「Advent Chaos」 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 As a kid I never had a GBC, but my first crush had won one at a school rifle, we didn't know any english, but we still played. More like I would watch her play and try to help, we picked Charmander and we named it... Chari! Which also carried on as her nickname. Since I wasn't directly playing the game I wouldn't count it as my first. Later on a friend gave me Pokemon Ruby so I picked Torchic and left it as default, I think I changed the name when I transferred him to Platinum, can't really remember. Fire-types are usually the most popular and any trainer knows why. Although the past gen and current gen I picked a water type (piplup) and a grass-type (Snivy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 It all began with bulbasaur. Use vine whip! Use it harder, bulbasaur! Harder! I began with blue and an intense regimen of Pokemon everything. The card game wasn't my incipient TCG, but I've attended the most tournaments under its pidgeotto-pinions. Then Yellow arrived. Then Gold and Silver. Then the series began its crawl into hackneyed territory, and I quit cold spearow. With the release of Diamond and Pearl, I attempted to reenter the arena. Nope. Still hackneyed. I still miss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Well I mentioned that my sister started on Fire Red the other week after getting an emulator running on her PSP. Her first pokemon was a Squirtle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) Charmander! Called....CHARMANDER. Cause the games put them in ALLCAPS. Ahh Charmander....we worked hard to beat Brock didn't we? Me too, and yeah, first gym boss is rock just to screw over charmander. Second gym? Water. SONOFA!!!! While we're on the topic of naming: Edited September 12, 2011 by Yantelope 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Squirtle, which I accidentally nicknamed Squirtle, so even when he was a blastoise, I still called him squirtle. He was the only pokemon I ever used to fight. He was level 80 when I went to the elite four, never beat them because my second highest pokemon was a level 10 pidgey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRan Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 My bro and I got a yellow GBC for Christmas in '98 (don't ask me how I remember the year. I just do). We asked for Pokemon Yellow but my parents got Red, so that's what we played until we got back home (we always spent Xmas at my grandparents') and got an exchange. So normally we would've had Pikachu as our first Pokemon but it ended up being a Charmander I think. I still have my yellow GBC and it works perfectly fine (as do all GameBoys apparently ), but I've long since lost my Yellow cart. We moved houses and just completely disappeared. I'm still pissed about that > Though I do still have my Pokemon Gold from when we bought that, so it's not all bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) Pokemon Yellow wasn't released in the US until 1999 and 2000 in the EU. I got Pokemon Red when it was released so I was 15 at the time. My other friends and I traded and did all the pokemon stuff until I realized that Pokemon was huge with the elementary school kids and that killed a bit of my interest in it. There were plenty of people, including a girl who is now my wife, who made fun of me for playing it. Edited September 12, 2011 by Yantelope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRan Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Pokemon Yellow wasn't released in the US until 1999 and 2000 in the EU. I got Pokemon Red when it was released so I was 15 at the time. My other friends and I traded and did all the pokemon stuff until I realized that Pokemon was huge with the elementary school kids and that killed a bit of my interest in it. There were plenty of people, including a girl who is now my wife, who made fun of me for playing it. Would you look at that. It WAS '99. We also got Donkey Kong 64 that same Xmas and it, too was released in 1999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 I only looked it up to remember how old I was when I got it and I remember that Yellow didn't come out for a year after Red/Blue. I remember being a bit upset/confused as to why Pikachu was not a big deal in the game like he was in the cartoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 I got Pokemon Red when it was released so I was 15 at the time. I remember being a bit upset/confused as to why Pikachu was not a big deal in the game like he was in the cartoon. Hopefully more confused than upset. I'm just picturing a 15year old with a quavering lip, "pikachu... where are you...?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vargras Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 A charmander in Red. Unfortunately, my cart was horribly broken (if you turned the power off, it wiped the save, so I never progressed very far in it). Aside from that, probably Pikachu in Yellow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 I got Pokemon Red when it was released so I was 15 at the time. I remember being a bit upset/confused as to why Pikachu was not a big deal in the game like he was in the cartoon. Hopefully more confused than upset. I'm just picturing a 15year old with a quavering lip, "pikachu... where are you...?" Ha, yes, more confused. I was coming off the FFVII days so I was really confused as to why there was almost no story. The show came out a little before the game in America if I recall correctly so if you started watching the cartoon first you'd be confused why Pikachu is not a big deal in the Red/Blue version. Consequently that's the whole reason they made the Yellow version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllYourGame Nick Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Charmander....because who doesn't like a giant fire breathing dragon pokemon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 (edited) @Yantelope: VGCats is usually horrible, unfunny one-eyed sausage dribble. Somehow when crafting Super Effective he does it well, though. Edited September 14, 2011 by Saturnine Tenshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Yeah, I'm not a VGCats fan but Super Effective is Super Effective on me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 This is probably the best place to post this. I saw a little kid at walmart playing pokemon on a gameboy color. I asked him if it was pokemon yellow. He looked shocked "how did you know!?" "it's pokemon and it's a yellow cart" "how do you know about pokemon!?" He seemed shocked that an old man like me knew about Pokemon. It was hilarious. I told him I had Pokemon Red when it first came out and he said "that was before I was born!". That made me feel a bit old. On a separate occasion I was wearing a Pokemon shirt at Target and overheard "Mommy mommy, that man was wearing pokemon!". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 So the votes here seem to be correlating with the votes in the donations at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 This is probably the best place to post this. I saw a little kid at walmart playing pokemon on a gameboy color. I asked him if it was pokemon yellow. He looked shocked "how did you know!?" "it's pokemon and it's a yellow cart" "how do you know about pokemon!?" He seemed shocked that an old man like me knew about Pokemon. It was hilarious. I told him I had Pokemon Red when it first came out and he said "that was before I was born!". That made me feel a bit old. On a separate occasion I was wearing a Pokemon shirt at Target and overheard "Mommy mommy, that man was wearing pokemon!". Do you get security following you around shops a lot? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Ha! Normally I wouldn't talk to a kid but I was waiting for my wife while she was in the restroom. I also had my 2 year old with me and she was kind of playing with the kid. I think he was waiting for his parent in the restroom too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 I've never played Pokemon. Always considered it to be "for kids" (much like my current attitude to MLP:FIM). I'm sure that's not the case, but it's a stigma I can't get over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Pokemon is for kids in the same way that Mario is for kids. I won't say it's not an accurate description, but they're still great games (at least the first few, haven't played much since Silver). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Pokemon is for kids in the same way that Mario is for kids. I won't say it's not an accurate description, but they're still great games (at least the first few, haven't played much since Silver). They're all the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 But they've added infinity billion more pokemon, which actually imo has detracted from the game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 I'm not criticising anyone who does like them by the way. Like I say, it's a stigma that I can't over, the problem is with me, not the games or the people who like them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 I still might play a Pokemon game (Diamond, White), but gone are the days where I have every version completed. I don't know about Black/White 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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