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How old were you?
On April 22, 2007, the North American release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, so my question today is... How old were you when Pokemon Diamond and Pearl were released in North America?
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I was only 9 when they released, and got Diamond and a DS Lite for my 10th birthday. It was the first Pokemon game I ever owned for myself :')
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I was around 14 or so, if I remember correctly. Loved these games from get-go, and if I were ever given chance to go back in time, turn 14 again, re-purchase them, and play from all over again, I would accept it in a heart-beat.
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I would've been 15 at the time they came out, but I was in a bit of a Pokemon lull at the time, so I didn't care too much about their release. In fact, I didn't play any of the Sinnoh games until after I graduated high school, which would've been 3+ years after Diamond and Pearl were first released.
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10. And i've just had my 18th birthday. Wow. Way to make me feel old.
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I was literally just about to turn 16, two days after the release in fact. I still remember all those hours I logged on my Pearl version, haha.
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I was 9 when the game came out and I played it on my old grey original ds.
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7 years ago I was 16. Doesn't really even feel like that far back! Still feels like 2009 was two years ago.. I remember doing chores so my mom would let me order the Japanese version of Pearl since the games weren't localized yet.
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I was 15 when Diamond and Pearl were released which at that time I wasn't big into Pokemon anymore so I didn't buy the game. I stuck with Emerald.
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I never got it on release, I was in my non-Pokemon phase. I was 12 years old.
I got Platinum when I was 14 though. |
I was 7. I just got into Pokemon. It helped me read faster
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Was like 7 or 8. It was my second Pokemon game.
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I was 13, though I wasn't able to acquire DP until about a year and a half later since I lacked a DS :<
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I was 19 years old when Pokemon Diamond and Pearl came out in the US. In fact it was three days after my birthday when they came out.
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I was only 6 years old when it was released in North America. I bought it as soon as it was released in Europe and began playing the game (not very well ...) as soon as possible.
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I was 17, 23 now.
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I was 15. I turned 16 that June. I got Diamond and Pearl!
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I believe I was 13 when Diamond and Pearl came out. However, I didn't get Pearl until after I turned 14 later that year.
It's like I'm old but I'm really not.... |
I was 13, and I only got Ddiamond like a year or 2 ago :C
The D/P/Pt time was a time when I lost my interest in Pokemon and I didnt bother to buy it. |
Goodness it doesn't seem real that they where released 7 years ago needless to say I was 10 at the time getting ready to turn 11 that June!
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I was only 14 at the time these games came out, still in Year 9 at high school at the time. And funnily enough the following year I finally got to play them after getting them for my 16th birthday.
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I got it September 2008 for my birthday. I was only 6 then.
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11, Got it exactly 4 months later on my birthday :3
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I was 17 when Pearl came out. I'm 23 years old now.
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I was only 10 when this happened
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I was 10 back then. It's crazy to think how long it's been.
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I was 11 because I recieved Diamond for my 11th birthday along with a DS. This was three months after the NA release. As 11 year olds are obsessed with cheats and otherwise exploiting video games, I used the hell out of my Action Replay to catch every Legendary I could think of.
At this time, I got hooked on internet forums and subsequently, Pokemon chat rooms to Wi-Fi battle. After years of offline gaming and struggling through link cables, Wi-Fi and wireless connection seemed like a miracle to me. |
I was 13 (though I swear it feels like I was 14) when I got Pearl the day it came out. I played the hell out of that game, I think I had 500+ hours on it by the time HGSS came out. I remember when all the Pokémon forums exploded with its release because I had just started getting active in online Pokémon communities in 2006.
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hmm it was july 2007 i think when it came out in nz haha.. I've never really played pokemon before so when i received a ds lite and pokemon diamond for my 14th bday it was really cool i was so excited getting my very first pokemon!!! PS: Sinnoh is the best region d: |
I was probably between 13 or 14
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I was exactly the same as marisa, 9 years old and given pokemon diamond and a ds for my birthday ;u; my friend had pearl and I was obsessed with playing it more than she did, so I got my own copy
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I had just turned 13, and it was completely under my radar at the time. I didn't get into Pokemon until I was a senior in high school, and I got my first copy of a game from the gen (Diamond) the summer after I graduated.
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It was released like a few weeks after my 10th birthday I think. I remember getting the pre-order as a gift as the game was like the one thing I really wanted haha. :)
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16. Doesn't feel like it's been so long.
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I was 9, but I had to share my copy of Diamond with my little brother. My first Pokemon game I owned individually was Emerald
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I was 16 at the time, but I wasn't even aware of other Gens than first and second at the time, because I stopped watching Pokemon in 2003. I started to play overally in 2009 so I realized there was III and IV Gen after a while and not to mention V was coming up really soon.
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I was 13 when these games came out.. and to be honest, they've been one of my favorite of the entire series.
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July 2007... I was quite young; around 10 or 11 too!
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At the time DP came out in America, I was 14 going on 15. I was in the middle of 8th grade and I knew there were some knew Pokemon recently announced, but didn't realized until several months before that a new game was also coming. I guess I didn't just put two and two together , and realized new Pokemon meant new games. lol
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I was a fresh faced 16 year old, who instead of worrying about driving exams, just wanted to catch 'em all!
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I was 15 and beginning to lose interest in the series, thankfully these games gave me a new opinion on it.
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I was 16 and a junior in high school when DP was released, but I never played the game until I got to college. :P
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I was 14 but I must have been living under a rock or something cause I had no idea they were even released lol :) Then when I got to Uni in first year (a little bit after I'd turned 19) I was watching someone play Pearl with a lot of interest and got pretty hooked after they let me have a go haha, so after doing some research I went out and got my own copy of Diamond and it's been one of my favourite games ever since :)
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8 years old, wow, I was young.
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I'm pretty sure I was 8. I remember marking off the days until release off on my calendar and then forgetting which day it was supposed to come out so I ended up getting it a week late.
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I was 13 then. I was aware of the release but didn't get the opportunity to play it until I got an NDS for my Christmas present at the end of the year. I straight away downloaded Pearl onto my R4.
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I got my first DS an d pokemon game when I was 7! My first Pokemon game was Pearl which I sadly lost and ya. The first game I played I didnt know what to do so I played the whole game with a starly. I released my chimchar at the beginning and won the game with a lv 100 Staraptor. LOL
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i was 7 years younger then i am today
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I am 21 now, so I was 13 when this happened. Talk about a #throwbackthursday x,D
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Crumbs. You guys make me feel old, haha. I was 18 in 2007, and the only person I knew to have bought it. Luckily i was dating a dude at the time who saw I loved pokemon and bought the diamond to my pearl so I at least got his Dialga before i dumped him ahahaha
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I remember that day, I had to wait until the end of the day to play Pokemon Pearl and I was so excited that I poked a big hole into the case in order to open it. I was in the 9th grade and I was 15 years old.
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6, got it in 2010 when i was 9
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I was 5...I started playing DS games in late 2009/early 2010...I got Pearl in May of this year. It was a pre-owned copy, and the previous account only had all of the event legendaries that existed in Gen 4, so that was awesome.
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I would have just turned 14 the month prior. I got the game for Christmas that year.
To say the least I think it's honestly the weakest in the series, but apparently I'm alone in thinking that. |
9 years old. I had a DS that year and bought Diamond the next year.
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5 or 6 when D/P came out, just starting Kindergarten. My parents didn't think I'd get what was going on even though I had watched my sister play Emerald at least a couple of thousand or so times and understood what most pokemon did. I got why they thought that though. :p
But being the kid I was, if I couldn't get D/P, I'd just ask for Platinum. And that's what ended up happening 2 years later, when I got Platinum for my eighth birthday. :D |
I was 14 and in 9th grade. I bought them both on release day. :) This was about the time it was hard to find other fans of the game locally though, but thankfully my siblings played. We had plenty of fun times helping each other get the (at the time) new evolutions and battling each other. :)
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I was sixteen at the time of release, though if I remember correctly, I didn't get Diamond until my seventeenth birthday in November.
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I feel old reading these posts because I'm 24 now and got platinum when it came out but have been playing pokemon since the first game released. And I've got a full notebook of pokemon cards(the original 150 including all the holographic cards) I've been a Pokémon fan since it started haha
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I was 6! :P But at that time I was still a GBA kid, and had no clue of anything related to the DS. It wasn't until a few years later I got Diamond - and HGSS was already released by then!
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I was 16 when Pokemon Diamond came out. I thought it might have been released on the GBA, though.
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16, 23 now. But I wasn't playing pokemon at that time because I thought I was too old for it.
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I was 6 years old when they were released. They didn't become my first Pokémon game though, that was Explorers of Darkness in August '08.
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I was 13 when it was relased but I got DS Lite and Diamond for Christmas that year and I had turned 14 in October. :b I remember when I had asked for DS lite and Diamond as a present, my mother said that "aren't you too old for Pokemon". I'm nearly 21 now and I'm never too old for Pokemon !
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I was young, about 8 years old. We got the game when I was 10 I think.
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Damn it's already been 7 years? Time flies...
I was only 10 when they were released. |
I was...seventeen. In my first year at College. God, that feels like a lifetime ago now, yet when I think back on it I can still remember how excited I was to be playing it!
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I was only 7 when they came out, I had already played and beat Emerald, so I was extremely happy about it, I worked hard on chores and when me and 2 friends had enough money we went to walmart and bought it, that was my most memorable playthrough of any Pokemon game, because we spent days maybe even weeks stuck after the seventh gym, because we couldn't find the Spear Pillar.
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I turned 15 on April 23, 2007 so... Technically, I was 14 when I bought Pearl on the release date. I was pretty lucky to get a birthday present 1 day early.
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I was 17 when the game came out though I've never played any of the games. I didn't care for the DS.
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I was 8 when I got my copy of Pearl. I never get tired of playing Pearl despite its glaring flaws. :P
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If we're going by the release date, I was still 18. I don't remember if I got the game right away or not, my Diamond was lost to history several years ago.
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I was 7 when it was released, 8 when I got it on my Birthday.
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I was actually 12 when they came out o_O Jeez now I feel really old ;-; Diamond was my first game but wow... I just feel old lol.
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I think I was ten, but wow. That's crazy.
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2007 hmm, calculating that I was 10 years old that time, and got to play it next year when it came in my country
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