What was your first Pokemon experience? Page 3

Started by Alfieri June 21st, 2014 3:00 PM
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I first discovered a Pokemon comic of Ash's Pikachu vs Brock's Onix when Pokemon first came out in the US. I wasn't even seven years old at the time. How I remember this... I have no idea.
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I was 4-5 when I first saw the anime. Then 2-3 years later I saw some kids playing a Pokemon Game on a Game Boy and I wanted one too. Then, after countless hours of begging, my parents got me a GBA with Sapphire! I still remember when they came home with my GBA. I was so excited!
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the first time I ever encountered pokemon was when I friend of mine had come over and was playing fire red. he asked me to grind his lv50 charizard in the grass next to celadon because he was bored of doing so. (I don't blame him, it wasn't the smartest place to grind now that I look back on it) of course I refused because I had no idea what he was doing. a couple weeks later I got hooked on what was my sisters red rescue game, and I haven't backed away since.

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I remember being 8 years old going on 9 and I remember getting hooked into the show after the very first episode. Not too long after that my parents got me a gameboy with pokemon blue version. I can't remember exactly when I got pokemon blue version though. It was definitely between 1998 and 1999. I remember getting red version for christmas though.

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I think my first experience with Pokemon was that episode when Charmander joined Ash.

Or maybe I just can't recall anything else beyond my 5th year on Earth. Eh, whatever. :/
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The TCG. Every kid at my school had and traded the cards, even though nobody knew how to play the game xD Those days... Somebody ripped me off by trading my shiny Gyarados for a bunch of trash cards like energy and jigglypuff and oddish xD
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I watched the anime when it first started on TV where I grew up, I still remember watching the first episode. Then I knew I had to get the game when it was released a couple months later. I first had Yellow on my clear GameBoy, then I got Red with a GBC and used to play at my mates house and we would trade and battle for hours every day.

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From one day to another, people at school started trading Pokemon stickers. That was even before the trading cards made their appearance. The first sticker I got was Omanyte and I traded it for an Ekans. I even got myself a sticker album (which I never finished).
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A kid at school gave me one of his cards because he was keen to battle someone and I remember we didn't even play the game properly pretty much just scissors paper rock for first go and bam any move without energies put down.

Misinformed, so misinformed....
In a quest to capture the entire first series of the trading card game then going for the 1st edition rocket series :).

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8.8 Years
I watched the occasional episode of the show on the TV before buying my first Pokemon game, Diamond, for Christmas the year it came out! :3
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8.8 Years
The story of my First Pokemon.... such a memory it was.
I was given the game Pokemon Yellow by a friend. I've only
seen a couple of episodes of the anime, and my friend told
be that it would be best to play it before watching the series.

Well, at first I thought it was kinda dumb, and I agreed to play it.


The Beginning of my Adventure:


Guess who I got. Pikachu of course. Cutest thing I'd ever seen. I got
stuck on the first gym, and keep tying to beat it just by sheer tactics.
I got stomped, flattened, and tossed aside(Anyone know this reference?).
I raged quit the game. He said "Relax, it happens." He showed me that I
should catch other Pokemon, even if I don't want to have the ugly bird.
So I did what he said, caught a full squad, and wiped out the first gym.
From there, I invested hours and hours into the game, I managed to beat
the game in about 2 weeks time.

So for that reason, Pikachu will always be on my favorite list. Also, considering
it is the freaking main mascot of the series, I thought later on how fitting it was.
It did ruin a bit of the first series for me, but I still enjoyed Pokemon Indigo League.
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