I got my first glimpse of a pokemon in a nidorina card.
Pikachu and Charmander simultaneously. It was on a shirt former my baby sitter sent me some years back. My, brother knew Pokemon inside out back then, so he told me.
I saw Lapras on a commercial for pokemon on this Kids Channel. That was my first I think.
My brother had a bulbusaur beanie baby or something, that was the first one that I ever saw or heard of, I called him bul-bul-bulbusaur!

After that my brother introduced me to Pokemon Stadium, thats where I found Gengar. I was terrified of it!

Then over the weeks I got use to him!
pokemon red cartridge-charizard
maybe thats why hes my no.1 pokemon
Oh my...that was so long ago...I can hardly remember
I think it was...pikachu or some other starter :/
aragornbird Wrote:Pikachu. Remember that US Pokemon Red/Blue commercial where Pikachu gets on the bus with the other Pokemon and the bus driver crunches the bus into a game cartridge?
LOL Yes, I still remember that. I think Pikachu, of course, was first run by me. WHY COULDN'T IT BE DITTO? T_T
Y'know, I'd think at first that 80% of the people on this planet would say Pikachu.
But for me, it was le Charmander. 
The first Pokemon I ever saw was Poliwhirl; it was a toy I recieved from a friend.
The first pokemon I saw was a Charizard on the the original Red Version cartridge! Man, I feel like an old man!