In terms of playing, I used some of my dad's old consoles before this but my first Nintendo one was the dsi, which I saved up for and got in a bundle with Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics. Had lots of fun, and my uncle gave me one of those 100 in 1 cards for Christmas one year which was the thing that first exposed me to the fact that there were pokemon GAMeS?? I already loved the anime and card games at the time. I also can't remember what made me want it, but I remember specifically going out to get ww for it.