the very first episode I watched was the one where ash gets his pikachu which is the 1st episode of the serious after I started watching it I began to like it alot and I've never missed a single episode I also collected pokemon cards I used to have a lot of them dont know what happened to them but I still have a few of them, then I started buying the games I used to have yellow, blue, green red, gold, now I have crystal, pear, heartgold, soulsilver, ruby, sapphire, platinum, black, white.