well i was watching TV and a comercial came on... it had two adjacent appartment complexes... suddenly a pikachu appeared in the window and waved off into the distance, and a hitmonlee on the opposing window waved back and tossed over a GB Link Cable... and various multicolored animals started tightrope walking to get to each other's appartment... the TV screen then Flashed POKEMON BLUE AND RED... A few weeks later i went with my grandpa to his doctors appointment and we stopped at a Wal-mart along the way... he told me i could buy any video game i wanted... i saw pokemon Blue and was like "i want that one"
all i can say is fuck ya... pokemon!!!!.... but my sister broke my carteridge... then a few years later my mom bought me a GBC with pokemon yellow... i somehow by the grace of god caught a mew... no seriously... and i beat the game with pikachu, Kabutops, mew, and the 3 starters... well i got pretty hardcore into pokemon in elementary... i somewhat played ruby/saphirre when it came out... and when DP came out i was mildly excited...
i didn't really get into pokemon hardcore again until i went to college and joined the anime club there... where pokemon was kinda big
at anime club i met this guy who no one would wanna play super smash bros with... i played him... got my ass kicked... and this guy eventually became my best friend... this guy is the one you guys know as maelstrom he eventually introduced me to the server