How did YOU get into pokemon was it an accident?

[juan8913]

Well me personally i would say when i was 7 my dad bought me a gameboy. He took me to WalMart to buy my first game. I said Dad can you buy me that game with that cool red monster(groudon). If it wasnt for my little childish mind i wouldnt like pokemon this day. I really don't know if i regret that day oh well :/.

So how did you get into pokemon

 

[Sushi-X]

Well I used to like the anime when I was little so when I had my Gameboy and saw a game called "Pokemon" I was on it like a fly on turd.

 

[chimera]

My friend told me about it, but I didn't really get it. I started watching the anime when I was like six. Then I didn't get to watch it for a while. Then I finally got back into it two years ago.

 

[Betsy]

My friend John came over my house and he brought his Gameboy. I remember he put his Gameboy down to go to the bathroom, and I picked it up and started playing it.

The next day I begged my mom to get me the newest Pokemon game, FireRed lols

 

[Takoto]

Saw one of the very first airings of the anime in the UK, was already into video games massively (despite being like four/five years old) and asked my Mum to get me a Gameboy and Pokémon Red (she got me Red and Blue for my Birthday), and after watching a ton of the anime I already loved it LOL the games just secured my position as a hardcore fan for the rest of my life.

 

[The Knights of Wario Land]

I started playing Pokemon a year ago, when I randomly picked up a discounted copy of SoulSilver in a Puerto Rican GameStop.

My life was never the same since.

 

[juan8913]

u jacker LOL oh i cant say nything since i stole an SP from a laundramat

 

[Julum]

everyday during recess, i watched kids play with pokemon figures. it then looked like fun to me, so i bought pokemon diamond. and at one point, i used to think pokemon was lame. i also bought it because i really loved pikachu at that time.

 

[Owain]

Well I used to like the anime when I was little so when I had my Gameboy and saw a game called "Pokemon" I was on it like a fly on turd.

^^ THIS, for me, when i saw Ruby on the game shelve, i ran to it as a rabid wolf, LOL, AG wasn't even out on my country~

 

[mini-chan]

My revival was because I played Pokemon Indigo (that online game) for a while, and decided to get the game.

Originally, it was because the anime was on TV.

 

[juan8913]

Well I used to like the anime when I was little so when I had my Gameboy and saw a game called "Pokemon" I was on it like a fly on turd.

haha LOL

 

[Kiyomaro]

Kind of. I had this Rapidash tin and a Charizard plush that I don't really know how I got. One day I was bored and was mashing the arrows to change the channels on my TV remote like an idiot. I heard the word "Pokemon" and instantly recognized it from the word on my Rapidash tin. I watched the rest of the episode and realized how awesome the show was. :B I watched it, but I didn't really start to care hugely about Pokemon until I decided to get FireRed.

 

[Zenax]

I used to have a Totodile plush when I was young, but I didn't know what a Pokémon was. One day I found the show on TV and I really liked it. I didn't even know there was games, though. I started watching the show back in september, then learned there are games. >_>
I wish I still had that Totodile plush, it was cute as hell. D:

 

[sannison]

The first time was when Red and Blue had been newly released and it was just a massive fad for children- when Pokemon toys, cards, and the anime were everywhere. Second time, Black and White was just released and I needed something to do in my free time.

 

[Paraico]

Some kid brought his Gameboy and showed off Pokemon Red, I was hooked from the start

 

[Madrak]

Well, my daughter got bit by the bug a couple years ago, and dragged me into it. It's one of the more fun things we get to do together. Thing is, I ended up deeper into the games than she is.

Of course, about a year after that, I dropped in here and started trading on a national scale. But got overwhelmed with orders and had to take a break. (Sorry to everyone I left hanging...) But now I'm back, a much more tempered and solid individual, just looking to share in the experience.

 

[Fennel]

My dad brought me to Walmart to choose a present for my ninth (or was it tenth? forgot) birthday. I was interested in getting a video game because my sister and her friend used to play Super Smash Bros. Melee but they only had two controllers.

I saw the GBA SP + Pokémon Emerald combo pack, and since it was cheap I got it. That night I played it for like four hours straight.

 

[juan8913]

almost like mine

 

[Kutomba]

I watched the anime all my life (I watched it at 2, seriously), and my friend Growlithe, whom I met in preschool, had a dad that loved Pokemon. She shared the joy of the games with me =3

 

[BlackwaterPark]

The first time, I got Red Version for Christmas when I was about five, and I couldn't stop playing it.

The second time, a couple of my friends in fifth grade were always looking at the Ruby/Sapphire strategy guide, and I learned a lot about the game before I even played it. Then I finally got Sapphire in seventh grade and loved it.

The third time, my friend and I were looking at the old Kanto Pokédex in my sophomore year (of high school) just for nostalgia. I remembered how fun the games were and started playing all the older generations again. Then I picked up a DS and some Generation IV games (and, for unrelated reasons that I won't go into here, arguably had more of a life afterward than I did before).