>>37578575Fun. Everything was new and exciting. You couldn't be spoiled on anything as everything was spread by gossip and rumor. You could make new friends easy thanks to the way the game worked and even the anime was cool and unique at the time.
I was known as the Pokemon Guru at school due to my massive autism for it. People would just come up to me asking questions or wanting to trade, as I was one of the few that had a Link Cable, a Mew and knew the cloning trick.
Pokemon literally gave me a reason to live back then...