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What Pokémon game has your highest playtime?

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What Pok?mon game has your highest playtime?

Which Pok?mon game have you played the most?? How many hours of playtime do you have in it?
 
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Pokemon Yellow Version is the game I have played the most and I always start a new file on all of my Pokemon games for the walkthrough.
 

Thomas

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Pok?mon Blue 100%.

Over the past 20 years, I?ve played that game to completion at least twice a year. Thousands of hours.
 
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I want to say that it was Sapphire, since I know for a fact that my original save file on there was somewhere around 250 hours, and I've had at least 2 other 40 hour runs on there, too. FireRed is pretty close too though, as I put in two 100+ hour saves, not including whatever time I played on the save file that was on the cartridge when I bought it.
 
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Platinum, I think! Around 400 hours on one save and I think I've had a few other saves which brings it up even more. :D I used to play it all the time when I was younger, it was my go to game when I had nothing to do.
 

Elite Overlord LeSabre™

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I have close to 559 hours on my Pokemon Y file. Understandable, since it's the most recent Pokemon game I've bought (yes, has been 5+ years since I've bought a new Pokemon game.) I've probably played Leaf Green the most, though that isn't reflected in play time since I'm constantly restarting and playing through it again.
 

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I had over 100 hours in an old Soul Silver file, but it's lost now. That was such a fun playthrough! :D
 
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I wish I still had my old Pokemon Diamond copy because I actually hit max playtime (999:99) in that save file.

... Let's just say I had a lot of time on my hands and I mainly used to breed a lot in that game because I was super bored lmao.

Nowadays, I think my longest playtime is SM somewhere around 200 or something hours. I really miss the time where I used to sink a ton more time in a Pokemon game with little effort.
 
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Platinum has my highest playtime on my current actual saves, due to not being able to trade and getting every possible Pokemon registered in the dex. I reached 374, which, I think is the most you can get on your own. Playtime at 187h. Darn those fossils in the underground!

I think Gen 1 has my true highest playtime overall, since I've replayed it so many times lol xD.
 

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It could be another game, but my 3DS says I have 980 hours in Alpha Sapphire.
 

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Definitely Y as it was when I was in the peak of being interested in breeding. I think I clocked about 700 hours
 
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FireRed and Emerald, i think , because those were my first pokemon games. and then platinum because of shiny hunting.
 

icycatelf

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I maxed-out my time on one of my Pearl Version saves, but I've since restarted. Overall, I imagine that I've spent the most time playing either Silver or HeartGold. The game that has the longest playtime on my current save is VC Gold I think, with 263:46.
 
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Like, 500 or 600 hours on Pokémon Black - the first Pokémon game that properly belonged to me. Then there are all the files I started and deleted on it... it makes me weep to this very day to think I forfeited my prized Krookodile for at least zero reasons.

From there, most probably Omega Ruby.
 

Arjay

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Platinum and Y. My two favourite games of the whole series. Sun could be catching them up in the next couple of years though.
 
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I'm pretty sure I maxed out the time on both X and Omgea Ruby. A lot of that though is setting it down and forgetting about it till I come back and realize oh crap the battery will die soon. So I save it and plug it in. OR I will fall asleep Wonder Trading...lol.
 
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I'm guessing either Diamond or X, possibly X. I believe they both have around 450-500 hours. I did a lot of breeding and trading in those games, so I suspect that inflated my hour count a bunch.

I have a bunch of games in the 300-400 hour range, some in the 100-200 hour range, and then a few under 100 hours. I haven't put very much time into the newer games (I don't think I've exceeded 100 hours on a single game since X; the closest is probably VC Gold so far, around 85 hours, though I had about 260 hours on my old cartridge file for Gold as well).
 
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