What Got You Into Pokemon? Page 4

Started by AkameTheBulbasaur July 7th, 2013 5:16 AM
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skyluigi2

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United Kingdom
Seen October 4th, 2022
Posted July 21st, 2019
988 posts
13.6 Years
To be honest, I forget exactly. I remember my parents buying me some of the Pokemon toys before I'd even played the games... although I did watch the cartoon, I believe.
Although I think I played Blue before this, my first real memory is of playing a Portugese version of Yellow my auntie and uncle had brought me back from their holiday (they didn't know it wasn't English). I literally couldn't even manage to get past Brock. Makes me wonder, really. Why did I stick with the Pokemon series after that? I don't know... but I'm glad I did! {XD}

NyxShooter

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Age 33
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Seen July 16th, 2016
Posted September 11th, 2015
211 posts
9.8 Years
I got into pokemon via my brother. My older brother is my role model, and he was playing pokemon Red, and I begged my mother for pokemon Blue, and she obliged. And ever since then i have fallen in love with the pokemon world.
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It pretty much has to do with the Super Smash Bros. series and Chugga. I liked using Pikachu in all three games and eventually I saw Chugga's Pokemon FireRed LP and was quite impressed, so I tried it and the game was awesome. This is how I got into Pokemon.
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10.8 Years
I got into Pokémon about 13 years ago, when I first watched the anime on television. My love for Pokémon grew even bigger when my parents gave me Pokémon Blue as a christmas present. I've played this game for months. Once I've completed the story, I kept restarting the game so that I could play it all over again. Pokémon was the most popular thing to talk about in school back then, and thanks to that, I was able to make a lot of friends. I'm still in contact with a few of these friends today.

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Age 26
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Michigan, USA
Seen October 17th, 2020
Posted November 18th, 2017
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9.8 Years
I can't remember which I started first, but I found the anime and the games at around the same time (when I was about 4). I watched every episode religiously and the only game I would ever play was Pokémon Blue :P From there I just kept watching and kept playing, and haven't "grown out" of it yet, and I doubt I ever will.

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Missouri, USA
Seen November 5th, 2013
Posted November 5th, 2013
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9.8 Years
I got into Pokemon after my older cousin gave me his GameBoy Color and a copy of Pokemon Gold. I was younger, and the game didn't save ( I have now found a place that will fix it :D), but I immediately fell in love with the characters, especially the pokemon Totodile. One of my other cousins later on gave me his copy of Leaf Green (since he had Fire Red) and I was hooked. At one point, I had a friend whose mom tried to convince my mom that Pokemon was evil and to ban me from playing it, but fortunately, Mom wasn't that over-protective and I continue to love the games, the show, and the manga to this day.
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Seen January 10th, 2023
Posted January 8th, 2023
367 posts
13.3 Years
I got into it one Christmas when my great grandmother brought red for little my sister since she was the one who owned a game boy at the time ( this had to be like 1998 ) can't remember I just remember my sister being too young to understand pokemon so she never played it but I borrowed to play the game once and the rest is history. Honerable mentions go to the first eevee pokemon card since I owned it before I even knew what pokemon were my mother found it and gave it to me

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Seen November 24th, 2013
Posted November 24th, 2013
133 posts
9.8 Years
I was a young little sapling, living life normally. One day at recess, I made a decision that changed my life.

It was the year of Generation 4. I spotted a group of boys crowded around a book with many colorful creatures. I remember being very intrigued by the pictures.

One day, at the store with my father and sister I spotted a sticker book with Pokémon in it. I recognized a lot of them! And my love for the series grew rapidly...

My first Pokémon game was Pokémon Blue Rescue Team. And I loved it. Then I received Platinum for the DSI I had gotten for my birthday. And I adored it.

Jack the overleved Torterra, Octillery, Honchkrow and (shiny) Empoleon who I receive over Wi-Fi, Thunder the Raichu and Ismeal the Espeon was my team! We never did beat the league, but it was so awesome...
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9.8 Years
I got my first gameboy (9 or 10, cant recall exact) with pokemon red. From there, its all history.
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Posted May 15th, 2020
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9.8 Years
This question never quite occurred to me.

I sort of just.. well, started playing Pokemon when I was in 1st Grade in Elementary school. I started to watch the Pokemon Anime as well, and I really just wanted to play more. So I asked a bunch of my parents' students (they're teachers) if I could have some more Pokemon toys/stuff/games. And they gave me some! I got to play Pokemon FireRed, and Ruby after that. Then, I finally got the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Games; which I loved a lot!

So then about a few years after that, I got Pokemon Black & White, and then Black & White 2. So now we're here! :)

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Age 23
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Seen February 19th, 2021
Posted March 11th, 2017
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9.9 Years
Sadly I wasn't even a thought when Pokemon first came out I wasn't introduced to it like a lot of you. I got introduced to it when I was at my mom's friends house and her daughter had Pokemon Emerald. We traded games (she gave me Emerald, I gave her some Tony Hawk game) and I just started playing. I knew about it before because my brother had crystal and I wasn't allowed to watch it or play because my overly religious mom thought it was Satanic xD. Well now I still play even though it's been like 7 years and my mom learned to just deal with it :)
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Seen September 2nd, 2013
Posted September 2nd, 2013
13 posts
9.8 Years
Christmas of 1998, got myself a Pokemon blue version with a special pikachu edition Game Boy Color. Still own both of them and they are both in great condition. Still replace the blue battery time from time when it dies out, love it.
Recently the Pokemon gods have been watching over me, and infected my Pokemon with the Pokerus.

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Liberty Garden
Seen April 28th, 2020
Posted April 28th, 2020
9,307 posts
10.4 Years
I first know it by reading the article about it on magazine, and I started to watch it when my cousin is watching the anime via VCD, that's how I started to watch Pokemon. However, it is on Generation 3 that I started to play Pokemon though.

pokefan648

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Seen March 13th, 2014
Posted March 7th, 2014
37 posts
9.8 Years
when i was around 7 i started to watch it. i really liked but i started to lose interest, mainly because pokemon came on less and less on cartoon network. a few years later, i was looking in my grandmother's collection of old nintendo stuff (she has a working nes snes and n64) and i found the orignal gameboy. i took pokemon as one of the 3 games. i fixed up the orignal gameboy and it worked for a while. it eventually quit working due to corosion damage on the main board. so i played pokemon blue on my blue gameboy advance sp and enjoyed pokemon so i started watching the series online. so now im a big pokemon fan! sorry if i have bored you with my long story but this is how it went!