If you ask me, 4Kids are the reason people are ashamed to like Pokémon. If they hadn't murdered the anime (or even not made it at all, as even the Japanese version was a bit childish), no one would have a problem. I'm 18 and play Pokémon, and none of my friends care. If I said I enjoyed the anime (which by the way I don't), they'd laugh. The American show was geared for children, but the games came first, and you can't put an age limit on a game of that quality. Each new generation is highly rated by EGM and the like, and do children run those magazines? Didn't think so. It's the same thing that ruined Yu-Gi-Oh! You don't see people ridiculed for playing Magic, because it's not a cartoon. And anyone whose seen the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! anime knows that that wasn't even a kids' show to begin with. I'm not ashamed of playing Pokemon, because I can give a hundred reasons why it's good, and all the haters can come up with is "it's for kids", which, of course, is simply not the case. As long as they keep making these things, I'll keep playing them.