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When and where did your journey start?

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Well... maybe the title said it all...

But I'm just curious, how old are you when you start to play the very first Pokemon game you ever played and what version is it?

Me, I start when I was 9 years old and the very first Pokemon game I played was the Ruby version... Through, that GBA and the copy of the game isn't even mine... It belongs to our neighbors... :sweatlol:

So whats yours?
 
Pokémon Gold. :) I got it for Christmas in 2000 and my first Pokémon was a Chikorita.
 
When I was 10 and sneakily bought Diamond, 2 days after release, from a GAME store because I wasn't allowed anything Pokemon related.
#thuglyfe
 
Actually, I'm not sure I remember exactly how it happened. I remember going camping in what must have been the summer of 1999 and meeting this kid that was all into the Pokemon craze. He was telling me how I really needed to try it. I remember my grandparents buying me the game (Pokemon Red) before school started.

I didn't know that I would love it, as I had never really enjoyed any games on the Gameboy before that point. But Pokemon came around and gave handheld gaming a reason to exist for me.
 
I was 7, and was playing my brother's Blue Version.

BTW, Happy Birthday Pokemon!
 
I was six when I first started playing, and my first game was Yellow. I watched the anime and watched my brother play Blue for about a year before I started.
 
my first game was the orginal pokemon red, i must have been around 7 and i picked it up at a car boot sale, however i'm pretty sure i'd already been into pokemon through the anime and those little poke ball things which had the little square screen inside, it was for hoenn does anybody remember these? they were around about 2005/6ish
 
I was about 9-years-old, and my first game was either Red or Blue. If my memory is accurate, it was Red Version. I do remember that my dad bought either/or at the local Toys-R-Us. Back then, you had to grab a paper slip with a number on it. You would bring it over to this little booth, and whoever was in that booth would give you the game in exchanged for the slip (the number corresponded to the game you wanted to buy). Then, you'd just bring the game to the checkout counter.
 
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I think I was 9 when I was first introduced to Pokemon Red. My cousin showed me the game and the next thing I knew it my Blastoise was at level 88
 
I believe I had just finished 5th grade when I got my first Pokemon game, meaning I was probably about 10 or 11 and my first game was Pearl which had just come out a few months earlier.
 
Mine was Pokemon Blue when I was 8. My brother would've wanted Pokemon Red and I guess I got Blue to keep us both quiet on long car journeys. It was super effective!

I'm not a gamer so I stopped once they stopped making the games for the GB Colour. Most of my memories of Blue are hating the caves with a passion and always having to ask my brother to get me through Victory Road. That damn cave was my nemesis. I do miss those days though. I've only played through White, White 2, Y & AS once because I'm attached to my save files. I used to start a new game on Blue every time we went on holiday!
 
I got Pokemon Gold for my birthday, but the cartridge battery was already dry when I received it, and thus I never bothered playing it after I realised the game didn't save. I didn't play another Pokemon game again until Pokemon Colosseum, which immediately brought me into Pokemon. I loved it enough that I played Emerald and LeafGreen, and since then I have attained every main series Pokemon game that has released since.
 
My first game was Crystal, and I bought it when I was about 12 years old in 2002. After that, I had bought Sapphire, Emerald, Gale of Darkness, and LeafGreen(not in that order though). After that, I fell out of it for a while until Platinum came out. I can't remember exactly how or why I got back into it, though.

Since then, I'm still truckin'. :D
 
I think I was about 10 or so. I bought a Gameboy Color which came with Pokémon Yellow. I didn't really like pkmn yet at the time (ironically it took me a while and I didn't jump the craze the moment the show started airing here like everyone else did, now it's literally my life) so I neglected the game but eventually played through it.
Gold and Silver were probably the first games I seriously played as a true Pokémon fan. And Crystal was the first and only game I truly worked hard on (lots of playtime, beat the league and Red over 100 or 200 times, nearly complete dex, 6 level 100 pkmn, shiny Cleffa from the high-shiny-rate egg, random shiny Geodude) which was all for nothing when it eventually all got deleted.

Since then I kept playing at least one of the two paired versions and all third versions except for Platinum, which I do hope to fix eventually. I mostly abandoned each game after finishing the plot though. Gen 4 is my least played one (quickly left Diamond for HG which was also abandoned rather quickly for Black without me even bothering to beat Red) while X is surprisingly my best game so far, with most play time (probably mostly due to online trading/battling and breeding for shiny Piplup), a complete dex, the highest rank at the Battle Chateau, a few level 100 pkmn, all mega stones including the Y exclusives, bred two shinies and caught two others by fishing, beat the normal multi battles at the Battle Maison with Shauna (couldn't do the Super Multi though...)
 
About 7, and rushing to play as much of my brother's Gold cartridge as possible without saving over his file. I always grinded to get Feraligatr, and then reset. Not sure why...
 
Oh god everyone was so young when they started, while I got my first Pokémon game at sixteen D:

I had a part-time job and so for the first time had enough money to buy a handheld system which was a DS light, together with Pokémon Diamond. My parents never had the money to buy me a gameboy, so I simply never had the chance to play the games sooner, even though I really really wanted to.
 
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