well as soon as it came out in the U.K, I was finding myself getting up every day to watch the pokemon anime that I had somehow become obsessed with, when the cards came out everyone in school had em, if u didnt have em u were unnoticed and uncool, but I would yhave got wem anyway, we collected and traded in school for about a year, with my best card being ditto, and the coolest people in the school neing whoever had charizard at the time! LOL
but one day some guy who was widely knows for having the only venusaur in the school, gave his cards to some kid to look at, the kid threw em all over the place and shouted scramble, with everyone nicking em, the guy dudnt get back his venusaur or some of his best cards, and done what most would hyave done, told, since then the cards were banned and they slowly went out of fashion, I and some others carried on collecting em, I was the grass master and trying to get all the grass ones, and my 2 mates were trying to get all the water, and fire pokemon cards, eventually we just stopped, I cant remember how but we did, I carried on watching the anime for w while, but went completely off pokem on about the same time ash caught totodile, then, about 6 months ago, my cousin came rtound my house with pokemon ruby, and his cards, I looked throiagh the cards just to see what he had, and realised how much they had changed, I watched him play ruby, and saw how much the GFX had changed, so just for a laugh, I bought one of my own, and kinda bacame obsessed again, I watched the anime, and it for some reason made me mad to se how much of it I had missed and how it had changed, from that day on I re became a fan, I dont collect the cards, because I collect yugioh and I cant offord to collect both, but I have bought and multi time complted the new games, and tried as much as I could to see all the old epis oif pokemon that I missed, I have seen most of em now, and am waiting to see the johto league, and a couple of the gym battlkes before I am up to date, I was browsing the net for new forums and thought, what the hell, lets look for a pokemon one, this was the one I found, and I have loved every second of being a member, thats my pokemon story ^^