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i got attached to pokemon when my 12 year old friend at that time gave my first card, a pikachu. that was in like 96 or 97

i was introduced when i was in the first grade,all the second graders collected the cards,and my aunt had a game for the old game boy, me and my cousin had to share it,and that is how it started for me

My first experience with Pokemon was the Christmas of 98 when I was four and I found a red Game Boy Color in my stocking and I was like "WTF IS THIS? O: ". I also found Pokemon Yellow and Red and played them like crazy, thanks to dad. Apparently, Dad had already beaten Yellow for me so I could see what it was all about and played Red on my own, but stupid little four-year-old me erased his progress on Yellow to start my own adventure with Pikachu! whee I love all of the "retro" games, they're fabulous. Dad sucked me into Pokemon. XD

My grandma noted that I liked Pokemon and bought me pretty much all of the VHS tapes for the early anime and I watched 'em. x3 I like the Sabrina episodes where she's like a kid and an adult at the same time! @ 3 @ FTW!

Hmm. I was into it on and off the first years it came out. I had Yellow because my mom got them for me for Christmas, but I didn't play them a lot. I was young and frustrated because Brock kept whupping my Pikachu. It took me forever, but I was a little idiot who raised my Pikachu to level 25 solely by battling wild pokemon, JUST so I could take on Brock with it.

(For some reason I didn't bother trying to use other pokemon... I put them all in my box.)

And I also saw the first airing of Pokemon in the US, and I remember as people have said earlier that they played th SS Anne episodes before the actual first episode. I was so confused, but I said "whatever" and kept watching. But I always got home from Daycare late and I missed it when it changed showing times, and I stopped watching it for a while.

I only REALLY got into it and REALLY understood it when my mother's coworker's nephew came over and we played while the grownups chatted. We didn't talk much at first because we were both shy and he was absorbed in his video game. Then I kept passing behind him until I recognized he was playing Pokemon. And I said, "I've never seen that area in the game! Where's that! --OH MY GOSH, WHAT'S THE POKEMON, IT'S NOT IN MY HANDBOOK!"

It turns out he was playing Gold, a totally new part of the Pokemon series. I told Vincent all about my experiences with pokemon, and he said I was an idiot for using my Pikachu against Brock, and he explained all about how some types are good against others and all the elements and things like that. And he said, "Here, I'll show you Gold."

He made a new file (without saving over his old one, of course) and we played together (it was hard). When we left Elm's lab and saw that red-haired guy standing there, I wanted to talk to him, and Vincent laughed. I didn't get it right then, but then we got pushed by the guy.

As everyone who played it since the first games knows, that was some MAJORLY AWESOME ANIMATION right there. Vincent and I laughed ourselves silly, we thought it was so cool, and we just kept on talking to the guy and getting pushed, over and over.

After he left, I studied up on Pokemon and started playing Yellow again.

For the first time ever, I beat Lt. Surge. I was so happy, and I've never been able to stop since.

wow i really dont know.i really dont remember anything within the 1900s.but i the farthest i can really think the first time i saw pokemon was when my couin was playing a pokemon game( i didnt know wat it was called but all i know is that it was really old and i saw a mareep he was going against).my other cousin was teaching him how to play and he sed to use bite on the mareep. (it got "chewed up" he sed) well... it was played on those old colorful original rectangular gameboys. i think it was crsytal know that i know wat crystal was. but the game was w/e the second gen game was.i never really knew anything about pokemon though.so i sarted getting more into it. by watching it and playing the games. (my first pokemon game in the mineral sereies((emrald/saphire/ruby/diamond/pearl etc.)) was ruby.lmao sereiously xD. i NEVER herd of the classics of blue or red and only saw my cousin playing leafgreen a couple of times.

my older bro showed me and my sis so they gave me there pokemon r/y/b
games i got addicted and im still addicted today

I was interduced to pokemon by a kid named Danny in the spring of 1997 (it was my first rp) he gave me a Charmander but I like water types now but back then he was and always will be my partner ^_^ these days he is now a Charizard

I think I started sometime in elementary school. I started watching the show, progressed into cards [went no where] then the games.

this was in '97 i think I have been playing the games for about 11 years now. and am not ashamed. I am 18 and entering college.