What was your first Pokemon experience?

[Auserk]

I watched the anime when it first started on TV where I grew up, I still remember watching the first episode. Then I knew I had to get the game when it was released a couple months later. I first had Yellow on my clear GameBoy, then I got Red with a GBC and used to play at my mates house and we would trade and battle for hours every day.

 

[Megan]

From one day to another, people at school started trading Pokemon stickers. That was even before the trading cards made their appearance. The first sticker I got was Omanyte and I traded it for an Ekans. I even got myself a sticker album (which I never finished).

 

[PetalDanceD]

A kid at school gave me one of his cards because he was keen to battle someone and I remember we didn't even play the game properly pretty much just scissors paper rock for first go and bam any move without energies put down.

Misinformed, so misinformed....

 

[_Red]

I remember the day I watched a trailer for Pokémon Diamond & Pearl on youtube... I loved the look of it so much I went out and bought a DS and Diamond! I still remember my whole team to this day...

 

[elnoor]

Absolutely has to be the show I remember it like it was yesterday running home from school to watch it. Show was really exciting back then, unlike now.

 

[AmyTheOddball]

I watched the occasional episode of the show on the TV before buying my first Pokemon game, Diamond, for Christmas the year it came out! :3

 

[Pulsefire]

The story of my First Pokemon.... such a memory it was.
I was given the game Pokemon Yellow by a friend. I've only
seen a couple of episodes of the anime, and my friend told
be that it would be best to play it before watching the series.

Well, at first I thought it was kinda dumb, and I agreed to play it.

The Beginning of my Adventure:

Guess who I got. Pikachu of course. Cutest thing I'd ever seen. I got
stuck on the first gym, and keep tying to beat it just by sheer tactics.
I got stomped, flattened, and tossed aside(Anyone know this reference?).
I raged quit the game. He said "Relax, it happens." He showed me that I
should catch other Pokemon, even if I don't want to have the ugly bird.
So I did what he said, caught a full squad, and wiped out the first gym.
From there, I invested hours and hours into the game, I managed to beat
the game in about 2 weeks time.

So for that reason, Pikachu will always be on my favorite list. Also, considering
it is the freaking main mascot of the series, I thought later on how fitting it was.
It did ruin a bit of the first series for me, but I still enjoyed Pokemon Indigo League.​

 

[KamikazeSSoH]

Pokemon Crystal after that the Anime and then the rest is history