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There was an interesting thread on /vr/ about how people first discovered Pokemon, and I told my story:
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>>35943548 This is
cute . Back when I was about 2 or 3, I saw an episode of Pokemon involving Pikachu fighting a Scizor or something. I thought Scizor was so fucking cool that I wanted to find out what he's from.
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>>35943579 Thanks.
Bumping because I'd like information on the book.
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I searched for japanese Pokemon pop-up books and I found this one with Koffing and Pidgeotto on the cover. Is this the one you're talking about?
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>tfw too young to discover pokemon, and was just born with it being everywhere already
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>>35943892 YES, THIS WAS THE BOOK. Oh dear lord THANK YOU, I'VE BEEN SEARCHING THIS FOR YEARS.
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>>35943942 Shit, this ain't OP (I'm OP) but yes, this is it. Wow. I have searched for years and could never find it.
Thank you.
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>>35943984 >>35943942 You're welcome. Glad I could help you out.
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>>35943548 I've always associated Pokémon with friendship well before I was aware of the plot because of this.
>Pokémon reaches european shelves in 1999 literally 2 months after I start going to school, fucking serendipity. >My friends and I are looking the advertisement in a comic's back cover. Out now Pokemon red version and Pokemon blue version. >19 years later I never played a single entry just by myself even after parting ways in highschool. Anonymous
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Remember that for every good feels story there is one about a Pokémon game or card being stolen.
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it was in 1999 when pokemon had just become really big in my school and my friend gave me some excess cards she had.
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>>35943548 Never , I've never had a Nintendo made console or bought Pokémon, also never watches the anime.
Discovered PC ROM hacks while I was bored.
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My brother collected out local Club Nintendo magazine and there was one with an article of all the pokemon in the first gen pokedex (it had the anime artwork though). I liked to borrow it just to look at them, I didnt know much about the actual anime because I never had a chance to watch nor was able to play the games because my parents thought it was enough for us to have a Nintendo 64. My father later bought me the VHS of the first movie though, and I skyrocketed from there
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When I was little had a friend, a few years older, who lived in the apartment above ours. I also owned this stuffed horse that was white with a red mane. One time when this friend was visiting he pointed to it and told me it looked like a Rapidash, and explained what Pokemon was. For whatever reason I didn't believe that Pokemon was a real thing at first, so he told me to wake up early the next morning and turn to such-and-such channel on TV and watch the show and see for myself.
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My Grandmother bought all 6 grandchildren a Game Boy, Link cable and a copy Blue or Red so every family had each copy of the game.
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i was in the 3rd grade and say my firend paul and some random guy playing in the hallway before school started in 1998. he had blue and then i went home to "ask jeeves" (before google was big) and by Christmas I had a lime green gameboy color and both versions! crazy i remember the exact moment it basically became apart of my life forever!
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>>35947684 Fuck off Deutschfag
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I first saw this ad in Disney Adventures. I still remember the little misconceptions I had based on this picture (Blastoise had a spiked helmet and threw grenades - and that his shell behind him was a separate Pokémon, like a stubby bipedal robot with a cannon for a head.)
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>>35951770 It was shit like this that made me think Gengar was little.
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I remember hearing about it when it first started to get big in the west, and thought "a game where you just run in grass and catch Pokemon? that's all you do? sounds boring". I had no idea there was a roleplay or battling element at all, until I heard more about it at school. I ended up with Blue and the strategy guide. Nearly everyone else had Red version, I distinctly remember being a minority to have Blue. I ended up being mildly annoyed that the Red version mons got more love in Gen 2 (Arcanine having way better stats than Ninetales, Bellossom being an alt for Gloom, Scyther evolving).
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>>35951874 Also I misread the version exclusives and thought Arbok was in Blue. I wanted Arbok because I liked snakes and it's dex number of 24 was my favourite number.
