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Do you guys remember how you got into pokemon?>be me >6yrs old >a year since parents' divorce >am hanging out with dad >he wants to buy me something >go in Walgreens >buy that old lucario tcg tin box >had no idea what it was, but i recognized it from tv >discover the card game >get a vulpix and a vigaroth >proceed to play with made up rules >start saving money for cards One year time jump>by now im a huge pokemon fan, even have those pokemon handbooks >as a mexican, im the only fan in my neighbourhood aside from my younger brother >mom starts dating a new guy >dont like him >feel like she betrayed dad, whose visits are becoming less common >try to commit suicide >its a bluff, i was just being a little bitch >mom calms me down by buying me a nintendo ds >get my first pokemon game, pokemon ranger(the first one) >eventually get all the ranger games, brother gets pmd:eod >really like that game, so a year later i get eos while my brother gets hg >i discover the main series and get one a year later on my birthday >pokemon is my life >its all i think about >i get my first game: black >i pick oshawott, dont understand abilities and move categories >barely beat the e4 on my 11th try >that was awsome >since then ive bought W2, X, AS, and Sun >I've also played crystal, Pt, and hg >am currently 19 >havent seen dad in 5yrs >mom and her bf had a son >little bro moved on to Minecraft >still a huge fan of pokemon >looking forward to USM, hoping its better than SM >and the dp remakes >pick related is my favorite pokemon
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>6 years old >Lucario existing MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
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>>33378340 lucario exsisted since 2004
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I heard about it from my brother, since he had a bunch of friends and I didn't. Then my parents bought us each a Gameboy and a copy of Red for me and Blue for him. Then it stopped being popular.
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>>33378405 Either way anon could be 18, age is a scary thing
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>>33378331 >Do you guys remember how you got into pokemon? I was in elementary school in America in 1998.
If you existed then, you were into Pokémon.
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I don't remember, actually. I know around the same time I was watching minutes of the Pokemon anime before heading to school (Johto seasons in case you were wondering), I was playing Pokemon Stadium because I got it as a present, I had Pokemon marbles etc and saved over my cousins 151 Dex Red save file. But I don't know which one got me INTO Pokemon. Which is weird because I remember so much other misc shit, like getting Ruby one Christmas, Sapphire for my birthday the next month, FR+LG another Christmas etc, borrowing my cousin's GBA to trade with myself.
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>>33378331 >pokemania in spanish speaking countries 1998~1999 >anime airs in national television >love everything about it That's the gist of it. I got into the games a few years later; could have done it sooner, but I didn't like asking for too much.
I think the only things I have left when it comes to merch are two keychains. Pic related.
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>be 13 >christmas 2009 >cousin is super in to pokemon >have ds >get cousin's old copy of the 2nd Ranger game >fucking love it >get pokemon black sometime later with christmas money >3 1/2 years later >get black 2 on launch date >over the years get diamond, Y, alpha sapphire, sun, and a few of the side games >now >waiting to see how they fuck up USUM
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I remember clearly>be me >6 years old >moved to a new house >person who we bought the house from gave me a gameboy color with pokemon Red >apparently her children had lost interest of it and they give it few money for it so she gave it to me >i start playing, not knowing what Pokémon is at all >didnt understand english as a 6 year old, so i asked my parents to translate from time to time >my last memory of it was that i found Moltres and was stuck trying to catch it >shortly after i lost the gameboy color (2 years later or so) >get a ps2 >forget about pokemon completely >skip forward >be 10 now >pokemon is popular in my school >i get some memories of this game >i miss my gameboy >buy a DS >my stepfather buys me Emerald for my birthday >I finish a pokemon game for the first time >get a lot of satisfaction about it >hear about pokemon mystery dungeon blue team >play spinoff >end up liking it more than the main series >one year later i get pokemon Diamond >the most fun i had playing pokemon >i was afraid of the negativity of gen 5 so i didnt buy any >my cousin, who became a pokemon fan, bought Black >i played it and ended up liking it >next year buy White 2 and my cousin Black 2 >since then we both bonded through pokemon, id buy X and him Y, id buy OR and him AS, id buy Moon and him Sun >recently brought Soulsilver and him Heartgold to make a shiny run >Have a lot of pokemon cards which was another passion that i found >currently 18 >still undecided about USM >not really expecting 3DS diamond and pearl remakes >pic related is my favorite Pokemon To this day, i still love pokemon a lot, i honestly dont know what happened to my Pokemon Emerald, it got lost somewhere and i miss my Swamp bro
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>be me >birthday party >get a 3-pack of pokemon figurines >Phanpy, Porygon, and Chikorita >Instantly fall in love with Phanpy >About a year later, get HGSS Christmas 2010 >Choose Totodile >Love the franchise ever since >Unsure but hopeful about USM >Pic related has kinda fallen off from my top favorites, but is still up there for starting my love of the franchise
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>>33378331 the cartoon was always on just before my school bus
then i got pokemon y
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>>33379579 why did i read this as pokemon yiff
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>be me >be 3 >Enjoy the pokemon anime >Actually looked into my baby book from when I was three and saw my mom wrote, Nick seems to really like the Peekachoo toy we got her! She also likes the charmander in the ball! . I don't remember the Pikachu plush, but I do remember the charmander; it was one of those minis in the pokeball keychain. Had a bulbasaur and a squirtle too.
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>>33378331 >be me 1 (one) year ago >bored and what something to play on my pc >see that pokemon sage is a thing, and download it Heres a quick explanation as to why I started to the pokemon series with sage. I already saw every single pokemon in the anime, so i thought i knew everything there was to know about the games, so i started with sage to get that feeling of "woah whats that pokemon?!?!?! OwO" since exploration in games is my favorite thing about them. Anyway...
>play it without knowing the mechanics at all >love it, but its too damn short >realize its just a fangame and emulate platinum >love it even more >buy 3ds and all the 3ds games with it >finish them all >emulate every single game i cant play on the 3ds >completely obsess over pokemon so much in such a short amount of time that i know everything about pokemon >browse /vp/ >it all goes downhill anyone else only get into the series fairly late?
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>6 >Lucario hows school
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>>33379769 I started playing with gen 5
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I saw the anime and used it like a game guide to get through gen 1.
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>>33378331 >6 years old >lucario Anonymous
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I don't remember how I got into pokemon. I just remember always owning the vhs tapes for some pokemon episodes and owning pokemon snap. my parents probably bought it for my brother and I once they found out pokemon was something kids like