Oh man, some good topics tonight.
I'm gonna have to go with the Christmas I got Pokemon Red and Blue versions.
It was a huge experience. I discovered Pokemon before a lot of people knew what it was, before I even knew what it was for sure, and I became obsessed with it. When I discovered there was a TV show, I was like, "Woah, that's the characters from the ads in my magazines, and the TV commercial with the bus driver! Does this have a show?" I tried to watch it every day, before it was moved to Kids WB and I no longer got it. A friend and I went to a store at the mall and they had a TV advertising the games and the TV show, and I stood there watching it over and over again, and I remember my friend was like, "Can we go yet?", but I just wanted to keep watching the poke' rap and seeing the animation.
Christmas day came, and Pokemon Blue introduced me to the deepest game I had ever played at that point. Me and Squirtle caught a Caterpie, and fought a bunch of bug catchers and youngsters in the Viridian Forest... That really is a memory I won't ever forget. And then for two or three years after that, Pokemon became a huge phenomenon and was everywhere. I felt like I was really at the beginnings of that fad, and I still feel kind of proud of that. Even though I went through a period of time between 2001 and 2007 where I didn't play the games at all, I still keep coming back to Pokemon because it is such a great concept.
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