>>405409951. I've been here since the beginning, I started with blue and my spoiled-ass neighbor got the special edition Pikachu GBC with Pokemon Yellow.
2. I'm here because I still like Pokemon, despite its flaws. Though I gotta mention that LGPE and everything after it is draining me of interest for the franchise, something that's been eating away at me since the move to full 3D.
If S/S ends up being anything less than flawless, I'm probably going to stop bothering with the games and just stick to the anime.
3. I like monster catching games, especially if they have a lot of collecting and breeding autism-bait in it; Pokemon fills that niche. I USED TO be bigger into the DQM series, but that kinda petered out and I was starting to get tired of Toriyama's designs, anyway.
The only real monster catching game I play now is Disc Creatures, a damn fine DQM clone.