Oh well, in my case, the October 12th is a very, very long awaited day. I've wanted to have my own game boy with my own Pokémon game, ever since I got in elementary school (2002), during the Poké Mania in my country.
I did manage to borrow a game boy color with Pokémon Gold, but it wouldn't keep the save files, so I always had to leave it on. Still, it would just turn itself off after some hours, so yeah, I slept in fear of waking up and looking at an empty screen. In that case, I would just cry for 5 minutes and start over and over again (that went on for like a month actually xD).
Anyway, at that time, my parents supposedly weren't in condition to spend money on games (but it was pretty cheap, so I still don't agree with my parents on that one nowadays), so I kind of was forced to forget about Pokémon, and I did... until I got my first (and current) computer with access to the internet and found out that it was possible to play Pokémon in the pc(that was like 5 years ago)! So, yeah, I did play every single Pokémon game, including a lot of hacks.
Still, I think you guys understand that playing it alone in your computer isn't nearly as fun and goals like completing the Pokédex or training your Pokémon as best as possible are pretty pointless.
But why am I now finally getting my own console with my own Pokémon game? Well, my family isn't better on money, it's actually a lot worse, however I've managed to earn quite a lot of money from school (~2100€ in the last 2 years). Almost all of it went to my dentist, but now that I'm 17 I have a bit more authority, enough to keep for myself just the amount of money for a 3DS + Pokémon Y.
tl;dr While most of you guys have been waiting for the October 12th for 10 months, I've been waiting for it since I was 6, 11 years ago, so yeah, I'm pretty f***ing excited!