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
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 I'm playing now Crystal on an emulator ^^
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
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.
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!