when did you start pokemon

[tails443]

i started 2001; and still standing

 

[Deputy55]

I started 1998. My first game was the blue version and gottem all of them ever since.

 

[Genos]

Started at 2000 at Sliver version.

 

[Sharp]

Late 1998 when Pokemon Red and Blue was released in Europe.

 

[alyssa]

2001 i started

 

[Hsiao-Chai]

In 1998 when I got the Blue version. I was 13 years old then.

 

[WaterDragon trainer]

Don't remember exactly when, but I started about 2 years after it came out in the US.

 

[DarkLemmy2]

1999 with Red

 

[Poofsternator]

Started in 2000, when my cousin let me borrow his Silver and Game Boy Color.

 

[Raunchy_fad]

I've been with it since the start, 1998. Sweeeet.

 

[FDT Emperor]

Started in 1999 with Pokemon Red.

 

[Lickitung]

Been playing since 98, like a lot of others here. Quite proud of the fact that I've stuck with the series for so long.

 

[Railith]

Been playing since 98 when I was in the sitxh grade.

 

[Cuore]

I've been with it since Pokemon started. (a la 1996)

I was only 3, but I could read.

And I'm not lying, either, so don't flame me.

 

[Br26]

98-99. I got into the anime, which was syndicated at the time, and then I decided to try Pokemon Blue.

 

[~Ero Oyagi~]

'97 when my cousin gave me a gameboy and jap red version as a birthday present, i didnt really understand it at the time but i was too young to care. bought every game ever since and am trying to learn enough japanese to decipher my old red... not easy!

 

[Crystal Mewtwo]

Started in 2000/Winter with Yellow. Two months later I bought Silver.

 

[MidnightScott]

98 or 99 - I think it was 99 - but I don't really remember. I got Red, Blue, and Yellow for my birthday along with an Atomic Purple GBC - I've gotten all of the versions of the games ever since. (I dont have Puzzle League, Puzzle Challenge, and TCG)

~Scott;229;

 

[hmmm]

i started pokemon when i saw the very first episode. It was in 1998, and i got the game that same christmas.

 

[Vycksta]

Early 1999, with Pokemon Blue. While my Mum and her friend were talking about life over a prawn cocktail, I was kicking Gary's butt over Oak's lab with my Bulbasaur.