2nd Gen Anyone else start out with GSC?

My first game ever was Gold. I was given that and a Game Boy at the same time. I only got the Kanto games later on. I don't remember how I got Gold or what happened back in those days... but one thing I remember is the feeling of exploring the tower and finding Ho-Oh, as I got my hair plaited. One of the best moments ever. SO COOL though legit one of the best areas in Pokemon ever. I even have a photo of it lmao. I was only like 9. :')
 
I also started out with Gold version. I was given a secondhand GBA (the awesome clear purple one) and a Gold version cartridge and got immediately hooked. I still have a very clear memory of beating the elite four for the first time.

Right now I'm running back through Silver version on a beat-up old SP and it's reminding me how great Gen. 2 was!
 
I didn't actually start playing the games until I'd leanred about ROMs and began getting them on emulator. The first pokemon game I played after that was Yellow, but the first one I played seriously was Pokemon Crystal. I freaking loved that game.
 
Even though I had Yellow before Gold, Gold is indeed where I started my addiction. Put so much time into that game.
 
I had a copy of Pokémon Crystal as well as Pokémon Blue, I think Crystal was the first game that I played, my most vivid memory is having a really high leveled Meganium and while exploring I walked down route 46 back to New Bark town. I'll never forget having to restart the game as I didn't have Fly and I didn't defeat Clair so I would of had to trek all the way back to get my last gym badge. So instead I restarted the game and picked Cyndaquil.
 
My first experience with the games was a Blue rom, on a floppy disk (I'm not even kidding!). I didn't really play it though, soon enough I owned a proper Blue game and that's where I really started playing.

However when Gold and Silver game out, my parents bought Gold for me and I guess I can say that's where the franchise started to really become a big part of my life. I also got Silver later on, but I didn't play it as much, and I somehow lost it later on.

Fun story about how I got Crystal: while I was out skating with my sister, I came across a bike with a GBC on the back, with the Crystal game in it. There was no one to be seen so I decided to take it. I still find myself wondering how I could have done that because I am not like that at all, especially as a kid I wasn't (I was 10 at or so the time). Shows how important the franchise is to me I guess, haha.

Anyhow, Gold has to be my favourite game of all time. So whereas I started playing during gen 1, it is gen 2 that got me hooked.
 
Crystal was my very first video game! I had the opportunity to get a gen 1 game later, but my parents didn't let me. But I got a copy of Red in Japanese when I was in college decades later, though, and after playing through it it's safe to say I'm not bummed about not having played gen 1 when I was younger. There was just so much to the gen 2 games that I'm glad I got to experience them as a child, and to have Crystal as my first foray into gaming, which as a whole has shaped me majorly into the person I am today.
 
Benadryl said:
I'm wondering if anyone else started their affair with the Pokemon franchise with GSC, perhaps later purchasing RBY like I did. Personally, I started with GSC, falling in love with Johto and later with Kanto. When I finished all three of GSC, I wanted to play more and bought RBY. The change in game mechanics were, however, very strange for me. Therefore, while RBY (and to an extent RSE) evokes a great deal of nostalgia in me, GSC will always hold the highest distinction for me.

Incidentally, that makes RSE the first Pokemon games for which I awaited the release, which gives all the early gens some significance for me.

What gen did you start with, if it wasn't Gen 2?
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I could pretty much just copy and paste what you said here.

I watched the show, bought the cards and had books and stuff of the original 151 pokemon but I never played a game until Silver. When Cyndaquil evolved at level 14, I thought all Pokemon evolved at 14 so when Sentret didn't evolve, I figured it was a basic Pokemon.

I had some coloring books that had Hoot-Hoot, Snubbul, Maril, Wooper, Ledyba and a few others and was very exited to see what other kinds of Pokemon they would introduce but when the movie came out and they showed Donphan... wow! I don't even think they said it's name. It was so mysterious and cool. I'll always love 2nd Gen, probably the most.
 
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