Katya Ivanova
Banned
i'm not quite 18 (turning it next year) and i've been a fan of this series ever since its initial release in australia... i don't particularly remember it myself because it was my brother who was the bigger fan, going to local trading card tournaments, buying the amazing-looking guidebooks to the games... i really envied him a lot (he was around 15 at the time) and sort of just went along with whatever he did. ironically we both grew out of the series after second gen, although i still play some of the games for nostalgic purposes and continue to try out new releases in the hopes that there will be something to wow me like gen 2 did; he's pretty much completely disinterested in the franchise as a whole now, HOWEVER, i showed him a few battle videos from platinum the other week and he was astounded as to how different it looks now. i don't expect him to ever continue playing but i think like everybody, a bit of nostalgia moved him, haha...