What's your earliest Pokemon-related memory? Mine: >Start

RIP thread

>>30858569
I remember getting blue version and wanting to have poliwag as my starter.

>>30858569
>start of gen 1
>I'm 4/5
>mum turns on tv and says 'that looks good why don't you watch that'
>Rest is history obviously

Playing Red until about 11 at night when i was like 7 or 8 years old. On a school night. I got screamed at the next morning.

>>30858569

I remember playing Yellow and seeing Jessie and James outside of a cave... that's about it.

>Playing RSE
>can't even speak or understand English
>only way I knew what to do was with trial and error
>orange was good against green, and bad against blue
>also fucking level 100 Dodrio with drill peck

>parents got both me and my older brother Silver.
>pop what i thought was my game in one day.
>"woah my pokemon changed a bunch from last time"
>"hey bro look at my pokemon they changed isn't that cool"
>"WTF anon thats my game you better not have saved or ill beat they shit out of you."
>mfw he beat me anyway

>>30858569
>be like 7 or some shit
>best friend is really into this new thing called "pokemon"
>he won't shut the fuck up about pokemon
>i start to hate pokemon because it's all he ever talks about
>end up watching an episode, begrudgingly admit that i like pikachu
>end up watching another one a few months later
>and another
>tl;dr i became my worst enemy