I remember when Pokemon Red and Blue first came out; I was in like 5th grade or 6th grade ... we had a pokemon club; to join we had to know 10 pokemon names XDXDXD
Back when I was in sixth grade I knew the pokerap by heart.
I'm dead serious.
But when you were in 6th grade I was in like 8th You had a couple years to build up the pokemanz' stuffs lol
god damn, I could recite all (at the time) 151 pokemon.... in order!
Not like I recited it every night or something, I used to have a poster with all the pokemon and their corresponding names + numbers.
Back in highschool, I put GBA emus on all the computers in computing class, the favourite roms were the pokemon roms of course, everyone got really into pokemon again, just not really outside of that class.
People would only talk about it sarcastically, but once it was time for that class, everyone turned into a pokemon nerd.