Hey,

Today at a local thrift store I picked up a "like-new" 3DS with about 30 standard Nintendo DS games, many of them are Pokemon related:

Black version
Black 2 v.
Diamond v.
Heart Gold v.
Pearl v.
Platinum v.
Soul Silver v.
White v.

For some reason I'm very very interested in playing these games, assuming they're so very popular for a reason. Which one would you recommend to someone COMPLETELY new to the series? As in, the only Pokemons I know of are Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Lucario and Pichu (and the 3 from Poke Trainer) courtesy of Super Smash.... other than that, nothing whatsoever. Never was into the fad back in the day.

Pic related, I suppose I'd list the other games for suggestions too.