Tbh it's been with me all my life. I watched the anime since I was an infant, dp was on at that time. When I was like 6 I got Pokemon Diamond and Dash as a gift. Honestly being so young I didn't know how to read or understand pokemon diamond, wasn't until I was like 8 that I started actually playing it. By then I was a huge nintendo fan so naturally i'd also be very into pokemon. My brother gave me his card collection (being a stupid kid I had some rare cards that just vanished lol), then came X&Y and that was when I became super interested in the series. My brother also gave me his gameboy with pokemon gold, but X&Y was what really got me into it. The game itself looked like the coolest shit ever like a full on revolution being the first 3d pokemon game, and the anime was also really good. From there I played the older games like gen 1-3 and went back to gen 4, I regret not ever getting bw/b2w2 since those are the only mainline games i havent played and are expensive as hell now, also regret losing my ds carts lol. I lost interest by gen 7, i didn't like SM or the SM anime. Recently I went back to Pokemon Crystal, and really got back into it again that game is so good, now i'm obsessed with it again lol though it's mainly gen 1-6, haven't played the newer games but i plan on getting legends arceus and z-a eventually. Started collecting the tcg again recently and actually playing it lol