What would you consider to be a first generation Pokemon player?

Question

Me and one of my older friends go into a debate over Pokemon, she say that she's a first generation Pokemon player/fan and i'm a second generation player/fan. I agreed that she was a first generation fan, but I disagreed to being a second generation fan. doing my research, I've found out that Pokemon red was released in 1996, and the anime did not come to america until 1998. I was born in 1994, and she was born in 1990. I explain to her, that I would be considered a 1st generation fan too, because I was watching the anime and playing to card games at the same time she was, even though we were not around didn't know each other at the time and she was playing the video games before I did, we both still coexisted. wouldn't that make everybody who played the game or watched the show. older or younger than her a first generation fan? after all, generation does mean "all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively."... the show and games couldn't have specifically people of her age.

Answer 1

It depends completely how the two of you want to look at it.

Arguably a first generation fan could be anyone that got into Pokemon during the first generation be it through the first gen games (red and blue, though a yellow player is still technically first gen), first season of the anime, or first gen card game.

However it sounds like you're saying you got into the anime and card game first but didn't play the video game until later. If you're talking about being a first generation player that would depend on what game you started with red/ blue/ yellow would make the player a first generation and gold/ silver/ crystal would make be for a second generation player.

Answer 2

According what you say, you are 4 years younger than her, but you were watching the anime and playing to card games at the same time she was. so you were both playing Pokemon red or yellow or green before 2000. i am at the same age of your friend, so i know how she feels, cause we always think that people who are younger than us didn't experience the first Pokemon games, but later i released that Pokemon silver and gold are also belong to the 1st Pokemon generation, cause they were both released on GB or GBA. so in all you were the 1st Pokemon generation player and here is a good site cdkeyvast.com, hope this could help you.

Answer 3

The card games and anime are irrelevant. What was the newest Pokémon game, when you first played a main series game? If it was Gold, Silver, or Crystal. That's Gen II. If it was Red, Blue or Yellow, that's generation I.

Answer 4

In my opinion your problem doesn't really involve pokemon at all. It's more of a "I'm older so I know more than you problem". This happens a lot when younger people like something that someone older than themselves like (music, movies, games, etc.). Take for instance I like the movie Terminator. Terminator was made before the 90's. I was born in '93. If I knew absolutely everything there was to know about Terminator, someone who lived when the movie came out and was a huge fan could give me the old "you don't even know" statement. It comes down to that person being a hipster meaning "I liked it before it was cool". These people think that this makes them "cool" but all it really proves is that they are older. This doesn't make you any less of a fan than she is. Unless your favorite pokemon isn't Charizard in which case you know nothing (jk).