3rd Gen How old were you

Started by morrison May 7th, 2014 11:58 PM
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SaniOKh

Too old for this stuff

Age 35
Male
Ukraine
Seen 4 Weeks Ago
Posted October 22nd, 2021
591 posts
16.9 Years
I was about fourteen or fifteen when I first played Sapphire on an emulator (by then, my parents had enough of the whole Pokémon thing, and absolutely refused to buy me a GBA).

I remember hating it at first :) .

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Mithel_Celestia

Alluring Illusion

Age 26
Male
Philippines
Seen June 3rd, 2019
Posted June 3rd, 2015
406 posts
10.8 Years
The first time I played it, I was 9 or so. I was Grade Six when I started playing it. I had Sapphire but I lost it, then I got Ruby and managed to go far with it until the whole game has glitched somehow. I can't tell if they were original. The Philippines is prone to pirated goods and GBA games were the most common things to pirate. Anyway, then I have Emerald it it works like the original, but I knew it was pirated cause by the time I finish the Pokemon League, the save data would corrupt, so I never managed to experience Hoenn's Battle Frontier. It's great that I might experience it now with the remakes, hopefully.
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Full Name: Mithel "Myth" Celestia
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Trainer class: Ranger, Psychic, Deceiver*
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*Deceiver (Japanese: 奇術師 Illusionist) is a type of trainer class who specializes in Illusions and deceptive tactics to take advantage of their opponents. They are tricksters and tend to disguise themselves as another trainer class to deceive challenging trainers, but soon break off of it as soon as they are found. They tend to use annoyer and stall tactics such as Embargo and Swagger along with bulky and fast Dark-types like Zoroark and Umbreon to give trainers a hard time during battle.

Evening

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Seen December 1st, 2021
Posted February 5th, 2016
808 posts
9.4 Years
Eight years ago...I was four when the games came out, my Pokemon Ruby cartridge was given to ne as a present a day after the release date. I needed help to progress lel.

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Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
I had only just turned 11 when I played the original Ruby and Sapphire. You should all have heard how huge of a noob I was at the time, especially with team construction.
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Age 25
Female
Floaroma Town, Sinnoh
Seen May 14th, 2022
Posted May 5th, 2022
6,376 posts
12.4 Years
I think I was around 9 or 10 when I first played Pokemon Sapphire on my XBOX emulator and it was the first one I played. I was so happy when I played it and it was that I got into Pokemon in the first place :)
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Age 35
Male
Marysville, Washington State, United States
Seen March 1st, 2018
Posted March 1st, 2018
9,433 posts
9.2 Years
I was 14 years and 11 months old when Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire came out in the United States. Of course I don't exactly remember when I bought Pokemon Sapphire. it may have been in the summer of 2003.
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DraconianWing

Age 23
he/him
Fallarbor Town
Seen July 17th, 2022
Posted November 14th, 2021
959 posts
10.8 Years
I was 6 years old when I started playing. I don't really remember which game I played first though, it was either Ruby or Emerald.
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Hiatus

Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
12,283 posts
10.8 Years
I was around 11 or 12 or so, if I remember correctly. First game was Pokémon Ruby, and was extremely excited when I got a hold of it; spent the whole day playing as soon as I bought it. :] Second was Emerald, which I've completed for approximately five - six time. As for third, it was Sapphire. Not sure why I purchased this one, though... probably due to collection purposes, haha.
Age 33
Male
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9.8 Years
I was 13 when the games came out, I bought Sapphire. It came out right around the time I was getting out of Pokemon so I wasn't as interested in it to be honest.

I played it how I played other Pokemon games as a kid, only used my starter, beat all the gyms but didn't have a team to take on the Elite Four, used my Master Ball on Kyogre. And I'm not all that familiar with Pokemon made after Gen 2 so I can't really go back and finish it. I'm not all that interested in finishing it or starting over actually.

Sydian

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Age 30
they/them
Georgia
Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
33,354 posts
15.2 Years
I was 10! I got Sapphire on release date after saving my money for it. I bought it at KB Toys in the mall and my dad took me. I got Ruby as an early birthday present later that year along with another GBA because I wanted to trade with myself. Talking to other kids? That's a hassle. No thanks.
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Peter Quill

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Male
In deep space
Seen March 11th, 2020
Posted July 23rd, 2019
239 posts
9.7 Years
I was 7 when it came out. I haven't really played it that much since I just borrowed it from my cousin. Although I did play it in an emulator later on. My parents refuse to buy me handhelds because of studies. I do have consoles now, just waiting for Alpha Sapphire ; A;
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Seen July 21st, 2017
Posted June 14th, 2017
1,333 posts
11 Years
I was 5-7 when I started LeafGreen, and 8-9 in Emerald. It was around 2009 when I started Emerald and the Advance Generation was on TV at the same time I played it, so I was unaware that Sinnoh existed even when it came out. I only found about Sinnoh when I was surfing Bulbapedia's page for Deoxys - and there was Turtwig next to it. I used to think the farther the dex number of a Pokemon is, the stronger it is ... and there I was, thinking that Turtwig was stronger than Deoxys. :p

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BakingBluePotatoe

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Age 28
Female
Catatonia
Seen March 28th, 2016
Posted February 12th, 2016
2,279 posts
15.8 Years
2002 is when they came out, yes? I would have been... 7 at the time? But I didn't know Ruby and Sapphire existed until I was 12... oddly enough, I knew about FireRed and LeafGreen when they where new, since I recall seeing an ad for it on TV and asking for the games and my parents refusing...

But yeah, I was 12 the year DP came out to the states, and I got Sapphire then... at first I didn't like it, as THAT WAS NOT THE GAME I WANTED I WANTED BLUE RESCUE TEAM, BAaaaaW. but it grew on me after a few weeks. Sadly, the Hoenn era was short lived for me as I jumped to Pearl about a month after it came out.

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Age 28
Female
Canada
Seen July 7th, 2016
Posted July 4th, 2014
678 posts
9.7 Years
Sapphire was my first game I ever got.

My cousin had it and I would always ask to play it. He was nice enough to let me play his version. I would go to his PC and take out the Pokemon I liked best (all the cute ones like Plusle and Delcatty of course xD), regardless of levels and then I'd go explore the land. I totally would get lost in caves without Flash or ways of escaping (dig/escape rope)

Since I liked his game so much, I asked for Sapphire too and I ended up getting it. I was 7 at the time so I wasn't the best trainer in the world. xD I definitely liked contests better than battling and still do to this very day!


LavenderTownGhost

Returning to Hoenn

Female
Florida
Seen November 9th, 2014
Posted July 15th, 2014
387 posts
9.1 Years
I was in the third grade when I got my Sapphire, so I guess around 10 years old. It was the first Pokemon game that I actually really got into.
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New Eden

Ascension to heaven

Age 29
Female
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Seen September 20th, 2014
Posted September 13th, 2014
406 posts
9.9 Years
I had to have been eight or so. I think around the same time Yu-Gi-Oh! became popular, so we all kinda acted like Pokemon was dead, and I think that kept going until FR/LG came out.

I never really got into R/S like others did (in fact they're not very nostalgic for me,) let alone Gen III. I ended up getting Sapphire.

Pendraflare

Age 32
Male
Pennsylvania
Seen July 30th, 2021
Posted March 29th, 2021
6,263 posts
9.8 Years
I was 11 when I first saw of it and got Ruby for my 12th birthday. It was fun back then, I even remember bits and pieces from my first time. :P
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