hm... what got me started.... hard to say my memory of my child hood is a bit vague.... but i can remember most of it. I was at my aunts at the time and i noticed she had a game boy, during the time i was pretty interested in i was even interested in games when i was 2 but thats a different story. i saw most of the games, tony hawk on game boy.... tetris... and this stuffs, then i noticed pokemon red i think.. i can't tell cause it wasn't a game boy color, those weren't made yet so i grabbed it and played it a bit, i wasn't that much interested in it but i played it a lot, after a while i kinda got addicted to it. after that i asked some of my cousins if i could keep it and they let me keep and play it to my hearts content, i never remembered how far i really gotten but i think i beat it... but never saw mewtwo. when gold/silver came out i just thought that was awesome, but never kinda got them for some reason for unknown reasons, but when i heard about crystal i was a bit more intrigued... i blame the bluish tinted game cartridge
before i go in to deep i must get to the thing that got me most interested... the show... for SOME reason it was just awesome to watch, it was like.. the THING of THINGS, me and my sister were so interested... in fact we even acted like our own adventure and that, i even remember a really good friend from 2nd grade that used to imagine we had our own pokemon oh how gullible kids are in those days i even remember my wish when i was young.... to have my own poliwhirll....
after that anyways me and my sister were hooked, we got each game that came out making sure to get the complete opposite of each other, i got ruby, she go sapphire. she got diamond, i got pearl. and it all went on from there, heck i got white and she got black. its funny cause we didn't do it cause we wanted to, but we did it cause we liked the legends on the box. and still to this day, i play pokemon..... i wonder what the next game parts will be