Maybe. Now that I've thought about it for a while, I can see the connection between chores and the R/S/E since other characters have you doing chores for most of the game, but I don't feel that playing it is a chore.
Also, I've never stopped playing Pokemon. I got my first game when I was little as a kind of trade. My Zelda game for Pokemon Yellow. I looked into strategies, game guides, walkthroughs (I had a lot of trouble getting through mt. moon) and eventually discovered that there were other games. I asked for pokemon red for Christmas and my parents got me firered. I hunted for red and blue, and eventually bought them on ebay. After that I got silver, then ruby. My grandmother got me Diamond and Pearl when they came out, then Platinum when it came out. Same for HG/SS and B/W. I got b2/w2 this Christmas after not bothering to get them before. I plan on buying myself the next two since it's nowhere near a holiday.
Wow, that turned into a run-on origin story. Sorry about that. I don't even know where I was going with it anymore.