What was your first Pokemon experience?

Alfieri

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    For me, it had to be the anime that got me into the Pokemon series. Back then, the only system I had was my older brother's SNES. I didn't get my first console until the Gamcube and then the GBA afterwards.

    So as a kid, I used to watch a ton of television and one day on Cartoon Network, I began watching the 1st episode of Pokemon and fell in love. I was aware that there were games for the series because of commercials but I never liked the Game Boy.

    So basically, I first liked Pokemon thanks to the anime back when it first aired in the U.S. and then I liked the trading cards and then finally my cousin showed me Ruby for the GBA and I ended up with my own GBA and a copy of Sapphire.

    So what about you guys? What got you into Pokemon to begin with? the games, the anime, the TCG?
     
    Pokemon sapphire. When I was 2 or 3 years old. I had no idea how to play it, but I looked at my brother playing it, It looked so cool seeing those monsters fight. I still remember that xD
     
    I'm about 99% sure that my first contact with the Pokemon series was through the anime, way back when it first started airing. The only thing that ever made me doubt this is the fact that I remember The Battle of St. Anne being the first episode that I ever watched, which was the first one ever shown in North America as a sneak peek. Either I heard about the episode being aired through something else and tuned in to watch it, or I was fortunate enough to catch the wave really early.

    Not long after that I jumped into the TCG (along with everyone else at my school), though I didn't get into the games until a few years down the road.
     
    I think Anime was first for me as well. I got to play the game itself more then 5 years later. :D
     
    I'm glad I'm not the only one who began with the anime.
    All of my friends tell me they started with Red & Blue or Gold & Silver, and I was the black sheep who started with the Anime when I was like 4-5 years old and then Sapphire when I was 7-8 years old.
     
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    I have no idea. I feel like I played Red version and was watching the anime at the same time. I'm pretty sure I got the cards after all that.
     
    My first Pokemon experience was when I was around five years old and at my childhood friend Bradley's house. His parents recently bought him a new coloring book for his birthday, and it was one of the first Pokemon products with Pikachu, Caterpie, Meowth, and others from Kanto. I fell in love with it, forced my own parents to buy me the same one, and that's where it all began. :]
     
    Pepperton said:
    My first Pokemon experience was when I was around five years old and at my childhood friend Bradley's house. His parents recently bought him a new coloring book for his birthday, and it was one of the first Pokemon products with Pikachu, Caterpie, Meowth, and others from Kanto. I fell in love with it, forced my own parents to buy me the same one, and that's where it all began. :]
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    Oh man, how could I forget the merchandise! I used to own a pair of sneakers that had the Kanto starters and Pikachu on it. Also a bookbag and binder. xD
    Man, I loved being a Pokemon kid!
     
    Watching the anime before school at my dads. Used to get up and had a routine of : Scooby Doo, Pokemon, then WWF Heat all before school. Man its one of the reasons I loved going to my dads.
     
    I saw the anime when it came out and was hooked. I used to collect the cards and other merchandise until I found out about the games through my cousin. I ended up getting Gold as my first game and the rest is history.
     
    I think I was flicking through channels as a little kid and stumbled upon the Pokemon anime. Not sure if it was before or after school though, haha. I found it good and continued to watch the anime, all through to the end of the Advance Generation arcs. After that, I think I found a random Pokemon TCG card while at school, over on the wooden seats. I think it was a Pikachu! I put it in my pocket, still having the "finders keepers" mentality, and took it with me. I lost it soon after. ;-;
     
    Nonon said:
    I think I was flicking through channels as a little kid and stumbled upon the Pokemon anime. Not sure if it was before or after school though, haha. I found it good and continued to watch the anime, all through to the end of the Advance Generation arcs. After that, I think I found a random Pokemon TCG card while at school, over on the wooden seats. I think it was a Pikachu! I put it in my pocket, still having the "finders keepers" mentality, and took it with me. I lost it soon after. ;-;
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    Lmao nice. I remember watching the anime at night, maybe around 8 or 9 PM in New York time.
    And what was your first Pokemon video game?
     
    22GreenAlfs said:
    Lmao nice. I remember watching the anime at night, maybe around 8 or 9 PM in New York time.
    And what was your first Pokemon video game?
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    I actually started playing the games a long time after my first moment of exposure to the Pokemon franchise...maybe around 5-6 years after? When I was in 6th grade, probably. I watched the anime when I was around 4-5? I don't remember too well. D:
    Anyway, my first game that I actually owned was actually Pokemon Diamond, with the first game I ever played being my friend's copy of Pokemon Ruby. I'm not sure which counts as my first, actually...
     
    Nonon said:
    I actually started playing the games a long time after my first moment of exposure to the Pokemon franchise...maybe around 5-6 years after? When I was in 6th grade, probably. I watched the anime when I was around 4-5? I don't remember too well. D:
    Anyway, my first game that I actually owned was actually Pokemon Diamond, with the first game I ever played being my friend's copy of Pokemon Ruby. I'm not sure which counts as my first, actually...
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    Yeah I see what you mean. The first Pokemon game I saw footage of was either Red & Blue or Stadium, but the first game I had my hands on was my cousin's Ruby game. But I didn't own my own copy until Sapphire shortly after lol.
     
    Pretty certain I started watching the Pokemon anime (before I knew it was anime) first. It was 1999 and I was five going on six. I recall seeing at least the episode where Ash caught Bulbasaur before I got Pokemon Yellow (my first Pokemon game) for Christmas.
     
    An old friend of mine back in England was into Pokemon; specifically the TCG. He would always show off his card collection to me, but I didn't really care. Either way, while I didn't like Pokemon back then, it was my first contact with it.

    My first interest with Pokemon was a few years later, when I just started learning how to use Emulators and decided to test Visual Boy Advance out with a few random ROMs I picked up off the net. One of these was Pokemon Yellow. Even though I sucked so bad at it, I found myself loving it the more and more I played, and I guess that's where it started.

    Fun fact: I stopped playing Pokemon Yellow after getting to Lavender Town. It freaked me the hell out so I just got rid of the ROM, and I vaguely remember a brief period in which I suffered from some sort of anxiety for a month or two afterwards. Really freaky memory. Switched to Pokemon Sapphire after that, and just ended up loving that one even more. By that point I had gotten a little better at Pokemon so I was at least able to beat the game.
     
    Oh man, Sapphire is definitely a great game to start with. Gen 1 and 2 are very outdated when it comes to a real Pokemon gameplay experience. xD
     
    I think my first experience was either the anime or Pokémon Stadium... actually no it must have been the anime cause then my interest for Stadium would have stemmed from that :) And then from there in conjunction with Pokémon Stadium I started to take an interest in the TCG and it all kinda blossomed from there haha :)
     
    If I remember correctly, it was anime that had first gotten me into Pokémon. I might not watch it as often as I used to nowadays, but still appreciate it for introducing me to such a series; it's simply amazing. What's kept me hooked to Pokémon, though, would be games; if it weren't for those, I wouldn't have been such a follower right now.
     
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