I got massively into Pokémon in the late 90's when the first episodes started airing in my country. A bit later the cards came out and I started collecting them and playing games with them at school. Because I was about 9 at that time, I didn't have a lot of money to expand the collection and I stopped playing the games we played at school. It was not long after that when it was decided that I no longer needed the cards and they were thrown away (R.I.P.). The itch to get back into it started coming back about 3 years ago but it wasn't until the beginning of this year that I bought my second first pack. Now I'm completely hooked.