When did you first start playing Pokemon?

[Jonnyinter]

I started at about 6 or 7 and played red blue and yellow. Been playing ever since .

 

[Draknir]

I first began playing when it first came out in the US 10 years ago. I was five at the time, and a total newbie to video games(Aside from playing Donkey Kong Country at my sitter's house). I had no idea how to do so many things. I remember I only trained one Pokémon, that always either being my starter or some other Pokémon of significance to me.

 

[-Dark-Knight-]

Around the age of 12.
Man those yers have passed by so quick.

 

[lvl100blastoise]

I must've been 5 or 6 when I first played red

 

[halloweenghost]

I've told my long story beforeabout how I got into pokemon but I'll keep this short.

I started playing Yellow with my teal gameboy color when yellow came out and I got my GBC in fall 99. I did play abit of my friends Red version though. Trasining his pokemon up against wild pokemon,... he got it shortly after the games hit stores here in the US.

 

[Rayn_Shyu]

When I was ten, I got Crystal for Christmas. Pretty much when I actually got to play... before then, I mooched off of my bro's Yellow, Blue and Silver versions. And Stadium, we rented that a ton of times.

 

[Skaisdead]

My mom used to take me and my friend to school when I was in elementary. He would always bring his gameboy and Pokemon Blue. I watched curiously. I asked for a gameboy and Pokemon Red the following Christmas. Lo and behold, I received both. The rest is history.

 

[mudkipzz]

Friends had the Pokemon red, played it a bit, I flew to the US a few days later where I was gonna buy it on the cheap, but they had just released yellow (in the 2 weeks I was there!)

So I brought that instead and had it before anyone else I knew I was 8/9 at the time

 

[winddomino]

I would also say I was around the age of 8. My first game was Leaf Green, and I adored the game but for some reason I stopped playing after I beat that game. Fast foward to about a year after Super Smash Brothers Brawl came out, and I started to get interested in Pokemon again because of all the playable Pokemon characters in SSBB. So I went out and bought Pearl... and here I am now. ^_^

 

[Cyber Cyclone]

I only started playing the game last year with my Diamond but have been and fan and watched the animé for really as long as I can remember. According to my parents, I started at about five and a half. The only reason I didn't get the game sooner is because of the sole reason we couldn't pay for it at the time. Now I'm playing and watching and will be for much, much longer.

 

[Shiny Rokon]

I started loving pokemon as soon as it came out in japan, cause my japanese friend got red and blue from her aunty. She had pokemon stickers on her laptop and i used to love the vulpix sticker most. My best friend and I managed to get the roms off the internet soon after, and then bought the games as soon as they came out in australia. I remember deciding which student was like which pokemon in our grade 6 class, and in year 7 when everyone realised what pokemon was, we were knocked for liking it. It was so nice when no one knew what it was, and 6 year olds didn't know it, but oh well, i still love it to this day.

 

[Chrisjon]

I started playing blue version when i was about 5 maybe years old. Now I am 16 playing platinum and its still just as fun.

 

[TheMagician]

I was at least 10 or 11 when I started playing-- Plunged right into the first generation with the Red version, and I liked the games since.

More than a decade later, I'm still playing! (and going back to the old games to relive them at times) In order for me to stick with a franchise for this long, it has to be really good and fun, and that's exactly what Pokemon is.

 

[I Am Become Death]

I was about 11 or 12 when i sneaked over sapphire version to my house. my parents didnt like pokemon and thought it was evil, so i had to sneak around whenever i played it. but then my mom caught me and i showed her that it was just a game, so she let me keep it and the rest is history.

 

[PenguinBeam]

My brother introduced me to Pokemon when I was about three years old, but it wasn't the video games that I was interested in, it was the anime. In fact, I had no idea the video games existed until about a year after Crystal came out in America. I got it for Christmas of 2002, so I was about six when I began playing Pokemon.

 

[I cant think of a name]

I started playing about nine years ago when I got Red Version, I think I was 5 then.

 

[nintendude 64]

I started playing them when I was about 5 or 6. The first pokemon game I played was silver,and I loved it.

 

[Elementer]

I was 7 when I first started playing. I started with Ruby, and after a year I learned all the generations and their pokemon. I just was messing around the internet whenn I saw a pikachu's pic, searched where it came from them, and the rest, as they say, is history .

 

[coolespeon]

I started playing when I was 7 in 2001 christmas, when I got my Crystal and a game boy color; oh man I loved that game. now I´m 15 and still playing the games.

 

[Stale]

I first saw someone playing pokemon when I was 6, and pleaded with my parents until I got my first gameboy and game (Pokemon Red) shortly after...In the 11 years that followed, I've bought every hand-held console Pokemon game has come out with (except LG, I disliked FR so much I didn't bother).