Pokemon Database Stories: What's yours?

Question

Wow, this thread really blew up!
Hi, I'm Scraf. And this is my story:

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Seven-year old me really wanted a Game Boy Advance for my birthday. I opened up a grey, glossy box to find a Spongebob GBA and three games: Arcade Games, Galaga Remastered, and Pokemon Fire Red. I clocked in about 800,000 points in Galaga before I put it down for the next eight years, and Arcade Games was a bit too hard for seven-year old me. Fire Red, however, I didn't quite put down just yet.

I clocked 999:59 into that thing faster than you'd expect. I chose Squirtle as my starter and set off out of Pallet Town. My sister got Leaf Green the year later, and I traded my Lvl. 100 Blastoise over to her game. She restarted it. Nooooooo :D

That over the following three years, I purchased Pokemon Games in quick succession. Pokemon Ruby, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver and White all were welcomed into my collection. This was about when I was in Grade 6.

...then I just stopped playing. Pokemon became unpopular. Anyone who played it was the dunce.

Three years later, around the release of X & Y, I stumbled upon this site. The news section helped me out a ton, deciphering all of these new Pokemon, the Fairy Type, why Aegislash looks so great, etc. Then, I discovered Pokebase.

It was like a cool breeze with the smell of freshly fallen rain blew out of my laptop screen that day. There were so many resources and such an amazing community, I quickly identified Pokebase as a safe haven of the Internet.

I quickly proceeded to pump out answers and questions. People generally liked my answers, and I kept getting more points. And then, around January of 2015, I left.

Well, what can I say? I've lost interest in Pokemon for the time being and OR is my last game for the time being. As I listen to YEHEHE, this is my sendoff.

Thanks for being awesome.

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That's my story. What's yours?

Post stories about how Pokebase changed your view on Pokemon, rekindled your love for it, or just helped you out overall!
Pokebase, or Pokemon Database, is a great site. A lot of good has happened here so lets tell our experiences of how this site helped us!

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Story time yay!

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Au revoir, monsieur. Bon chance dans tes adventures. Aimes ta vie.

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Gonna answer this with my story soon.

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I think I will answer once my days here are over

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i love stories too!

Answer 1

I loved Pokemon from a young age. I've been on this site for less than fifteen minutes but I figured this would be a good place to post my first answer.

Pokemon was the first video game I'd ever played, other than random games that I played at my cousin's house.

Anyway, my love for Pokemon grew over the years, and one day, in elementary school, we were allowed to bring our games into school. I, of course, played Pokemon.

However, while I was battling a trainer, our teacher approached and deemed that it was too violent, and my games were confiscated. Thankfully, they were returned eventually.

Answer 2

The Beggining

A (not so) long time ago, in the (not so) faraway country of Brazil...
My first contact with the franchise was around the start of the Gen 6 era, when my brother wanted to watch the anime's original series on Netflix. This series and the XY series as well were basically our only method of gathering Pokémon knowledge, aside from the official pokédex on the official Pokémon website. So obviously I brainfarted sometimes. For example, I thought Tentacruel was naturally giant (I didn't paid attention on the mutation part).

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The impact of Pokémon GO

GO was my first Pokémon Game as far as I can remember. I started with Squirtle, due to blue being my favorite color, and water being my favorite element. However, my progress was a little slow until I actually learned more about the game in 2020, (yup, the worst time to play the game).

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The moment that ignited my passion for Pokémon

Around the beggining of 2020, I saw a friend of mine playing Pokémon Fire Red, a game I heard very little about before, on his cellphone. I wanted to play too, so, with his help, I downloaded the emulator and the ROM and started playing, starting with Squirtle once again. During this time, I discovered more about the franchise, such as finally learning that Tentacruel is actually around as tall as the player character. Since then, I started playing a lot of gen 3 games and ROM hacks, then I dicovered a DS emulator and played Gen 4 and 5 games as well. I even found a 3ds emulator and played gen 6 and 7 (excluding Let's go). Unfortunately I can't find a Switch emulator that works on my cellphone or Laptop (That is what I get due to joining the Pokémon community so late).

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A database full of info

The official Pokédex started to seem out of information that I already didn't knew, so I looked for another online Pokédex, so I found Pokémon DB's shiny dex, and started using this site as the main source of Pokémon information that I had. Eventually I discovered Pokébase and the moveset questions, so I logged in as BlastFury0614 and posted a set for one of my favorite Pokémon, Raichu, which I upgraded since I didn't knew soo much about competitive back then. I normaly also use Bulbapedia and Smogon for learning new things as well.

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Smogon and Showdown!

I somewhat started learning about competitive in DB, but I wanted to see what Showdown! was all about, and I played a lot since then. I especially like playing OM's, for the amount of new strategies that can be used. Sime examples include the classic Sturdinja on Pure HackMons, physical wallbraker Chansey in Stat Switch, Altarianite Landorus-T (or Great Tusk) in Mix and Mega, or a Water-Flying-Ground Gyarados in bonus type. I'm also playing minor tours and tour minigames a lot thanks to a DB user sugestion.

I'll upgrade this whenever it's necessary

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Which 3ds emulator ae you using and where did you get the ROM from?

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SturdNinja is a joke in any PH gen lmao.

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Still fun I guess... \_(ツ)_/

Answer 3

Well, I once was looking at netflix, and found pokemon xy. Some friends of mine liked pokemon and gave me some cards, and then I asked my dad about pokemon video games, he had some, and then I started playing. My first game was gold. Then, I got a lot into it and I found this website, I just stalked around on it a lot, I was too scared to ask my dad, but I mustered enough courage and I asked him in February 2021, he said yes, and well here I am. Kind of boring but yeah.

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you had the guts to ask your dad for a game, a true valiant warrior

Answer 4

When I was about 6, my uncle gave me a cartridge for Black 2 along with a 2DS. For some reason, I decided it would be funny to name everything a series of all-caps random letters. I remember picking Oshawott and naming it something along the lines of XGCGSBVF. I didn't know much about Pokemon, so I caught and filled my party with low-level early route Pokemon and never bothered to train them. Because of that, I quickly got stuck on Burgh and his Leavanny, making me put down the game because it was too difficult for me at that age. The game proceeded to reside in my closet for 3 years. After I rediscovered it, I remembered my struggles with Burgh and decided to turn to the internet for help. That's when I found Pokebase. I instantly liked how easy it was to read and never considered looking for other sites. I made an account by the name of CyberRyderVIII because I felt the need to comment something about Zekrom on an old thread. After that, I put down Pokemon again for a bit. I returned after Sword and Shield came out, and made my first Showdown account, called Sir Chasm 27. The pandemic started and my interest exploded. I became much more active on Pokebase and Showdown, getting more familiar with the website and becoming more knowledgeable about Pokemon. I got more confident with my knowledge and in the summer of 2020 I wrote my first answer. Since then, my interest in Pokemon hasn't faltered.

Answer 5

Hi I am a new user and I just want to say thank you to pokemaster for creating this; it truly changed my life.
I was walking back from school and me and my brother were opening pokemon cards just to see the cool creatures and little did I know it, there it was, a golden meowscarada ex and I gazed at it, I knew meowscarada and other pokemon at the time but this was something else, as soon as I got home I wanted to see where I can get information about this pokemon and then there was pokemon database, I remember going "wait, who's enamorus?, it cant surely evolve into sprigatitio?". My brother got a glastrier later, and I said look there is a place where there is info on this guy we stared at it for hours: "who's calyrex?", "look enamorus, i remember that!", "there are more regis?". I remember just scrolling through generation nine, my father saying "you can just search the pokemon instead of scrolling towards it " I will always remember what I said: "how can I search a pokemon I don't know?", I also learnt bulbasaur was the first pokemon, me and my brother were shocked about that :), and my brother made lego pokemon and make them fight, writing statistics in my journal. Then under my christmas tree was pokemon scarlet my first game ever, then hisui, then za, this truly changed my life.

Thank you pokemaster! I hope you here this :)

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who upvoted this?

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it really means a lot :)

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That was me :)