Hi, I am new to the forums, but not to the site. I have been playing Pokemon since I was little when my cousin first handed me her game she wanted me to have. That game was red. Even though I grew up in the third gen, until I was in 4th grade I only thought there was 151 Pokemon. Then I saw other kids playing the third gen games. That's when I dove into the franchise. I started next with leaf green, then advanced to the brand new diamond, and started collecting all the old main series games. I thought I finished my collection, until, after camping I looked on this site to find a huge amass of news about Pokemon platinum. I used this site when I started leaf green, but only for the pokedex features at first. From here on when I entered middle school, people started dropping the games. I had just begun my journey though. I continued playing and then started competitive. Now in X and Y, and almost done high school, with a whole collection, almost compleat national dex, waiting for Pokemon bank, about to start my mid term exams this week, find myself now a member of the community I followed as a child.