ive been in the pokemon world since i was 5 ten years now that was the tcg good ale times and started playing the games about 4 years ago.
Pokemon How long have you guys been in the Pokemon World =D ?
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I started playing when I was 4-ish years old with Sapphire Version (I pronounced it sad-a-fire back then). Without realizing it, I think I may have done mostly water-monotype. Good times...
11 years, since 2001. I'd seen the season 1 Snorlax episode prior, but that's when I got a Game Boy and a copy of Gold, though I never found Mr. Pokemon. Then I traded my cousin for Red, which I played to completion. That's why I consider myself to have come in at Generation I. After that, I got a few hundred cards from the same cousin.
Since Ruby/Sapphire.
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I've been entralled in the Pokemon World since late 2000 or early 2001, when I first tried Pokemon Puzzle League for the N64. However, it was Pokemon Stadium 2/GS and Pokemon Silver that really drew me into the world of Pokemon.
Shiningmilotic said:^^It could be worse, we were sent to the principals office with a detention and they put my best friend's japanese holo typholision in the paper shredder-and made him watch it!That is like super torture for an 8 year old. He would have rather gotten beat up than lost his card! Yu-gi-oh cards were banned too and Beyblades. :/
For me, since 1998 too!
I miss playing with my tomy toys most of all. Before school, when I was allowed to have pokemon in my mother's first marriage, my mom woke me up early to watch pokemon and she would give me cookie monster cookies. I miss spending the night at my friend's houses-bringing my massive tomy figure collection and burger king toys in my backpack. We would have pretend pokemon battles and trade toys!!
Whoaly zen! You had many friends to play Pokemon with! I had like 3 or 4, sometimes, and never all together at once regularly. Hah, I also did a lot of RL roleplaying with my friend that we were Pokemon, or Pokemon Trainers, and there were a few, (veryfew) luminous moments where I DID link up with a buddy and we traded and had Pokemon battles...
Honestly though, I had to buy both versions back then Bx. I knew I wouldn't find anyone to constantly trade with whenever I needed it. I'm glad your childhood was filled with more friends to play Pokemon with ^.==.^ .
That principal is lucky to be alive at this point.
I do recall hearing tales of how children's cards were confiscated due to them playing it almost all the time, even in class (or so I heard). When it broke out, it was almost like a virus. Fortunately it's all died off now, and all the children who used to love Pokemon like there's no tomorrow are now all grown up and ranting about what they don't like about the game over Internet forums
I've been in the fandom and posting on forums since R/B came out. A buddy and I were the first people I knew to get the cards when they first came out, too. I was probably 9 or 10, and I'm 22 (almost 23) now.
For a while (especially in middle school and high school), my interest wavered in and out, but since D/P I've been pretty stable as a fan.
For a while (especially in middle school and high school), my interest wavered in and out, but since D/P I've been pretty stable as a fan.
I actually started with the TCG, back in base set days. My parents were anti-video games, but they didn't mind me spending money on shiny pieces of cardboard for whatever reason. I enjoyed the anime too, though it was a bit beneath my level (being in junior high when Pokémon made it to the states). Started in with the games with a GBC and Yellow as a gift from my aunt (<3). I drifted away from pokémon entirely during the second gen ("There's only 151 pokémon! Don't make any more, that's just wrong!"), then came back to the video game during 3rd gen, went back and played 2nd gen, and been strong with the video games since. Didn't start getting back into the TCG until little over a year ago, though.
I've been playing since 2003, when Ruby and Sapphire came out. I was instantly hooked to those games, and when Emerald came out, I was even happier. Of course I knew nothing about how to play competitively; I would just train a Hardy Sceptile to Level 100 and think it was better than everything. XP
I've been with Pokemon ever since I was 3 years old. I started off with the anime and slowly got addicted with collecting Pokemon cards. Back then I didn't really know how to play Pokemon; I just cared for the artwork on the cards. Kids around my neighborhood would collect and trade cards all the time.
Since the very beginning of Gen 1.
I still remember the day I got my game, a friend of the family gave it to me as a present saying "If you like monsters, you'll like this"
and boy was he right, here I am, years later, still loving Pokemon.
I still remember the day I got my game, a friend of the family gave it to me as a present saying "If you like monsters, you'll like this"
and boy was he right, here I am, years later, still loving Pokemon.
I've liked the VGs since my mom bought Red and Blue at a yardsale when I was 5-ish. I got hooked on the TCG since around 4-th grade, and got into competitive TCG since around 7th grade. So around 9 years overall.
Ever since in 2nd grade when I saw my classmates playing with cards, I asked them if I could play.
After a year, I wasn't really into Pokemon anymore until I got Mystery Dungeon: Sky and Platitium.
But as for now? It's fading... because almost all my DS games got lost... And I'm not into TCG.I must find them now!
After a year, I wasn't really into Pokemon anymore until I got Mystery Dungeon: Sky and Platitium.
But as for now? It's fading... because almost all my DS games got lost... And I'm not into TCG.
Well since I was 5 but I cannot remember how but I had Pokemon Yellow and Pokemon cards but I always remember I thought you had to get pikachu to lv 100 so I did then when i was 8 I managed to get past the man turns out i didn't give the package to oak from the mart lol but quite an achievement lv 100 pikachu
When Yellow first came out , then got into the card game but it was the anime that started it all I remember giving all good cards away for japanese commons the older boys convinced me it was the right decision. Know I feel like an idiot I traded all those really cool cards away. I was a sucked for a japanese card then and I still am so in reality not much has changed just pokemon and of course my mental age.
Born in May '96
Pokemon released in October '96 (EU)
Pokemon Red first game ever played and one of my favorite games (and best Pokemon game). Of course, it wasn't until I was a few years older when I could fully appreciate it. For so long I was the only one I knew that had any extensive knowledge on Pokemon, until I joined here and I have learned so much since. So yeah, Pokemon Red is like the brother I never had. I collected the TCG like any sane kid did from the age of 4 I think and built up a sizable collection, again, this is all the old cards. I'm just old fashioned like that. Then the school banned it and I couldn't find anyone to trade with so I stopped collecting them.
Pokemon released in October '96 (EU)
Pokemon Red first game ever played and one of my favorite games (and best Pokemon game). Of course, it wasn't until I was a few years older when I could fully appreciate it. For so long I was the only one I knew that had any extensive knowledge on Pokemon, until I joined here and I have learned so much since. So yeah, Pokemon Red is like the brother I never had. I collected the TCG like any sane kid did from the age of 4 I think and built up a sizable collection, again, this is all the old cards. I'm just old fashioned like that. Then the school banned it and I couldn't find anyone to trade with so I stopped collecting them.