>>56204459I knew about Pokémon for a while (I got a little Squirtle figurine as well as a few of the Diamond and Pearl McDonald’s poke balls when I was living in Singapore for a while), but I never played the games until around 2012-2013. My first game was Pokémon Black on an R4 cart I used to have. I chose Tepig and gave up shortly after I got to the first gym because I broke down crying because I felt bad about not teaching Tepig defense curl (I was a stupid kid who got attached to things way too easily, still kind of am. I didn’t pick the fire starter again until Sword and Shield). However, I didn’t get REALLY into the games until I got Pokémon Black 2 in 2013. I also downloaded this one unofficial Pokédex app on my iPad, which is where I found out about all the Pokémon. I started getting even more into Pokémon during the lead up to gen 6. I remember looking at so many dumb bullshit fake corocoro scans, as well as the massive speculation regarding what Sylveon’s type was. I was a regular browser of the pokememes page on
cheezburger.net (it was a different time). I got Pokémon X the day it came out, and I played it religiously. The lead up to ORAS was something else, the hype was off the charts, and the bullshit leaks didn’t stop coming (I remember there was this fake leak of two mega Rayquazas that were literally just Dialga and Palkia coloured green with Rayquaza’s head pasted on. And let’s not forget mega Klinklang). The games came out in very close proximity to Super Smash Bros for Wii U, so that was also really exciting for me when I was younger. I put so much time into Omega Ruby due to the 1 year break between games. I researched the competitive scene to see which Pokémon were good (the battle resort was basically where I spent most of my time).
