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Old November 24th, 2007 (10:02 PM).
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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...
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Old November 25th, 2007 (12:27 AM).
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I was probably around 12.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (2:39 AM).
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2001.

I was around 6 I suppose.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (3:00 AM).
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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.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (2:27 PM).
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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.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (2:29 PM).
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I got into Pokemon during about 3rd grade. Now I'm a senior.

That's...9 years. Sad.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (3:51 PM).
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I got into Pokemon during about 3rd grade. Now I'm a senior.

That's...9 years. Sad.
Same here.....wow.....same exact thing.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (3:55 PM).
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I think i was in 2nd grade and i was 5/6 something like that.. i'm not sure what year though
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Old November 25th, 2007 (5:27 PM).
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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.
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Same here.....wow.....same exact thing.
I guess we're just cool like that.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (5:32 PM).
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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...
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Old November 25th, 2007 (6:29 PM).
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I think I was seven so I'm guessing it was 1999.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (7:28 PM).
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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.
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Old November 25th, 2007 (7:34 PM).
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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.
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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
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I think I was around 9-10 when I first came across the anime.
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Old November 26th, 2007 (12:55 PM).
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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.
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Old November 28th, 2007 (11:15 PM). Edited November 29th, 2007 by Kitoshi.
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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.
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Old November 29th, 2007 (9:53 AM).
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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.
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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.
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when the second episode of Pokemon aired which was in 1998 and I was 6 in the half


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Old November 30th, 2007 (12:58 PM).
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I was in third or fourth grade when it actually came out here, but I don't think I really got into it until fourth grade. Sooo... I was about nine. And now I'm eighteen. Whooo, how time flies. :'D

I originally was introduced to it by some classmates drawing Pikachu. I thought it was a South Park character at the time because I knew nothing about then-current fads. XD When I learnt what it was, I fell in love instantly and ever since, I've been a Pokémon fan.
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Old November 30th, 2007 (1:32 PM).
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I've answered this a few times on different forums but I keep forgetting the answer each time. >.<

*asks Mum* I started getting into it in 1999 when my Mum bought me Red for my 7th birthday. Pokemon has since ruined my life! XD
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When i got into pokemon, was in 1998, when i saw the first anime episode that was like new when it aired here in Puerto Rico. Ever since then, i've always loved pokemon no matter what anybody else said
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I started my first Pokemon game (Red version) back when I was 6 years old. 1998 I believe? Now I'm 15 and still loving Pokemon :D
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