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>Starting with Gen 2 (could have started with genwun but my parents were too cheap to buy me a gameboy)
>Researching Missingno with my crush who was also my best friend in Primary School
>Being amazed as a little kid when a friend of my brothers gives me Yellow for free because he got tired of it, finally understanding all the references in Gen 2 to Kanto
>Still loving Pokemon during Gen 3 while all my friends stopped and 'grew out of it' because it stopped being cool
>Getting LG for Christmas and being amazed at the non-linearity of the Sevii Islands and having fun making strategic teams and battling my neighbours
>Finally getting Emerald and playing it so much - esp. in the Battle Frontier - that I maxed out the clock
>Making so many great teams in Emerald that my neighbours would use it to make eggs of Pokemon they want
>Getting Diamond and remembering being amazed at the DS graphics and the HQ sprites, and thinking I'd never leave this series
>Playing Platinum in year 11 on the bus home tasting freedom from finishing early for the first time and having free afternoons
>Being on /v/ when HeartGold leaked and uploading picture proof by smiling in a picture of me holding my DSi with the title screen playing
>Missing my brother and sister oversees while I stepped into Vermillion City for the first time and marvelled at how amazing Kanto looked in 3D
>Playing White and being enthralled with the story in a Pokemon game for the first time, and playing on the edge of my seat; a faithful friend to see me through leaving all my friends from High School behind in University
>Playing White 2 out of habit as a jaded University student at the end of my degree and still being pleased as to how they managed to make it so fresh
My neighbours aren't friends with me any more, my Primary School crush rejected me when I was 15 and I finally confessed my feelings, and I see my high school friends less and less, but Pokemon will always remain as the thing that brought us together.
