Which version of pokemon is the first one you played?

[wlkwan]

when I was 8, I used GBA to play Pok�mon Gold. However, at that time, it didn't have any translation and I couldn't even go through the first GYM :rolleyes::rolleyes:

[LexieSkye]

Red. I was apparently 12 when it came out, though it feels like I was a lot younger.
I remember getting Nintendo VHS tapes in the mail advertising upcoming releases, including one for the Pokemon games and anime. Was pretty hyped for it.
Don't remember anything beyond that, though, besides using a Game Genie to catch Mew.

[Madotsuki]

First one I played was Leaf Green on No$GBA when I was really young. I saw my older brother playing it on his PC and asked him to set it up for me lol

[Shiro]

OG Silver :)

[Clodsire]

The new Switch game Let's go *cough*
I got into Pokemon through the anime and Pokemon Go xD

[Politoed]

I think it was crystal or silver/gold, I then got my hands on Red & Blue.

[jasokes]

Blue. I had a subscription to Nintendo Power at the time and the Pokemon insert comic piqued my interest. Bought it at a department store the very next day.

[Logic]

Ruby on my GBA

[Erik.]

Blue. I've been bullied throughout my time at the elementary school, so of course they bullied me because everyone else chose Red... The game was still great though, had a lot of fun. Last Pok�mon game I had was Platinum. After that they became too far-fetched and modern.

[Bolin]

Diamond. My cousin who is from Canada helped me to install it. Since I was really stupid as a kid, I have no idea how the trading system works. I gave my very high level Empoleon to my cousin but what he gave me back was his low level Empoleon. I kept asking him to give my Pokemon back but he ignored me and he flew back to Canada the next day. I don�t know why I was so upset back then.

[pia]

pearl! i was very, very young. maybe 6 or 7 when d&p came out. i was very much a tomboy growing up (i mean, still am, i guess?) but had mainly guy friends and they were all so excited about it being released soon. so i wanted to seem cool and bought it too. i genuinely loved it, tho.

[Mr. 49]

Red, and then Yellow. Wow, you are all very young!

[whatsacat]

I started with Yellow. I still miss not having a pokemon following me around that I can check up on in the new games. I feel like I was spoiled with that Pikachu.

[Hellboy]

I first played Emerald/FireRed! I remember that my Dad got one for me when I told him how badly I wanted to play it, ahaha. I was absolutely in LOVE with Mudkip and Marshtomp

[DC Comics]

Technically Pokemon Pinball hahaha. That was my first game for my Gameboy (though when I first gone mine it was already the GBC era, so technically first game for my Gameboy Color). First mainline game was Yellow :)

[j03]

Pokemon Yellow, followed by getting my first GBC game... Pokemon Blue. :)

[npm]

I dont remember if it was Pokemon Blue or Pokemon Red but it was one of those games in my old game boy color.

[GloomGloom]

Pokemon Yellow, got it with Game Boy Color in 2000 or so. Still have the cartridge in a box in storage. Had to change the battery a number of times now. At some point I lost the screw... And then half of the damn cartridge (the front fell off). But it still works..! As long as you don't move or breathe or anything, lol. Usually when I try playing it now it's mainly to see if I can get Mew before my save corrupts. Eventually I'll figure something out for it.

I remember having a Japanese friend who had the Green version! Was so jealous but also deeply confused. I imagined all sorts of crazy unique Pokemon must be on there.

Off-topic on this but I eventually lost the Color (stolen :() and got an Advance. In 2004 I carved "2006 the world will end, Bible Code" after watching some dumb doomsday show on the History channel or something. The whole June 6th, 2006 thing, as if deities adhere specifically to the Gregorian calendar lmao. Ahh, childhood....

[Erik.]

Technically Pokemon Pinball hahaha. That was my first game for my Gameboy (though when I first gone mine it was already the GBC era, so technically first game for my Gameboy Color). First mainline game was Yellow :)

Oh yeah! I totally forgot about Pokemon Pinball. I still have it somewhere. I remember it's ridiculously hard to play... Didn't it have a special battery slot in the cartridge so it can 'rumble' like a real pinball game if you play it?

[DC Comics]

Oh yeah! I totally forgot about Pokemon Pinball. I still have it somewhere. I remember it's ridiculously hard to play... Didn't it have a special battery slot in the cartridge so it can 'rumble' like a real pinball game if you play it?

Yep!!! It was this big giant clunky game cartridge with a full on battery slot haha

[ezekielhabermann]

Through other people, technicality it was Blue that was my first game. I didn't really get to own and play through a game for myself until Silver.

Probably for the best, Gen I mechanics are whack.

[Psellia]

I really don't remember, I really enjoy Jotho a lot because we can walk with our Pokemon

[kiara]

Pok�mon Red, it wasn't what I was expecting because at that time graphics were far better than that but I became addicted fastly. Then I discovered Pok�mon Green Leaf and I fell in love of the franchise.

[klgw1992]

Might be a bit late to this post, but the first version I played was Pok�mon Red on a brand new Gameboy Color.

The memory of that day still remains fresh. Good times, very good times..

[Platypus]

Pokemon Blue on the Gameboy SP! I remember spending so many elementary school nights trying to beat the elite 4

[Dracula]

Pokemon Gold. Recently bought HeartGold lol, for the nostalgia

[CopycatNinja]

My first pokemon was red version! I have alot of good memories trying to stay up late at night huddled next to my night light on my gameboy with no backlight trying to play without my parents knowing haha :) Gen 1 still has a special place in my heart. I go back and play it every few years.

[Synth Salazzle]

Pokemon blue! I've loved pokemon ever since it released in the west.

[honeybadger]

Yellow was my first! Though by time I played it, Gold and Silver were coming out, so they were all pretty close to one another.

[Bowsette]

Pokemon Red

[Hikimaru]

It was Pokemon Gold in my old GBC. Fun fact is that the game was broken and saves would most of the times disappear, so I was forced to finish it all at once with the videogame on the charger, so it was also the first "speedrun" I've ever done :P

[ZeroTwo]

GBC Pikachu U.S version



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[Crow]

Pokemon Stadium on the N64 is still the only version of Pokemon I've ever played.

[Teakwood]

Pokemon Blue was my first one.

Then I've bought every single game since then. Super excited for Sword/Shield!

[Jhin]

Pokemon Red edition, the day it came out! I lived in Germany at the time, I swear to god I didn’t put my Gameboy Color down

[tobyfox]

My first Pokemon game was Pokemon Gold ~ I've had pretty much every single game since. Except for the n64 set because I never had the console but I did play them at friends places.

[Heck]

My first was Pokemon Silver! I was about 5-6 when my mother let me pick it out at Walmart after a dentist appointment. I didn't even know how to read so it took me a good 4 years to beat the game (I was stuck at Morty's gym rip). I distinctly remember the day I finally passed it. My Typhlosion was extremely overpowered at that point lmao. I remember finding a shiny Girafarig in the grass near Lake of Rage. Had no idea what a shiny Pokemon was and thought it was a glitch until years later. Good stuff.

I've followed the mainline games since then and while ORAS and X&Y are my top 2 (I'm a sucker for graphics), Pokemon Silver will always have a special place in my heart. :)

[pooky159]

I remember playing Pokemon Red and Blue on my old Gameboy Pocket in black and white. Then I got a Gamboy Color and I thought it was the craziest thing to have a colored screen.

[Mr. 49]

Red. I played on one of those ugly teal Gameboy Colors, and also had the translucent purple one later after I broke that one I think.

[tcas4200]

Pokemon Red on the original fat Gameboy. Never bothered upgrading to a GBC since Silver would run on original too.

[Yukki]

Mine was Soul Silver, love to see my pokemons follow me when my character walk around the map. But walking is simply too slow and i end up using bicycle most of the time lol ~

[Timmy101]

Pokemon silver on GBC was my first introduction. It’s amazing that they are still making them after all these years and that they are still enjoyable.

[Stardust]

Pokemon Yellow

My sister got it for Christmas when we were young, and I decided after watching her play it that I wanted it too haha. I ended up getting it as a birthday gift and loved it! I adored my little Pikachu and how it'd walk around with me. That game is what got me into Pokemon :)

[kez_min]

Pokemon Red game boy color.

I asked a random girl in the school playground if I could watch her play. It looked so much fun so I asked my parents if I could get it.

That same girl ended up becoming my closest friend and actually the person that introduced me to neopets as well.

[Minerva]

Yellow! (then Blue while my brother played Red). Oh those were the days, playing at night required a worm light but you sacrificed battery LOL

Back in my day... :P

[Styx]

Silver. I bought the cartridge without realising I needed a video game console first. That was the start of my downfall. :D

[Ashen]

Pokemon Yellow-I got the Pikachu edition Gameboy with it for Christmas wins ago.


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[Lenars]

Yellow first but I spent over 100 - 200 hours on Emerald. Good times :')

[Sakuras]

Yellow first but I spent over 100 - 200 hours on Emerald. Good times :')

We're in exactly the same boat haha, except I'd also add Crystal to the 200+ hour list lol.

[ghekolus]

Blue was my first and my favourite

[Hawk]

Yellow was my first pokemon game. I loved hving pikachu walking behind me!

[Stocking]

Pokemon White was my first game. I was obsessed with Pok�mon before that, but I never got into the games until White.

[JotaDE]

Mi first game was Pok�mon Blue (Azul in spanish). Still i have the card game with my firsts Pok�mon (^.^)

[Domier]

Platinum! I got it for Christmas when I was 10 and racked up nearly 500 hours since :^)

[ShyRaine]

If we're talking about just the main series games, then I started with Ruby on the original GBA.

If we include spin-offs, then I started with Pokemon Colosseum. My enjoyment of it is what got me invested enough to try the main games too, after spending years just caring about the anime.

[tiny0]

The first version I ever played was actually Pokemon Red on my gameboy pocket. For those of you who aren't aware the game boy pocket didn't have color. My starter was always bulbasaur, I used to get stuck in Mount Moon for hours.

[cute can kill]

First version I played was pok�mon Yellow. I enjoyed so much and Pikachu was always my favorite as a kid (now it's Growlithe :P)

[Aase]

Red for me on a Gameboy that was originally my brothers.. Gave him some wrestling figures a kid gave me at school for it xD

[Corvid]

it's a little silly, but i just started playing sword on the switch about two months ago.

got rapidly addicted and i'm slowly making my way through the rest of the series. how did i not get into this ages ago?!

[sparklies]

Yellow was my first as well. I was sorely disappointed when the others didn't have your Pok�mon walking beside you or behind you!

[luisfernandoks1]

PEARL, i love sinnoh so much

[housez]

blue :D

My favorite was gen 3 ruby/sapphire/emerald. I love all the starters, especially Treeko. Emerald was super cool to me because of the duplication glitch at battle frontier. Caught a shiny ralts and was duplicating it like crazy and trading stuff here and there for it.

[Nutz]

Gold/Silver/Crystal are my favorites, close second is Emerald. Anything new I can't really get into....

[Foxglove]

Pokemon Gold, when I was 10!

[steeler]

Pokemon Crystal in my GameBoy Color!!! Still an amazing experience even now to play in an emulator or in the nintendo switch from the e-shop.

[Neal Caffrey]

Ruby (emulator) and Y (3Ds, bought for this :P)

[Anteiku]

Platinum was my first and definitely still makes my top 3

[loveking520]

Silver ...long time ago.....

[Saturnine]

My first portable was the game boy color, so I ended up playing Silver first (but not long after I bought red/yellow)

Sword and Shield are the first games of a generation I didnt buy (and probably won't)

[hellraid]

Played red for a little while at a friend's house. But gold was the first game I owned. Put so many hours into that game. Had all but 4 pokemons then someone stole my cart and deleted my save :(

[Solgaleo]

I remember playing Red, when it first came out, on an emulator on my family computer. Bought a guide for it and everything! First copy I actually ever owned was Gold. Got it with my GBC which I actually still use to this day!

[Anteiku]

When I discovered emulators I downloaded all of the mystery dungeons. Explorers of time was so good. I wish gamefreak would remake some of the old mystery dungeons on the switch instead of pumping out new games with disappointing graphics

[Red]

The first one I got to play on something that was not an emulator was Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs. That game was so fun I just wish Pokemon would do Ranger games again but since the Switch doesn't have a touch screen option, the whole Ranger series is gonna get trashed.

[Nimue]

The first one I ever played was Yellow on my GameBoy Color :) I still have the cartridge and system <3 And I remember my first level 100 was on that game too - Zapdos!

[My name is Yoshikage Kira]

Yellow version was my first, I still have the same cartridge after all this time.
I have gotten my niece into playing Pokemon Lets Go Eevee, super stoked to help the next generation get into Pokemon :)

[CaptainMuurica]

Blue was my first with the OG gameboy brick. No backlit screen, it was a struggle back then.

[aaronsd]

Ah the memories: I remember when Pokemon Emerald just came out. I cried and cried for my parents to buy me a GBA for Christmas. It didn't happen, ended up saving all my pocket money without buying lunch at school for ages and finally had enough to buy it myself (after my big brother contributed for my cause too). Good times! And now, many years later, I have such a soft spot for all the GBA and N64 games and I've been in the process of collecting whatever I can in whatever condition with original boxes/instructions if possible!

[Nimoligist]

My first ever version was Pokemon Blue for GBC. I remember I kept sharing it with my sister we loved geodude.

[Sam_20188]

First I tinkered with was yellow. But first I actually played through was Ruby. Remember taping buttons down to hatch eggs on the mach bike.

[Nami]

Ohhhh nostalgic feels. I was about six years old as I got Pokemon Red! I remember trading with my neighbours all day, I once promised a friend of my brother (he was 10 years older) that he'd get my charizard for his blastoise and I gave him a metapod instead. He was very angry but I was a cute lil child so nothing else came from it. XD

[Oshun]

Oh man pretty sure it was Pokemon blue on a sweet gameboy color that was this ice purple color and kinda see through. Those were the days.

[raz]

The first one i played was Pokemon Emerald but the first Pokemon game I've finished is Pokemon Platinum. All in emulator.

[Ked]

Pokemon Red was my first. It was actually the first game I ever owned for my GBA. My absolute favorite would have to be emerald tho :).

[Alienator]

I started off playing Pokemon Blue on my mom's old original gameboy, and then I got pokemon red for my birthday not too long after. I bought myself a gameboy color, and the rest is history lol

[Khloe]

My first version would be a toss up of yellow, red and blue. All three were gifts at Christmas the year they came out.

[wantingtoknow]

Yellow! my friend got blue so I really wanted to get a pokemon game so my dad got me any pokemon game which turned out to be yellow. Suffice to say that I enjoyed it so much that I got every pokemon to level 100. That was my childhood right there.

[deMorphine]

Pokemon Ruby is my first, I still have my game pack with over 600+ hours..itching to restart.

[katongpool]

The OG pokemon red all the way back in 2002. Crazy how it has been 18 years wow.

[Robindoo]

I played Pokemon Blue as my first pokemon game

[l0st1d0l]

Mine was Pokemon Silver when I was about 10yo. I remember playing it on my GBA SP (which I still have!) and boy, it was so fun!
Playing the remake made me enjoy everything once again with revamped graphics

[Houndoom]

I got Red for my 8 year old bday, along with the sweet see-through purple gameboy color.
I then convinced my mother that it was LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE without a guide, and the guides at the store we were at only came with another version of the game. So I got yellow version too :D

[Antonio]

Gold! On the GBC, i didn't understand much since it was my brother who got me to play it, Lance was so scary back then :P I'm playing now Crystal on an emulator ^^

[Dontlookme]

If I remember it right, the first one that I played was a Crystal japanese version long long time ago...later, I've played all the GBC and GBA versions, being Fire red my favorite from all

[Tyranitar]

My first pokemon game ever was Pokemon Crystal.
It was amazing! I was like 10 yo, christmas party, my cousin told me she knew where our presents were hiding.
So we went to check them and there ir was! My first Game Boy with Pokemon Crystal!!!

I was so excited. After that I became obssesed and also played Pokemon Sapphire, Fire Red and Emerald.

[rodzina]

I used to play Red, Blue and Yellow as a kid on the Gameboy colour! Played a few of the others over the years but just recently got a switch and Sword and love it!

[xChoppie]

The first version I've played was Pokemon Yellow on my Gameboy pocket, which happens to be yellow in colour as well. :D

[Aldrif]

My sister and I had red and blue, we would swap games when one got tired or couldn't beat someone.

[Flamingo of doom]

Red on my GameBoy Colour. Charmander as a Starter .

[Chenbi]

Pokemon ruby on an emulator. My favorite game.

[McFly]

I got Pokemon Red with my new gameboy color that was lime green! Loved the hell out of it.

[bootiesrus]

I never had a GB/GBC/GBA so when I got my first PC and found out about emulators I immediately played Pokemon Yellow ~ followed by Crystal haha.

[Dita]

My very first game was Pokemon Crystal! I didn't get the first green games because I didn't know about them and also I started off getting into pokemon through the tcg.

[Lilostitch]

I guess red? But I think I've actually played it in an emulator because I didn't have GB at that time. All my friends had and I was so jealous. And then when I finally got one my parents never bought any pok�mon games I asked them for. D:

[Appletun]

fire red! got it for my birthday along with a gameboy advance and been hooked ever since.

[Double.Trouble]

Blue, my friend let me borrow his GBC and play it. I think it was 1999.

[jprameau]

Red, but I threw it down a storm drain because I was so mad Tauros wouldn't stay in the ball. After that I only used Blue :)

[StockingAnarchy]

Pok�mon Yellow. I was at a gym (little kid) while my parents worked out. I had a game boy and a Disney game. We couldn�t really afford much but whatever I loved it. I got bored and started reaching into the seat I was on and inside the seat wedged between the cushion and seat back was a Pok�mon yellow game! It already had Pok�mon on it but no one was around and the gym let me keep it. It got me hooked.