Lunar

Age 24
Male
England
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
Whether you're an old fan from the 90s, or a new fan that's recently started playing because of X and Y, we all share a passion for the Pokemon series. So how long have you guys been playing the games for? And what keeps you playing today?

Personally, I started playing when FireRed was released so about 12 years ago now, it's crazy to think that FR is that old and yet I can play it time and time again without getting bored. I think the main reason I still play Pokemon today is down to the replay-ability of the games, I love exploring the Pokemon world and completing the games each time with a different team sure is fun, not to mention the games today are still amazing and I think Game Freak deserve a lot of credit.

So, how about you guys? :)

Lunar

Age 24
Male
England
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
My first game was Stadium in like 1999 or 2000, so I've been playing a really long time! My first main series game was Crystal, which I played via the Transfer Pak in Stadium 2. Dang, I feel old.
Nice! Crystal was such a good game and Pokemon Stadium gave something new to the fans, do you still play the recent games? :)

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Banned

Male
Seen August 4th, 2017
Posted August 4th, 2017
100 posts
6.9 Years
Give me around the first generation, which i got the Red version while a friend of mine got Blue. I played the main series games for quiet a while, keeping up with the releases, with the 4th and 5th gen being my favorite gens since thats when i started to battle competitively or at least get the hang of it. So call me an old timer with the Pokemon games, though my competitive battling skills have far fallen off so anyone could easily beat the sh*t out of me if i were to be invited even just for fun.
Female
Seen January 1st, 2017
Posted August 20th, 2016
20 posts
6.9 Years
My first Pokemon game was LeafGreen, I really enjoyed it. I can explain why I still playing these games, It's just that I love capturing and training, and the pokemons are so cute, it gives me a good sensation while playing, the music, the graphics, its atmosphere... I'm sure I will still playing pokemon for a long time.

Lunar

Age 24
Male
England
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
My first Pokemon game was LeafGreen, I really enjoyed it. I can explain why I still playing these games, It's just that I love capturing and training, and the pokemons are so cute, it gives me a good sensation while playing, the music, the graphics, its atmosphere... I'm sure I will still playing pokemon for a long time.
I feel exactly the same :)

There's just a special feeling about playing a Pokemon game that can't be replicated by anything else.

Nah

Age 30
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Seen 5 Hours Ago
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15,645 posts
9.5 Years
I started with Red/Blue/Yellow around like 1998 or so (it wasn't the first year it was released in NA but it was around there somewhere) so it's like.....17-18 years now?
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Age 26
Male
Adelaide, Australia
Seen March 21st, 2023
Posted March 31st, 2021
368 posts
7 Years
I started with Pokemon Yellow and quickly obtained Pokemon Crystal aswell, I think I would've been around 6-7 at the time? 2001/02? I'm not 100% sure to be honest. But since then, I've never missed a generation, and I don't think I ever will. Just now I'm getting my old game boy advanced out so I can run through FireRed and LeafGreen again

ddrox13

Anti-Nonsense

Northeast US
Seen October 21st, 2021
Posted August 7th, 2021
1,643 posts
7.5 Years
I'm a Sinnoh kid, being in my mid-teens now. Diamond was my first game, LeafGreen my second (fabulous AI and all), Platinum and HeartGold (the best game in the series) not too far behind. I am still here for many reasons. I enjoy the competitive aspect of the game now, but for a long time it was the TCG that kept me in it.
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I started out playing Pokémon games once I got Yellow for Christmas in 1999. I was kind of reluctant (you know how I am about gifts) at first, but once I loaded the Game Pak into my Game Boy Color, I was hooked instantly. However, I kind of lost interest in the games, not having gotten a Game Boy Advance for Generation III, and, after trading in my Generation I and II games in early 2006, only got back into Pokémon gaming on an actual Nintendo handheld when I got my 2DS and Alpha Sapphire (both used) back in January 2015. Even at that, though, I haven't played AS, Y, or even the Virtual Console re-releases of R/B/Y (which of course I had to get because I wanted to relive the memories of Generation I) much in the past few months, as I've had other things to do. Maybe in the fall, when the weather gets cold and I'm unable to take walks as much, I'll be playing more, and am hoping to get Sun or Moon after it comes out.

blue

gucci

Male
United Kingdom
Seen September 26th, 2021
Posted August 7th, 2019
21,056 posts
15.4 Years
I've played since Blue released back in 1999 and been a fan ever since. That would make it around 17 years now and I still feel the same about the series as I did back then. (:
Age 32
Female
A town with only two houses and a lab :P
Seen April 15th, 2018
Posted April 15th, 2018
768 posts
7.1 Years
I started with Stadium and Gold in fifth grade... so around 2000/2001. I did watch a few episodes of the anime before that though. I remember being super disappointed when Ruby and Sapphire had almost nothing to do after the Elite Four.

I temporarily stopped playing Pokemon between 2006-2010 because I thought I was "too old" to still be playing it, and I'd quit watching the anime regularly after they replaced Misty with May and Max. I didn't play Diamond until last year. I started playing again during college when HG/SS was released. Unfortunately, I've since lost my copy of HG, and it's too expensive to replace it.
Age 33
Male
Seen 3 Weeks Ago
Posted 3 Weeks Ago
1,567 posts
9.8 Years
I was interested in Pokemon when it first came out ie I bought card packs, played some of Yellow and Crystal, watched the anime, bought plush and tomy figures, saw the movies. But I was never really into Pokemon or the games until around 2012 when I went back and finished my original playthroughs of both Yellow and Crystal.

The main thing that got me interested in Pokemon again was the full arts in the sets. I discovered them on Youtube in 2013. I stopped buying the cards about 10 years earlier, as well as stopped buying the games and watching the anime/movies. For a few reasons, i didn't like the e-series design, hated the new voice actors, didn't want to buy a ds. After that I bought a 3DS for the first time and Black 2 and Y. I now finished Y in record time, only 3 years. As opposed to Yellow which took 13.

Lunar

Age 24
Male
England
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
After that I bought a 3DS for the first time and Black 2 and Y. I now finished Y in record time, only 3 years. As opposed to Yellow which took 13.
Dang 13 years to complete Yellow, some people I know aren't even that old ;)

Are you going to be buying Sun and Moon? :)
Male
the town on no map
Seen September 16th, 2022
Posted July 12th, 2022
3,340 posts
14.3 Years
Red/Blue came out late '98, and that's pretty much how long I've been playing. It's coming up on 18 years already, which is hard to believe. I remember the craze during my elementary/middle school days. (good times) My love for the franchise has never really dwindled in all the time either.
Age 32
Male
Seen August 21st, 2021
Posted August 19th, 2021
2,334 posts
15 Years
Pokemon Yellow was the first one I owned and played. Although not long after that my cousin gave me his copy of Pokemon Blue. (and I eventually had Red too but I can't remember how I got it)

Honestly I don't really remember much about what happened when I was playing these games. Obviously I loved them enough to keep playing though.
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Qibli

Motorcycle Dragon

Non-binary
Seen 3 Days Ago
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1,794 posts
9.8 Years
Started when I was just 9 or 10 when I got my first GB and gold, didn't finish it in time
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Rocket-Brendon

The Pokemon Boy!!

Age 38
Male
Auburn,WA
Seen September 13th, 2016
Posted September 6th, 2016
26 posts
11.2 Years
I was so excited when I got Pokémon red back in 1998 for Christmas and my sister got blue. I was 13 at the time and everyone at my Junior High were bragging that they got the games for Christmas. I would play secretly during lunch and on the bus on the way home. I love how no game really compares to Pokémon. Many games have a common theme, but Pokémon is original and unique. I am really into Pokémon Go now and how it makes me more active and getting outdoors. I have lost 15 pounds so far and have walked over 50 miles. It is going to be amazing telling everyone how I lost so much weight playing Pokémon.

Rai

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Age 31
Female
Sinnoh
Seen January 4th, 2017
Posted January 4th, 2017
4,521 posts
18.1 Years
I have been playing since December 1999, when I got Red and Blue for Christmas (best Christmas ever!)

I believe I was seven at the time, so it has been 17 years O.O Wow, I feel so old...


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Age 24
She/Her
Hyperspace
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted July 7th, 2022
8,699 posts
13 Years
Pretty sure I started with LeafGreen in.... 2004 or 2005? Somewhere around there I got the game for my birthday. Not quite as long as a lot of people here who've been playing since the originals, but is still feels like quite a while.
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