How old were you when you started playin pokemon?

[Toobworm]

I was seven when my grandma got me emerald. ^^

[Charizardfan900]

I was about 6 when my brother and I first went round our neighbour's house, who showed us pokemon Silver and Gold. We both played it and started and went and bought are own versions. (I don't remember much about gold. I was only little and couldn't play properly.)

[SamtheUlfr]

I was...6, almost 7. I got Pokemon Red and my first Gameboy for Hanukkah xD

[Elysian]

I don't really know.. I think I was about 9-10 years old..

[Mr.Ducky209]

No matter how many times I've quit, i just keep coming back to pokemon. I only have time to play on the weeknd because of school and sports, but I have to admit it. Im a poke fan.

[RocketToTheMoon]

I started watching the show around 6, got into the games at eight, stopped altogether around 10, and came back to it at 12.

[AquaWarrior]

I watched the show at 9, then started playing the games at around 13.

[Silver Bolt]

I'm pretty sure I was 12. Something like that.

[Nyarlathotep]

I was 9.

Now I am 22 years old.

[SprSncConzor]

I think I must have been ten when I got Emerald... how fitting to start my journey at ten years of age! I'm sixteen now and have never looked back!

[Lucario Fan]

Nine years old.

[Pierce571]

Pretty sure I was 6 year old. Now I am 17 and I am still playing it lol

[Manna]

I must've been around 5-7 because that's when I started watching the TV series, which led to the games of course.

[RinRin]

I started in 1996 or 1997, so I was about two or three years old lol My cousin gave me Blue and I've been playing since then I'm 18 now o:

[wobbanut]

I was 25 when I started playing in 2003 with Sapphire.

[Aquarelle]

I've been a Pokemon fan since I was 5 years old, but I did not own any games until I was 9.

[Princess Raspberyl]

Around 7 or 8 I think ^^;

[Specter Vyle]

Started playing when I was about 9 or 10.

[KingMinun]

I think it arrived in the UK around 1998, so I was 4. I remember it being so huge back then. Every single child in school had pokemon cards, if you didn't you weren't cool. I didn't have them to start with, but my brother was in high school and he said that the craze was so big that kids were breaking out of school at lunch and break times to head to the shop to buy them, they used to sneak around the town to hide from teachers. So he got me my first pack of cards, however, at that time, only 1 pokemon mattered to me, Pikachu. I wanted a Pikachu card so badly that one of the older kids in Primary school tricked me into giving him all my cards for a Pikachu card, but he didn't give me the card, he just took mine and run off. I also remember my friend stealing a huge pack of cards that a teacher had found, held them up saying "whose pokemon cards are these?" and he then said they were his, he got so many shinies, the teacher then shouted at him for bringing them to school, but he didn't care, he had a some rare cards. Eventually the cards got banned, but that was okay. BECAUSE WE HAD THE GAMES THEN. So we were all bringing in the games to school, and battling and trading with each other. That was a great time. I gave up on the series for Hoenn when it was no longer cool, but came back like a year before the release of Fire Red and Leaf Green and brought it back, then left again, but ever since the release of DP, I've not lost interest in it.

[Ghostfoot]

I was 4. I mainly secretly played on my older brother's file (which he despised me for) until I got Pokemon Red for my Birthday the following year.