1st Gen Okay, I have to ask. Anyone else playin' since '97?

Started by BaileyPlaysPokemon October 29th, 2011 10:47 AM
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BaileyPlaysPokemon

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As in the first year that the games were released in the United States (not sure about other countries).

Picked my charmander in '97 on my red version. Completed my blue version Pokedex in '99, when they released Mew at the Pokemon Movie event lol.


Any old timers on here? come on, there's gotta be...
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I've been playing since 1999 with Yellow, but I've liked Pokemon since the beginning. idk if you would count me as much of a player back then though, cause I didn't get past Brock and then lost my game, so I mainly played both Pokemon Stadium games, Snap, and Puzzle League, haha. I was more of a TCG kid.
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BaileyPlaysPokemon

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pokemon snap was the best. still throw it open every once in a while (:
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Yes! I began with the card game (pretty pics...) and then nagged on my mom so much to buy me the game. I wanted the Red version but she got my the Blue. I remember being so disappointed when I saw that ugly Blastoise. Later I played and I haven't stopped since then, although not playing non-stop since then.

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Nope, I live in Europe, and my first Pokémon game was Yellow which came out in 2000. Means I was 6 years old when I first played it. I was 3 when the Pokémon games came out which is a little young XD

BaileyPlaysPokemon

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Nope, I live in Europe, and my first Pokémon game was Yellow which came out in 2000. Means I was 6 years old when I first played it. I was 3 when the Pokémon games came out which is a little young XD
did pokemon get to europe in 1997? i honestly don't even know. yellow was a classic though (:

Yes! I began with the card game (pretty pics...) and then nagged on my mom so much to buy me the game. I wanted the Red version but she got my the Blue. I remember being so disappointed when I saw that ugly Blastoise. Later I played and I haven't stopped since then, although not playing non-stop since then.
finally! lol i know what u mean though. i remember after my mom bought me red, i also conned her into buying me blue and yellow. she said "aren't these all the same game?" and i remember getting sooooo defensive on how they were different lol
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Attempting to complete Pokedex (minus the few you just can't get ): so sad)
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I started playing during gen 1. I started with the anime and worked my way into the games from there though, so I haven't been playing since day 1. Pokemon stadium was my first game and after that I got red version, but I started with squirtle because I knew charmander would make dealing with brock a pain. At the end of my first game, blastoise was around lv 80 while everyone else was around lv 30 and didn't contribute much. In a way, I kinda did a solo challenge of my red version long before challenge runs got popular XD. Gen 1 was also the only time in my entire pokemon carrer that I raised anything to lv 100. Mewtwo ftw XD.
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I first got into the TCG when i was 7 & then I saved up when I was 8 I wanted to buy Pokemon Blue Version but I fell on the Ruby & Sapphire release date so in the end I walked out with a Pokemon Sapphire Version game. I got Blue version as my second game.


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Yup! Been playing since the beginning. I remember getting Red one of the first days it came out :)

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15.4 Years
I think I did play back in 1997, I'm a true Pokéfan!

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14.8 Years
I didn't get into the games until I got Silver Version in 2000, on my eighth birthday. However, I've been a fan of Pokemon since the beginning, watching the anime, iirc.
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13 Years
i got an atomic purple gameboy color for my eighth birthday, along with red version and one of those purple skateboards with a handle on it that would flip up into a scooter( you guys remember those pieces of crap?), and i asked my mom to return it and get pokemon yellow instead (just saw the commercial for it on tv, it had just been released). i was so immersed in pokemon, i traded all my toys for cards, made tons of new friends at school through pokemon, taped over all of my dad's star trek episodes with pokemon... my parents hate the japanese now. lol i still have my gameboy and yellow, sadly i lost my red version.... oh well.
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I've been playing since 1999 with Yellow, but I've liked Pokemon since the beginning. idk if you would count me as much of a player back then though, cause I didn't get past Brock and then lost my game, so I mainly played both Pokemon Stadium games, Snap, and Puzzle League, haha. I was more of a TCG kid.
I too started with Pokemon Yellow, which arrived about half way through the year 2000 here in Europe, and Brock still brings back some nightmares.

Let's just say it took me a while to get to grips with the Pokemon games, and it took me an eternity to finally defeat Brock. It's hard to get a sense of typing effectiveness when most Pokemon moves are, at this point, electricity and normal type moves. I could do little but sit back, repeatedly smash into that Onyx with Quick Attack and wait for it all to be over swiftly.
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I've been playing since 1999 as well! I had Pokémon Yellow, I remember when Pikachu ran out of PP I would restart the game because I thought you couldn't get that back... It is a face palm moment now... I never beat the game however I still own my original copy! :3 I should sit down and play through it when I get a chance!
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Posted May 14th, 2013
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15.5 Years
I can't remember exactly when I started playing, it was sometime when I was in Kindergarten. My brother bought Blue and Red version, and I ended up playing them after he beat them.

But I'd always watch him play, and I was so amazed at all the Pokemon. I can still remember the feeling of running into some of them for the very first time.
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12.9 Years
I got my Blue in 1999 (which is when it was released here) :D I was 10 and still in primary school. I didn't complete it legitimately though... I cheated using Missingno. D:

I might play through it again for real one day. Or I might just play FireRed... I'm not sure I could handle the graphics of Blue/Red/Yellow now haha!
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14.9 Years
I played it on Xmas day around the first time it was released, i remember seeing it in a games magazine and i couldnt stop reading about it! I was always going to pick Charmander first but i still lost alot of sleep on the build up towards xmas thinking about which starter to pick! I didnt have a gameboy before then so i got my copy of Pokemon Blue and pocket gameboy and all the charging stuff needed for it at xmas. Ahhh the good old days. Oh and btw (if u havent seen my other posts recently) ive picked the game back up recently along with 2 of my mates. I always seem to pull this game back out every couple of years same with final fantasy 7 but thats another story entirely.
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