Well, when I was young I always used to watch my brother playing pokémon red, untill he gave it to my cousin, who lost it, then my other brother started collecting the cards, and when he got bored of them, he gave them to me ( as he and my family seem to do with everything they can't find use for )
I then got my first pokémon game ( rather late on but ), it was pokémon diamond, I loved wandering around with my cute little Chimchar, it was so fun! Nowadays, that Chimchar is a lvl 100 Infernape, still hanging around in my pokémon platinum boxes.