I may be too old for this. But I just don't give a fuck.

  I may be too old for this. But I just don't give a fuck.

I can still remember buying Pokemon Blue at Toys R Us one night and going to school the next day and playing with a bunch of friends for hours.  Then the Pokemon card caught on and I was the only one that actually knew how to play, everyone else just was like 'yeaaa Pikachu' 
 
But yeah Pokemon was pretty awesome to grow up with.  I still play Pokemon Pearl here and there but it doesn't compare to the original games.

That sounds like a lot of fun, and I am pretty excited for Pokemon Silver. It currently occupies the number 3 spot of most anticipated game (out of 96)

I never actually played the TCG game, I just collected the holofoils and the rare ones and looked at the artwork.
I also remember when my brother left his deck of cards out in the rain, they were all ruined.

In the first pack of Pokemon cards I ever bought I got a holographic Mewtwo and not knowing much about Pokemon at the time some dbag scammed me out of it with some crappy cards. 

I wish I could do that with my friends.  Me and only one of my close friends still enjoy the Pokemon games.  Instead of a Poke'fest, I should do a Yugioh'fest.  My friends and I used to be majorly into Yugioh.  We used to always have Yugioh tournaments and we dueled all the time.  Damn, those were the days.  I miss my childhood.  :(

Thats cool....at least your not afraid of going back to your dorky, geeky, and strange roots.  Good luck with your Poke' fest and have fun.

I remember the time i tricked my little brother into giving me that Machamp card for some totally crap element card or whatever. Good times.

I can still sing the majority of the PokeRaps.
 
Man, that first season was pure win. It's one of the few old shows I can watch and still enjoy. The only part that grates on my nerves throughout the entire series is Team Rocket being in every. Single. Episode. If they came in once in awhile instead of being a main focus, the show might somehow have kept my attention through the years.
 
 Unfortunately, the only person I could probably still Poke-Geek out  with is my brother, and even he is more of a casual Pokemon RPG player now.

Hey it doesn't matter how old you are if you have fun with that poke-fest then just keep doing it and don't think what about what people say.

You are never too old for pokemon. Pokemon is something that anyone can like and enjoy. I personally can't wait for the next set of Pokemon games because Silver was my favorite of the games.

@InfiniteGeass: I've got a dork at my school who says I'm too old to play Pokemon. He's a few months younger than me, and he's still playing it. He's like a contradict machine. 
 
When I got a Pokemon starter pack for the cards, I got the shiny Machamp too. It looked cool. I also got the GameBoy version of Pokemon TCG. I liked it that much. Too bad that the hype is not what it used to be.

Man, I remember the Pokemon boom like it was yesterday.  Luckily I was around 8 years old or so when it first started.  I remember rolling into school with my gameboy color and pokemon yellow and my holographic charizard thinking that I was the hottest shit ever because holographic charizard was like the hardest card to get and so few people had them that you could name all of them on one hand.