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Why do you like Pokemon?

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What it says in the title, people -- what first attracted you to the pokemon world.
For me, it's how the human characters are able to use thier technolgy not to dominate nature, but to better connect with it and work with it. Befriending wild animals, cities in the trees, vast areas of wildness with only the occasional instance of civilisation... a fantasy world where man isn't needlessly destroying everything.
 
I first heard about Pokémon in a now long-defunct German video game magazine called Total! back in 1997. They said Pokémon is a huge hit in Japan and everyone is going crazy about it. So I kept my eyes open for it and since I enjoy a good video game I got Pokémon Yellow in November 1999 when it was released in Austria. Also started watching the anime, it was very simple but still enjoyable. Together with a friend I played and trained Pokémon for the next two years till we got pretty tired of it and stopped playing more or less. I still got every Pokémon since then as pretty much all of them are quality titles but except for a short comeback last year me and my friend never really did any Pokémon battling anymore.

To make things short though, the fact that it is a popular and good video game is what attracted me to Pokémon.
 
because it was my first game for a handheld/console (pokemon sapphire)
 
because I was around when it was a fad in the USA (late 1990's ish) where if you were 8 - 12 you had to like it to be cool.

I guess I never really grew out of it, but it's something that I keep hidden from everyone else IRL. I see it more of a guilty pleasure now.
 
because i could play it anywhere i want when i was 8 years old ish, and i could make my own team of rag tag pokemon looking for a fight
 
when i was little, all i did when i wasn't outside hunting for bugs was sit on the couch and watch movies. i had run out of things to watch, so my "mother" went to the store and brought home an episode of pokemon.

it was the 26th episode, the one where erika's gym catches on fire and ash has to rescue gloom despite its stink. i really liked it, so she went to go buy me more episodes.

a little while later i decided to play the video games. i got gold version first, then silver sometime afterward. been hooked ever since.
 
I too was a child in the lat 90's, so thats how I started into it. I'm not really sure why I'm still a fan, I guess I'm just dedicated?
 
At first it was just a game I really liked (and I've liked it since the first few days it came over here on the UK), but now It's like every other game too me, I use it as a way of escaping my semi-shitty everyday life.

Scratch that. Pokémon is probably the only game I don't play for an escape. I play and like Pokémon because it's fun, and the designs of some of the Pokémon are awesome. I kinda dislike the fact all the storylines are like "happy happy good guy" and you don't have a choice to be bad, but hey? Being an outlaw in Coliseum was good enough I guess.

How I got into it was kinda odd. I was always a curious child, and one day when I got home from Mac Donald's with my Mum, I caught the last five minutes of one of the Pokémon episodes. I watched a full episode the next day and thought it was great.
On my birthday I got my second console, the Gameboy Colour, and Pokémon Yellow and Blue, and a few days later Pokémon Red, and thus started my love for Pokémon.

I always forgot that Pokémon wasn't the game I started out on, the games I started out on were old Spyro 1 and Crash 1 and 2.
 
I've always been fascinated by fantastic creatures with superpowers, so when Pokemon came to the USA, I was naturally piqued.

My main reasons for liking it now are because the games are well made, and that the world still has so many unanswered questions for the writer in me to explore through fanfiction.
 
When I first got Yellow and Red, my mother had bought them for me on my birthday, I think my fifth or sixth birthday.

Now that I'm older, Pokèmon is so important to me because it holds the spirit of my childhood tightly inside, which I have the keys to, so I'll always have some link to sort of become a child again, even as I grow older and move on into adult life. Pokèmon helps me battle against everyone around me who says to grow up and be more mature, at the expense of this important link.
 
Well, first of all, they're cute superpowered monsters. I enjoy cute superpowered monsters. Also, the games are fun.

But mostly, I think it's because of the emphasis on Pokemon being your friends. They're like super-advanced pets that you work together with to reach a cool goal and become very close to, and I really liked that theme. I've always thought of my game Pokemon as my partners and friends, even in Red and Blue when you couldn't even tell how they feel about you. I have a feeling it's so important to me because I've never had a pet, despite wanting one since I was small. Pokemon are like the pets I've never had.
 
I have no idea, besides I played Red Version when I was 3.
Um, have I posted in this thread before?:eh:
 
I like it because it's a fun guilty pleasure for me. The games are addicting, and the show is mesmerizing. It makes you wish you were there too, living the same life and going on the same adventures as Ash and his friends (that's how I think about it, anyway :3).
 
Insana Dana said:
I like it because it's a fun guilty pleasure for me. The games are addicting, and the show is mesmerizing. It makes you wish you were there too, living the same life and going on the same adventures as Ash and his friends (that's how I think about it, anyway :3).
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I heartily agree.
 
When I first remembered Pokemon was around my friend let me borrow her Emerald. As bad as I was on it, it was fun and addicting. Then I started watching the anime when Hoenn started. The pokemon reminded me of real animals and creatures and had action and comedy too.
 
Whoah!!! You'd have to take me back to March 1996!!

I was 9 years old. Those days I was a Dragon Ball fanboy (well, I still am, but those were my heavy hard-core days) and I bought a videogame magazine with Gohan and Goku on the cover. That was Club Nintendo, Mexico's official Ninty magazine (Gamela, Nintendo's then distributor in Mexico and Latin America, was in talks with Bandai for bringing DBZ Super Butouden 2 to LA without depending on NoA). I had been buying it for a year or so, but the Dragon Ball cover made me go nuts and that mag was fetish or me, so I kinda memorized everything there.

It had a report on Nintendo's Shoshinkai Show '95, when Pocket Monsters Midori and Pocket Monsters Aka were first shown. Back then, Pocket Monsters was a low budget game not even Nintendo cared about, so the article in the mag was like three lines and two pictures. But it said enough to hook me: two versions with compatibility for trading characters and battling them. That was enough for me to seeing it as a revolutioanry game. The only screenshot shown featured a wild Pidgeotto as the foe, and Red facing it (it must have been "Lass sent Pidgeotto", since there were no wild Pidgeotto's in RGB).

But the game never came to America and I forget about it. Until March 1998, when the scenario repeated: Club Nintendo had covereage for Shoshinkai '97. It was the first time Ocarina of Time was shown and I went crazy for the mag because of that. Half the magazine was about Zelda and half the magazine was about Pokémon, since Shoshinkai '97 was the first unveiling of the first Pokémon spin-offs: Hey you, Pikachu!, the first Pokémon Stadium, the GB Camera (with its Pokémon stamps) and Pocket Monsters 2: Gold and Silver were first shown there. And that was also when Ninty announced they'd finally export Pokémon Red and Green to the world. So much Pokémon for a single issue! Nothing two do with what I read two years before. So I thought "if this game is causing such a phenomenon, there must be a reason"; I remembered that 1996 issue and that's when my obsession started, when I went aware it was the game I had curiosity in 1996. Plus, Pikachu looked cute, and Gold and Silver's artworks were just awesome (that's why they are my favorite characters -I "met" them even before Red).

Since the announcement of an international release was confirmed, I couldn't wait for the game's release. That same month, I made my admission exam for high school and the reading comprehension section featured a news report on Porygon's episode incident. LOL, even in my school tests Pokémon was present, and now I was even more curious after knowing it had its own anime (those days I was very deep into anime, specially Evangelion).

Summer of 1998 was maybe the happiest days of my life, and it coincided with my wainting for Pokémon's arrival to America. That's why I'm so fond of it.

When I finally got my Red version (I wanted Blue, but there were no copeis in the store), the game didn't dissapointed me, and Pokémon was all I played for the next three years (save for Ocarina of Time a
nd a few other titles). My teen years were dominated by Pokémon, then I quit videogames at all at the age of 16.

But I came back in the spring of 2007. I had a near death experience and spent two weeks at the hospital. The only thing I could do in my bed was reading and playing Game Boy. My parents bought me a DS and FireRed version so I could have some fun. I got released from the hospital two weeks before Diamond and Pearl came out. That was the path to follow. I came back into videogames (not only Pokémon) because of that, and here I am.

Too long? Maybe, but that's my Pokémon story. If anyone did read it, thanks.
 
@ Veggietable:

Wow, I feel outclassed with that story. My story is that I was a kid during the craze, so I wanted it, so I got it. Pokemon Yellow, then Crystal. Yeah. Normal, boring story.
 
Well, the concept intrigued me at first. I think I really like it because of the pokemon themselves. I used to be a TCG and video game junkie and was into Yu-Gi-Oh. But see, you've got the often creepy YGO cards compared to some of the cool pokemon. Tied with the fact my favorite video game at the time was Silver, I just started to get roped back into Pokemon and just kinda stayed. I don't really have much of a reason outside of... I like it.
 
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