I miss the "Classics"

I like the original a lot too. I remember having posters and trading cards of pokemons and I even memorized them in the order of their number. It was fun. I enjoy the addition of all the new pokemons in the games, but not the anime. In fact, I've lost track of the pokemons in the anime. As far as I know, there are more than five hundred now. I also miss the time when there were only a few legendary pokemon. Now, there are legendaries left and right. It's just weird that they all seem to represent the same elements anyway.

I liked the old one...I totally gave up watching after the first few changes. At uni though, we've recently all bought old gameboy SPs on ebay, and started playing the old pokemon games, with bulbasaur and charmander. A few of the boys are playing the totodile generation too. It might be worth a go for you? I bought my gameboy, a case, charger, headphones and two pokemon games for about £20 on ebay. I definitely think it's been worth it, we've got random gaps between lectures etc which aren't enough to go home but work perfectly for a little pokemon!

I totally agree with you. One thing I like about pokemon is that unlike Digimon, it still sticked to reality a bit. I also watched the Giratina and the sky warrior episode and I found myself to be lost among the new set of pokemons. I also missed the first set of pokemons, which as you know I memorized one by one and in order.

yes, i totally miss the ole pokemon with the "who's that pokemon?" segment. have you watched the movie with Darkrai? it was awesome cause Darkrai sounds like my name haha. but i miss the adventures of ash back then. maybe kids these days aren't into our kind of pokemon, do you think?

Hey, I agree with you. I was and still am a big, big fan of the Pokemon series. I, like you, also grew up playing and watching the Pokemon. I, however, got into Pokemon during the end of the 2nd Generation with Totodile and Cyndaquil. I started playing Pokemon right around when Pokemon Crystal came out, and I loved the game. It brings back so many memories. I loved the first two generations, they were great. The "original" 150 Pokemon were great, but they were not MY original memories since I, once again, got into Pokemon in the 2nd Generation. In my opinion, the 2nd Generation stayed true to the series and was excellent. Then when the 3rd Generation came out, I feel it started to stray away from the original model. It definitely started getting weirder and started to get farther and farther from the ones I grew up with. I just shrugged it off and went back to playing it since it was still a very fun game in the end. When Generation 4 came out, I was at first a little disappointed because the Pokemon were not as good as they could have been. I knew at that point, they definitely started to lose a lot of their ideas. However, I just shrugged it off once again and I played it, and eventually liked it enough. In my opinion, the 4th Generation game was better than the 3rd Generation, but the anime is very bad for the 4th Generation. Then when I heard a Pokemon Black and White and the 5th Generation was coming out, I knew it was the end of the franchise. The Pokemon they revealed did not look anything like Pokemon. I was very disappointed. I was not originally going to get a Generation 5 Game, but my friend talked me into getting it. I am not as upset as when it first came out, but I am still not very warm towards the fifth Generation. I think they have much room for improvement. Hopefully they will go back to the old originals since they are obviously the most fun because we grew up with them. To me, nothing will ever beat Pokemon Crystal.