

Since it's based off the anime, I went with Ash(even though I can't the kid. He has gotten better over the past decade, but I'm still not a fan of his archetype) and Gary.

Red99 September 30th, 2012 2:50 PM

I was 5 when I started playing Pokemon, and Yellow was my first game. I believe I named the player after me, and the rival after my brother.

SkittyBot October 7th, 2012 5:43 PM

I recall naming my rival 1234567 once in Emerald, then we moved onto Stupid, and in diamond her was KFEUSTR, and in SS i named him KORFENO. I was really immature two years ago at age ten.

Kanade Otonashi October 7th, 2012 7:18 PM

Well, since I played Cyrstal first, I name the Rival ??? everytime, and I call him "The Question"

I usually name the main after me, cause why not. :'D

Treecko October 7th, 2012 11:38 PM

I usually named my character my name, Aaron or Ash . Usually Ash since Yellow has elements of the anime in it. My rival I usually named him Gary or some silly name like "poophead" or "idiot" being that I was only 7 or 8 at the time.

sbs_will_monoxide October 8th, 2012 4:25 PM

When I did have Yellow, my character was named Byte, while my rival was named Douche.

Rodriguezjames55 October 12th, 2012 2:38 PM

ive played multiple times the 1st times i named him after my brother
than the random generated names
now i name him green after the adventures manga

Taposa October 12th, 2012 9:00 PM

I named it Red and Blue in Yellow. Although it is manga-based and not anime-based.

Greenbeans October 13th, 2012 2:28 PM

I went with the originals, ash and gary. It may be a bit boring but i like it.

sn0wbreeze October 19th, 2012 3:40 AM

Red and Blue.I named them after my 2 favorite colors, then I got Pokemon Red and Blue.

Nagravison November 1st, 2012 4:48 AM

Always named him Gary because of the anime and i still do

Trainer Matt November 2nd, 2012 2:31 AM

When playing Red and Blue, I slotted in my name and that of my older brother. He took the immature route of naming him something vulgar. <.< When we both got our hands on a copy of Pokémon Yellow, though, I personally went for the Ash/Gary combination. The game was blatently tied in more with the animé, so it just seemed like the natural thing to do!

Olli November 2nd, 2012 8:36 AM

Usually I just either named my character Olli, something I found funny, or just Red because I didn't have any other ideas, however it's pretty long ago, so can't even remember anymore. The rival however was always Gary, and that especially fit in Yellow, since it was closer to the anime :p

Autophobic November 2nd, 2012 9:41 AM

I named my character Matt, and my rival Alex (my brother).

SamuJake November 4th, 2012 10:56 PM

I'm actually playing Pokemon Yellow on my Gameboy at the moment and trying to finish the game, along with 2 other friends trying to finish Pokemon Red and Blue on Gameboy. I named my character Jake, after myself and the rival Jarrod, one of my friends who is playing.

Totodilesteel99 November 5th, 2012 12:58 AM

OK!
Lol Moments!
Red and Blue.
Who would've thought?
Nobody ever calls there rivals that! ;D
I did it because Red in HG has Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, Pikachu, Snorlax and Lapras.
And Red goes with Blue, for rivalry.

shadowpikachu0426 December 1st, 2012 5:55 PM

Umm, I think I named myself either Satosh (Typo when I named him) or Ash, rival i think Green.

Whitney's Shaymin December 1st, 2012 6:41 PM

I was always Gavin while my rival was Gary! LMFAO

Seraphimon-sama December 1st, 2012 9:59 PM

I always named myself Byakuya, and named my rival either Sosuke, Aizen, Mayuri, Kaname or Kisuke.

Seki December 6th, 2012 11:09 PM

A young me called myself Ash and my rivial the F word.

Synerjee December 7th, 2012 1:00 AM

I have always named myself 'Ash' and my rival 'Gary'. Never anything else.

Cid December 7th, 2012 3:19 AM

Man I can't really remember the details the first time I played it! Which is odd, because it's supposed to be memorable for being my first played game of the series.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say Patrick for the player character and Gary for the rival. The first one would be the obvious choice unless I was feeling anime-y (in that case, it would be Ash), but Gary I think is most likely what I named my rival. I was a fan of the anime back then so I think that must have reflected to my rival's name. It's possible I actually named my rival after a childhood friend, though. :P

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ December 7th, 2012 6:33 PM

I would always name my character either "Lati" or my full name which is Latifah and I did not care if I was a male at the time and as for my rival, I would give him bad names such as the "F" word the "S" word.....you get the point and this was because I was very immature at the time


:t354:TG

Seth Rollins December 13th, 2012 6:33 PM

I named myself Red and my rival...oh...the first time I played the game I called him ''ass''...then when I was starting my adventure I found boring so I changed it to Blush. I don't know why...then when I completed the game I restarted it and named him Green.

Rain Dancer December 14th, 2012 4:26 AM

Gary, because, well, it's Gary. The name stuck forever.

Not Ash, however. That one you leave as Red.

TheSecondComingOfCaterpie January 6th, 2013 5:51 PM

I named the character Cheese and the Rival Ham, because I was hungry that day.

PikachuAddict January 6th, 2013 6:01 PM

I was Rich/Richard and the rival was Gary.

Mama-Mamo January 6th, 2013 7:10 PM

My character: I usually use a variation of my real name, a nickname, or a username that I use.

Rival: It always and forever will be something inappropriate. xD It fun seeing Professor Oak refer to my rival/his grandson as a vulgar word or phrase. :3

vaporeon7 January 7th, 2013 12:01 AM

Ash and Gary. I even used Red's team from HGSS.

Urugamosu January 7th, 2013 2:19 AM

The game yellow somehow gave me a craving for cheese, so I called the protagonist, Cheese! The Rival was Omelets, I think I was really hungry when I start playing. Cx

pikakitten January 11th, 2013 9:30 PM

I named my character, my name. and my rival was Blue, since that's his name in-game rather than Gary (Anime) xD

TroubleH January 12th, 2013 8:40 AM

Me, I like to name my character with my name.
And for the rival, it will always be one of my friend's name. -_-

Pringlesman January 14th, 2013 12:16 PM

I was lame as a kid and named myself Ash and my rival Gary.

Sweets Witch January 14th, 2013 12:23 PM

I named my protag "Heroman" because he was the heroman, and my rival's name was ??? because it's what he said his name was and I was in no position to argue with him.

KosmoF January 14th, 2013 6:01 PM

I got Yellow when it was released and gave the protagonist my name, and the rival the name of the primary antagonist of a play series I occasionally write.

YELLOW: Sarah
BLUE: Damien

The Amazing Justin January 24th, 2013 9:02 PM

I always name myself Justin in every game and my rival Marshall (Based of my childhood rival) in all of the Kanto games.

obiwan362 January 25th, 2013 7:34 AM

It was either Ash and Gary (I think it was), or I was DAVID!! because I liked filling all of the characters possible and my rival would have been one of my friends at the time. Probably Eli.

dragonfly_dust January 25th, 2013 4:26 PM

I actually had the Japanese version of Pokemon Yellow six months before the English version came out. (Hooray for Japanese cousins and knowing Japanese!)

I in fact played 1st and 2nd gen all on japanese cartridges. Anyway I named myself "Akasata" which is the first four "A" sounds of the japanese alphabet. My rival, "Okosoto" is the first four "O" sounds of the japanese alphabet.


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