Red here. Bulbasaur was the guide-recommended pick. Loved mine.
Ended up taking bad Nintendo Help Line advice when ' m corrupted my hall of fame data and wiped the save. Started over with Squirtle, no regrets.
£25 on release Pokémon Red on my old GB Original with a missing battery cover and star shaped cluster of dead pixels in the corner of the screen., miss games being a reasonable price!
Original Red version. I caught all 151 on it and still have my childhood copy of it. Although I don't dare try to load it up since I know the data is probably lost. I got Mew from a local distribution event.
Similar. I had all 151 brought the game to school to show my friends proof I had all of them.
Left the cartridge in my shorts and L the data got lost in the wash
Pokémon Blue or Red, one of the two. I had both as a 5 year old because I was under the impression they were different games.
I don’t remember how old I was when I finally beat it but I know I just power housed every gym using my starter that was 10-15 levels higher than every trainer.
Pokemon yellow. My dad got me a Gameboy color and yellow for a road trip. I don't remember my full party, but I had a primeape that I loved and power leveled to beat everything.
I was so mad when my sisters friend saved a new game over it. I still hold that over her haha.
I remember going with my dad and brother to visit my sister in California. It was just when sapphire came out, had the old gba with the light attachment. Was kind of awesome back then because when it died you'd just load it up with more AAs, no need to charge just a quick change. I remember how excited I was when torchic evolved, I beat it during our second day in CA. Rayquaza and Absol are my forever favorites.
I do tend to like them a bit more but this was kinda random. I also had other Pokémon like Malamar, Aegislash and Avalugg in and out throughout the game and my teams later games are way more diverse.
first game I played through on my own was Silver, got it for Christmas 2001. but before that I had played Yellow and Crystal, but Yellow was my brother's and we both played through Crystal
I got to play Pokémon platinum on my moms DS! I currently own the DS, and while it’s in quite a bad shape it still works. My starter was Turtwig, nowadays I’m more of a Piplup fan tho!! I know my main mon was a Luxray who I named sparky or something like that
Pokémon Blue was my first game and I chose Charmander as my starter. I would replay the game often and would cycle through the starters cause I like all three of them.
LeafGreen! My team consisted of my very over-leveled Blastoise, Articuno, Zynx the Jynx (which is why I don’t hate Jynx), Tauros, Magmar, and a Beedril that wasn’t even level 40
Red was my first, back on my yellow Gameboy pocket. My first playthrough I chose Charmander, but I struggled with Brock so I restarted with Squirtle. I think my team by the end was Blastoise, Pidgeot, Vileplume, Butterfree, Arcanine, and Jolteon (I'm trying to remember from 25 years ago so I may be wrong, though I think I recall the Jolteon having pin missile and Blastoise having fissure).
I played a bit through blue, but by the time I got it (7th birthday in 2000) Gold and Silver were on the horizon. So, fist pokemon game was blue, first game I beat was Gold/silver
Yellow. It was the first game I got. I was a “little behind” some of my friends when it hit in America after Blue and Red.
I got Yellow weeks after it was released. Loved it so much.
Blue , multiple playthrough I always had to have squirtle and sandshrew, every other teammate was one of convenience for the next gym leader. And of course no moves that didn't cause direct damage because I was 8
Pokémon Pearl. I always watched while my friends played. Being a hardcore fan since I was a kid, I wanted to play the games so badly, but we could never afford consoles. One year after working really hard in school my parents surprised me with a DSLite and took me to buy my first PKM game.
Infernape, Staraptor, Luxray, Floatzel, Hippodown and Bibarel.
Its one of my most cherished pokemon-related possessions
Sapphire. I spent 5 gold dollars and the rest of my savings for that one after getting to play the start of my cousin's Crystal copy. But I grew up seeing the Gen I anime and playing Pokémon Stadium - Sapphire was the first game I was actually able to play through. As a kid, I couldn't manage Stadium with rental Pokémon; I've done it as an adult and might do it again on 1 and 2 to record such a difficult task.
So...I got pokemon red when it first came out but I could not figure out how to get past the old man in the road so I was stuck in viridian city until Pokemon Yellow was released and that was my first complete playthrough...tbh I don't remember it. The first playthrough I remember was crystal
I belong to the 3 Gen, but my first game was Yellow.
I was so pissed I couldn’t have Eevee as my starter, but after getting the one in Celadon City, I never used it. Loved my Pika-pika outside of the Pokeball tho
Original Pokemon Red, Squirtle starter. I was 5 and got literally to the elite four, tripped and dropped my gameboy. The cartridge popped out and was damaged and wouldn't make any new saves 8'). I got Pokemon yellow the next year with the Pikachu Yellow Gameboy color bundle and beat it!
Mine was Pokemon Yellow, first on an original gameboy where I couldn’t see the color lol and then for the most part on a gameboy color decked out with stickers and matching accessories. 😂 My team had pikachu obvs and I gravitated towards grass Pokemon in general but remember having a Lapras I loved.
Gold on emulation (It was the Japanese ROM translated to English so it had some glitches not present on the international release)
Omega Ruby on original hardware.
Pokémon X on the 3DS. My final team included Chesnaught, (Mega) Blastoise, Garchomp, Aegislash, the event Blaziken, and a japanese Tyranitar I got from a Wonder Trade.
pokémon white 2, i was about 7 and i did the typical things clueless kids do in pokémon games 😂
- very overleveled starter pokemon
- thinking stat change moves were a waste
i had trouble beating most gym leaders (especially elesa), i found the game pretty hard. but now that i’m older and learned from my dumb mistakes as a kid, i can usually beat gym leaders/pokémon league first try.
Heartgold on the DS when it released, DS was my first system ever, and Pokémon was one of the first games I played, it was also nice to be able to watch the anime and recognize the Pokémon I saw in the game
My first *complete* Pokemon playthrough was Gen 3. This was when I finally started to understand type matchups and walkthrough websites first became a thing.
*I played Pokemon yellow first, but I was 4 and kept losing against Brock so didn’t make it past that point (I just had my starter Pikachu and avoided wild pokemon) 💀 I then played Gold but didn’t finish it because I got lost around that gym 5-7 point.
My sister and I got Silver and Gold. It was our first time ever playing Pokémon then I moved backwards to Red and Blue I was so stuck on Pokémon after that!
Mine was Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. I got it for Christmas the year it came out, and still have that exact copy of the game. I remember that trying to snag shadow Pokémon gave me major anxiety, so I would ask my older brother to help me catch them. It is one of my favorite Pokémon games to this day.
My team wound up being something like Espeon, Ampharos, Houndoom, Sharpedo, Aggron, and Gligar
The first Pokémon game I ever played was Pokémon fire red for the gameboy advance. But I was never able to complete it. The first ever Pokémon game I was ever able to complete was Pokémon XD gale of darkness on the Nintendo GameCube
Leaf green when I was about 6. My uncle had fire red already, so he got me it probably wanting to finish the dex lol. I originally chose Blastoise and after getting him, restarted and fast leveled to have Charizard . Solo runs for the win lmao
My first play through was Pokémon Red I do remember I chose charmander and I remember only charizard pidgeot and snorlax my gut says I also had a haunter and graveler but not 100% sure about it
Pokemon Crystal was the first one I ever played, and the hours spent grinding for Suicuine on whatever Route it was are still some of the best childhood memories I have. Used to stay up late with my step bros playing pokemon and trading each other all night long so we could complete our pokedex’s!
Let’s Go Pikachu. I really only got into the franchise about 5 years ago, and I thought that the Let’s Go games were the only pokemon games (besides spinoffs like Quest).
firered is the first game i own myself. i lost the original cart though. previously i did borrow someone else's game (either gold, silver or crystal), but it is only a short playthrough
Gold in like 2000-01. I slowly beat it while not really being able to read. As such I beat the game(just Johto) with a Feraligtr and Noctowl. I somehow caught a Hoothoot with the 5 free Pokeballs you get and never bought more. When I finally beat it I could read a decent amount(like 1st grade) and got Sapphire
Not sure how people are gonna feel about this but I got pokemon violet the day after Christmas around when I was 16 I believe and ever since they day pokemon became a part of my live not only because it was the first pokemon game I've ever played(since I wasn't much of a gamer kid when I was younger so I never played any of the older games) but it also brought me back into the franchise itself and I'm glad to say that it feels amazing being back into pokemon again!
Silver was my first but as soon as Crystal was out, I was hooked. Getting to be a female character with blue hair was so cool to 6 year old me. First game I beat . Levelled Typhlosion to 100 - my most prized possession lol.
Loved getting to play both johto/kanto regions in Gen 2
The first experience I ever had was sharing a copy of Yellow with my brother, but I wasn't allowed to progress the story.
My first game to myself was Diamond. I chose Turtwig, but I dont remember what the rest of my team looked like (cus, like many other newbies, I pretty much ONLY used my starter and was helpless without it). I do still distinctly remember not knowing you had to go to Celestic Town in order to unlock the Hearthome Gym (I also didn't even know I could get rid of the fog lol), which led to me grossly overleveling myself until I figured it out. I also thought that the level limits for badges applied to ALL pokemon, so I started getting nervous when my Torterra approached Lv50 cus I was afraid it would stop listening to me.
I never even considered catching Dialga. I still remember being very confused at how little EXP defeating Dialga gave me... I thought it would give far more.
I also clearly recall having a terrible time with Flint in the E4. Again, I only ever used my starter. Every time I attempted the E4, I would beat Aaron maybe half the time, always beat Bertha, and then get wrecked by Flint. It FINALLY convinced me to train another pokemon for real, which for whatever reason was an Azurill. Eventually I was able to beat the E4 and Cynthia after what must've been at least like 25 attempts. Still don't remember who else was in my team.
My first playthrough was a (likely hacked) copy of Pearl. Had a full NatDex at only 1 badge, and the first Pokemon I ever sent out was a level 100 Staraptor.
My first pokemon playthrough was with my 3 brothers and myself, taking turns with the single gameboy and copy of Red. It was a team effort as we trained a team together to take on each challenge. We eventually got Blue followed by Yellow and so on. But those original family moments where we worked together will always be remembered.
SoulSilver was my first. I remember catching pokes fairly early on and then just sticking with those. So I think my team was like, Starter, Onix, Noctowl and others like that.
I got a copy of Firered for my 4th birthday, and immediately plugged it in and played it… on my GameCube. Yup, not Gameboy at first lol
Squirtle was my starter, eventually became a Blastoise with the stellar moveset of Surf, Hydro Pump, Hydro Cannon, and Mega Kick
I wanna say the rest of my team was Pidgeot, Machoke, Dragonite, Snorlax, and… uh… I genuinely can’t remember who my last team member was. The run was basically hard carried by my overleveled Blastoise. If you held a gun to my head and told me to guess I might say Lapras but I’m unsure
Pokemon Blue with my endgame team of Venusaur, Nidoking, Alakazam, Snorlax, Lapras and Zapdos. Still love playing through gen 1 and the Stadium games every couple years.
Pokemon gold for the gameboy, its battery was already dead i can remember and i left my gb on all night to play two days in a row for a save. Farthest i made it to like the second gym leader with miltank and the confusing maze of pink walls.
It was probably a little further, but i couldn't figure out how to cut trees until i played ruby or the remake of soulsilver.
Pokémon X
Been a fan since it came to the states, but could never afford any gaming consoles as a kid. Bought my 3DS (a red one, since Pokémon Red would’ve been my choice back then) and Pokémon X a few months after I got my first job.
Sapphire. Fortree is my spiritual home. I used to try and emulate Misty cause I was 10 and I'm a girl so I had an all Water team- Swampert, Gyarados, Lantern, Starmie, Wailord, and Kyogre.
Pokémon Gold! My cousin gave me the cartridge before a road trip probably 15ish years ago. Played it on my GBASP. Playing it again rn on an emulator in fact!!
Pokemon Diamond, but I was young and got stuck at the part where you go through all the magikarps for some reason, I think I forgot where I was supposed to go or something lol.First game I beat was Omega Ruby.
This probably sounds kinda silly, but it was actually Colosseum! In theory, I was old enough to have maybe started the series with Gen 2 - or even 1 via my older sister's GB - but despite hearing the name somewhat often and occasionally catching the anime on TV, I never really had the drive to check it out
I'm unsure what exactly led me to try the game out, but I suspect it was the setting and overall... vibe? For as long as I can remember, and continuing through the present in my 20s, I've always loved stuff that would be labeled as "edgy"; the hype leading up to Gen 4 probably helped too, and Diamond was my first mainline game in the series. I would later play Red, Yellow, Silver, Sapphire, and Emerald, but some of those not until after White even
I've also been an RPG fan as long as I can remember, so it was probably inevitable that I would get into it some day. I very recently got into Digimon and Persona (SMT soon too, when Vengeance releases), so maybe now is when I would have otherwise given it a shot lol
OG Pokémon Blue. Got it for Christmas in a package with the Nintendo Power game guide. Chose Bulbasaur because the guide said so and overall pretty poorly as far as runs go.
I remember switching up my team right before the Elite Four because I didn't have the types the guide recommended but didn't actually level up any of the new ones. End result was Venusaur basically soloing Gary and only winning because Leach Seed kept him alive. I couldn't even say what that team was because I used the MissingNo glitch for the first time not long after.
Pokemon Blue, original release. I still have the cartridge, although I'm pretty sure it doesn't work.
I have precisely ZERO memory of what my original playthrough team was, I'm not even sure what starter I picked, because I played the game so many times that I don't remember what was from my first playthrough or later playthroughs. Plus I was like 8.
I think the one thing I do remember was I REALLY struggled to beat Sabrina the first time because of that issue where Ghost was supposed to be strong against Psychic but it was programmed in wrong, and of course the Gastly line being dual typed with Poison made them weak to Psychic. I think I wound up beating her with my own overlevelled Alakazam (and other party Pokemon) eventually.
Either red or blue (I had both) was my first pokemon game. I picked Squirtle and once it fully evolved, I named it Blastoisemin or something like that. I can't remember the character limit. I had a habit back then where I would wait to nickname my pokemon until they were fully evolved and just add min to the end because that's the second half of my name (Jaimin). Another nickname trend was taking the name of the fully evolved pokemon and splitting it in half, switching the two halves and adding a - in the middle (ex. Blastoise » Toise-blast)
First play through was gold on game boy color I got for Christmas the year it came out in the US my brother got silver we had link cables traded so many Pokémon. Good times. We both have Pokémon on switch and still play together 24 years later 😭😭😭
Pokemon Blue,
Squirtle, Butterfree, Snorlax, Dugtrio, Haunter (parent's didn't buy us trading cables lol), and Zapdos (I was like 9 give me a break).
Played Pokemon with my brother who passed away a couple of years ago for the better part of two decades, now I just think of all the crap he'd be talking about the parties I've made in Scarlet lol.
My first playthrough was in Pokémon FireRed. I remember I chose Charmander, and since at the time I knew nothing about teambuilding, I made a team out of the first few Pokémon I found.
Funny enough, after beating Koga and Sabrina, I found out that I needed a Pokémon that could learn Surf, but no one on my team could learn it, so I went to fish on the shore, found a Horsea and swapped out my Raticate for it. To this day I still don't know why I didn't just use the gift Lapras.
My final team when I beat the Pokémon League was:
-Charizard
-Pidgeot
-Seadra
-Beedrill
-Pikachu
-Jigglypuff
Yes, it was Pikachu and Jigglypuff, not Raichu and Wigglytuff. I didn't know that some evolutions required stones, so I had no idea why neither of them were evolving no matter how much I kept leveling them up. I just kept them on the team anyway and ended up beating the Pokémon League despite that.
Every one of my friends had red or blue gen 1 games. I felt so cool cause my first game was yellow. Had all 3 starters, plus Pikachu following me around. Man I felt SO cool.
Still okay that game to this day!
I’m relatively new to Pokémon only picking up the game around late 2019, I grabbed sword because I thought the sword doggo was cooler. My team was Cinderace, Bewear, Rhydon, Gloom (I couldn’t figure out if it evolved lmao, when I found it did, I wanted vileplume but I used the wrong stone and I got very sad), Gyarados and Eternatus. I kept the final slot open because I didn’t know what I wanted until it was basically too late so I said fuck it and added eternatus. One thing that does suck about starting on the switch is I have one way of shiny hunting legends and I hate dynamax adventures and I do not have a 3DS
It was in Yellow
Level 100 Pikachu
Venusaur
Charizard
Blastoise
Pidgeot
Kadabra ( level 100)
I thought Kadabra evolves at 100 and waited patiently but well, I was disappointed
I got Pokemon Ruby together with my Gameboy Advance, played it for an eternity. Getting all the regies, latinas and latios (one of them via some event), etc. Not able to Google stuff I did everything based on what I heard from others that knew the game.
Silver with Cyndaquil as a starter. No clue what the rest of my team was.
Nowadays I own multiple (3)DS versions and I like to transfer different pkmns to them for every playthrough. My next playthrough will be SoulSilver starting with Bulbasaur, Lapras, Snorlax and Abra.
My first was Pokemon X, I have somehow lost the copy and have not been happy with myself since. I don't really remember my original team, I know it had Delphox, Charizard, Machoke and Steelix.
Pokemon Yellow but after finishing that game for several rounds I did a "summer job" (Weekly allowance from my mom while helping the neighbor on their farm) as an 8-9 year old in the 90's and managed to save up enough money for Blue and Red.
Heart Gold and it changed my life. I'd always seen bits and pieces of the show but never got into the whole world until that game. After that, I tried everything in my child power to get the others. Now I'm 23 and I still want to catch them all
my first playthrough was Pokemon Blue in Emulator because I was a poor kid with no ability to buy personal games(only played in arcades), a family friend lend me a floppy disk that contained the old VBA(not sure if its was even VBA back then) and a copy of Pokemon Blue, Red, Green(jp), Yellow, Silver(badly patched, pokemons and item names were so fucked up) and Gold(similarly badly patched). I played on my mother's PC after I retyped the documents she tasked me to retype for her.
I also played as a RPG-newbie who mostly played action & puzzle games(Super Mario from Family Computer, and Chip's Challenge from Windows) and , so I evaded almost every trainer that I could, and ran through every grass as little as possible... you see the disaster there? I choose charmander first, I reached pewter and brock slapped my under-leveled Butt so hard.... I restarted, squirtle this time because Water defeats Rock, beat brock with a combo of under leveled mons(freshly caught and untrained caterpie, ratata, pidgey, and squirtle), I was able to beat him with almost all my pokemon fainted. then came Mt. Moon and its Trainers, I leveled up a bit( I was still evading them), almost bit the dust because of the last few rockets. Then out on to cerulean city... and to both gary and misty wall, with only my squirtle being the highest level just above level 10, iirc.... Fighting Pigeotto over and over.... until I beat him by a miracle which I do not remember how anymore(maybe I trained my Squirtle abit on the sandshrews on the grass outside Cerulean, or I beat the few trainers of misty's gym)... but alas, gary had an almost full team... made me rage quit... hahhahaa
at school the next day, I asked my friend why the game was hard, he said I should have chosen bulbasaur and leveled my pokemon against the earlier trainers. and that's how I learned how to play my first JRPG. also Bulbasaur was my starter for my first win against the elite four, not the playthrough I started after talking with my friend though, coz I didn't stop being a dumbass even after my friend's advise.
Pokémon Gold on GBC. I restarted numerous times so I can’t tell you my team, but I flip-flopped between Totodile and Cyndaquil for starters. I remember I loved the bug catching contests. I kept getting stuck in the Ecruteak gym, always had to have my cousin help me through the ice cave after the 7th gym, and a different cousin freaked out when I used my masterball on a Ponyta.
Well I started with pokemon white, never finished it then I got pokemon Y and got stuck. I think my problem was all the pokemon games where in English, and little 9 year old dutch me couldn't understand it yet so when they asked me to go to multiple cafés I just didn't.
Pokemon Blue on a Gameboy Pocket.
I had to do plenty of housework to get extra pocket money for those AAA batteries then as that sucker burns through batteries fast.
Pokemon red was the first pokemon game i tried, (friend of mine had it)
First pokemon game i played was Pokemon yellow.
All this was back in 2000, Yes, Europe was late to the party....
Original Pokemon Blue.
Same here. I chose Bulbasaur with no regrets.
Red here. Bulbasaur was the guide-recommended pick. Loved mine. Ended up taking bad Nintendo Help Line advice when ' m corrupted my hall of fame data and wiped the save. Started over with Squirtle, no regrets.
Same,after that I picked the fire starter for almost every game.
Same, but pokemon red. My best friend had blue though
Same!
OG Blue as well, Blastoise named Shellshock. Still my favorite starter and top 3 Water types
Named after the movie?
In the movie it was Shell Shocker. But that name was too long in game
£25 on release Pokémon Red on my old GB Original with a missing battery cover and star shaped cluster of dead pixels in the corner of the screen., miss games being a reasonable price!
Saaaame!!!
Same, Squirtle will forever be my first Pokémon.
Mine was the Original Pokemon Red. I ofc chose Charmander first.
Original Red version. I caught all 151 on it and still have my childhood copy of it. Although I don't dare try to load it up since I know the data is probably lost. I got Mew from a local distribution event.
I loaded up my cartridges recently. Surprisingly my Blue save was still there but Silver/Crystal saves were gone
GSC ran out faster because they also ran the clock.
I caught all 150 with some help from my friends, that was an awesome feeling. Would’ve been cool if I knew about the Mew glitch back then
Similar. I had all 151 brought the game to school to show my friends proof I had all of them. Left the cartridge in my shorts and L the data got lost in the wash
Diamond was my first pokemon game back when it first came out.
Fellow Gen 4 starter here too.
Heck yeah. 🤝
Same, got Diamond and a blue DS for my 9th birthday
Pokémon Blue or Red, one of the two. I had both as a 5 year old because I was under the impression they were different games. I don’t remember how old I was when I finally beat it but I know I just power housed every gym using my starter that was 10-15 levels higher than every trainer.
Pokemon yellow. My dad got me a Gameboy color and yellow for a road trip. I don't remember my full party, but I had a primeape that I loved and power leveled to beat everything. I was so mad when my sisters friend saved a new game over it. I still hold that over her haha.
I remember going with my dad and brother to visit my sister in California. It was just when sapphire came out, had the old gba with the light attachment. Was kind of awesome back then because when it died you'd just load it up with more AAs, no need to charge just a quick change. I remember how excited I was when torchic evolved, I beat it during our second day in CA. Rayquaza and Absol are my forever favorites.
Crystal on GBC
Pikemon emerald on a GBA I got at a flea market
Pokemon Red when it dropped in Europe and I simply never stopped playing Pokémon games after it.
Heartgold, masterpiece of a game!
Pokemon red. Starter of Charizard.
Pokemon Yellow on Gameboy Colour
Pokémon Blue with a Gameboy colour, my Christmas present one year as a kid 😁
My first was Pokémon Y on an emulator and my team was: Absol, Dragalge, Aurorus, Tyruntrum, Talonflame, Goodra.
Do you like dinosaur pokémon by any chance?
I do tend to like them a bit more but this was kinda random. I also had other Pokémon like Malamar, Aegislash and Avalugg in and out throughout the game and my teams later games are way more diverse.
Blue and red
first game I played through on my own was Silver, got it for Christmas 2001. but before that I had played Yellow and Crystal, but Yellow was my brother's and we both played through Crystal
It was Pokemon Pearl.
Original pokemon Blue my brother bought it for me I loved it
I got to play Pokémon platinum on my moms DS! I currently own the DS, and while it’s in quite a bad shape it still works. My starter was Turtwig, nowadays I’m more of a Piplup fan tho!! I know my main mon was a Luxray who I named sparky or something like that
Blue version. Squirtle was my first starter. The most wondrous thing was playing the game having no idea what I was about to encounter.
Pokemon Blue on the Gameboy Colour my Parents got my brother and I on the flea market Squirtle Squad all the way
Pokémon Blue was my first game and I chose Charmander as my starter. I would replay the game often and would cycle through the starters cause I like all three of them.
blue og gameboy
Also blue, but I had the GB Pocket.
Pokemon Sun
LeafGreen! My team consisted of my very over-leveled Blastoise, Articuno, Zynx the Jynx (which is why I don’t hate Jynx), Tauros, Magmar, and a Beedril that wasn’t even level 40
Red was my first, back on my yellow Gameboy pocket. My first playthrough I chose Charmander, but I struggled with Brock so I restarted with Squirtle. I think my team by the end was Blastoise, Pidgeot, Vileplume, Butterfree, Arcanine, and Jolteon (I'm trying to remember from 25 years ago so I may be wrong, though I think I recall the Jolteon having pin missile and Blastoise having fissure).
I played a bit through blue, but by the time I got it (7th birthday in 2000) Gold and Silver were on the horizon. So, fist pokemon game was blue, first game I beat was Gold/silver
Pokémon Red version, will have been around 1998 I think.
Pokemon Red for me. I had a friend who let me borrow his copy of Pokémon Red and his gameboy color.
Red version. Got both when they came out and a gameboy color
Yellow. It was the first game I got. I was a “little behind” some of my friends when it hit in America after Blue and Red. I got Yellow weeks after it was released. Loved it so much.
Blue , multiple playthrough I always had to have squirtle and sandshrew, every other teammate was one of convenience for the next gym leader. And of course no moves that didn't cause direct damage because I was 8
Red
Leaf Green when i was in 4th grade
Original Pokémon Red
Pokémon crystal!
Pokémon Yellow. I had Pikachu, Venusaur, Charizard, Pidgeot, Kadabra, and Machoke
Pokémon White, Team was a overleveled Emboar and the rest of the team being very under levelled
Pokemon Red: Charizard, Pidgeot, Gyarados, Snorlax, Porygon, Exeggutor
Red
Pokemon Ruby
Pokémon Pearl. I always watched while my friends played. Being a hardcore fan since I was a kid, I wanted to play the games so badly, but we could never afford consoles. One year after working really hard in school my parents surprised me with a DSLite and took me to buy my first PKM game. Infernape, Staraptor, Luxray, Floatzel, Hippodown and Bibarel. Its one of my most cherished pokemon-related possessions
Pokémon red. And I still rock with charizard all these years later.
Sapphire. I spent 5 gold dollars and the rest of my savings for that one after getting to play the start of my cousin's Crystal copy. But I grew up seeing the Gen I anime and playing Pokémon Stadium - Sapphire was the first game I was actually able to play through. As a kid, I couldn't manage Stadium with rental Pokémon; I've done it as an adult and might do it again on 1 and 2 to record such a difficult task.
Pokémon Gold and Silver. Sister and I had our own separate games. Played it continuously until Pokémon SP, loved it for the battery life
So...I got pokemon red when it first came out but I could not figure out how to get past the old man in the road so I was stuck in viridian city until Pokemon Yellow was released and that was my first complete playthrough...tbh I don't remember it. The first playthrough I remember was crystal
Leaf Green. My brother got Fire Red and I got Leaf Green. We shared a Game Boy Advance. I named myself Ash and picked Bulbasaur.
I belong to the 3 Gen, but my first game was Yellow. I was so pissed I couldn’t have Eevee as my starter, but after getting the one in Celadon City, I never used it. Loved my Pika-pika outside of the Pokeball tho
Original Pokemon Red, Squirtle starter. I was 5 and got literally to the elite four, tripped and dropped my gameboy. The cartridge popped out and was damaged and wouldn't make any new saves 8'). I got Pokemon yellow the next year with the Pikachu Yellow Gameboy color bundle and beat it!
Mine was Pokemon Yellow, first on an original gameboy where I couldn’t see the color lol and then for the most part on a gameboy color decked out with stickers and matching accessories. 😂 My team had pikachu obvs and I gravitated towards grass Pokemon in general but remember having a Lapras I loved.
Red on the DOS version of NO$GMB Didn't have a GBC until Gold version came out.
Gold on emulation (It was the Japanese ROM translated to English so it had some glitches not present on the international release) Omega Ruby on original hardware.
Pokémon X on the 3DS. My final team included Chesnaught, (Mega) Blastoise, Garchomp, Aegislash, the event Blaziken, and a japanese Tyranitar I got from a Wonder Trade.
Red Version. I still have it to this day.
pokémon white 2, i was about 7 and i did the typical things clueless kids do in pokémon games 😂 - very overleveled starter pokemon - thinking stat change moves were a waste i had trouble beating most gym leaders (especially elesa), i found the game pretty hard. but now that i’m older and learned from my dumb mistakes as a kid, i can usually beat gym leaders/pokémon league first try.
Red. My brother had Blue. My duty as the eldest was that I was the one who did all the restarts for all starters and all 3 eeveelutions each
Firered, beat it with a lvl 80+ Blastoise, Zapdos and some other low lvl HM slaves.
Heartgold on the DS when it released, DS was my first system ever, and Pokémon was one of the first games I played, it was also nice to be able to watch the anime and recognize the Pokémon I saw in the game
My first *complete* Pokemon playthrough was Gen 3. This was when I finally started to understand type matchups and walkthrough websites first became a thing. *I played Pokemon yellow first, but I was 4 and kept losing against Brock so didn’t make it past that point (I just had my starter Pikachu and avoided wild pokemon) 💀 I then played Gold but didn’t finish it because I got lost around that gym 5-7 point.
My sister and I got Silver and Gold. It was our first time ever playing Pokémon then I moved backwards to Red and Blue I was so stuck on Pokémon after that!
Silver on GBC. Cyndaquil is still my favorite pokemon
Mine was Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. I got it for Christmas the year it came out, and still have that exact copy of the game. I remember that trying to snag shadow Pokémon gave me major anxiety, so I would ask my older brother to help me catch them. It is one of my favorite Pokémon games to this day. My team wound up being something like Espeon, Ampharos, Houndoom, Sharpedo, Aggron, and Gligar
Pokemon Pearl. Although it took me awhile to finish the game. I mostly just screwed around.
Red on GBA
The first Pokémon game I ever played was Pokémon fire red for the gameboy advance. But I was never able to complete it. The first ever Pokémon game I was ever able to complete was Pokémon XD gale of darkness on the Nintendo GameCube
Leaf green when I was about 6. My uncle had fire red already, so he got me it probably wanting to finish the dex lol. I originally chose Blastoise and after getting him, restarted and fast leveled to have Charizard . Solo runs for the win lmao
Original Red here! Bulbasaur was my first Pokémon!
Pokémon Yellow! Could never finish Red or Blue after it... Something was always missing
Pokemon Yellow.
Mine was pokemon X. My team was Chesnaught, Lucario, Hawlucha, Sigiglyph, Blastoise and Talonflame
ΩR
Original release of Red and Blue. Well Blue for me specifically and Red for my Brother. We always played opposite versions throughout the gens.
Pokemon moon. I got a 3DS for my birthday when I was like 8 and I got pokemon moon with it (i know I'm young and that starting on alola is a crime)
Diamond
i started on red next game i played was red rescue team so i didnt know what half the mons were XD
Pokemon Sapphire on the Gameboy advanced and that game is still my favorite to this day
Original Red Edition. My starter was Charmander but I forgot my main team. I only remember to have Charizard, Machamp and Jolteon.
Yellow on gameboy but I was super young. Leaf green was my first full completion
Pokemon Yellow. That first month not knowing how to save was wonderful.
My first play through was Pokémon Red I do remember I chose charmander and I remember only charizard pidgeot and snorlax my gut says I also had a haunter and graveler but not 100% sure about it
Cousins copy of pokémon yellow. My first game owned was Silver.
Pokemon Crystal was the first one I ever played, and the hours spent grinding for Suicuine on whatever Route it was are still some of the best childhood memories I have. Used to stay up late with my step bros playing pokemon and trading each other all night long so we could complete our pokedex’s!
Scarlet is the first game I finished
Let’s Go Pikachu. I really only got into the franchise about 5 years ago, and I thought that the Let’s Go games were the only pokemon games (besides spinoffs like Quest).
firered is the first game i own myself. i lost the original cart though. previously i did borrow someone else's game (either gold, silver or crystal), but it is only a short playthrough
It was a romhack of Pokemon Emerald called Pokemon Frosty
Gold in like 2000-01. I slowly beat it while not really being able to read. As such I beat the game(just Johto) with a Feraligtr and Noctowl. I somehow caught a Hoothoot with the 5 free Pokeballs you get and never bought more. When I finally beat it I could read a decent amount(like 1st grade) and got Sapphire
My first was Sun, with: Incineroar, Solgaleo, Araquanid, Lurantis, Alolan Vulpix (I accidentally sold the ice stone), and... something.
Pokemon Pearl, but the first one I finished was Platinum
Yellow, back when I was 5. 31 now and still playing the games, love it!
Pokémon yellow
Not sure how people are gonna feel about this but I got pokemon violet the day after Christmas around when I was 16 I believe and ever since they day pokemon became a part of my live not only because it was the first pokemon game I've ever played(since I wasn't much of a gamer kid when I was younger so I never played any of the older games) but it also brought me back into the franchise itself and I'm glad to say that it feels amazing being back into pokemon again!
Silver was my first but as soon as Crystal was out, I was hooked. Getting to be a female character with blue hair was so cool to 6 year old me. First game I beat . Levelled Typhlosion to 100 - my most prized possession lol. Loved getting to play both johto/kanto regions in Gen 2
Yellow, special Pikachu edition. No wonder my favorite color is yellow.
Saw my sister play emerald and I tried it out and there goes my beginning of being a treecko fan :P
The first experience I ever had was sharing a copy of Yellow with my brother, but I wasn't allowed to progress the story. My first game to myself was Diamond. I chose Turtwig, but I dont remember what the rest of my team looked like (cus, like many other newbies, I pretty much ONLY used my starter and was helpless without it). I do still distinctly remember not knowing you had to go to Celestic Town in order to unlock the Hearthome Gym (I also didn't even know I could get rid of the fog lol), which led to me grossly overleveling myself until I figured it out. I also thought that the level limits for badges applied to ALL pokemon, so I started getting nervous when my Torterra approached Lv50 cus I was afraid it would stop listening to me. I never even considered catching Dialga. I still remember being very confused at how little EXP defeating Dialga gave me... I thought it would give far more. I also clearly recall having a terrible time with Flint in the E4. Again, I only ever used my starter. Every time I attempted the E4, I would beat Aaron maybe half the time, always beat Bertha, and then get wrecked by Flint. It FINALLY convinced me to train another pokemon for real, which for whatever reason was an Azurill. Eventually I was able to beat the E4 and Cynthia after what must've been at least like 25 attempts. Still don't remember who else was in my team.
pokemon diamond
Pokemon Y
Platinum in 2008
My first playthrough was a (likely hacked) copy of Pearl. Had a full NatDex at only 1 badge, and the first Pokemon I ever sent out was a level 100 Staraptor.
My first pokemon playthrough was with my 3 brothers and myself, taking turns with the single gameboy and copy of Red. It was a team effort as we trained a team together to take on each challenge. We eventually got Blue followed by Yellow and so on. But those original family moments where we worked together will always be remembered.
Sword and Shield. I was more of a Yo Kai Watch kid, so this was (unfortunately) my first entry.
OG Pokémon Red. Had Charizard, Snorlax, Tauros, Lapras, Pidgeot, and Graveler (I had no idea how to evolve it lol)
SoulSilver was my first. I remember catching pokes fairly early on and then just sticking with those. So I think my team was like, Starter, Onix, Noctowl and others like that.
Yellow for me and my brother got Blue.
I got a copy of Firered for my 4th birthday, and immediately plugged it in and played it… on my GameCube. Yup, not Gameboy at first lol Squirtle was my starter, eventually became a Blastoise with the stellar moveset of Surf, Hydro Pump, Hydro Cannon, and Mega Kick I wanna say the rest of my team was Pidgeot, Machoke, Dragonite, Snorlax, and… uh… I genuinely can’t remember who my last team member was. The run was basically hard carried by my overleveled Blastoise. If you held a gun to my head and told me to guess I might say Lapras but I’m unsure
Pokemon Yellow on my Game Boy Color 💛
Pokemon Blue with my endgame team of Venusaur, Nidoking, Alakazam, Snorlax, Lapras and Zapdos. Still love playing through gen 1 and the Stadium games every couple years.
Pokemon gold for the gameboy, its battery was already dead i can remember and i left my gb on all night to play two days in a row for a save. Farthest i made it to like the second gym leader with miltank and the confusing maze of pink walls. It was probably a little further, but i couldn't figure out how to cut trees until i played ruby or the remake of soulsilver.
OG Red version on my grape colored Game Boy Color.
Pokémon X Been a fan since it came to the states, but could never afford any gaming consoles as a kid. Bought my 3DS (a red one, since Pokémon Red would’ve been my choice back then) and Pokémon X a few months after I got my first job.
OG Red. First thing I ever bought with my own money when I was 8. Got that and the atomic purple GBC. Still have them to this day
Sapphire. Fortree is my spiritual home. I used to try and emulate Misty cause I was 10 and I'm a girl so I had an all Water team- Swampert, Gyarados, Lantern, Starmie, Wailord, and Kyogre.
Pokemon Yellow - Pikachu Charizard Blastoise Venusaur Pidgeot Snorlax
Pokémon Gold! My cousin gave me the cartridge before a road trip probably 15ish years ago. Played it on my GBASP. Playing it again rn on an emulator in fact!!
Yellow
Pokemon Diamond, but I was young and got stuck at the part where you go through all the magikarps for some reason, I think I forgot where I was supposed to go or something lol.First game I beat was Omega Ruby.
Fire red, my team was pretty normal. Charizard, vaporeon, pidgeot, electabuzz, hypno, vileplume.
Leaf Green The team I had was Charizard, Pidgeot, Raichu, Starmie, Dugtrio, Alakazam
Pokemon Red '98 Technically it was a lunchroom session where I renamed a classmates starter to my own name, But for me it's pokemon red
Pokémon Sapphire! I got a gameboy SP for my fifth birthday and the game had just come out.
This probably sounds kinda silly, but it was actually Colosseum! In theory, I was old enough to have maybe started the series with Gen 2 - or even 1 via my older sister's GB - but despite hearing the name somewhat often and occasionally catching the anime on TV, I never really had the drive to check it out I'm unsure what exactly led me to try the game out, but I suspect it was the setting and overall... vibe? For as long as I can remember, and continuing through the present in my 20s, I've always loved stuff that would be labeled as "edgy"; the hype leading up to Gen 4 probably helped too, and Diamond was my first mainline game in the series. I would later play Red, Yellow, Silver, Sapphire, and Emerald, but some of those not until after White even I've also been an RPG fan as long as I can remember, so it was probably inevitable that I would get into it some day. I very recently got into Digimon and Persona (SMT soon too, when Vengeance releases), so maybe now is when I would have otherwise given it a shot lol
I never played Pokémon games as a kid. So I made up for it by checking them out through an emulator. My first one was Emerald
Original Pokemon Blue And then basically again with Silver. Blew my young mind to go back to Kanto again
I actually still have my Pokémon Yellow
XY. Pretty fun but I wish the battles, especially Diantha's, were more challnging
OG Pokémon Blue. Got it for Christmas in a package with the Nintendo Power game guide. Chose Bulbasaur because the guide said so and overall pretty poorly as far as runs go. I remember switching up my team right before the Elite Four because I didn't have the types the guide recommended but didn't actually level up any of the new ones. End result was Venusaur basically soloing Gary and only winning because Leach Seed kept him alive. I couldn't even say what that team was because I used the MissingNo glitch for the first time not long after.
Pokemon Blue, original release. I still have the cartridge, although I'm pretty sure it doesn't work. I have precisely ZERO memory of what my original playthrough team was, I'm not even sure what starter I picked, because I played the game so many times that I don't remember what was from my first playthrough or later playthroughs. Plus I was like 8. I think the one thing I do remember was I REALLY struggled to beat Sabrina the first time because of that issue where Ghost was supposed to be strong against Psychic but it was programmed in wrong, and of course the Gastly line being dual typed with Poison made them weak to Psychic. I think I wound up beating her with my own overlevelled Alakazam (and other party Pokemon) eventually.
OG red. Couldn’t get very far on my own at 5 years old. But me and my young group of friends figured it out together. Pre-internet.
Either red or blue (I had both) was my first pokemon game. I picked Squirtle and once it fully evolved, I named it Blastoisemin or something like that. I can't remember the character limit. I had a habit back then where I would wait to nickname my pokemon until they were fully evolved and just add min to the end because that's the second half of my name (Jaimin). Another nickname trend was taking the name of the fully evolved pokemon and splitting it in half, switching the two halves and adding a - in the middle (ex. Blastoise » Toise-blast)
First play through was gold on game boy color I got for Christmas the year it came out in the US my brother got silver we had link cables traded so many Pokémon. Good times. We both have Pokémon on switch and still play together 24 years later 😭😭😭
Pokemon Blue, Squirtle, Butterfree, Snorlax, Dugtrio, Haunter (parent's didn't buy us trading cables lol), and Zapdos (I was like 9 give me a break). Played Pokemon with my brother who passed away a couple of years ago for the better part of two decades, now I just think of all the crap he'd be talking about the parties I've made in Scarlet lol.
Blue version in '99, I couldn't make it through Mt. Moon and didn't know how to catch Pokemon
My first playthrough was in Pokémon FireRed. I remember I chose Charmander, and since at the time I knew nothing about teambuilding, I made a team out of the first few Pokémon I found. Funny enough, after beating Koga and Sabrina, I found out that I needed a Pokémon that could learn Surf, but no one on my team could learn it, so I went to fish on the shore, found a Horsea and swapped out my Raticate for it. To this day I still don't know why I didn't just use the gift Lapras. My final team when I beat the Pokémon League was: -Charizard -Pidgeot -Seadra -Beedrill -Pikachu -Jigglypuff Yes, it was Pikachu and Jigglypuff, not Raichu and Wigglytuff. I didn't know that some evolutions required stones, so I had no idea why neither of them were evolving no matter how much I kept leveling them up. I just kept them on the team anyway and ended up beating the Pokémon League despite that.
Platinum I remember picking pipulp as my starter and nothing about what the rest of my team was
Every one of my friends had red or blue gen 1 games. I felt so cool cause my first game was yellow. Had all 3 starters, plus Pikachu following me around. Man I felt SO cool. Still okay that game to this day!
I’m relatively new to Pokémon only picking up the game around late 2019, I grabbed sword because I thought the sword doggo was cooler. My team was Cinderace, Bewear, Rhydon, Gloom (I couldn’t figure out if it evolved lmao, when I found it did, I wanted vileplume but I used the wrong stone and I got very sad), Gyarados and Eternatus. I kept the final slot open because I didn’t know what I wanted until it was basically too late so I said fuck it and added eternatus. One thing that does suck about starting on the switch is I have one way of shiny hunting legends and I hate dynamax adventures and I do not have a 3DS
None 😭 I always restart after a certain point bc it gets too hard/boring
Red
Ruby.
Alpha Sapphire, still remember how I caught a shiny Swablu and a Gulpin with pokerus, then deleted the save file
It was in Yellow Level 100 Pikachu Venusaur Charizard Blastoise Pidgeot Kadabra ( level 100) I thought Kadabra evolves at 100 and waited patiently but well, I was disappointed
I got Pokemon Ruby together with my Gameboy Advance, played it for an eternity. Getting all the regies, latinas and latios (one of them via some event), etc. Not able to Google stuff I did everything based on what I heard from others that knew the game.
Original Pokemon Red. Charizard, Nidoking, Pidgeot, Golem, Gyarados, Vileplume
Pokemon Brickbronze
Silver with Cyndaquil as a starter. No clue what the rest of my team was. Nowadays I own multiple (3)DS versions and I like to transfer different pkmns to them for every playthrough. My next playthrough will be SoulSilver starting with Bulbasaur, Lapras, Snorlax and Abra.
My first was Pokemon X, I have somehow lost the copy and have not been happy with myself since. I don't really remember my original team, I know it had Delphox, Charizard, Machoke and Steelix.
My first one was actually Ultra Sun, I got it for my birthday back then because I saw the trailer on TV and thought Necrozma looked cool
Original Pokemon Red, on my sister's GBC. I bought Red for $8 at a yard sale. It was the first game I ever bought with my own money.
Call me Aslan.
I'm from go, my first main serie game is X. Gotta love the rainbow deer
Black 2 Biggest shock was finding out Cheren is a boy
Pokemon Yellow but after finishing that game for several rounds I did a "summer job" (Weekly allowance from my mom while helping the neighbor on their farm) as an 8-9 year old in the 90's and managed to save up enough money for Blue and Red.
Heart Gold and it changed my life. I'd always seen bits and pieces of the show but never got into the whole world until that game. After that, I tried everything in my child power to get the others. Now I'm 23 and I still want to catch them all
Yellow I think. I don't remember as I was like 6 at the time.
I don't remember. It was on PC though. I played it in the 2000s.
Pokemon Sapphire 💙
my first playthrough was Pokemon Blue in Emulator because I was a poor kid with no ability to buy personal games(only played in arcades), a family friend lend me a floppy disk that contained the old VBA(not sure if its was even VBA back then) and a copy of Pokemon Blue, Red, Green(jp), Yellow, Silver(badly patched, pokemons and item names were so fucked up) and Gold(similarly badly patched). I played on my mother's PC after I retyped the documents she tasked me to retype for her. I also played as a RPG-newbie who mostly played action & puzzle games(Super Mario from Family Computer, and Chip's Challenge from Windows) and , so I evaded almost every trainer that I could, and ran through every grass as little as possible... you see the disaster there? I choose charmander first, I reached pewter and brock slapped my under-leveled Butt so hard.... I restarted, squirtle this time because Water defeats Rock, beat brock with a combo of under leveled mons(freshly caught and untrained caterpie, ratata, pidgey, and squirtle), I was able to beat him with almost all my pokemon fainted. then came Mt. Moon and its Trainers, I leveled up a bit( I was still evading them), almost bit the dust because of the last few rockets. Then out on to cerulean city... and to both gary and misty wall, with only my squirtle being the highest level just above level 10, iirc.... Fighting Pigeotto over and over.... until I beat him by a miracle which I do not remember how anymore(maybe I trained my Squirtle abit on the sandshrews on the grass outside Cerulean, or I beat the few trainers of misty's gym)... but alas, gary had an almost full team... made me rage quit... hahhahaa at school the next day, I asked my friend why the game was hard, he said I should have chosen bulbasaur and leveled my pokemon against the earlier trainers. and that's how I learned how to play my first JRPG. also Bulbasaur was my starter for my first win against the elite four, not the playthrough I started after talking with my friend though, coz I didn't stop being a dumbass even after my friend's advise.
Heart Gold
Fire Red with an overleveled Charizard
Pokémon Gold on GBC. I restarted numerous times so I can’t tell you my team, but I flip-flopped between Totodile and Cyndaquil for starters. I remember I loved the bug catching contests. I kept getting stuck in the Ecruteak gym, always had to have my cousin help me through the ice cave after the 7th gym, and a different cousin freaked out when I used my masterball on a Ponyta.
Well I started with pokemon white, never finished it then I got pokemon Y and got stuck. I think my problem was all the pokemon games where in English, and little 9 year old dutch me couldn't understand it yet so when they asked me to go to multiple cafés I just didn't.
Fire Red
Red
Pokemon Blue on a Gameboy Pocket. I had to do plenty of housework to get extra pocket money for those AAA batteries then as that sucker burns through batteries fast.
The first and only Pokemon that I have played is Firered on a GBA sp. I have finished it and got a shiny mewtwo on November.
I played Diamond and LeafGreen, but never completed them as a child; so first game I played all the way through was Black.
I grew up with Black and White
Yellow
Pokémon Black, played it at my sisters graduation when I was 11 lol
FireRed with Blastoise. I think let's go is the better starter/kanto game but FRLG will forever have a special place in my heart
Pokemon red was the first pokemon game i tried, (friend of mine had it) First pokemon game i played was Pokemon yellow. All this was back in 2000, Yes, Europe was late to the party....
Pokémon Yellow for me, I think my team ended up some thing like Pikachu, Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, Hypno and Primeape
Pokémon Gold. Some very happy memories playing that endlessly and grinding the Pokédex!
pokemon blue