In Which Generation Did You Start Playing Pokémon, and what was your first game?

[pokemoll]

Mine was Pokemon Leafgreen. I still have that game.
Then it was Ruby, then Pearl, Then Platinum...Then Soulsilver..Then Heartgold...then Black.

And the best of them all is Black.

 

[Kiyomaro]

Gen III- FireRed. I have every main series game released in English but Blue and Black, though. (And Sapphire, but that's just misplaced somewhere in my room...)

 

[Chiefboz]

I was a very late arrival to the party. I started in December 2008 with Pearl (I remember that very clearly because Platinum came out in '09 and I got it a week after it came out). When they unlock Bulbapedia I'll have a good long monologue there.

 

[Starlight the ampharos]

I started playing Pokemon really late in Gen III. My first game was either Pokemon Ranger or Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team.

 

[carcinoGeneticist]

Yellow Version for me.

But I couldn't read yet, so the first game that I understood what was going on was probably silver.

 

[Hassel]

Pokémon Crystal. I still have the cartridge and walkthrough magazine, but sadly I borrowed my magenta GBC to a person I'm not friends with anymore. ;_;

 

[Continent Turtle]

Pokémon Sapphire, but I watched the anime since the beginning her in NL.

 

[mpolareon]

Red version nearly right after release. Saw strategy in Nintendo Power and it looked cool. Paid in cash plus several dollars in change that included pennies. Worth annoying the cashier.

 

[urlordandsaviour]

First game was Crystal... Sad that my save got corrupted... Had so much in it

 

[m33st4]

When I was four...Pokemon Gold and Sliver. Then I played Pokemon Blue then worked my way up to now.

 

[Oswald]

I started playing Red version in Generation I, but I didn't own my own game until a few years later when my friend gave me her old gameboy and Yellow Version. I wish I knew what happened to that game... TT__TT

 

[PikaPal_4ever]

I started on Red..Dang it was Japanese..
Also with Blue and Green..Silver, too

 

[arcanine99]

Gen 1, Red.
My brother had blue.

 

[Russia]

pokemon blue was my first pokemon game.

 

[Gligar13]

Gen IV, Pearl. I got mine a few days after release.

There was an article in some random magazine about it, so I bought it. It was $35, and worth it. I have almost 200 hours logged on it.

 

[Heiccu]

My first Pokémon game I played was Yellow when I was umm...nine or ten years old. So in the 1st generation.

 

[Electrolux]

Barely played the first gen. Ruby/Sapphire was when i played properly

 

[Suicide by cop]

Sapphire was my first game. Sadly, I didn't get to experience Johto at all until HGSS, as none of my friends had GSC.

 

[pokabu82]

I started in Generion IV wih Diamond... Ah, the memories of receiving Infernape...

 

[MiasmaElloyn]

The first game I got was Yellow, which my sister assures me I purchased after having said 'Pokémon? Looks way too babyish for me.'
Well look at me now, hundreds of hours later with at least one game from each generation :3
Babyish my arse ^_^

(don't hate me, I was young and stupid at the time of saying that xD)