So, I'm going through my old pokemon games just to see what I have, and I get to Platinum. I'm just lookin in the PC boxes, and I get to a male combee that looks... off. I stare at it a moment, trying to decide if it's just an off color that some of the older games have compared to a new one, because it couldn't possibly be shiny. I would have remembered a shiny combee. I would have remembered ANY shiny, because as far as I could recall, my first main game shiny was in SWORD.
I look at its name. Cheerios. I get it; because Honey Nut. A name that fits what I would name something. If it were a shiny I would have named it something that drew more attention, right?
The old games dont have the shiny indicator unless you go into the summary, so I do, and lo and behold, it is a shiny! And I am listed as its original trainer. Somehow I caught this combee and didn't realize it was a shiny and just named it a threw it into a box.
So I guess my first (caught) shiny (I'm still mad at the goldeen that got away) was a male combee, caught on route 208, Jan 31 2013.