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>>30170581
im 19 and i played red and blue

>>30170615
Red and blue are literally older than you, faggot.

>>30170581
>2 votes for 17 or under
Reminder: You need to be at least 18 to use this website.

>>30170615

Playing it on the 3DS doesnt count faggot

>>30170630
>>30170799
He could've played it in 2002.

I mean age 5 is where you start becoming aware of shit and your "childhood" truly begins

>>30170630
>>30170799
oh i thought he meant who played red and blue. i played it on the 3ds. i didnt people volunteerly played that trash when fire red and leaf green exist

>>30170615
But he wasn't asking for you.

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I'm 31. I was being autistic with R/B when I was 12. Genwunners are still faggots.

The 18-19 voting in this poll who think they experienced Pokemania are liars

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I'm 32, but I was 14 when it came out. I love RBY but people who think it or GSC are the best games need to pull their heads out of their asses. The series gets better overall each gen (though the rate of progress is not even) and watching the series evolve has been amazing.

Honestly, I wouldn't even be interested in either (G)RBY or GSC anymore if it wasn't for the multitude of glitches and arbitrary code executions that continue to be found and documented. I spent more time messing around with that save corruption glitch in Red on VC than I have playing Yellow legit. I've also abused the Mew glitch left and right and I'd be shocked if Bank even let me upload a single one of those lvl 7 Pokemon I've hoarded.

25, 8 when Pokemania hit

I still remember my first booster pack pulls, best one being 1st edition Pidgeotto

I'm 23 and I played Red because I lived in the middle of nowhere and my dad had an original gameboy that I played the shit out of. I was late to the party, but I loved Gold / Silver and I played many, many hours of Ruby when it came out.

i'm 29
and i started with red. i was twelve at the time when pokemon hit europe in late '99

21. Back in Gen I, I played Blue with my brother while he played Red. I must have been pretty young but I definitely remember playing the Gen I games, then eventually I got Yellow. My brother helped me understand the concept of levels, and somehow I got my Pikachu to Lv 99 without knowing what a level was. So he saw my Pikachu and was like "here, let me show you something". He defeated a Golbat, got my Pikachu to Lv 100 and I remember being awed.

Later he got Gold and I got Silver. He got Crystal, but I remember throwing a fit because I wanted to play it too.

Come Gen III though he lost interest while I've laways been a huge fan.

23 here,
Family Christmas Holiday with Family friends.
Woke up christmas morning and unwraped a Red gameboy pocket with Pokemon Red and chidhood family friend unwrapped Blue gameboy pocket with Pokemon Blue.
Best christmas ever.

>>30171297
Wait mew glitch is still obtainable in the VC versions?

>>30170581

I'm 25

>>30171010
This. I'm 24 and I was in kindergarten when pokemania was around. I was the naive little kid you could scam holo cards out of for common shit like pikachu or charmander because "Ash has them!".

>>30170581
>23
>Started near the end of Gen 1

OP Here

If you're conscious enough to remember playing Pokemon in 2003 or before (i.e. when Misty was there, when Pokemania was at its height), then vote on the poll. It doesn't matter if you started late or just got a small taste of it, vote.

But if you're young enough that you only remember 2004 onwards (i.e. post-Pokemania), don't vote.

>>30172225
Actually you were in 1st-2nd grade (if you were 6-7 in 1998-1999)

>>30172269
Can confirm, same age as him, I remember being in first grade when people started bringing in the TCG. I also remember some classmates talking about how Diglett could dig into your skin and chew on your blood vessels, and it put me off for a while.

>>30170581
I'm 31. Got red the day it came out. Still have the cart somewhere. Despite that, some of my favorite Pokemon are actually the newer ones.

>>30170581
I'm 22, I remember playing Red on my game boy when I was around 4-5

23

>>30172269
Nah, I was in kindergarten. My mom homeschooled me for a year, then realized how stupid/hard it is, and enrolled me in public school.
They put me a year behind I guess cause my mom fucked up and didn't teach me shit.

Weird how all of the late 20s (except 27) are lagging behind, even though they were the prime audience for the series. Instead, the poll is mostly dominated by 20-26.

Maybe late 20s folks just don't waste their time on 4chan as much.

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26 playing since pokemon blue.

28 here and got red in 1999. All gens are kinda cool but I am afraid that for the first time I won't be able to remember the names of the new pokemon as 90% of their names are shitty and unintuitive, at least in German.

I'm a bit surprised there are more 31 year olds on the poll than 30 year olds

I've always heard from friends that 1985/1986 should be the "real" dividing line between Gen X and Millennials, because 85fags were the last of those who felt "too old" for Pokemon when it came out, while 86fags were the first of those young enough to consider the series their childhood. But apparently 85fags enjoyed the original games too.

28. Was also the one who started the 'Mew under the Truck' rumour in my school.

>>30172556
4chan is primarily visited by people in their late teens to mid 20s; the other age groups aren't as heavily represented, especially on /vp/, where the median age is around 20

>>30170870

REEEEEEEEEEE

>>30172556
They've matured into Reddit users.

>>30170581
>9 votes for 17 and under

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS

>>30170581
I'm 22

As expected, 20+ is leading, whereas under that is lesser

32. Started with Blue version and haven't stopped purchasing the games since. Stopped watching the show a long time ago due to lack of time and too much repetition.

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>>30172180
yep, they didn't patch it at all
they didn't patch anything other than trading

It's weird that, even though they're called "genwunners", most of them tend to (perhaps subconsciously?) include Gen 2 (sometimes even Gen 3) Pokemon in their definition of the "old/good Pokemon".

>>30170581
31. Didn't really like red and blue when the craze was starting up. I drew pokes for friends and collected cards to practice drawing until Gold/Silver came out. It was then I got my first handheld, a GBC, with Yellow and Gold for Christmas.

I count myself as a fan of Gen1 and 2 well enough to see the "genwunner" hater fad as retarded, but my personal favorite gens are 3 and 4r.

>>30174055
No they don't.

>>30174438
I've seen them do it a lot

>>30170870
if I had 6 bullets and I was in a room full of people I hate I would shoot you 6 times

26
I played Blue when it came out and I've played every gen since.

>>30174055
Gen 1 and gen 2 were released a year appart and are a continuity, as well as most gen 2 pokemon were probably in its final dev stages during gen 1 release. its natural they'd be grouped together

Nobody ever bundles gen 3 with gen1/2

>>30171297
The graphics of the games get better but the pokemon get uglier and the show gets worse voice actors as time goes on.

>>30170581
I'm 19 (1997). By the age of 3 I could (barely) read and my parents gave me and my sister (born in 91) Blue and Yellow. It was right before GS came out, so I skipped gen2, but by the time RS came out I was already heavily into pokemon.

I still remember the week pokemania hit my school. Suddenly the one Japanese kid in the class felt like such hot shit, bringing in all sorts of merch and passing it out. Kids spouted nonsensical bullshit. We had Pokemon card battles over each other's lunches (I remember winning a kid's pizza one day. I can't believe I actually ate it and left him with nothing.) And we pretended to be the legendary birds at recess. I was upset that I didn't get to be articuno even before I knew what articuno was.

As of 1 hour ago, I am 30. Late to school every day because of Pokémon and Samurai Pizza Cats.

>>30174438
Yes they do.

>>30174811
>>30174870
For once the mods did a good job.

I remember moving to Canada at age 8 in 1998. Three weeks before school started, no Pokemon. Then it just came out of nowhere somehow. I even remember my life before Pokemon... Watching Rugrats, Hey Arnold, etc on YTV on the zone. Then suddenly it was racing home to watch Pokemon at 4 pm. Later that year I turned 9 and at Christmas, I got Pokemon Blue.

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Reporting in
>tfw it doesn't work anymore

27. I started with Yellow.

>>30174969
Change the batteries.

29. Begged my parents so hard that they gave me pokemon blue early, despite it being a christmas present.

>>30174873
No I don't.

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21, my first games were Blue and Yellow, and have played every main series game since.

I initially skipped Platinum cause I really didn't like Diamond/Pearl and I was going through a "too cool and mature for Pokemon phase."

Eventually picked up Plat in high school and bred my first competitive team and have been back into it ever since.

>>30174520
Oh come on now. The original Red, Blue and Yellow are trash now. The progenitors of an era sure, but they're trash.

>>30175317
Was platinum really that great? It's the one pokemon game I skipped and I've been hearing a lot of good things about it on this board. (Story wise as well as gameplay)

>>30170581
I don't know if it makes me a real genwunner if I played FireRed. Literally the only Pokemon games I had as a kid were FireRed and the RubySapphire version of Pinball. We were poor and getting a video game was an extremely rare occurence. I mostly just loved watching the show and collecting the cards and the Tomy Figures before even playing any of the games. I think a lot of kids thought the games came from the TV show. At least in my class. Granted I'm only 21 now so really kids that are my age only felt the aftershock of what was Pokemania.

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>>30174969
>about 5-6 years old
>be with mom in K-Mart
>Playing Yellow, had a very hard time catching Zapdos
>Eventually catch it, save game
>GBC turns off
>Put it down inside a shoebox in the cart because common sense wasn't a thing back then
>Figure it'd be fine since we were already in line to pay
>get to the car
>get extra batteries out
>ask mom where the shoebox was
>She decided not to take them and left them with the cashier
>mfw

I mean I got another, nicer looking GBC (lost one was light blue, new one was the translucent purple) along with another copy of Yellow, but I still feel really sad about it to this day.

>>30175398
Platinum was great. Story was so legit.

>>30175398
I can't really comment story-wise cause I haven't played it in about 6 years, but it definitely FELT better than D/P.

I really would recommend it.

>>30175434
Wait, why not just go back inside K-Mart and get it? Sounds like you hadn't driven home yet.

>>30170581
28 next month. I was 9 in the fourth grade when pokemon blew up. I distinctly remember on my 10th birthday thinking "If pokemon were real I'd be getting my trainer's license."

>>30175473
One of the reasons I avoided it was because I clocked in about 600 hours in diamond and was afraid it would have pretty much the same story. I'll probably pick up a copy later though, /vp/ seems to really like platinum so yeah.

24, started playing at Ruby/Sapphire.

Was a fan of the anime and tcg during first gen. It started for me around 1st or 2nd grade, I think. Earliest memory was sharing interests with a friend in 2nd or 3rd grade

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>>30175479
We were still in the parking lot, so after about 10 minutes of me panicking we went back inside.

It wasn't in the box and the cashier was playing dumb so my mom didn't believe me. To this day she still thinks that I just lost it somewhere in the store and was trying to shift the blame elsewhere.

>>30175700
>The cashier stole your gameboy.

literally satan.

>>30174438
They do. For most "genwunners" there is 251 pokémons.

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I'm 23. Sadly, I couldn't get involved with Pokémon until 2000, when my mother bought me Pokémon Yellow, because we weren't exactly a wealthy family.

>>30172180
you can even do the any% glitched speedrun on blue if that's your thing

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>>30170581
28. I was literally the perfect age for this. First instantly getting hooked on the show before school while I stuffed my fat face with cornflakes, then very shortly after getting Blue. I want to go back.

I'm 25, still remember everything the franchise went through since its inception. I know it sounds completely fucking stupid ( especially considering im not that old ) but i cant even take people much younger than me seriously as fans of the franchise when they havent lived through its apex, it was something else entirely, a totally different experience. Like the beatles for kids. I was also a big dinos/animals/monsters kid so pokemon hit the sweet spot at just the right time, got me more or less hooked for life.

Played all games but gen 4 only did so on an emulator since i never had a ds. Also been on this shithole for about 10 years and seeing people lately be genuinely nostalgic for gen4 because it was their first game made feel terrified by the age shift in this website and the underage shitposting, it made me really think its time to go. It also explains /tv/'s fascination with harry potter threads, but i digress

>>30175398
Its a really good "standalone" game, along with emerald. It improved on everything its predecessors did, from story to gameplay and technical aspects ( dp were slow as shit ), and you can play it for a gorillion hours without trading or battling with other people and still have an amazing experiece. Its the pokemon formula perfected imo, the only faults i can come up with is the absolute garbage tier legendaries that gen4 brought along ( and gf continued that trend in 5 )

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im 26 and also the younger brother
so my older brother got the games first and then i played them after he got new versions
it wasn't untill gold/silver that i finally got my own game

>>30170581
I'm 27 and started my first record on pokemon red in 1998. I first learned about pokemon a few months before the game came to the states. Nintendo mailed me a videotape all about the little figures and the game, and I was instantly hooked.

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>>30170581
25 here.

22. My first game was Red when I was 4.

>>30172225
22 here and same for me, Pokemania didn't hit right away on 96 here in my country, but on 98 or 99. I was on kindergarten and I remember being scammed and losing a Nidoking and some Pokémon that evolve with trading, like Kadabra, Machoke and Graveler.

>>30170581
I did start with red and I'm 30

>>30178585

Living in the same house as a 4 years old right now... i can't even comprehend how you were able to play a game like that.

>>30175368
>are trash now
That's not how it works kiddo.

27
I was the perfect age for the American release.

28, Red version.