>>33379267I was around for Pokemania, but I was so much more interested in Digimon and Dragonball at the time. I didn't play Pokemon until Gold and Silver came out. The next 3 years would define the golden age of Pokemon for me, as I got really into trading mons, getting info on certain mon locations like Heracross who I loved from the anime, an expansion pak and Stadium 2, and had a major blast playing it.
Around 2003, I couldn't get a gamboy advance since I had only a choice between it and Ps2. I got the ps2 and so never experienced gen 3 in its initial entirety.
I also got into Yugioh at around the same time and that basically dominated my preteen interest, until I became a /v/fag and was playing and discovering a bunch of game franchise outside Nintendo. I never really thought of pokemon too much. I'd see tidbits about the anime or the spin offs in commercials, but didn't really pay attention.
I got Heartgold and a DS for my birthday and was shocked, and all the memories from gen 2 started rushing through. I then got Platinum, later played a bunch of Gen 5, and even loved the designs and linearity. Maybe its because I was coming back fresh, but I had so much fun with Gen 5 during my late highschool days.
I was hyped as fuck for XY, It was around that time I started posting here. I played it a bunch, but megas were the biggest fucking mistake I've seen and the games were piss easy. I was actually pretty indifferent about ORAS, but it felt new to me since I didn't play Gen 3. It was fun, but that whole year of no game release really hurt my enjoyment.
Now I just occasionally play here and there. I haven't bothered with Sun and Moon since it looked real trash from a walkthrough I saw. I'm taking a break from the series outside reminiscent discussions of pass gens and games like these.
