I've been playing since I was six years old. I was a huge fan, but I paid very little attention to the gameplay itself back then. I was mainly interested in the scary monsters that lived in the old Blue and Yellow versions and I couldn't go two weeks without starting a new game (with barely getting anything done in the last playthrough). However, as I grew up and started to grow an attention span my interest in the series grew to getting as far as I could in the games, and eventually I became the trainer I am today: a happy-go-lucky guy who always forms a bond with his Pokemon that consists of not only battling with others, but doing whatever I can to make them happy.