How old were you when you first started playing?

[PKMN TRAINER Oliver]

For me, I was 5 with Pokémon Crystal.

 

[serpent222]

I was 8, I believe. Played a friend's pokemon red. Wasn't until about 2 years later that I got my own gameboy and pokemon Yellow.

 

[Silmiss]

I was around 6-8, and I loved playing Pokemon Red. My save got deleted twice, so I had to rebuild ._.
Every time I picked Charmander, just because I really liked fire (any the other ones didn't look "appealing" )
I also started playing Crystal, but the cartridge we had's battery was dead so it didn't save. I lost interest of it quickly.
Around 7-9, I got Emerald. I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT. It was such a good game, and I loved all the pokemon! (Picking fire-type starter as always, sometimes mudkip tho)
That's when I found Ralts. Oh boy, I loved it's evolutions. I always caught two as I didn't realize that Gallade was only in D/P/P. The scene where Kyogre and Groudon was fighting was really cool, aswell.
I could never play D/P/P or B/W/2 because we couldn't afford a DS. D;

(but im so getting one before events end)

 

[thunder2910]

I finally managed to persuade my parents on my 10th birthday to get me a DS Lite, along with that I got the then brand new mystery Dungeons; Explorers of Time, and then a year later bought Diamond

 

[magma grunt edu]

back in 90 something (can't recall the exact year but it was past 95) i got that beautiful black gameboy pocket with one of my favorite games i played, warioland:super mario land 3. The next year i got pokemon blue, in christmas. i was about 7 i think, i didn't understand english at all but i kept going foward and thanks to pokemon, i got interested in the english language, which i like more than my native language. And thanks to that big blue cartridge of awesome, i met my favorite games. The myths in school boosted the awesomeness of the games even further and the games's music was fenomenal. I may not have many clear memories of the 1st gen games (besides raising a pidgeot in mewtwo's cave all the way to level 92, my highest leveled pokemon back then) but i'm thankful to have experienced one of the best games ever.

 

[SkyDriver]

I think I was 4 or 5 don't realy remember, when my parents bought me Blue and mu sister Red on a holiday :3 It was funny cuz we couldn't get past Oak's lab since we didn't speak English back then and we had no clue to pick a pokemon xD Now it has greatly taught me how to speak English (I hope) and I've never stopped loving Pokemon

 

[TimelordDuck]

I was about 5 or 6 when my parents had Diamond and pearl, and when I was really mad when I lost a battle (this was often..) I'd swing the top screen up and down by holding the bottom, if you know what I'm talking about you'll understand. I broke the ds a year later, and it was in the parking lot so everyone could watch at the time, I was crying over it breaking..I still wish to play diamond again.

 

[The Pokemon Broadcast]

I'm being totally serious here, but I was 24 (back in the spring/summer of 2010) when I first started playing and really getting in to the games (first game that I bought then was Soul Silver)
I have liked Pokemon since it came here to America, but at that time I wasn't in to playing the games at all.

 

[SneaselFTW]

Got a ROM hack of diamond when i lived in ireland. It was 2007 i think and that was my first game (it didn't have save states; the furthest I managed to go was victory road. I was 7 I think. Then I bought Black three days after it was released and played it on my granny's DS =). Then when I moved to England I got a DS LITE and Mario, and I bought SS then diamond then stuff went further. Still have that same DS lite except the skin broke so its now green not black.

~sneasel

 

[MedMana]

It was my sixth birthday when my dad got me a Gameboy and a copy of Blue. It was also 2004, so I guess I was late to the party from the very beginning....

 

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

I have been a fan since the franchise started, I was 8 years old back then.

 

[Milennin]

I was 12 years old when I started playing Yellow.

 

[MarinaS]

I was around 6 when I played Pokemon Sapphire (my first pokemon game) for the first time.

 

[Kalosian]

Don't remember exactly how old I was but I must have been 9 or 10. I remember that the franchise was really popular when I was like 8, then it took me a while before I got into it, and then somewhat longer until I started playing the games.

 

[Teebu]

Whatever year the gameboy colour & pokemon red came to the uk, I got it for that Christmas I think. I'm guessing I was about 8 or 9.

 

[KAYLAF0X]

When Pokemon first came out and I got the game for Christmas along with a new Gameboy, back in 1998, I was 7 years old? Yeah, I remember that day pretty well, I got Pokemon Red(which I was excited because it had a dragon on it), and my step-brother had Pokemon Blue. My step-brother had no idea how to read, unlike me, as I was taught to read at age 4-5 by my mom, so he was angry that he couldn't just leave Professor Oak's lab and I had to show him he had to choose a pokemon(which I chose Charmander, and I named it "Firetail"). I got an Alakazam by trading with my step-brother, and I also got a Gengar(which didn't want to listen to anything I said because it was too high of a level, and kept hurting itself randomly and falling asleep in the middle of battle).

 

[Tangeh]

I was five years old, and it was Pokemon Red. I couldn't have been in school for more than a few months but I could read really well for my age. I saved up forever to buy a GBC and the guy at the store recommended pokemon for a game to go with it as it was popular with children, though I had never heard of it at that stage. ...and now I'm 21 and still going at it. xD

 

[Aquarelle]

I have been a Pokemon fan since age 5 thanks to the anime, but I was not into video games at all back then.

So, I did not start playing the games until age 9, when I got Gold for my birthday and then Yellow a couple months later.

 

[Miss Alexis]

I was 6 with Pokemon Silver

 

[Afrodisiac]

I grew up with the anime since 1998 (when I was 9) but the first game I played was Stadium back in 2000. My first handheld game was Ruby & Sapphire in 2003, I was 14 by then.