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Old May 10, 2010, 01:40:51 PM
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If you're allowed to post in this board, then you have probably been a Pokémon fan for the majority of your life. It is pretty amazing to see how so many of us lasted from Red and Blue until now. Sure, Pokémon was mainly only a huge fad in 1999-2002 or so, but for some reason, you stuck around. The question is, how did you make it from the very beginning until here today? I'm not really looking for specific memories or examples unless necessary. Just post your "Pokemon timeline."

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In my case, I started playing the games when I was five or so and living in Arkansas.  My cousins and neighbors were also very into the games, and we had everything from Pokémon cards to Plushies.  I even had a homemade Pikachu cake for my birthday.

When I moved to New York around age 7, I'd lost my Silver version (my brother dropped it INSIDE of a car), I was sort of falling out of Pokemon. I didn't have cable, so I didn't watch the Animé either. It looked like I was done with Pokemon, but then my dad's friend gave me Crystal version. I loved the concept that you could be a female character, and I was back in once again.

I didn't get Pokemon Sapphire until I was 9 or so, because we didn't have the money to buy a GBA. I loved the game when I got it though, and played through the game at least ten times (my brother and I liked to reset our games often). I was also highly interested in the Animé at the time, so it only heightened my obsession with Pokemon.

When I was 11, I pretty much gave up on Pokemon. I was really into Gamecube games like Super Smash Brothers Melee, and didn't really care about Pokemon. But once again, Pokemon Colosseum soon came out on my beloved Gamecube, dragging me back into the series again.

At 13, I got Emerald and Fire Red. I pretty much completed the Pokedex in Emerald and got all of the event Pokemon (I also cloned and sold the Pokemon, but that's beside the point).

Later on that year, Diamond and Pearl released. I only played through those games once though, because I didn't want to erase my data anymore. But I guess the lack of New files started to make me lose interested.

At the point where I was 14, I gave up on playing the Pokémon games, but still loved to talk about them.

Now with the release of Heart Gold and Soul Silver, I'm back into the games again. Whatever Nintendo is doing to keep people like us so interested is really working. I guess these cute little creatures are the last remaining pieces of my childhood, and I want to hold onto them as long as I can. I bet I'll be a fifty year old man who still loves Pokémon.


/Story of my life

Sorry for the huge wall of text, but this is basically doubles as my introductory post as well (Although I'm not one for introductions, so stay on topic please). I could have gone in depth, but this is already nearing a massive biography, so I'm just going to stop. Hopefully you weren't bored out of your minds. So now tell me about your "Pokémon Life Story." It doesn't need to be a huge wall of text like mine, but please have some seriousness in your post. I look forward to reading them.

tl;dr version: Hi, I'm Amir who is good at killing your attention span as quickly as possible. Post why and how Pokémon has been so interesting to you for such a long time.

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Old May 10, 2010, 02:47:24 PM
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I really didn't, actually.
I got into pokemon when I saw my brother playing Pokemon Gold. He was using a Croconaw, and I kept asking him, "AMI!! I WANNA PLAY! DX" and he's all like, "No, later!"
But then when my bro finished the game, he got bored out of it, and I started playing. I chose a Cyndaquil.x3 And that's just all I can remember.XD But then after playing Ruby 100 times, I got bored, quit pokemon for...2 years. Then I got obsessed again, tried playing gold, battery died.DX So then I played ruby, then I my little sister threw my gameboy advance at the window and destroyed it.DX So I stopped with pokemon for another 3 years. Then I got into Pokemon Platinum, I have never even THOUGHT about pokemon for such a long time. Then I started playing that, abandoned my starter, tried to link the emulator to get a sneasel and a cyndaquil (and it worked somehow o_e) from my sister's pokemon diamond. The starter I abandoned was chimchar (meh. didn't like 4th gen starters DX) and I basically continued the love of pokemon throughout there. But I'm into it just because of Sneasel, Weavile, Scizor, Typhlosion, Kabutops, Gabite, Eevee, Mewtwo and Mew and Zoroark. I only like the games though.

thas' my story.
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Old May 10, 2010, 03:06:01 PM
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Man, it's almost like some force in the universe wanted you to stop playing Pokémon, but you kept on trying.
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Old May 10, 2010, 03:07:02 PM
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*copy-pastas text from my Q&A thread*

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WATER you waiting for? Answer my question.

All hilarious puns aside though, what got you first into Pokemon? Playing Red and Blue when you were back in grade school?
Funny story about that. Yes Red/Blue were popular during my grade school days, but I didn't play them. I was one of those people who didn't follow fads, I just did my own things. I was into video games, but at the time all I had was my N64 and the only things I played were Mario and racing games. I was still aware of Pokémon and I knew some of the popular ones like Pikachu, Charizard, and Blastoise.

Now move on later down the line to when Gold/Silver were the big games. During that time I randomly got a free GameBoy Color with games and carrying case (my grandmother used to work at the lost and found in one of the casinos and somebody turned it in. She put it aside and gave it to me. My sister got what at the time I thought was some cheap LCD game that we got rid of a few years later, but it turned out to be a two-screened Game and Watch system. Still kicking myself for letting that go). The three games included with the GameBoy were Lion King and Pokémon Red and Blue. They looked interesting so I played around with them. However I never really got the "point" of the game. I had them for a few months before I eventually traded them into GameStop.

Skip ahead to my freshmen year in high school (this was the time of Ruby/Sapphire). Within my first day I became friends with someone else who was also into Nintendo video games, who you all know as Greenman. Eventually I found out that he was friends with someone else in our Computer Science class who was also a major Nintendo nut *cough*Cat*cough*. I became friends with him as well and it turned out he was a MAJOR Pokémon nut. This started to pique my interest in Pokémon a little. Turns out at the time one of my other friends was selling a Gold cartridge that wasn't saving. I bought it off him for a few bucks, replaced the battery and started playing. Now that I was older and had more gameplay experience I actually understood what was going on and what the point of the game was. From that I became addicted. I then bought Red and Blue. A few months after Diamond/Pearl were released I finally got Diamond and that sealed me as a PokéNut forever. I've slowly been back-tracking to all the games I missed (I didn't even get a 3rd gen game until a few months ago) while still playing the newest ones (HeartGold).

TLDR: I started a little later in the Pokémon then most people my age did, had a few years without Pokémon (Or as it is referred to in the Lego community, my "Dark Ages"), and my love of Pokémon came back after meeting with Cat and playing Gold. So thank you Cat for bringing me back into the world of Pokémon!
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Old May 10, 2010, 03:07:27 PM
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I stopped myself.DX Its not the universe. I just kept stopping, then getting a little bit obsessed, now I can't even stop at all! Its addicting.
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Old May 10, 2010, 03:14:28 PM
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I started watching the anime when I was around six or seven. My dad got me two VHS tapes; I believe one of the episodes I witnessed the capture of Ash's cyndaquil.

One day, I was visiting our local walmart. I saw a green game boy color with crystal on it, so I just wondered around aimlessly for a few minutes before I had to leave. For my seventh birthday, I got a green game boy color bundled with crystal. What a coincidence. I chose cyndaquil as my starter. Will never forget that day.

I played it for quite a long time and this was around the 3rd gen period so I was quite behind But I still loved it. Later on, I got to get gold version as well, replacing the crystal that mysteriously dissapeared after letting a way older boy play it. Then my cousin gave me his old blue version. I got one badge, then it messed up my save data somehow and everytime I tried to start a new game, it'd freeze and start making random beeping noises and what I believed to be a garbled Seal cry. There went that.

Around '05, I got a n64 with stadium 2, a transfer pak, and my Shadow Lugia special edition gamecube, bundled with Pokemon XD. Soon later on got a gba and Ruby version, which I traded heavily between XD and Ruby with my shiny new gba-gcn cable, of which I had bought originally for Windwaker. I had around 300+ hours of playtime, a lv. 82 legit Groudon, and Pkrus.

'08. I got a red ds lite for christmas 07' and it lasted only several months until I dropped it to the point the hinge broke and I was screwed. Back to da' cube! I did, however, extensively help my friend play Diamond and even finished off Cynthia. I loved that game!

April 5th, 2009. Launch day for the DSi, and I had been saving money to purchase, so I got it that day and it's luckily still alive. A month later I got Platinum. Actually only had 100 hours of playtime. Got boring pretty quickly due to already playing most of the game in Diamond.

Summer 09', I got a Wii and Battle Revolotion. Several months later, I lost interest in PBR and traded it in. Meh.

Present- Heard of Heartgold, then preordered 2 months early. I think I have about 120+ hrs of playtime on that. I left my DSi's charger at my friend's house, so I haven't played for a few weeks. Going to his house this weekend to pick it up and do some final ev traning.

I'm planning for the Video Game Championship regional in Atlanta right now; I'm so psyched.
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Fin.

That's my story.
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Old May 11, 2010, 04:07:42 PM
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P.S. Don't kill me, I love you.
<3

Thank you. My story:
It all started when I was 5. GBA... oh yeah. I was in Japan at the time, getting Green. I could FINALLY afford it. I got it. I loved it. I liked how Nintendo was to creative. Then, I went back to America.
Gamecube was the thing then. I was into SSBM, SMS, and other games. Pokemon Colosseum came out! Then I got that. Loved it aswell. I played it everyday. Soon, I beat it. Then..... that same year, I got FireRed and Sapphire. Beat then the next year.
I waited for Emerald. I beat that over 10 times in one year. That was the game that got my current name: BlackRayquaza. I got a shiny Rayquaza at Sky Pillar. The Sky Pillar music is my favorite nonremixed.
Then. Diamond and Pearl... My favorite games at that time. I got both. And then, I got a, guess what? I got a shiny Dialga. Palkia was Modest nature. Beat the games in 2 weeks.
Platinum... Oh joy. Even Arceus with Pokerus. Beat it in a week.
HG/SS... Oh yay. I loved these games. My favorites. Beat in two weeks.
Thank you for reading.
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I'm too lazy to type, so... *copies and pastes*

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Well it all started around 2000, when my cousin introduced me to Pokemon Yellow, when I first played the game, I had no idea what to do, so I just pressed random buttons, and ended up beating Brock  . So I always came to my cousin's after school, one day I finished the game, I got very adddicted to the game. So I asked my Mom too buy a Gameboy and a Pokemon Yellow Cartridge. Then I defeated THAT game, (that I owned, cause my cousin got mad at me)I went to my Electronic Retailer, then I saw no new games. So I went back home, and just watched the Television. I saw the Pokemon Anime was running, so I got very interested in it, and I always watched it for a few years. Then I saw Pokemon Firered in my Electronic Retailer, of course, I bought it. Then I started getting more Pokemon games as it came out throughout the years...I wasn't that interested in Pokemon Games after I beat them all, even the Anime. even when Pokemon Diamond & Pearl were the Today's Most Popular Game here, so I just went on Youtube, and thats when I searched "pokemon" and got Cat's channel, then I watched some of his 8-Bit, Mario Paint, and some other videos (Skitty and Wailord Breeding) I subscribed to him, a few days later though, I got that video...thingy in my Subscription Box. It was his first stream, he was playing Pokemon Games (of course) so then I wanted to play some too the next day. I got Pokemon Pearl, (then Diamond later on) then I played it with other viewers of his stream. So then I was again, very addicted, and I got Platinum, which lots of people found stupid, but I enjoyed it.

So thank you too, Cat, for bringing me to the Pokemon World too Without you, and your viewers, I might be playing some other games, which would have probably bore me. (I got my username from Cat (not really, but) I knew his favorite Pokemon was Buizel, so I decided to add Buizel into it, then most of the viewers there had numbers in their names, so I just added random numbers - 456 and Voila! Buizel456)


Just click in the Spoiler, too see the story of my life
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Old May 15, 2010, 08:41:38 PM
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Alright, here I go:

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I started playing Blue version around when I was... heh, I don't even know its been that long! I played blue until silver came out. Even though I never finished Blue version, I started playing silver. Once crystal came out, I freaked out and just had to get it. The weird part is, I forget ever playing silver and crystal. BUT! I do remember catching suicune.

That's the only memory I have of the 2nd Gen. I never even beat Blue, Silver or Crystal - I still have yet to do so today.
After about 2 years into the 2nd Gen, me and my friend didn't think playing Pokemon was all that cool anymore, especially with all the people against Pokemon during those days.


After the 3rd Gen came out, I still wasn't looking at Pokemon. I still didn't find it cool. About 2 years after the release of R/S, I finally started playing Pokemon again. Even though I told myself Pokemon wasn't cool, there was something in my brain that said "stop kidding yourself. You love Pokemon!"


Finding out about the 4th Gen was actually an accident. I saw Weavile on one episode of Pokemon and said "That's not in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Gen Dex!" My friend (a different one) introduced me to the 4th Gen, already having the game in an R4 (putting DS roms to a cartridge and playing them on the ds).


I quickly found out the release date and waited. On the day of D/P's release, I went to Best Buy and bought Diamond AND the strategy guide. The best part was, I never pre-ordered it.


After awhile of Diamond, my friend (same friend with the R4) showed me a Japanese game. I had no clue what it was and he said it was Japanese Platinum. I was crushed knowing I couldn't get Platinum on the day it came out. In fact, it wasn't until about 4 months after the release of Platinum did I actually get it. This was around the time I got into competitive battling.


One time when playing Platinum, my friend (different from the other two) asked me: "What if they made a remake of Gold and Silver? How would they [nintendo] do it?" So we talked about it for a little while. One thing we suggested was the Pokegear be the touch screen, or even the entire menu being on the touch screen. (Weird, huh?
)

And when I found out about the remakes of Gold and Silver, I freaked out. I pre-ordered the game 6 weeks ahead (I pre-ordered on Feb. 1st just for the Lugia figure) and got to work on my team for Soul Silver. After a month of struggle for the team (especially feebass), I was able to get it and transfer it to Soul Silver and beat the game in about 3 weeks or so.

1 month later, I get Heart Gold and now working on it today.


And that's where my Pokemon life story stands to date.
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Old May 17, 2010, 03:17:25 PM
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^Ugh, I spent what seemed like weeks trying to plan out my English Heart Gold Team. I ended up just deciding to catch whatever the heck I wanted though. But that's sad that you never beat the first two generations (As those were the best overall in my opinion).
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Old May 17, 2010, 03:36:11 PM
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Ah weavile brought you back to pokemon didn't it Quad? XD
Yeah back then people would like go against pokemon, some still do, but we just got a huge franchise and pokemon is sooo addicting.
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Old May 18, 2010, 11:19:08 AM
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But that's sad that you never beat the first two generations (As those were the best overall in my opinion).
Well, technically I have beaten the first 2 Gens with Fire Red and Soul Silver. I just never beat Blue, Silver, or Crystal because I was just a little kid and I didn't know what to do.
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I've been a fan for about 9 years, since around age 15, 2001. Pokemon is something that stuck to me in a unique manner. In many ways it has changed my life completly, by making me take decisions that had a permanent effect. One of them was getting internet, which I did for a person and something invilving me and they and pokemon, although for less orthodox reasons. XD

Pokemon was never handled properly as a fad here in its glory years. When it hit in 2001 much of the country's entertainment industry was still very expensive, and originals both in and out of that industry were routinely replaced with bootlegs. Chinese cheap imitations trumped hard over licensed products in many areas, and Pokemon was no exception. TCG cards, video games, and clothing involving Pokemon were all bootlegged.

The show itself was the other problem. It began airing up to about episode 107 - Charizard Chills, then stopped. Restarted half an year later, gave two more episodes, then paused again. Eventually it picked up again and went as far as end of 8th Johto Gym. Then, once again, stopped.

The bootlegs did little to undermine Pokemon's popularity, and children in my school were all into the business. Few had a Gameboy except for me, as again original products were expensive and rare, but everyone ran around trading cards and playing pokemon ROMs on an emulator. Except me, my 486 computer was so old it couldn't handle emulation until very late into the fad's first phase(when ep 107 was reached). I bought a bootleg Pokemon Blue which could not save thanks to its SRAM battery draining much faster, and then had to go for a bootleg 40% translated Silver cart, which was bad.

After phase one interest in pokemon dropped. Furthermore I went to hischool. Hischool was a completly different environment. I am not a nonconformist "conformer", that is I don't use the terms that goths and metalheads and emos use, but I found the American definition of "prep" to describe them very well. The new crowd, along with my limited social skills, which took 6 years in school to start making friends, plus their disinterest in Pokemon, meant I was unable to relate to anyone. All of a sudden I had cards and games I couldn't play with or talk about. To me it was like having $100,000 in a country that didn't accept dollars.

As the show began to air again and phase 2 started, a number of people picked up interest again, but being the same generation the reaction was more mild. Not being in touch with people into pokemon, and not being part of a world where art, fanfics, and anime were hip, pokemon was widely viewed with strange eyes as a children's cartoon and nothing more. The anime culture in Romania was just beginning, but again my hischool was devoid of people of interest.

A depression from the loss of touch with points of interest, friends, aswell as the environment change ensued. Generation 3 came out and was the first move that cured a near paranoid sorrowful sense that I was holding on to a kids' cartoon in a world where a fad had died and the world moved on. Nonetheless, I remained out of place, and depression continued. This was broken as phase 2 was reaching its end, and Johto was around halfway done. It was because of a weird conjecture of events involving fanfics, a visit on, PokeCommunity forums, a person I would later call Ssar, and a new "development" inside me regarding Pokemon that is very vast and so comprehensive that it belongs in ahem, its own board.

The broadband internet came to me 4 years after pokemon had begun, and put me directly into contact with the people and places I felt right in. Messenger contacts were created, friends and art galleries and forums made my pokemon complex, about everyone forgetting how great it was and how I stood as an old, lone fan, disappear. Online dramas ensued and eventually my pokemon-loving friends would be filtered, leaving only a few and faithful.

Five years have passed since internets. I continue to play pokemon and speak with online friends. I found a person IRL who is into anime and partial to pokemon, although not very social and I wish I would spend more time with him. A real life family crisis is happening now as generation 5 begins to dawn. Up-to-date Pokemon episodes are now being aired on TV, aswell as the movies, although official events such as TCG tourneys, pokemon distribution and theater releases of pokemon movies never were. It's been a long, strange trip, but I'm still standing, and the people I've earned from this pokemon journey, I hope to build a future that includes them.

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I was a slow starter, and being only 13 years old now, Red and Green were released in Japan months before I was even born. Red and Blue came out approximately 2 weeks after my first birthday. Of course, I never really learned about Pokemon until one of my sister's friends gave me a bunch of Pokemon videos that she doesn't watch. I watch them all, one by one, watched Pokemon: The First Movie and Pokemon 2000, and when I got my first game, Pokemon Ruby in 2003 (told you I was a late starter!), I was addicted to it. After a whole year of Pokemon in my life, I went back to the beginning with something new, Pokemon LeafGreen. With Ruby, my parents decided there was no need for me to have Emerald. I got the DS Lite 2 years later (my family is technologically slow) and got Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team. With that to keep me occupied, it seemed like no time at all when the next Pokemon Mystery Dungeon came out. My friends gave me old games as well, such as Pokemon Dash. Finally, Pokemon Diamond came out and I got it for my birthday after its release. Sadly, as I had gotten my dog the year before, so Pokemon Diamond and my previously acquired Pokemon Dash were destroyed. Years passed, I never got another game until 2008, when I got Pokemon Ranger 2: Shadows of Almia. A new concept on my hands, I was thoroughly addicted until I beat the game in a sad, short amount of time. The next year, my friend, who had gotten Platinum already, gave me his old Diamond to compenssate for my old one. I also got Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky and a Wii, which lead to my very late acquirement of Pokemon Battle Revolution just two days ago. And that's my story.
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Oh my gosh, wall of text much.    
It all started when I went to daycare at the age of 2 and 5 months, the daycare ladies' kids loved Pokemon and since the youngest one was 6 at the time was like my brother, I copied him, I watched Pokemon every morning at 7:30 (being that I got to daycare at 6:30). I loved it so much and would pretend I was a Pokemon or catching wild Pokemon and things of that sort. So then when I was maybe almost 3 Colton (the guy that is like my brother) got Pokemon Red, now he was kind enough to let me use it whenever I wanted and as soon as I got there in the morning I'd beat one thing (i.e.: get thorough a cave or beat a gym). For my third birthday my mom and dad got my a Pikachu plush, it was so simple, but it is now my most prized possesion. Oh wait I forgot to explain the cards part. So when I turned 4 Colton gave me some cards, and as he bought more, I traded him for more. Then another kid came along to this daycare, his name was Tito. He was a major card collector and I got a few nice things off of him, he got some nice cards from me too. So then I started to go to daycare, then school then back to daycare. I would play the games everyday, trade cards at school and PWN some noobs who thought they knew everything Pokemon, when I was the school's Pokemon guru. So some new girl came to my daycare and she had LeafGreen, she didn't like it so she let me restart a new game and play her Gameboy when she brought it over. So I became and avid Pokemon player, collector and in general lover. So in grade 2 my friend gave me her Gameboy colour and Pokemon Yellow, making it my first ever system. I was so excited and I played it 24/7. Then some kid randomly gave my Red one day. So in grade 4-5 my "Dark Ages" I never played Pokemon or anything, it had seemingly disapeared from my life except that I could remember everything. How could I forget it?! So I missed out on Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. Then my 11th birthday came and I got a DS lite! I begged my mom to bring me to Walmart so I could buy Diamond. I bought it and she said, "Ok I'll bring you but you have to promise me to wait until tomorrow to start playing it?". So I agreed she walked the dog I whipped out my DS and started it (I know I'm so bad) I tried to hurry and save, but I forgot how long it took to get my starter. So my mom came back and I turned it off. And from that point one I have never EVER let Pokemon go, I got all the games since then (or at least on of the versions). I have a massive collection of cards, and use the wonder they call Youtube to watch episodes. And that is all.
So the sad truth finally, I never had my own videogame system until I was 7. D:
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I actually posted my story in a different thread. Let me paste it onto this one (it fits better here then on my 'Why do you like Pokémon' thread).


I started knowing pokemon with I believe an episode (not the pilot) of the aname and somewhat liked it. I soon had Pokemon Red, and started becoming like any other 5-year-old addict of pokemon (i.eokemon posters, acessories, gameboy holders, calendars, etc.). I think I also had Pokemon cards, because I saw a few cards around the house many years later, even though I have no knowledge of collecting them. At that point I liked pokemon for the same reason everyone else at my age liked it: it appealed to me somewhat. I had been fading in and out of watching the aname, but I was very addicted to my Pokemon Red. (I've finished the game, but it was deleted by someone. I played again, and tried the Missingno. Glitch, being only able to get infinite items. Someone deleted that game, too. I haven't played it since.)

Somewhere before the 2nd Gen comes out, my pokemon addiction (yes, addiction) stops. I stop watching the show almost altogether, I never got Gold/Silver/Crystal (I still don't have it), and I had no knowledge of the 2nd gen. (I refer to it as a hole in my pokemon life, because it is my only weakness of my current knowledge of pokemon). I still played Red, though. I think I had just lost interest, just like everyone else. Looking back at it, I really wish that I didn't pause my pokemon life at the 2nd gen. If it weren't for Heartgold, I wouldn't know how good it was, except for other people's reviews.

When the 3rd Gen comes out, I start gaining interest again. I bought a Gameboy Advance SP, and Pokemon Emerald. I also start watching the aname again. Even though I start up again, I was still not as interested/addicted as I am now. I didn't watch much of the aname (but I did watch a lot of the movies), but I was more interested in the game. I finished the game, caught the legendaries, and was now winding down on the game, when it was stolen. I was somewhat lucky that I was pretty much done, but I was very mad, and I couldn't trust people as much anymore (anyone, because I never had one friend until 6th grade). At this time, I also get Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness. At this point, Pokemon was just something, and at this point I could actually give it up if I had to.

When the 4th Gen comes out, I start to have a little more interest. I don't get Diamond right away, I think because I just got a hand-me-down DS and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team from my dad. I do get Diamond, then Platinum (the first Pokemon game I get and play before finishing the last game). I then get Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, then Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. I then become a little obsessed with Pokemon. Very soon, I start to get doubt on my interest in Pokemon. I don't see anyone else my age liking Pokemon, and I'm starting to lose a little interest. Luckily, I stumble upon Floatzel.net. I look around, and very soon my doubt goes away. After being on floatzel.net for about 6 months, I also find victoryroad.net, where I gain more interest/addiction to Pokemon than ever before. I earn more encyclopedic knowledge than ever before, and I become obsessed with pokemon. I then get Heartgold (the first game I ever pre-ordered), and then hear about the 5th Generation.

That brings me to the present. I currently like pokemon because it is a world that I would really like being in, because it eliminates many problems in life, without it being a perfect paradise. I also like it because it is something that I am better that than almost everyone I know. Pokemon has been with me for 75% of my life, and it will be with me for my entire life.
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Old July 22, 2010, 01:38:11 PM
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I got my hands on a silver cartridge when I was 5, and I stuck with it my whole life.
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Old July 22, 2010, 02:42:44 PM
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Okaay...

For Christmas I got a Game Boy and Silver, which I played CONSTANTLY. Forever. I loved it. I'd always watched Pokemon from a distance, and never really gotten involved; I listened to the IDIOTS that told me girls can't play Pokemon.

I went and saw my cousins, and they gave me a lvl 100 Arcanine and Dragonite on my game. I then went back to school and KICKED THE ASSES of the guys who told me I couldn't play.

Then I found some cards, and it really went on from there. As I played more, I got fatter and fatter; so my mum tried to break me away from Pokemon. Which made me hate her for a very long time... </3

Eventually she succeeded, and I stopped playing. When we moved house, I found my old Pokemon cups and plates, horrified at myself that I couldn't remember what I now know is Zubat. Then I went upstairs, fished out my Silver, and was reunited with my gorgeous Arcanine.

After we moved, I was home alone. A lot. In the summer, Cartoon Network had a 'Pokemon Marathon' every morning until 12. I watched the whole series, and fell back in love; but not completely.

Then I went to Woolworths (RIP) to buy GTA on the GBA (which I got for my birthday once, 'cause there was nothing else I wanted). It was a buy one get one half price offer, so I stared at the shelves for a while, deciding against all the stupid games that were included, until I found a Pokemon Sapphire. I bought it, and went home.

Discarded GTA completely, and just played Sapphire. Over and over. And over.

Then it got worse... I went from Sapphire to Ruby, to Red, Blue and Yellow, to Green, to FireRed. My mum nearly had a fit, because she was terrified of me gaining weight again... And I did. But she never stopped me from playing.

And then I came onto the internet, and that was that. I think I'll die a Pokemon fan.

Oh, and for the record, I've now lost my fattehness and am a perfectly normal size. n.n'
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Old July 29, 2010, 03:54:32 AM
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I have from 1998-2010 still playing most of the games
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Old August 11, 2010, 05:38:15 PM
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I would like to edit my story... but in a way that makes sense.

I finally beat blue version. I think the reason why I didn't beat it as a kid is because I was always clueless on what to do.

I beat Heart Gold. That's all I have to say about that.
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Old August 16, 2010, 11:35:54 AM
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ok back in 95 i used to get up early and watch fox kids and kids WB. thats when i saw the first commercial for pokemon. im like"why are these people hurting those animals and putting them in balls then sending them out to hurt eachother?" lol i was only 5 at the time.
the more i watched the anime the more i liked it and the more i got into it.
then a few months later i get a gameboy color with pokemon blue. lol i used to love that game. then i got yellow version. i loved cuz pikachu could follow you and jesse and james were in it , lol then in moved to ohio for a half a year. back then burger king had these pokemon toys in pokeballs. lol everyone in my class would bring them to school and play with them.
one person even stole a little venusar toy i had

*Gold and silver generation*
at this time the kanto saga of the anime was ending and i was sad as hell lol. i almost cried litteraly. i also got pokemon stadium for my N64. i still have the system but the game is long gone
until a commercial for the beging of the jhoto saga. i was so happy and i loved the new pokemon. the starters were my favorites.
then i got gold silver AND crystal for my birthday. i brought my gameboy EVERYWHERE i went. i also got pokemon stadium 2 which i still own to this day.

*Pokemon ruby sapphire and emerald*
so its 2003 now and im still into pokemon. i had just gotten a gameboy advanced and REALLY wanted to get ruby and sapphire.
i did get sapphire and i was so happy. then i see the anime going into the hoenn saga. New clothes and NO misty. lol i was like WTF no misty? did she die?

*diamond pearl and platinum*
i never actually owned any of these games cuz i didnt have a DS and i was kinda getting out of pokemon. and i didnt and still dont watch the anime cuz i hate the new voice actors.

*Heartgold and soulsilver*
i saw commercials for this and was awestruck. i wanted it so bad.
and just this past july after i got my highschool diploma i got 100 bucks from grandpa and bought an 80 dollar used DS and a use soulsilver game.
im kind of starting to watch the anime again.
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I was into Pokemon since the beginning, but not really the games. I got into Pokemon when I heard the date it was going to debut, and I watched it a lot as a kid. I really, really loved Team Rocket. I knew a little bit about the games, but I never really wanted to play them because I figured it would be all about Ash and Pikachu, and I hate Pikachu with a passion. Eventually when I hit elementary school a good friend of mine was playing Pokemon Gold, and got me into it. My mom and I were driving to deliver something for my dad, and she ended up stopping at Wal-Mart and I got Gold. I loved it. Ever since, I bought the games.
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Ahh Pokemon, i love it more and more everyday. It all started when i was about 4, in '98. I loved my Red Version to death. I remember secretly waking up at night to continue my epic journey. Pokemon Red was what motivated me to improve my literacy skills so i could understand the game better. 


Needless to say, i instantly fell in love with the anime when it came out. I would watch it religiously every saturday, and get sad after every episode when i realized that pokemon isnt real. One distinct memory i had back in '98, was me brooding to my mother on how i wanted pokemon to be real. It was just after the episode where Ash had that Metapod vs Metapod battle in the viridian forest with that arrogant bug catcher.


From first grade till 5th, everyone was crazy for pokemon, cards, gameboys, plushies, keychains were in every corner you looked. I had crystal from first till 3rd grade, I got quite depressed in 3rd grade when everyone else has moving on to ruby and sapphire, and i still had crystal. I was the happiest boy alive when my mother got me my pokemon sapphire and a Gameboy Advance SP to boot. I instantly jumped onto the RSE bandwagon and before i knew it, i was once again at the top of the class at battling. My Flygon and Swampert were unstoppable.

I remember after the year end exams, everyone was allowed to bring gameboys and other electronics, and for the remaining 2 weeks till the holidays came, there were no lessons, and everyone was given free time. There were separate corners for various pokemon activities, one corner was designated for battling, one for trading, one for the cards, and even one for just talking about it. Ahh those were the days..


When 6th grade came, im not really sure what happened, it was 2006, diamond and pearl came out, and only a few people were getting the new DSes. Unfortunately, i lost all interest for pokemon.


Little did i know, that in the summer of 2009, my love and passion for pokemon would be re-lit with a flame thrice as big as it ever was before. I met this girl online, we got along really well (and still do, fortunately), she would talk about Pokemon in our msn and ***** conversations now and then, and before i knew it, she managed to re-kindle my Poke-Flame.


I would watch a season one episode every other day, and get an epic dose of nostalgia. When i finally had enough of just watching old VCDs (yeah thass right, VCDs mutha f****r), i saved up my money, and got all the DVDs of every single pokemon episode that was out. From the Indigo Leauge, all the way to Battle Dimension. After making up for 10 years of unwatched episodes, i started following Galactic Battles regularly.

At this point in time, i vowed to always keep pokemon as a part of my life, its now my goal to have a recording or cd of every single pokemon episode, pirated or not, for posterity. In case (god forbid) Pokemon is canceled by time im (hopefully) a father, i can share the awesomeness that is pokemon with my children.


Then the day came, where i decided, to take it another level further, by buying myself the newly released DSi and Pokemon Platinum. Needless to say, i instantly fell wholeheartedly in love with Pokemon once again, words couldnt express my happiness when i realized that my inner Pokemon Trainer was back for good. To this day, im currently playing Soul Silver, and following the Sinnoh League Victors anime. I even decided one day out of randomness, that i would buy a spinoff pokemon game, I got Pokemon Ranger:Shadows of Almia, not surprisingly, i loved that too, and im now dying to get my hands on Guardian Signs. (and Black version too, yes)


I owe alot of thanks to that girl I met online, without her, i can honestly say that my life might have turned out drastically different. I was kind of (ever so slightly) depressed during 2009, as life just lost all color for me, sure i had a tonne of games for my PC and Xbox, and a bunch of awesome friends, but i needed, that special something to fill the emptiness inside of me. Whoa, alright, emo brooding mode deactivated.


About almost a year has passed since my Poke-Flame has relit. Pokemon has been, wasnt, is once again, and will now forever will be a part of my life. I wouldnt want to meet the version of myself that didnt grow up with pokemon. Posting in this thread has rather moved me quite a bit. I can safely say, that i will never, EVER, let that flame die out again.


Thanks (or congratulations) for reading this incredibly long and boring story, if youve even bothered to

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Edit: One more thing i forgot to mention. Ive had alot of thinking time these past few months. A constant subject that i ponder and research about, is, obviously, Pokemon. I think of various ways and theories, on how pokemon would relate to real life, and if the entire pokemon concept would be possible. If i tried really hard, im sure i could write a 100 page thesis Im happy to say that ive gotten somewhere with all this thinking. Anyone out there that wishes for us to live in a Pokemon world, please do check out my theory in the thread below. Who knows, a Pokemon reality may just be actually possible. Or at least, id like to think it would be. Meh, just check out my theory. (and reply to the thread too of course)

http://www.victoryroad.net/showthrea...3532#post93532

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Old August 31, 2010, 07:27:31 AM
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Well it all started when i was about 2 i watched the show for about 3 months. I quit Pokemon for about 6 years. Then i got Pokemon yellow in about 2006. I couldn't get pass Brock so I let my older brother beat it for me. I went and visited him about 3 months later and not only did he beat brock but he got me a Mewtwo and all the badges. After that i started the game over and still couldn't beat brock. I quit playing the games for about a year but still watched the show. After that i got pokemon ruby i got groudon and one day i got bored with it and stepped on the cartridge. After that i quit playing the games for about 2 months. After that my cousin got a game cube and got pokemon colleseum. He got another game cube and gave me that one. I went and bought colleseum i beat it and stopped playing the games until XD gale of darkness came out. i played that and beat it and never stopped playing it until i broke my game cube. i waited until christmas when diamond and pearl came out. that christmas i asked for a ds and diamond. My dad got me Pokemon trozei though(horrible game) i threw a temper tantrum and he bought me diamond. I beat that until my charger shorted out. My cousin gave me his and i shorted that out too. After that i waited a while and got platinum. I can't remember wwhat happened to diamond. I beat platinum and got soul silver. i traded my platinum to a friend. Now i'm waiting for black and white and still watching the show. thats my story.
 

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