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Indiana
Seen April 3rd, 2011
Posted March 24th, 2011
9 posts
12.2 Years
You can call me sad or w/e, but I started this series when I was about 10-11 years old. My g/f just got me a DS for my birthday and of course I had to buy the best RPG series on handheld, Pokemon. I'm 24, going to college, and working. Cannot wait until the semester begins again and I am on the sidewalk training my Bulbasaur... if I can find one some time LOL.

Also I am waiting for either a console, decked out remake of Pokemon version. Or what if even be more amazing is a Pokemon MMO. I doubt either of these will ever happen, but it should. The console thing I am little surprised about because they would make so much money.

Oryx

CoquettishCat

Age 30
Female
Seen January 30th, 2015
Posted December 27th, 2014
13,184 posts
12.2 Years
I had to have been at most 8, probably 7. My mom thought that Pokemon was the perfect thing to get for my sister and I because Red and Blue were similar enough that neither of us would feel shorted, but dissimilar enough that she wasn't buying each of us the same thing just to keep us happy. Of course, that all went out the window when Yellow came out...

Edit: I'm 18 now, freshman in college. About 10 of my friends from school bought Black or White and talk about it over Facebook every day, lol.
Female
Canada
Seen November 10th, 2012
Posted November 3rd, 2012
705 posts
12.3 Years
I think I was about 8, maybe 9. Now I'm 20.

I started playing when my parents gave me Pokemon Blue for Christmas and I had no idea what it was all about since the only English words I knew back then were yes, no, cat and dog. I remember being stuck in Pallet Town because of not knowing what to do at all and giving up. However, when the anime started airing on my favourite cartoon channel, I realised it was the same thing as the game I had received, and finally managed to play and finish it. I've been playing the games since back then and sporadically watching the anime depending on my interest in Pokemon at that age or not.

mew_nani

Pokécommunity's Licensed Tree Exorcist

Female
Far Lands
Seen May 28th, 2019
Posted August 25th, 2018
1,839 posts
13.4 Years
I got my first Pokemon game, Leafgreen, when I was about 10. Now I'm 16 years old, a junior in high school, and I'm still playing. And I don't intend on stopping anytime soon. :)

I support:

R.I.P Isaac J. Southerland Jr.
1946 - 2017

Xyrin

WOW REMEMBER THIS??

Age 24
Male
purdue
Seen September 17th, 2022
Posted October 17th, 2013
1,065 posts
15 Years
I started when I was 4 or 5... I remeber playing on my cousins Sapphire. Good times.. I would waste his Pokeballs on trainers pokemon, HUNDREDS of them. I caught every pokemon that looked cool. My mom then bought me a Pokemon GB color (it had pokemon on it and it was yellow. Still got it. :) ) and Pokemon Red. My cousin beat the E4 with my weak pokes... I got gold later and I yelled and slammed my color on the floor when I made Ho-Ho faint. Lol. When my cousin stopped playing Pokemon he gave me his Sapphire... Save save and all. Even though I immediately restarted it. I got Emerald when it came out. I also asked for a DS lite for Christmas JUST for D/P when I was 10 or so. I've got every Pokemon game after that the day they came out or day after. :D BTW I'm 12 now almost 13. I love Pokemon... But I never did beat Gold... My cousin moved :O.

EDIT: I forgot to add I also got FR.. I just told my hole Pokemon history...

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Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
I was 7 or 8 when I started playing the R/B/Y series of games.

>>FAST FORWARD 12 YEARS OR SO

I'm 20 years old, a college student, and still a Poke-fan when I started playing B/W.
Female
Montreal, QC, Canada
Seen August 17th, 2012
Posted April 30th, 2011
79 posts
12.8 Years
I started with Red when they first came out, which was... 1997? So I was fourteen or fifteen, and now I'm twenty-eight :)



Special Runs:
-Ultimate Pokebro (FR): Squirtle lvl 6, Pidgey lvl 4
-Emerald trio: 3rd badge. Skitty lvl 35, Sableye lvl 32, Numel lvl 28
-Platinum monotype (psychic):7th badge. Alakazam lvl 47, Bronzong lvl 49, Gallade lvl 49, Girafarig lvl 37
-Second City: not started
-Username: not started

HoopyFrood

Designated Robo-Hipster

Male
Muricah'
Seen July 12th, 2012
Posted May 26th, 2012
47 posts
12.2 Years
I'm 18 now.. Man I musta' been 5 or 6 years old.. I had my old ass Big Chunky Purple gameboy colour, with pokemon red, which came out in 1998? It's 2011 now, thats 13 years of pokeman gaming. Dawg those sprites looked good.

So that makes me a pocket monster veteran for over 10 years, do I get some kind of certificate?

Generation 1 was pretty ground breaking at the time, deep stuff.

Someone correct my math if it's wrong, I run I don't add letters.
Lover of mothers.
Female
Seen August 26th, 2011
Posted April 30th, 2011
20 posts
12.7 Years
I started playing the games when I was 7, almost 8. I remember getting FireRed and a Gameboy Advance for Christmas. I was totally addicted to it after that! But thats not when I started to like pokemon, my sister got me into it when I was around 4. It's been 10 years since then! Im 14 now, and I still love pokemon!

Shining Raichu

Expect me like you expect Jesus.

Age 32
Male
Australia
Seen October 17th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2017
8,958 posts
12.3 Years
My Aunt bought me Pokemon Red for my 9th birthday, and I couldn't figure out how to get out of Viridian Forest lol. Then five weeks later my best friend, who was holidaying in England and was two years older than me, brought back Pokemon Yellow that his Dad bought him to play on the plane. Now I'm 20, he's 22, I haven't spoken to him outside Facebook in forever... I'm still into Pokemon, but he lost interest somewhere between Ruby/Sapphire and FRLG.
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Age 32
Eire
Seen April 4th, 2011
Posted March 20th, 2011
373 posts
18.2 Years
Was 7-8 Now im 20, studying Criminology and Forensic Science, and i still love playing pokemon even to this day ^_^ Got black on release date, as did many others. Also i have noted that ages doesnt really matter when your having fun and playing a game that you enjoy, i wish sometimes people didnt get so caught up with age and pokemon lol
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We'll get to that tomorrow

Age 26
Male
Manehattan, Equestria
Seen May 4th, 2014
Posted May 4th, 2014
991 posts
14.2 Years
I started Playing when I was like 7 I started with pokemon gold then Pokemon Sapphire then Yellow then Platinum then HG and Now That I'm 14 I'm Playing White

Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?

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