>vaguely remember my grandfather being in hospital and getting the Pokemon marble game, I thought the entire set came in the bag, it didn't. To get the launcher it cost like a tenner, had to wait till like my birthday or whatever
>being at a family BBQ, made to play charades, too embarrassed to act out so just sort of roll into a ball, no one guesses. I was Ditto apparently.
>weird older kids in my street selling their pokemon cards on a proper little market stall as if they were Ed, Edd and Eddy
>dreaming my brother had stolen my Mew Two card, so plotted to steal it back, couldn't find it so took his Movie one hid it under my wardrobe, felt maximum guilt then put it back
>giant pokemon cards at carboot sales and being amazed
>calling the fat red guy in college a "shiny snorlax" and making the gay guy who always had a stick up his ass bust out laughing
>brother losing his charizard plush at the bus station. I bought the same one over 15 years later.
>playing X and Y with my first Uni mates on the bus to a games convention, loving the X-Comm
>spending hours getting Spirittomb with my friend
>calling the photo hiker a big guy from Pearl whilst talking to my mum in Blackpool and her being all "oh no offensive"
>spending a full week one summer playing through all of Pearl
>seeing that kid on holiday with Sapphire and wanting it
>first internet use, getting on serebii, thinking Joe was some big mystery ma.
>getting hyped for colosseum, reading about it online and in a little leaflet from GAME
>roleplaying our own pokemon world as a kid with my best friend
>probably by first hook into furry, with Lucario and /b/
>trying to make our own pokeblocks with mushed up berries
>playing Pokemon Moon in Ueno, Tokyo near a shinto temple. Heck, going to the PokeCenter at Sunshine City. Going to the PokeCenter at SkyTree and managing to swap some yen with a Japanese guy who couldn't speak any English so I could use the coin crusher machine
