Tell us about your favourite Pokémon memory!

One thing that I always remember was as a kid the excitement of watching new Pokémon episodes of the very first season I used to get up early on a Saturday morning to watch them on TV, I still watch Pokémon to this day I just don't have to get up really early to do that now thankfully.

for me it has to be 2016 with the launch of Pokemon go, it was a beautiful summer too, everyone was outside, happy, catching Pokemon!

There really was nothing like it, it was an absolute phenomenon, I remember going out on my lunch break from work, buzzing to catch some Pokemon, making eyes with other people doing the exact same thing and smiling at each other.

Then later on taking part in big raids with randoms in the street, it really was a special moment, as the game harked backed to the 90's when there was many pop culture moments, now this was a pop culture-esque moment in 2016 as pretty much everyone got involved, Pokemon fan or not.

It genuinely felt like the closest thing to world peace, that how powerful Pokemon go was! I also remember seeing clips on the news of mad rushes of people at all hours of the day racing towards the location where a rare Pokemon had spawned in! Honestly, you had to be there, it was AMAZING!

Gotta Catch Em All!

Getting Pokemon Blue for my 13th birthday.

We'd been reading about the hot new RPG from Japan in games magazines for months, but only really after the US release (1998). The UK didn't get the game until almost a year later (unthinkable these days). We saw little screenshots of this relatively hefty RPG (by Gameboy standards), with great character designs, and a pretty unique catch-em-and-battle-em mechanic. Those little nuggets were enough to drive the anctipation for the UK release, which was just a few months before my birthday. When it came around, it absolutely lived up to the hype - I played it for months, perfected a team of 6, and did battling and trading with whoever I could convince to do so. That was the starting point of a Pokemon obsession that lasted several years (and died off from Gen 3/4).

So I was 10 years old when Pokemon was out, I am not sure as to the exact year I "discovered" Pokemon only that I fell in love with it instantly. I must have been around 13 though as I was living in a small village when I started collecting the cards and the binders.

My memories of early Pokemon were four of us using our pocket money to get the bus into the city and go to a toy shop called "The Entertainer" to buy our Pokemon packs and then going back to one of our houses, getting our current collections out and then checking if we had new ones or old ones or doubles and then getting into heated discussions as to trade them with each other for cards we didn't have.

When we had sleepovers on Friday nights after school we used to wake up early to watch the three-hour Pokemon special on I think, it was Nickelodeon. We used to sit there in our Pj's as a group and my brother as well, watched Ash pound people and we'd cheer etc, mum used to make us bacon baps as well for breakfast.

We used to take our cards into school to trade with others but the schools quickly banned them because it caused fights because people used to actually get so mad about card trading they would punch each other :(

Oh can we please make this a bounty every week!! I love reading people's pokemon memories. I've been addicted since pokemon yellow in the late 90's/early 2000s

Mine would have to be the crazy elite 4 battle against cynthia, it was 2007 in August at like 3 in the morning, I had no revives or potions through my first run through the elite 4. I KEPT LOSING TO MILOTIC. I finally had another good bout of luck with the RNG and was better in this battle compared to the others. My favourite pokemon Manaphy was left against Milotic, I was running out of water pulses, my only attacking move left. THE LAST WATER PULSE I CONFUSED MILOTIC, it hit itself in confusion 3 times in a row and I won the battle, couldn't believe it.

I WAS BUZZING AT LIKE 4 IN THE MORNING