For Christmas when I was either six or seven years old, I got a GameBoy Color and a copy of Pokemon Gold and Silver. I never played videogames before, unless you count PacMan in an arcade...
Anyway, I opened up Gold first, and started playing. I got through Oak's monologue alright, but then... I couldn't figure out how to leave my house!!! Once I got out, I couldn't figure out how to do the next step. After a while, I finally got into the Lab. But then I couldn't figure out how to get my Pokemon!!! It took about... maybe more than an hour to figure out everything.
My sense of time for events that long ago is kinda hazy because it was more than half my life ago. I'm sixteen now. I feel kinda dumb for not noticing the welcome mats in the buildings, and not pressing the A button at the Pokeball... And it took me a while to figure out how to scroll through text, too. (Isn't that little down arrow a bit misleading? LOL)