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How did you become a Pokémon fan?

Re: How did you become a Pokémon fan?

My third-grade crush and his friends were playing Pokémon RPG (as in they were acting it out) during recess.

Needless to say, I became instant fan!

Also, the reason I got interested was because there was a character named Misty, who they said was a Pokémon trainer. Before I knew exactly what Pokémon was, I thought a trainer was like a teacher, and, ironically enough (as I had never seen a Pokémon before) I thought in my head Misty looked like what I later learned was a Corsola. Seriously, though, before I even saw the anime or anything.
 
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when i was about three I got red and blue from my bros.I could not read so i did not play it much. years later, I got passed down pearl when one of my bros. got platinum. later that day I got addicted to the game. than two years later i got to preorder Soul Silver. that same year I preorder Pokemon Black
 
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I bumped into a shelf in a game store and it dropped a Pokemon Soul Silver game.
 
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I was in prep(that is, the grade that precedes grade 1 in primary school), and one of my friends gave me a Pokemon card.

Now I'm in year 7, and still going strong~
 
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I entered the pokemon world in compete and utter loath of it, in the seventh grade while it was all the rage I would see kids at school with their card collections and my best friend would tell me about the episodes she had seen in her mom's at the time boys daycare, and we would just love to make fun of how stupid we thought it was. But then one day with homework finished I was browsing channels and noticed pokemon was on, so I decided to take a look just to see how stupid it was; Mind you all that time of hating it this is the very first time I had actually seen the show, and believe me I have very much learned my lesson because after that day I became addicted, I had several of the videos and almost all the games. This addiction is long since reformed I am not quite as into it as I once once including the games although I still play every once in a while, in fact I am training for the elite four in my sapphire and actually found this website as I sought out a place to ask a sapphire question(which I will do in the appropriate section).
 
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I got into Pokemon maybe a few months after Red and Blue came to America. I was much like the above poster in the belief that, initially, I thought Pokemon was stupid. Mainly because it was elementary school - You see fads come and go all the time, and the fact that it's everywhere and people won't shut up about it just makes it even more annoying.

However, I had seen some of the characters before. I thought they were cute, admittedly, so I got curious and talked to some kids. One of them gave me a Doduo card, and another gave me a Vulpix. I thought Vulpix was insanely cute, and then I got to talking with other kids on the bus about the video games, and I thought it sounded cool. I wasn't into video games before then, so I begged my mom to buy me a GBC and a Pokemon game. Later that week, we went to Toys R' Us and got just that...

After that I watched the anime pretty much religiously, and bought any games when they came out. I was seriously pissed when they got rid of Misty and Brock though, and I didn't watch or play my games for a long time. My DS was stolen sometime between the release of Pokemon Leaf Green and Pokemon Diamond and Pearl - I didn't have the money for a new one until nearly a year after D&P came out, but I did eventually get one and a copy of Diamond. So here I am! :3
 
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Well, for me, it started when I was 5 or 6, and watching through the weekend morning cartoons. One of them was, well, Pokémon. I instantly got interested in the series and watched it all the time. I also knew there were cards and games, but didn't care much about them at the time... Later, when I was... 7 or 8, I think? the fad hit the school(mostly cards, but I remember some kids bringing their games too). Now, I had always been the kid to not get into fads unless I was actually interested in it, and seeing how I already liked Pokémon, I though "hey, it's cool that it's got so big" and I was given some cards by a random kid to start off(a Koffing, and a Persian collector card, the kind with a picture and info of the Pokémon) and started loving that part of it too (Later, I started playing the ACTUAL game with rules and decks and stuff, and continued until... a year ago or so). Also, at that time I got a new friend who had some of the games(I think Red, Yellow, Gold and Silver)- I tried some of them, and instantly thought "WOAH THIS SHIT IS EPIC" Then, I asked my parents, and finally, for my 9th birthday, got a GBA with Pokemon Crystal. (Later, I found out the anime was kind of lame but I continued loving the games.)
 
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Re: How did you become a Pokémon fan?

I was at the State fair and channel nine was handing out stuff, so I walked over there and they were handing out little super balls with some yellow and black mouse thingy in it. It was the new show coming this fall, Pokemon!

I thought , it'll never catch on
 
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I remember when me and my sister used to watch (Well try to anyway; the old Game Boy's made it hard to watch -anyone- play unless you were the one doing it. Bad lighting didn't help either) him play several games, one of which was Pokemon Blue. He eventually gave that cartridge to my sister, and the rest is history.

Actually, I think my cousin was the gateway to multiple series of games, one of which was Final Fantasy (8 + 9 in particular; I still remember the first scenes from the game I saw him play)
 
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I remember a few years ago, when my local games store was clearing out its GBA games for DS ones - Pokemon Emerald stood alone on a single shelf. While I did not buy the game, I was rather intrigued, I was not interested in the "Internet" at the time, but I kept remembering the dragon "Pokemon" on the cover, and when Soul Silver hit the stores, I was eventually driven to buy the game, and not pass up an opportunity like this again.
 
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When I was older, I saw the show and generally enjoyed it, although I wouldn't call myself a fan. Then I rented Gold from a blockbuster one day just to try it, I thought the whole point was to "catch 'em all" Like it said in the show, but the boxes got in the way and I just gave up on it.
Then came grade 1 when I became friends with a couple of pokemon fans and they all loved the game. I eventually saw one of them playing saphire, so I asked for ruby for christmas and I got it. Huge fan ever since.
 
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around 1998 (when i was born) i first saw pokemon. i just loved the show and stuff so in 2003 when i was around 7 years old i got my first pokemon game! i was so hooked on the game i beat it in a month...:sweatdrop: can you guess what the game is? if you guessed sapphire you were right! (:3) after beating my game and getting bored with it sadly i decided to sell it. so when the DS (copyright nintendo) came out i got daimond, beat the game, and founf out that i could migrate pokemon >:D am i writing a biogrophy??? :sweatdrop:
i had fire red and leaf green from b4 sapphire so i took my blastoise lvl 100, charizard lvl 100, and my venasuar lvl 100 and migrated those (:3) sadly my dog ate my daimond version a few weeks ago (-_-) thankfully i had already traded my giga pokemon to my heart gold!!! :grin: so thats my story ~lawl~

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Re: How did you become a Pokémon fan?

I saw a Charizard lunchbox that spiraled into a long series of events that eventually led to me becoming a Pokemon fan.

Possibly why Charizard is still my favorite, that and the simple fact that Charizard is the best Pokemon without any question.
 
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It existed. Rofl
First time I saw it in America was on the lunchables.
 
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When the Pokémon craze first started to hit Iceland, a boy in my class got interviewed about it by a newspaper and the article was hung up in our classroom. It was illustrated with the Sugimori art of Pikachu, Mewtwo, Magnemite, Gastly and Drowzee. I thought the creatures looked kind of neat but being the angry non-conformist that I was, I immediately resolved I would not get sucked into this dumb fad like everybody else.

Then my cousins hooked on, and I rolled my eyes when they kept playing their Red and Yellow versions, and eventually they convinced me to try Yellow. I picked it up determined to dislike it, but then I didn't. I fell in love with the creatures (the cute sprites in Yellow really helped - I don't think I'd have gotten so into it if they'd happened to hand me Red, to be honest) and the little I properly understood about the battle system, played it obsessively, made up excuses to see my cousins so I could play it, and then asked for a Game Boy Color and Yellow for Christmas. My parents actually gave it to me and I subsequently spent all day playing it.

Then I went to school, ready to share my excitement over my new awesome Pokémon game, except then everybody had gotten these new awesome games called Gold and Silver. I was immediately determined to dislike them, too, but sometime in the summer I asked for Gold anyway. Then I got Crystal that Christmas, and because I'd found this awesome website called Mew's Hangout, I'd started to make a website of my own that would be totally awesome and the best Pokémon website ever. The end. Except not and here I am eight years later posting on that website's forum.
 
Re: How did you become a Pokémon fan?

When the Pokémon craze first started to hit Iceland, a boy in my class got interviewed about it by a newspaper and the article was hung up in our classroom. It was illustrated with the Sugimori art of Pikachu, Mewtwo, Magnemite, Gastly and Drowzee. I thought the creatures looked kind of neat but being the angry non-conformist that I was, I immediately resolved I would not get sucked into this dumb fad like everybody else.

Then my cousins hooked on, and I rolled my eyes when they kept playing their Red and Yellow versions, and eventually they convinced me to try Yellow. I picked it up determined to dislike it, but then I didn't. I fell in love with the creatures (the cute sprites in Yellow really helped - I don't think I'd have gotten so into it if they'd happened to hand me Red, to be honest) and the little I properly understood about the battle system, played it obsessively, made up excuses to see my cousins so I could play it, and then asked for a Game Boy Color and Yellow for Christmas. My parents actually gave it to me and I subsequently spent all day playing it.

Then I went to school, ready to share my excitement over my new awesome Pokémon game, except then everybody had gotten these new awesome games called Gold and Silver. I was immediately determined to dislike them, too, but sometime in the summer I asked for Gold anyway. Then I got Crystal that Christmas, and because I'd found this awesome website called Mew's Hangout, I'd started to make a website of my own that would be totally awesome and the best Pokémon website ever. The end. Except not and here I am eight years later posting on that website's forum.
 
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When I was about 3 or 4, or indeed 5, but not 6 (:S) we were going on holiday somewhere and my brother left the car, leaving his GBC on the seat with Pokemon Red in. I picked it up and started playing with it.

...I couldn't work out how to make the text scroll.

But then over the holiday he taught me how to play it, and the rest is history. ...ish.
 
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One of my best friends when I was in second grade had a Game Boy Color and Red Version, and one day she let me level-grind her Pikachu and Magikarp on it. I fell in love with it and convinced my brother to borrow his friend's Blue Version a couple years later when he got a GBA. And now my brother hates Pokemon and I'm here with three different Pokemon sites in my tabs and a Persian as my profile picture on Facebook XD
 
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When I was a child, my local library let you borrow videos. I found a Pokémon video (it was the one where Ash battles Lt. Surge) and became instantly intrigued. It was years and years before I got an actual game, though.
 
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I'm not exactly entirely sure how I got into Pokemon, but I think this is what happened:

When I was five or six years old, I went to the library often (I still do). I was often intrigued by the colorful Pokemon strategy guides which were in the kid's section. So, I would take these home a lot to check them out and look at the pictures. So, when I got a Game Boy Color, it was inevitable that I would pick up a Pokemon game; that game was Gold. The rest, as they say, was history.
 
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