thanks for the both of you for the helping to get me on the right path here. (forums are so confusing somtimes XD ) and, what got me into pokemon was a charmander figure given to me when i was around 3 1/2. when i got older, i decided to look on its foot, where to humble pokemon logo was bound. weeks later, i asked my mum about pokemon games knowing them from those commercials on the VHS tapes. and, on my birthday, i got a copy of pokemon blue. you would think i would choose charmander ot squirtle, but no. i chose the ever loving bulbasaur! and from then on my love ofor the seires grew as the fandom did. even through those tough times when pokemon was "lame" i stuck with it, and then came gen 3, holding one of my favourite evolution lines, the Gardevoir line! i never did beat emerald, (or any of the pokemon games for the GBA for that matter) but, alas, then came gen 4... oh sweet arceus the awesome that is Lucario! (my number 1 favourite btw) after beating Diamond with very little effort, Platinum was announced, and i just HAD to have it. [insert a story about easiest pokemon game ever here] then gen 5 came along, got black, beat black, got black 2, beat black 2. and here we are. the present me waiting ever so paitently for X&Y. (long story much)