Haven't played Pokemon since Silver. Played the Card game for a while, then lost interest in Pokemon completely. The series always seemed like an MMO without continuously expanded content - you played through the story while grinding, then grinded some more, then kept grinding to get a solid team for PVP, then you grinded some more for minute gains for your PVP team or to complete your pokedex. Rare Candy exploit was probably one of the few things that kept me interested in playing Red... once I had beat Silver's campaign and tried to hunt down those rare dogs to no avail, I pretty much gave up on the series.