My History with Pokémon
Not That any of you really care about it but I thought I would jot this down just in case. I started playing Pokémon back in the days of RBY when I was young. I remember being frustrated when I couldn't capture all the Pokémon in Blue so I ended up getting the Red as well. When Yellow came out I obviously had to go and get that as well. Some time in there I started playing the card game and I remember my complete shock when the first booster pack I bought ended up containing a Charizard. I also started watching the anime at about this time. Later on Gold and Silver came out and had a blast playing Silver. Eventually Pokémon became uncool and I ended up giving it up. The summer between my Junior and Senior years of high school I had a job that gave me some extra money and I had heard about the remakes of Red and Blue versions, so I decided to buy a copy of them. Once again I was hooked. I played those games for a couple of hundred hours before they were stolen. But I hadn't given up on Pokémon. About that time I downloaded (yes I know illegal but I deleted them since then) the first ten seasons of the Pokémon anime and watched them through to get caught up on the show so I could start watching the new episodes. I got a DS lite and bought Pearl version and spent close to 300 hours playing. While playing FireRed and LeafGreen I found some of my Pokémon knowledge was a little rusty so I started searching the web for a good repository of Pokémon knowledge. I found serebii.net, gtsplus.net, and many others not worth mentioning but bulbapedia was far better than any of them. Now I play platinum and love it. I won't bore you with any more details but that is pretty much my story with Pokémon and how I came to get here.