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How many years have you been playing Pokémon?

This is currently my 5th year of playing Pokemon, so I started playing in the Emerald/Mystery Dungeon days.
 
I started playing back in 1999, my first game being Gold. I watched the anime way before I started playing the games. I liked the anime mostly because of Jessie and James, and when I saw Pokemon Yellow I figured the games would be mostly about Ash and just follow along the anime storyline so I wasn't interested. Then a friend of mine showed me Silver, and I thought it looked cool, so I started playing. I was around 9 or 10.
 
Man, I've been playing the Pokemon games since the month after Red/Blue's American release, so October 1998...just past 12 years now.

Of course, it hasn't all been Pokemon. I go through it in "phases" and then move onto something else for a while before going back. XD
 
I got Blue when it first came out (unexpectedly), so my start year is 1998. Man, i feel really old.
 
I have been playing pokemon for 2 years now which is nothing compared to you guys.
 
I've been on/off with Pokemon lately. However, if one goes back to the first time I ever played a game, it would be in 2001. I got hooked in 2004, because of Pokemon Sapphire. It was a shame that I wasn't able to play Pokemon Red until much later. It would've been cool if I was a fan from the beginning till the end.
 
I say that I have been playing for about 8 or 9 years now. So I started during either 2003 or 2002, at the age of either 4 or 5. It's kind of hard to remember; I was pretty young. My brother allowed me to start playing his 1st and 2nd gen. Pokemon games, and then I was hooked.
 
I've been playing since the beginning. It's hard to believe it's been twelve years. I plan on playing until they stop making games, even if I'm 90 <3
 
Shortly after Pokemon Blue came out I got it, so that was . . . late '98. I guess that makes it just under 12 and a half years.
 
Been playing Pokemon since it came out when I was in the 5th grade with Red. There has been "huge" gaps between playing each version of course.
 
I have been playing since the first games were released. For me, it was released in 1999.

So I have been playing for 12 years.
I haven't play a franchise for that long and I doubt I will ever play something like this for that long ever again.

But I will jeep playing Pokemon.​
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13 years. That seems like a long time but I've been a Doctor Who fan for 15 years. o__O
 
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