Your First Pokémon Memory

Mod_Ginger · April 29

Hey everyone! What was the very first Pokémon you remember seeing, catching, or trading? It might have been from a game, the anime, cards, or even just something you saw randomly that stuck with you. Do you remember where you were or how it happened? Does that Pokémon still mean something to you now?

Cinder0851 · April 29

I got a McDonalds happy meal and I got a Grubbin card, other than that, I remember playing Let's Go Pikachu with my dad and watching the show. That Grubbin card is the only other pokemon on my dedicated Cinderace shelf

Hades0918 · April 29

McDonald's Pilachu toy

If memory serves it came with a cards but I don't remember the exact one

So what it did is even you rolled it (it had wheels on the bottom) the electricity parts would light up

Well, me and my cousin thought Pikachu's name was Pokémon, so we would roll it down the slide in my backyard yelling, "Pokémon, go!"

Good memories and fun times

Prince_Ludwig · April 29

Nah, this was, like, decades ago, I don't remember the specifics, just that everyone brought their Game Boys to school, watched the anime, and traded cards. Someone traded me a counterfeit Zapdos card. >:(

Voltareon2012 · April 29

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/comment/150708#Comment_150708

YOU
HAVE
A
CINDERACE SHELF?!?!?!?!?!?!

Voltareon2012 · April 29

The earliest memory was when I already kind of knew about Pokemon I was like 5 and saw some random stranger lady's hoodie had every Eeveelution on it, including Sylveon, who I had never seen before. And so I asked the random lady who Sylveon was. Thankfully the lady was super nice and we had a very long talk about Pokémon and she taught me much while my dad who knew little more than 'charmander bulbasaur squirtle pikachu eevee jigglypuff mewtwo' just stood there like a third wheel.