How did you discover Pokemon?

Well it all started at once for me...
Cards / Games / Tv Show
I think the cards came first which don't collect anymore games... I started out playing my brother's Silver version then I played Pokemon Yellow

I discovered PokeMon trough the horribly dubbed Dutch version of PokeMon on TV, when I was young. I'm not sure what season it was, I believe one of Hoenn or Kanto, but that's what got me hooked. At one point my Dad bought me PokeMon Emerald for my Nintendo SP, and that's when I really started loving the franchise.

Started up with Pokemon Red. Moved on to the anime series and like everyone else played with the Pokemon cards until they were banned in school. Then we moved on to Beyblades with remote control in class and Pokemon Gold. Hell yeah~

I started with the anime (and a poorly dubbed one too). It was one of Johto episodes, maybe the one with Ash's battle against Jasmine..? I can't remember. So yeah. That got me hooked up and next thing I know, I'm surfing the 'Net in hopes of finding a downloadable Pokemon game (why thank you Lithuania and your stupid lack of Pokemon games >>) Then I found ROMs, then I started saving up for a DS and Platinum and yeah... :P Even now, I only have Platinum, Explorers of Sky and Black because the shipping is expensive >>

I don't remember when I started, since I've been around PokéMon for so long. Maybe I was three or something, because the anime had just started on swedish television. I loved it. Bought a lot of cards, purely for collecting and not for playing. Started playing the games when PokéMon Gold came out in the stores. If I'm not completely wrong, Gold came in 1999, and I was born -95. So, I was probably 4 when I started playing PokéMon

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I believe I first knew about Pokemon via the cards, and I think I had a faint knowledge of the anime, though really, it was the RBY generation of games that really caught my interest in the franchise.

mine was pokemon red but it was my brothers and i found it at our house

I can't remember exactly how it happened, but when I was 5 years old I started watching Pokemon on TV. During that time, I'd go to the mall each weekend and buy Pokemon cards and toys (I still have all of them~). When my family moved back to Tennessee when I was 6, Pokemon Gold and Silver came out, so I asked for a Gameboy Color and Pokemon Silver for Christmas. The rest is history~

First, I was probably about 4, I managed to get ahold of my brothers gameboy and was playing Blue version. He had a Bulbasaur. Then I was at my cousins and saw an episode from the anime, it was in Kanto. The episode where they were in the Safari Zone with the Kangaskahn kid. I loved it. My next birthday, my dad bought me my own gameboy color(yellow) and Yellow version. Thats when I got hooked.

I don't remember very well but I think i was with the anime when I was 4, then I saw a kid playing ruby and my dad bought me sapphire.

When I arrived at elementary, I started getting cards and plushies and stuff from pokemon. Then I bought one version of every pokemon new game, I have sapphire, leaf green, pearl, blue rescue team, explorers of time, and darkness, soul silver, and white.

And we reach today....

My other has owned the majority of the GBA games. Thats when i got intrested in the games. Then at about 8, i began to watch the tv show. At 10 i started the TCG.

I started with Pokemon Red when it was first released, and as far as i remember i loved it so much i went out the next day and baught a load of cards :L

Can't recall which one I started with but I think it was the anime and then got the games shortly after Johto came out. However I recall my uncle having the games before that and I'd watch him play sometimes.

i started watching it on tv when i was about 4 or 5 and about a month later i found pokemon emerald at walmart and started to collect cards when i was 7 or 8

I started with Pokemon lollipops at age 2 xD You got a Pokeball lollipop and it came with a sticker inside the packet. I got a Caterpie sticker thought it was cute so my mum got me the first pokemon annual I loved it so much my grandma got me Pokemon Red for Christmas

Mine was simple. I began to play Pokemon Green after my sweet grandmother got it for me when I was three. Though in Japanese, my friend help translate it for me and it was the most fun ever! Soon I got into the TCG and anime for a bit, seeing as I was becoming a Pokemkn nerd every second. Then the Manga came, And I was set for life. Now I just play the games for fun and read the Pokemon Specials since the anime and TCG have been going down hill(at least in my book).

Anime first, then the cards. I never played the card game, I just liked collecting them and trading them haha. Then I figured out there were games and I was hooked for life. Been playing Pokemon since 2nd grade, blue version

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Citv aired the anime. I was hooked from the very first adventure with Ash and Pikachu and I think I got a Gameboy Colour with Blue/Red not long after. Everything about Pokemon interested me and still does, the anime, manga, games it was all so awesome and strange but amazing to me. I also fully blame it for getting me into anime. xD

I was first introduced to pokemon through the anime series. I couldn't wait to see what pokemon Ash caught next or which of them would evolve. It was the good old days of Kanto when everyone actually believed he would become a pokemon master.

It started out with a mild interest in the show, then the cards, then with Pokemon Ruby, which I promptly go stuck in and switched to Leaf Green