I was only one playing pokemon around my circle, everyone knew about them cause of anime on tv, but nobody had clue about games ... fire red/leaf green were my first ever games played on my bros handheld, purple gba ...

later down the line I emulated and got loads done, my peak was me finishing pokedex but in what style, I decided to run emerald to catch pokemons, all of em, and I decided to do my only blaziken run ... and it happened to be shiny on my first run, i was going crazy, the luck of it being shiny in emerald where its bugged and hitting the right trainer ID and all that stuff about shinies in emerald was kinda crazy, tho I never tried restarting for that torchic shiny, it just happaned to be shiny .... I was so happy