(Completely forgot about the games being ten years old, now...)
This is making me feel old, I was almost eleven when they were released here. I remember the first commercial advertising Ruby and Sapphire (it's personally one of my favorites for any of the Pokémon games). I was super excited for it, and I got it I think that Christmas, or the next Christmas. Unless it was the twins' birthday, and my brother got an extra one accident from one of my grandparents, I believe. So he gave me the extra Ruby copy, and thus we had a race to see who would complete the game first.
I don't remember who won, but that's one of my favorite memories. Good times...