What got me interested in Pokemon?
Hold on a sec, I wrote a huge essay on that a while back and I just gotta find it.
I was at summer camp (just day camp) and we were in the woods and I was hearing about this huge phenominem. The kids at camp has these cards and were playing these games. I simply denied liking to it because I said, "Pokemon's for boys." But then I'm not sure if it happened when I won my first ever Pokemon card through a contest, tuned in to see Showdown At Dark City or just observed all the kids doing these things. But for sure, I did get addicted to Pokemon and the following winter, I got my first Gameboy Color (lime green) and my very first Pokemon game (the Yellow version) I was so new to the games that once I even asked my best friend at the time if "Brock and Misty follow you when you leave Pewter." Of course she said no and even now, I laugh at that idea.
But then the sixth grade came and the terrorists took down the WTC along with my TV reception and we didn't have cable. Of course I was devastated but what was I to do? So then I decided to make my own series based on my new school and slowly traded Pokemon in for it. I wrote over fifty stories on those characters of mine and they still exist on my pc.
But February of 2003, my very first real crush left me and I was so devastated that I didn't do any of my normal routine. I think my old routine stopped right there when she left. So eventually when I was recovering, I was looking through my room, found my old Red version, popped it into the lavender GBA that I had bought many years ago, played and became addicted. Finally I gathered up my courage and tuned to Pokemon to find the reception perfect again but to find a new season called Master Quest in affect. An interesting fact, the first encore episode on Friday I saw EVER starred Clair/Ibuki and from then on I liked her. In fact she was the first gymleader I had EVER seen since Bugsy and Hayato.
Oh, a side note, I did catch a few episodes when I was in my sixth grade phase. Every time I tuned on, Cassidy happened to be on and I watched for her because she was one of my first ever favorites from Pokemon.
Thank goodness for the copy and paste feature. Yes, I have a lot of Pokemon history from my childhood. Not watching Pokemon was all the terrorist's fault.