Age 29
Female
Lake of Rage
Seen December 12th, 2015
Posted August 15th, 2012
1,931 posts
13.7 Years
Seriously did you?

for my 7th birthday my parents bought me pokemon gold (and a gameboy color :D) and god knows that I did not know how to play that thing xDD
For some reason I thought the pokemon center helped level up your pokemon, so I was in that pokemon center for well over 2 weeks xDDD

But when I got sapphire I got the hang of it and went back to gold and finish it
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Male
Somewhere
Seen December 4th, 2014
Posted December 12th, 2011
67 posts
13.5 Years
I knew how, although I was still rather poor at the game overall in any sort of strategy (it was Yellow Version, I was pretty much the kid who got stuck at Brock for a week or so, I eventually trained 5 random pokemon from Viridian Forest and pikachu to beat him...didn't find out about Mankey & Low Kick till it was too late).
Japanese Soul Silver FC: 3438-2493-8839 (most trades, game beaten)
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Age 33
Male
Kansas
Seen April 2nd, 2011
Posted December 31st, 2009
54 posts
15.1 Years
I was 9 and it was Pokemon Red... Figuring out how to battle and use items didn't take very long, in fact I got the potion from the PC and easily beat my rival on the first try (and everything else I faced), the thing that took the longest actually was first going to Viridian city and not knowing to go to the pokemart... Ended up getting my Charmander to evolve into Charmeleon before I walked in by accident, before that I had been wondering how to catch things or fight stronger opponents...

Simpler times...



Kanto Johto Hoenn Sinnoh
Age 28
Female
The Johto region
Seen December 2nd, 2010
Posted November 26th, 2010
338 posts
13.8 Years
I had no idea how to catch a pokemon at first. I thought you had to knock it out, so everytime I was like, "darn it, it ran away again!!" It wasn't until a while later I realized I just had to weaken it. Yeah, I was the world's smartest 5 year old ever.
You've never known crazy until you've spent time with two fifteen-year-old pokemon obessed girls.

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Male
NSFW
Seen June 18th, 2019
Posted February 15th, 2019
1,522 posts
13.4 Years
I got blue version sometime back in the second grade. I was the worst at it. I knew i had to kill stuff to level but that was about it. And in silver version, i got stuck at the part where you go above cherrygrove because i didnt know what to do so i raised my cyndaquil to like lvl 15 before i figured it out.

and in yellow, i was also unaware of the mankeys, so i raised my pickachu to like lvl 25 and it learned slam...lolz.

Tox

fight me

Age 30
Male
Ireland
Seen January 15th, 2023
Posted July 24th, 2018
573 posts
13.8 Years
When I first got red back when I was 6, for the first three days, I was walking around the house. I didn't know how to get out. Eventually, my best friend found out what to do and showed me. After a month, I got the hang of it. Ever since then, I've loved the games.
Female
Seen March 28th, 2010
Posted March 16th, 2010
294 posts
13.6 Years
I was the one to get stuck in the player's house.
I thought I was the only who did that!

The only game I had played prior to Pokemon Silver was this 3D Platforming/Adventure game on the Playstation 1 (called Spyro the Dragon. Anyone remember it? It used to be such a good series). I spent about 10 minutes going up and downstairs wondering, "Why does the game keep flashing?!" :P

I think I was about 6 or 7 years old. Thank goodness for my Dad (who played most of the beginning of the game while I watched him because I was scared that I would mess up. lulz.)

Other than that, I pretty much figured out everything by myself. I'm not exactly sure how I did it...

Elite Overlord LeSabre™

On that 'Non stop road'

Age 97
Shimoda City
Seen 3 Days Ago
Posted January 25th, 2022
9,705 posts
15.5 Years
Yeah, from the Nintendo Power previews I got the gist of it and a quick read through the manual and I got the controls down pat.

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Female
Yes.
Seen November 3rd, 2019
Posted January 9th, 2017
297 posts
15.5 Years
Not at all D:
My first game was FireRed, and at first, I had no clue what to do! I thought that the message 'Pidgey's speed fell' was actually a good thing, I spent an entire day going through Rock Tunnel without Flash because I thought it was the only way (I surprisingly made it), and I had trouble finding the Rocket Base in Celadon City. (Even though there was a Rocket guy in one of the houses telling me not to go near the poster in the Game Corner...)

TheAppleFreak

If it ain't broke, break it until it's fixed.

Age 28
Male
Seen April 11th, 2016
Posted February 23rd, 2012
791 posts
13.6 Years
I was stupid and didn't play Pokémon until Diamond came out, and it was actually pretty easy. Unlike many that I know, I actually read the instruction manuals, so I got the hang of Diamond pretty easy. Then, I decided to go slightly retro and purchase FireRed (back then, it was still officially on sale), and I was stumped about how to get Poké Balls or progress (period) until I stumbled into the Poké Mart.... I felt really stupid.
Age 30
Male
Wherever I am, I am
Seen February 19th, 2020
Posted April 2nd, 2011
70 posts
15.4 Years
I got Yellow version for my 6th birthday. I remember naming the Pikachu random letters and I thought you had to knock out wild Pokemon to catch them. For so long I thought I had like twenty Nidoran. I think I eventually went back to Oak and he told me that you have to use Pokeballs to catch Pokemon and gave me a few balls.

Berries Grow, Birds Fly, Sun Shines, and Brotha...I Splash People.

Wings Don't Cry

Maybe she's born with it

Age 28
New Zealand
Seen January 24th, 2020
Posted May 19th, 2016
1,939 posts
14.7 Years
I was 5 years old so I could barely read. I didn't know that first attack said Thundershock, well actually I did I just couldn't pronounce it. After a while I got the hang of it and then it got insanely hard again when I was trying to figure out how to get into Saffron City.

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Age 31
Male
A land Down Under
Seen August 22nd, 2010
Posted August 22nd, 2010
54 posts
13.9 Years
I was just button mashing in my red game. I didnt bother looking at the booklet (which, by the way, I still have) and eventually lost so much that I figured out what I was doing wrong and started to correct myself.
Momma had a chicken!
Momma had a cow!
Dad was proud,
He didn't care how!


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Male
Seen January 18th, 2016
Posted June 8th, 2011
331 posts
14.3 Years
On Red, I got stuck in the house, managed to get to viridian city, couldn't get past the old guy, didn't know how to catch pokemon, started with Charmander so Brock killed me.


Basically everything went bad for me. :D
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Black FC: 3525 2230 3831

Black 2 FC: 2152 0899 4183

Age 33
Female
Australia
Seen March 12th, 2011
Posted January 18th, 2010
1,364 posts
14 Years
I was nine when I got my first Pokemon game; I was fine at it. Buuut I thought that in the flowers outside the house in Ruby hat you could catch Sunflora and Sunkern D:

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Trap-Eds

Dig a hole, dig a hole........

Age 28
Female
Peach Creek...I wish.
Seen April 9th, 2011
Posted April 9th, 2011
1,119 posts
14.8 Years
Well, Pearl was my first official Pokemon game, (actually I had Mystery Dungeon Blue first but I dunno if that counts) and I was about 12, so I figured everything out pretty easily. I did get stuck in the Ravaged Pass before I realized I had to beat Roark, however...


now if only I had gotten FireRed and Emerald then...*headsmash*
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