With all the games out now, I'm wondering how many players started out with the original Red, Blue, and Yellow. I myself started out with Yellow, but that was after Diamond and Pearl came out.

By the way, I voted myself. Just letting you know, thought I'd say.

I tried Red as the first game ever.
But that was my friend's. my own first game was Crystal.

My first game was Blue. The first gen was the best.

I started on a Fan translation of the Japanese ROM of Pokemon Red. I got pretty far, but I was bummed when I found out there would be no way of me getting a full Pokedex on a ROM because I couldn't trade.

Then when Blue was released in Europe, I bought myself that and played it until the internal clock stopped counting at 255.

When Pokemon Gold came out, I also played a Japanese fan translated ROM of that too (5 characters per name only. PIDGE I chose you!). Seeing it in colour and the Day/Night cycles was approximately the GREATEST THING EVER, and one fan-translated line that wasn't in the official game was a random person in the first town saying
"Ash, the greatest trainer of all time, is the only person to have caught all 151 Pokemon, years ago"
Which I thought was really cool.

I didn't actually buy Gold, I won it in a competition on Psypoke that Kirbster organised, and he posted it to me before it came out in Europe, which was really cool.

Gold was the probably my favourite time in Pokemon, because it did enough cool new stuff, while still paying homage to the original generation, in the form of the revisitation of Kanto. I also spent a bit of time on the IRC pokemon battle channel back then.

My Gold playtime was around 365 hours in the end, and that's the last generation of pokemon I spent that much time with.

Red.
It had just come out when I was 6 or 7.
And, God, did I love Charmander...

I started with leafgreen. I chose bulbasaur

I had played some red and yellow when i was younger.

My first game that was actually mine to play was diamond. but i have just got yellow

I started with red version, but I was too young to know that it had bad graphics. xD

I started with good 'ol Blue, which I still have. I chose Blastoise because I thought you were supposed to choose it because it was on the label o_O... I wish I could still play Blue, too bad I don't have my Gameboy Colour anymore...

I started out with Gold and resently got crystal and silver and i now have all the pokemon games (Blue Red Yellow Gold Silver Crystal Ruby Saphire Emarald Diamand and pearl) relesed in the uk
Oh and Fire red and leaf green <<< always forget those

I started with Blue and I didn't even know how to play it. Now I have Blue, Red ,Yellow ,Silver, Gold, Crystal, Emerald, Fire Red, Pearl, and Diamond.

I started with good ole blue, i remember my starter was and that family has been my favourite ever since

i started with yellow. "sigh" good times good times.........

I started with blue the very day it came out in the US.. Damn I feel old...

(A friend show me the game on the internets a month or two beforehand)

I started out with Yellow when I was four years old.

I got Blue the 1st day it came out, when I was about 7 years old. =D

I first played a classmate's Red version back in 1st grade, then I got Blue sometime a year after. I had the most fun playing Gold version.

I started with Ruby. Got it on my 10th birhtday, which was 4 years ago =D

The first Pokemon game I played was a friend's Blue Version at his house. Small exposure, but it was enough to get me hooked. I had a green Gameboy Pocket at the time that I used to play my own copy of Blue. My brother would usually get the opposing version so that we could trade and fight.

Believe it or not, Advance. I took minor interest before that time though. In fact, when I was younger, my sister let me play some of her Crystal Version.

I got Red when I was four, and I had no idea how to play, it took me hours to get out the door because I didn't know what the mat was for. ._.;

So I started with Gen one.

I started with gen 1 when i was in elementary. I've always been a fan of pokemon.