Pokemon Starter Types

[JBird]

For me, what got me into the series was my still being new to JRPGs (and RPGs in general), and I was eager to try out Pokemon Red without knowing anything about it beforehand. My intro to games like that was Final Fantasy VII, and you can imagine my surprise/confusion when I discovered that Pokemon featured one-on-one battles, as oppose to a party of three. Still, I stuck with it, and enjoyed it from then on. Plus, the Charizard on the box looked bad-ass, and playing a Gameboy game on the Gameboy Color was mind-blowing to my ten-year old self.

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by JBird

For me, what got me into the series was my still being new to JRPGs (and RPGs in general), and I was eager to try out Pokemon Red without knowing anything about it beforehand. My intro to games like that was Final Fantasy VII, and you can imagine my surprise/confusion when I discovered that Pokemon featured one-on-one battles, as oppose to a party of three. Still, I stuck with it, and enjoyed it from then on. Plus, the Charizard on the box looked bad-ass, and playing a Gameboy game on the Gameboy Color was mind-blowing to my ten-year old self.

I still have my Classic close by, fresh batteries and everything. Dunno what I did with my Color or Advance, but they're around here somewhere. The switch from monochrome to color on the same cart was an experience, to be sure.

[Keile]

Originally Posted by JBird

For me, what got me into the series was my still being new to JRPGs (and RPGs in general), and I was eager to try out Pokemon Red without knowing anything about it beforehand. My intro to games like that was Final Fantasy VII, and you can imagine my surprise/confusion when I discovered that Pokemon featured one-on-one battles, as oppose to a party of three. Still, I stuck with it, and enjoyed it from then on. Plus, the Charizard on the box looked bad-ass, and playing a Gameboy game on the Gameboy Color was mind-blowing to my ten-year old self.

The color isn't what blew my mind.

What blew my mind is that you can CHANGE IT!

ZOMG finding out that if you hold the D-Pad/start/select and I think A/B as well in various combinations would get you different color pallets to the game made is just that much more fun to boot up.

[JBird]

Originally Posted by Keile

The color isn't what blew my mind.

What blew my mind is that you can CHANGE IT!

ZOMG finding out that if you hold the D-Pad/start/select and I think A/B as well in various combinations would get you different color pallets to the game made is just that much more fun to boot up.

I never knew about that until later on.

[WildSide]

Regardless of which version it is, I always pick fire for my starter and no matter how far I get I never, ever, ever field a grass-type.