I had the Red version, played that thing all day and all night. I remember it took me ~1 year to get through a cave since I didn't have flash. Funnnnnn times...

You cant be serious.

I am, sadly. I was really little at the time, and I didn't know any better! That's my excuse :p

Diamond and LeafGreen were my first Pokémon games together, but I preferred the latter. I guess that doesn't count, though. Yet I still feel nostalgic when I play my Yellow version.

Sounds like me in Diamond. I couldn't find the 4th gym, actually I thought I'd already fought it, so when I realized where it was, my team was pretty strong. I was stuck for a few months at least, during which time I played my Kanto games.

My older siblings played gold and silver first, then red and blue. But I played blue first, since it was the first one.

I was 14 when the originals came out, so ya, I've been playing since day 1 and loving it still to this day. I still have every version made and I'll bounce between playing older ones and newer ones all the time. Always crazy to jump from 5gen to 1gen mechanics, makes you rethink a lot of strategies and re-look at some older Pokemon you normally wouldn't think to use.

I owned both red and blue when it came out, but I played red while my dad would play blue so we could trade the version exclusives. Actually playing through yellow right now even.

Pokemon Red was my first Pokemon game, shortly after followed Yellow. Then Silver and Crystal.
I now honor those by playing them. ;b I am currently playing Pokemon Yellow version on my GBC right now. And my silver... well I had to restart so once I beat Yellow I'll be starting on that.


boy oh boy, do I need to go out and buy a DS. haha.

I was six when this game came out, but I actually didn't find out about the games until a few weeks ago. I knew about the show and the cards, as well as Stadium and the picture taking one, but not the RPGs. Then I was playing Minecraft and found a Pokémob mod, and I was like, "I need me some Stadium." I found out about Red and Blue and Gold and all the others, and started with Red, as Charizard is my favorite. I remember getting a holo Charizard in the very first pack. Can you say AWESOME?!

Oh, my first video game was GoldenEye for the N64.

i was 11 in 1998 and red was my first game a mate gave it to me. i love the first gen heaps 2nd gen is were i get nostalgic lol

I can sympathize, it seemed to take forever to get through Ice Cave the first time I played Gold, and it took me weeks to get past the Elite Four because I only had a level fifty Meganium with a level six wooper as back up. Man, I wish I could be ten again…

Anyway, back to the topic….

I was nine when I convinced my mom to help me buy my Red version. I was hooked so bad that I declared that I would love Pokemon forever, and guess what! I still do! …I do wish that I still had the time to play, regularly, though…

My first game was Leaf Green when I was 10, but I got Gold after that and it's been tied as my favorite game along with Emerald.

I believe my first game was Leaf Green. I think I was like 8 when I got then I got Ruby shortly after.

I first got red then blue then yellow

My first game was Yellow, it was not until far later that I realized Blue and Red existed. By then I had moved on to Silver. Though I did eventually get both Red and Blue.


I was 12 in 1999, but did not start pokemon until the age of 13 in 2000.
Honestly I don't even see what the implication was in this remark.

First game was red/blue. I was 6/7. Been hooked since. Missed the start of 3rd gen (played them after 4th gen) and I skipped b/w only to play through much later. I'm in another hiatus from playing. I think 3nd and 2nd gen are my all time favorites, but 1st Gen is where it all started for me.

My first game was leaf green when I was 8, I got yellow and red when I was 11 on ebay.