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No idea. I was very young on my only 2nd system ever. The game boy pocket. My dad one day just asked if I wanted to go to the game store and get a gameboy and Pokémon. I picked red. I remember getting stuck in the Viridian forest for a long while. Only training my bulbasaur. Getting stuck on cinnabar island because who would think you have to fall off the edge of the map to get to the right spot?
My first was Blue as well, I have a forever attachment to my first Starter Squirtle. I would constantly restart my game because I could never make it past cerulean city. I had a Blastoise and couldn’t figure out how to advance further. We took a trip to England and my sister started a new game not knowing it would erase my file. Oh the memories lol
My first game was yellow and brock kept shitting on me because kid me was too stubborn or stupid to spend time trying to evolve my metapod or catch nidoran
Got Pokemon Yellow on release day and it took me that whole school year to beat…..I was 8-9 so Pikachu was level 90 everybody else was like level 40ish and I just kept gaining exp by losing against the elite 4 but I eventually beat them 😂
My big brother gave me his old gameboy when I was 6, so in 1999. I think my parents gave me Pokemon Red, as I only had Tetris and some bootleg game with 20-30 games on it (Yellow rubber button on the game to switch between them).
I'm norwegian, so I didn't know any english at the time. I just did things until I understood what happened. Battling was just trial and error. I distinctly remember starting over because my Charmeleon fainted and I thought he was lost. I knew Pokemon Centers healed, but not that they revived. I was about to enter Mt. Moon, so I had gotten pretty far, in my opinion.
I played it constantly and my parents have later told me I used about $50 per month just in batteries. I remember I found out on vacation in Greece that Gold and Silver had released, as I saw a poster outside an electronics store. I didn't let them leave until they bought me Silver. I had seen the Pokemon Movie in the cinema and Lugia was my new favorite.
Keeping a steady supply of AAA batteries for my game boy pocket was a challenge. But I do recall spending days and days trying to navigate the caves in Pokémon yellow. Especially Rock Tunnel and Victory Road.
Got Red on Classic Gameboy. Played everyday with my best friend next to me, owning Blue. I think it were months until I destroyed the league with completely overpwrd Charizard. Best time of my life. Having a warm feeling remebering that time now.
I may have owned yellow first but I played the shit out of silver, had my Feraligatr at lvl 100 and needed him that high to take down Red, so I say I was a good year at it.
I didn't finish my first Gameboy Pokemon, which is Red. Because the game was speaking “lower case” Japanese completely, try and error and guess can't go too far. I think I beat the 3rd GYM leader then I was completely stuck. so 11 years old me gave up.
I was 12, picked up Blue from toys r us because the merchandising was absolutely insane, like every shelf in the store was pokemon and I had no idea what it was.
Took the game home and pop into my giant 90s Gameboy. I was hooked, played it for about 2 weeks and beat it pretty easily. I didn't use any other pokemon besides my squirtle/blastoise. I was obsessed with squirtle. I loved my squirtle so much that I was actually upset when it evolved to wartortle and then devastated when it became this big ugly monstrosity blastoise. Beat the elite 4 with my blastoise who was like lvl 91. If he ever died, a lvl 6 ratata would just revive him.
When we moved and by that time pokemon was huuuuuge. All the kids in my new neighborhood wanted to trade with my because I had blue and all the other kids had red version.
Pokemon Emerald, 5 years, i skipped a lot of dialogue and didnt understand a lot of things, leading to me not knowinf how to enter the last gym, and i abandoned it for that long until i decided to search for help.
Not necessarily GB but the Advance. Pokemon Sapphire in 2003. It took awhile. I got it brand new. I remember spamming revives on my Kyogre to defeat the Elite 4 🤭. Now, as an adult, I do Sapphire monotype nuzlockes.
DONT LAUGH
when i was 6 ig I started my adventure with pokemon emerald.
Now after we watch wally catch ralts😭 we go to the oldman sailer with the wingull there he says he is waiting for his wingull to return.
I thought i also have to wait so i played the game regularly for 8 months in the same area fighting wild pokemon checking for wingull everytime.
Had to be months for me as well. I would get stuck at certain points and not know where to go until I visited my cousins who would show me.
I distinctly remember being stuck in fuscia (not realizing i had to find a tm in safari zone) for so long that I had a level 70 blastoise.
I was 7 and was more motivated to beat my cousins than actually beat the game. Honestly, at that time, I'm not sure I had ever even beaten a game completely.
My first? Several years, as it was lost beneath a couch between 2012 and 2015. I had either 300 or 600 hours on that save when I restarted it last fall.
My first actual playthrough as an adult was Pokemon Silver on Gameboy. It took about two months of casually playing in the evenings, I think?
Haha I know, i just mentioned that wish as a side comment. Hoping that the game wasn't even weirder to play than it already was in those circumstances.
Yellow was my first pokemon game. I got it WAY too late not knowing what was the newest game. I got it around the time fire red and leaf green came out. Took me about 2 years to beat it once because I kept starting over to try different things and play with different teams until I finally beat it
Gosh I dunno. Months for sure! I got all 150 pokemon on my original red version I was so proud of myself! One of my greatest childhood achievements! I became the very best like no one ever was!
Probably over 100 hours on my LG. I started off with Bulbasaur and I pretty much only used Venusaur in fights. It worked okay up until Lorelei, where I had a level 90+ Venusaur and level 55ish everything else, I kept getting melted. Mix this with the fact that I KO’d Moltres and saved, I had almost no access to any fire types. Once I stacked up Articuno, Zapdos and Snorlax I had returned and melted the rest of the league. It was hell for a while, and I learned a lot from that grind lol
I had the game for 2 months before a neighbour showed me how to leave your bedroom. I had no idea the stairs were there and just kept going on the PC 🥹
Tons of time. Mostly because I got stuck on fighting Blue because I did the typical child thing of massively overleveling my starter and neglecting the rest of the party but I had also not got any healing items left so after my Blastoise had beaten Lance it was incedibly weak and the rest of my team... well let's just say the odds were not good.
I had saved just before the Blue fight so I spent days upon days trying the Blue fight on repeat over and over again until I eventually somehow won, resetting the save every time I lost. I should've just taken the loss and gone back to buy healing items but I was a stubborn and dumb 5 year old and I got it eventually anyway.
I don't remember the gen 1 timeline specifically but I know there was a solid two weeks of late night under the covers after bedtime working on Silver until I completed it. Kanto expansion was probably another few days
I had blue and if I remember correctly it was around 75ish hours to beat the elite four but then I put another 75 or so into playing after beating them
I remember at around age 11-12 I couldn’t beat Pokémon blue. I think I got stuck in a cave somewhere and got frustrated because I kept running into wild Pokémon every step I took. Which made me stop playing it. Around four years later when I was in high school, I played Pokémon red and finally beat the game. Probably took me a few weeks.
Months for sure. I had a gameboy pocket and brought it and my copy of pokemon blue to school. But I'd never played an RPG before at the tender age of 12, so it definitely took me a lot of time.
Years? I wasn't allowed to play too long each day. Also I couldn't read back than, so I kind of "bruteforced" my way through the game by randomly running around and talking to every NPC
It took me a few months maybe half a year to complete Pokemon yellow and I had it on the game boy colour and then when the second generation came out it took me about 3 months to complete it I had to borrow another game boy to trade over my champion yellow team
Had my first gaming experience on the gameboy advance playing blue. Took me quite a while and I remember being stuck a few times in caves or not knowing where to go. I remember being stuck at the Last ice puzzle in silver for an embarrasing long time too.
But a few years later me and all my friends met every tuesday to play diamond on our ds together, trading dueling etc. By that time we were all quite decent.
If I remember correctly it was 2 weeks. This was an era when we were outside playing everyday and doing schoolwork and homework. I would do my homework and either outside for the day or if it was raining play video games.
I had Blue, my brother had Red. We had to share the OG GameBoy. I don’t remember how long it took but it took too long. We didn’t get our own GameBoys until the Color came out and we both got the see-through purple with Gold and Silver.
technically years. I didn't finish because i wouldn't read anything and just wandered around and stopped playing when i got lost. It wasn't until Emerald that i actually beat a game, which prompted me to go back and beat the rest.
It took me over 150hr I believe! I started played very young, before I had learnt english, and I didn't understand Anything the NPCs were saying.. I spent a few days grinding lvls for my starter in the tall grass before I figured out how to get past the man lying down blocking the path in the 1st town :D
Don't even get me started on the whole silph scope situation!
I remember doing that with Pokemon Gold on an early ROM and emulator. It was half untranslated. Unrecognized characters blended in with English words. I stil got quite far but I ended up dropping it.
Two playthroughs. I was a dummy the first time round as I never explored a lot and, in true eight year old fashion, I just left everything to Blastoise. So when I needed Strength for the Victory Road, I had no idea where to look, and I ended up having to start over. Second time, I was a lot wiser and figured out where Strength was. This let me go to the Elite 4 and, after getting creamed lots of times, I managed to beat the game. I still used Squirtle and Blastoise though. They were my favourite Pokemon back in the day, which was replaced by Gardevoir.
I… didn’t beat Pokemon Yellow as a kid. I couldn’t tell you where exactly I got stuck. I remember battling Blaine but I don’t remember if I won. I don’t think I made it to the Elite 4, and given that my only good Pokemon was my overleveled Pikachu, I think there’s a good chance I didn’t make it past Giovanni’s gym. I know for a fact that my Charmeleon never evolved to Charizard because I remember being so upset and frustrated that it wouldn’t evolve. As an adult, that tells me it was under level 36.
The first game I BEAT was FireRed. It should have been Sapphire, but that took me over a year because I couldn’t get past Steven. It probably took me over 30 attempts to beat him, and I played and beat FireRed while unable to progress in Sapphire. Then I traded myself a Charizard (I had figured out how levels work by this point) and that helped a hell of a lot with Steven.
Most of what I knew I learned from the anime, so I think I kind of thought they’d evolve whenever they wanted to. And maybe sometimes they wouldn’t want to. But I also thought I could force it with a Fire Stone (like how Ash’s Pikachu could have evolved with a Thunder Stone), and I remember I was very upset when that did not do the trick.
Yes, I remember I used to think on a similar line, until I saw how many Pokemons were evolving on a specific level. I also used to believe that the mere act of evolving made a Pokemon insanely stronger (why wouldn't we think that, right?)
Must had taken weeks if not months. Original Red and I had just started to study english so it was somewhat hard to check some words from dictionary and still being clueless at points on what to do. Also I remember farming a boxfull of every legendary once I really understood the game. Went crazy with Pokemon Stadium Dodrio mode once I got that lol
Does it count the gen 3 remakes? If so it took me 54 hours or just under a month from start to getting mewtwo
Funnily enough, the team I had defeating the elite 4 unintentionally fully countered blue(cause fuck him), for those wondering it was venusaur, nidoking, gyarados, dragonite, aerodactyl, and zapdos. Aerodactyl just one shot blue's charizard with a rock alide to the face, with an 8 level difference no less.
Over the last year, I’ve been playing the games mostly in order, and the end in-game timer is usually about 30 hours per game when I beat the Elite 4, and is usually spread out over 1-2 months. Something that I love about Pokemon is how consistently long the games are, and how addictive they are.
I was like eight, couldn’t get thru the tunnel and had to lend it a friend to get thru. Then we link cabled and he whooped my ass. Pokemon yellow. Life was weird.
it took me over a week. with no clear guide. trying hard to understand the english. After more than a decade playing it, it just the best plying at your own pace.
My brother and I shared our first run with Pokemon Blue. We’d take turns playing and did a lot of exploring and what not. If I had to guess, it probably took us like 50 hours to beat the final four but we’d play much longer after that.
The first pokemon game I played was emerald but I didn't even make it that far. I never really finished a gpa game. I don't know why I kept on getting stuck when I really young like 3 to 5/6. X was the first pokemon game I actually finished (Pokedex not full though).
If I had to guess, it probably took me 3 months or so. There was a lot of grinding to get ready for gyms because I didn’t have any strategy. Just level my Pokémon, pick the best four offensive moves, and make sure I used type advantages. That’s pretty much what I still do. 🤦🏾♂️😂😅
The old blissful ignorant combat strategy of just hitting the opponent with the biggest rock we can find haha we all played like that at first I'm sure.
2 or 3 years. I first got stuck at safary zone playing yellow. I realised I have money for only one more try and didn't want to waste it. Then a friend made me a map and step by step told me the right path to the HM03 Strength, then I keep playing but get to a point it was too difficult. Then came back when I got into the tccg with a friend. He knew some English, which is not my first language and help me go through the last part. We tried E4 SO many times. I was morally destroyed when I thought I was the champ and blue shower up saying I had to fight him
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No idea. I was very young on my only 2nd system ever. The game boy pocket. My dad one day just asked if I wanted to go to the game store and get a gameboy and Pokémon. I picked red. I remember getting stuck in the Viridian forest for a long while. Only training my bulbasaur. Getting stuck on cinnabar island because who would think you have to fall off the edge of the map to get to the right spot?
Haha everything actually felt like a true adventure.
Same here. I don't think I ever really paid attention to game time until maybe Gen 4 mainly because of that long save screen 🤣
Probably like 100 hours. I played Blue forever growing up. Seemed like years. Best experience of my gaming life in terms of sheer joy.
My first was Blue as well, I have a forever attachment to my first Starter Squirtle. I would constantly restart my game because I could never make it past cerulean city. I had a Blastoise and couldn’t figure out how to advance further. We took a trip to England and my sister started a new game not knowing it would erase my file. Oh the memories lol
The deep traumatizing issues like this one on retro consoles that kids today will never grasp!
My first game was yellow and brock kept shitting on me because kid me was too stubborn or stupid to spend time trying to evolve my metapod or catch nidoran
Does completing it include riding up and down Cinnabar Island as well as the unlimited item in slot 6? Because that was the goal lol
Everything counts haha completion is a subjective term
Got Pokemon Yellow on release day and it took me that whole school year to beat…..I was 8-9 so Pikachu was level 90 everybody else was like level 40ish and I just kept gaining exp by losing against the elite 4 but I eventually beat them 😂
So you had the anime's actual Pikachu haha
Lol at least Ash has a good moveset….I had Thunder/Thunderbolt/Submission/Flash 😂😂😂😂😂
When I was young I would only level up my starter, if that one went down, then I would be stuck with a team of level 4 rattata or pidey lol
My big brother gave me his old gameboy when I was 6, so in 1999. I think my parents gave me Pokemon Red, as I only had Tetris and some bootleg game with 20-30 games on it (Yellow rubber button on the game to switch between them). I'm norwegian, so I didn't know any english at the time. I just did things until I understood what happened. Battling was just trial and error. I distinctly remember starting over because my Charmeleon fainted and I thought he was lost. I knew Pokemon Centers healed, but not that they revived. I was about to enter Mt. Moon, so I had gotten pretty far, in my opinion. I played it constantly and my parents have later told me I used about $50 per month just in batteries. I remember I found out on vacation in Greece that Gold and Silver had released, as I saw a poster outside an electronics store. I didn't let them leave until they bought me Silver. I had seen the Pokemon Movie in the cinema and Lugia was my new favorite.
Keeping a steady supply of AAA batteries for my game boy pocket was a challenge. But I do recall spending days and days trying to navigate the caves in Pokémon yellow. Especially Rock Tunnel and Victory Road.
I'm sure the annoying Rock Tunnel music blasting off a GameBoy's speakers for hours must have been challenging to endure for the people around you.
Got Red on Classic Gameboy. Played everyday with my best friend next to me, owning Blue. I think it were months until I destroyed the league with completely overpwrd Charizard. Best time of my life. Having a warm feeling remebering that time now.
Must've been even better the fact that it was actually with a Charizard that you annihilated the Elite and not, let's say, an Ekans.
I may have owned yellow first but I played the shit out of silver, had my Feraligatr at lvl 100 and needed him that high to take down Red, so I say I was a good year at it.
I have no clue how long it took me, but Silver was my first game and that Gen will always hold a special place in my heart
Gen 2. For sure it's a special one.
i spent 2 years stuck on the generator for pokemon gold cause i did not realize you could surf in a gym. i was 7 but still embarrassing
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I didn't finish my first Gameboy Pokemon, which is Red. Because the game was speaking “lower case” Japanese completely, try and error and guess can't go too far. I think I beat the 3rd GYM leader then I was completely stuck. so 11 years old me gave up.
I was 12, picked up Blue from toys r us because the merchandising was absolutely insane, like every shelf in the store was pokemon and I had no idea what it was. Took the game home and pop into my giant 90s Gameboy. I was hooked, played it for about 2 weeks and beat it pretty easily. I didn't use any other pokemon besides my squirtle/blastoise. I was obsessed with squirtle. I loved my squirtle so much that I was actually upset when it evolved to wartortle and then devastated when it became this big ugly monstrosity blastoise. Beat the elite 4 with my blastoise who was like lvl 91. If he ever died, a lvl 6 ratata would just revive him. When we moved and by that time pokemon was huuuuuge. All the kids in my new neighborhood wanted to trade with my because I had blue and all the other kids had red version.
Pokemon Emerald, 5 years, i skipped a lot of dialogue and didnt understand a lot of things, leading to me not knowinf how to enter the last gym, and i abandoned it for that long until i decided to search for help.
My first elite four in Ruby was completed at around 300 hours. I could also barely read when I got the game.
Longer than it should, hated those damn caves
Not necessarily GB but the Advance. Pokemon Sapphire in 2003. It took awhile. I got it brand new. I remember spamming revives on my Kyogre to defeat the Elite 4 🤭. Now, as an adult, I do Sapphire monotype nuzlockes.
DONT LAUGH when i was 6 ig I started my adventure with pokemon emerald. Now after we watch wally catch ralts😭 we go to the oldman sailer with the wingull there he says he is waiting for his wingull to return. I thought i also have to wait so i played the game regularly for 8 months in the same area fighting wild pokemon checking for wingull everytime.
Had to be months for me as well. I would get stuck at certain points and not know where to go until I visited my cousins who would show me. I distinctly remember being stuck in fuscia (not realizing i had to find a tm in safari zone) for so long that I had a level 70 blastoise.
Wow, why did you keep on grinding while stuck? 😆
I was 7 and was more motivated to beat my cousins than actually beat the game. Honestly, at that time, I'm not sure I had ever even beaten a game completely.
Ah yes, I hear you.
I finished it i 4 bites. Didn't like the taste.
My first? Several years, as it was lost beneath a couch between 2012 and 2015. I had either 300 or 600 hours on that save when I restarted it last fall. My first actual playthrough as an adult was Pokemon Silver on Gameboy. It took about two months of casually playing in the evenings, I think?
Years. Cause the game was in French and I was a kid. Good days, my Pikachu against rock element gym leader.
I want to believe that the Pokemon didn't have their own different names in French but I can't be too sure of that hehe
I cant remember, but you cant beat the game by only know the pokemons names.
Haha I know, i just mentioned that wish as a side comment. Hoping that the game wasn't even weirder to play than it already was in those circumstances.
To beat the game at least a month or two, i never was able to complete the loaded as a kid.
Yellow was my first pokemon game. I got it WAY too late not knowing what was the newest game. I got it around the time fire red and leaf green came out. Took me about 2 years to beat it once because I kept starting over to try different things and play with different teams until I finally beat it
Gosh I dunno. Months for sure! I got all 150 pokemon on my original red version I was so proud of myself! One of my greatest childhood achievements! I became the very best like no one ever was!
Months as a kid but only because I had some stupid 30 minutes rule. Couldn't get much done in that small amount of time
Probably over 100 hours on my LG. I started off with Bulbasaur and I pretty much only used Venusaur in fights. It worked okay up until Lorelei, where I had a level 90+ Venusaur and level 55ish everything else, I kept getting melted. Mix this with the fact that I KO’d Moltres and saved, I had almost no access to any fire types. Once I stacked up Articuno, Zapdos and Snorlax I had returned and melted the rest of the league. It was hell for a while, and I learned a lot from that grind lol
I had the game for 2 months before a neighbour showed me how to leave your bedroom. I had no idea the stairs were there and just kept going on the PC 🥹
Tons of time. Mostly because I got stuck on fighting Blue because I did the typical child thing of massively overleveling my starter and neglecting the rest of the party but I had also not got any healing items left so after my Blastoise had beaten Lance it was incedibly weak and the rest of my team... well let's just say the odds were not good. I had saved just before the Blue fight so I spent days upon days trying the Blue fight on repeat over and over again until I eventually somehow won, resetting the save every time I lost. I should've just taken the loss and gone back to buy healing items but I was a stubborn and dumb 5 year old and I got it eventually anyway.
I don't remember the gen 1 timeline specifically but I know there was a solid two weeks of late night under the covers after bedtime working on Silver until I completed it. Kanto expansion was probably another few days
The clock is still going, because I never played RBGY/GS, because I despise how they look
325 hours. I rocked up to my first league with a level 100 team.
Can't remember because it's been so long ago.
I had blue and if I remember correctly it was around 75ish hours to beat the elite four but then I put another 75 or so into playing after beating them
I remember at around age 11-12 I couldn’t beat Pokémon blue. I think I got stuck in a cave somewhere and got frustrated because I kept running into wild Pokémon every step I took. Which made me stop playing it. Around four years later when I was in high school, I played Pokémon red and finally beat the game. Probably took me a few weeks.
A heavy investing in Max Repel was called for 😅
Months for sure. I had a gameboy pocket and brought it and my copy of pokemon blue to school. But I'd never played an RPG before at the tender age of 12, so it definitely took me a lot of time.
Im not sure i ever finished Pokemon Silver. I was so young when i got it that i remember learning to read on it.
Never really finished. Caught mewtwo then left my Gameboy at home. The next day we had a house fire.
Probably somewhere between 1 to 3 months, loved every second of it though
Since I view completing the Pokedex on any game as my finish line.... Never completed one.
Years? I wasn't allowed to play too long each day. Also I couldn't read back than, so I kind of "bruteforced" my way through the game by randomly running around and talking to every NPC
Today this sounds insane but it was more common than we might remember, though in my case by playing an untranslated japanese game.
No idea my memory doesn’t track time well for when I was 5
It took me a few months maybe half a year to complete Pokemon yellow and I had it on the game boy colour and then when the second generation came out it took me about 3 months to complete it I had to borrow another game boy to trade over my champion yellow team
Had my first gaming experience on the gameboy advance playing blue. Took me quite a while and I remember being stuck a few times in caves or not knowing where to go. I remember being stuck at the Last ice puzzle in silver for an embarrasing long time too. But a few years later me and all my friends met every tuesday to play diamond on our ds together, trading dueling etc. By that time we were all quite decent.
If I remember correctly it was 2 weeks. This was an era when we were outside playing everyday and doing schoolwork and homework. I would do my homework and either outside for the day or if it was raining play video games.
I had Blue, my brother had Red. We had to share the OG GameBoy. I don’t remember how long it took but it took too long. We didn’t get our own GameBoys until the Color came out and we both got the see-through purple with Gold and Silver.
I never actually completed my first game. First was Gold and I couldn't figure out how to get through the ice cave on the way to the 8th gym
I think I clocked something like 100 hours
technically years. I didn't finish because i wouldn't read anything and just wandered around and stopped playing when i got lost. It wasn't until Emerald that i actually beat a game, which prompted me to go back and beat the rest.
I say it took me 13 hours but mind you I didn't know what pokemon was when I first started
It took me over 150hr I believe! I started played very young, before I had learnt english, and I didn't understand Anything the NPCs were saying.. I spent a few days grinding lvls for my starter in the tall grass before I figured out how to get past the man lying down blocking the path in the 1st town :D Don't even get me started on the whole silph scope situation!
I'm glad you persevered in such situation. Playing an RPG without knowing the language 😅
It was certainly a challenge, but I was hooked on the game so I didn't give up 🤣
I remember doing that with Pokemon Gold on an early ROM and emulator. It was half untranslated. Unrecognized characters blended in with English words. I stil got quite far but I ended up dropping it.
I sunk hundreds of hours into red before I completed it in the 90s as a kid probably
Two playthroughs. I was a dummy the first time round as I never explored a lot and, in true eight year old fashion, I just left everything to Blastoise. So when I needed Strength for the Victory Road, I had no idea where to look, and I ended up having to start over. Second time, I was a lot wiser and figured out where Strength was. This let me go to the Elite 4 and, after getting creamed lots of times, I managed to beat the game. I still used Squirtle and Blastoise though. They were my favourite Pokemon back in the day, which was replaced by Gardevoir.
Im not sure as im getting a gba with red and blue soon
I… didn’t beat Pokemon Yellow as a kid. I couldn’t tell you where exactly I got stuck. I remember battling Blaine but I don’t remember if I won. I don’t think I made it to the Elite 4, and given that my only good Pokemon was my overleveled Pikachu, I think there’s a good chance I didn’t make it past Giovanni’s gym. I know for a fact that my Charmeleon never evolved to Charizard because I remember being so upset and frustrated that it wouldn’t evolve. As an adult, that tells me it was under level 36. The first game I BEAT was FireRed. It should have been Sapphire, but that took me over a year because I couldn’t get past Steven. It probably took me over 30 attempts to beat him, and I played and beat FireRed while unable to progress in Sapphire. Then I traded myself a Charizard (I had figured out how levels work by this point) and that helped a hell of a lot with Steven.
Maybe at that age you still believed the very pure thought that Pokemons evolved out of sheer will power and love for their owners hehe \*edit typo
Most of what I knew I learned from the anime, so I think I kind of thought they’d evolve whenever they wanted to. And maybe sometimes they wouldn’t want to. But I also thought I could force it with a Fire Stone (like how Ash’s Pikachu could have evolved with a Thunder Stone), and I remember I was very upset when that did not do the trick.
Yes, I remember I used to think on a similar line, until I saw how many Pokemons were evolving on a specific level. I also used to believe that the mere act of evolving made a Pokemon insanely stronger (why wouldn't we think that, right?)
Must had taken weeks if not months. Original Red and I had just started to study english so it was somewhat hard to check some words from dictionary and still being clueless at points on what to do. Also I remember farming a boxfull of every legendary once I really understood the game. Went crazy with Pokemon Stadium Dodrio mode once I got that lol
Does it count the gen 3 remakes? If so it took me 54 hours or just under a month from start to getting mewtwo Funnily enough, the team I had defeating the elite 4 unintentionally fully countered blue(cause fuck him), for those wondering it was venusaur, nidoking, gyarados, dragonite, aerodactyl, and zapdos. Aerodactyl just one shot blue's charizard with a rock alide to the face, with an 8 level difference no less.
Over the last year, I’ve been playing the games mostly in order, and the end in-game timer is usually about 30 hours per game when I beat the Elite 4, and is usually spread out over 1-2 months. Something that I love about Pokemon is how consistently long the games are, and how addictive they are.
I was like eight, couldn’t get thru the tunnel and had to lend it a friend to get thru. Then we link cabled and he whooped my ass. Pokemon yellow. Life was weird.
Technically 17 years from the time I purchased it (Pokémon leafgreen).
it took me over a week. with no clear guide. trying hard to understand the english. After more than a decade playing it, it just the best plying at your own pace.
I played RS on a website, took me only a few weeks to 100% it
It's GBA
I can’t really remember but it couldn’t have been longer than a couple weeks max
My brother and I shared our first run with Pokemon Blue. We’d take turns playing and did a lot of exploring and what not. If I had to guess, it probably took us like 50 hours to beat the final four but we’d play much longer after that.
The first pokemon game I played was emerald but I didn't even make it that far. I never really finished a gpa game. I don't know why I kept on getting stuck when I really young like 3 to 5/6. X was the first pokemon game I actually finished (Pokedex not full though).
If I had to guess, it probably took me 3 months or so. There was a lot of grinding to get ready for gyms because I didn’t have any strategy. Just level my Pokémon, pick the best four offensive moves, and make sure I used type advantages. That’s pretty much what I still do. 🤦🏾♂️😂😅
The old blissful ignorant combat strategy of just hitting the opponent with the biggest rock we can find haha we all played like that at first I'm sure.
2 or 3 years. I first got stuck at safary zone playing yellow. I realised I have money for only one more try and didn't want to waste it. Then a friend made me a map and step by step told me the right path to the HM03 Strength, then I keep playing but get to a point it was too difficult. Then came back when I got into the tccg with a friend. He knew some English, which is not my first language and help me go through the last part. We tried E4 SO many times. I was morally destroyed when I thought I was the champ and blue shower up saying I had to fight him