I was 13 when Diamond and Pearl released. Kinda hard to remember if I bought it on launch day as it was kind of a bad year but it had to have been around launch at the very least. Platinum on the other hand I think I bought in 2010, a year or so after North American release. Again, kinda hard to remember. I'm an old lady.
I didn't, but it wasn't long after launch when I got them, a few months later I think. But I didn't have a DS so yeah, didn't buy them till I got one.
I never actually bought any of the Gen IV games. I kind of fell out of Pokémon for awhile about when D/P launched. I started to get back into the series around when HeartGold/SoulSilver came out but didn't start playing the games again until Gen V.
yes =) I was incredibly impatient. Even bought Japanese Pearl since I couldn't wait six months for its NA release lol.
I got pearl for myself and diamond for my little brother on launch. I did the same with two platinum versions when it launched too. We would compete with each other throughout the games and we still do with the current gens today.
Same with me, but with Pearl. Diamond came to me later, so I gave Pearl to my brother (we kind of shared it) and started the new one. I bought Platinum at launch as well. I bought the three of them in a store that no longer exists, in fact.
Diamond and Pearl were my gateway to Pokémon. I saw the commercial for Pearl and fell in love with it. I bought it but I think it was a few weeks after its initial launch though. Platinum however I got on launch date.
Ja, my parents got me a copy of Pokémon Pearl when it came out for my birthday. Pearl was actually the first Pokémon game that belonged to me and I played to completion.
Nope. These were the days when Nintendo conveniently forgot the EU existed - come to think of it, they still do that - so I wound up importing a copy of Diamond from the US, three months(!) before the UK release date. I did the same with Platinum, too. A big percentage of my DS titles are imported, in fact. My mother didn't get a copy of Pearl until November of that year, long after it came out.
I didn’t end up playing any of Gen 4 until 2011 because I wasn’t even playing video games when they launched.
I got mine as a christmas present some time after the release. Not sure how long after. I got the DS at the same time. My parents didn't want me to have a DS at first because there were some health warnings on it, but pretty much everything has health warnings so I guess it didn't really matter all that much.
I’ve literally never bought a game when it released. (The earliest game I bought was Sun a few days after Christmas). When D/P were released in 2006 that means I was only 3. I can’t remember when I actually got the game, I might have been in second grade.
Yup! I think I was in... 3rd or 4th grade when Diamond and Pearl were released. I remember getting Pearl the day it came out because I got a stylus with Palkia on the end tip plus the guidebook. Wow what a nostalgia trip.
Pokémon Moon and Ultra Moon were the only games I actually got the chance to buy on launch. Diamond was my first game, but if I remember correctly, I got it about a month or three later. Sinnoh is my favorite region though and I'm just glad that it was also my first region ^^