gen 3. Although I have been a fan since I started watching the kanto anime, and my first game was Silver, I grew up with hoenn more. When I had Silver, I didn't really understand it. Then in sapphire I used to restart like crazy, and then emerald was the first game I beat. I love the different climates, and some of my fav. pokemon are from there (mightyena, camrupt, skitty, swellow, zangoose, the starters). It introduced a different plot (team magma and team aqua), new things to do through the game (contests) and it had an awesome battle fronteir. I love hoenn.... to bad I don't have any working hoenn games anymore... need to get a emeralf off ebay