I came into the franchise when I was 5, but my first Pokemon game was PMD Red when I was... about 9 or 10. Which is very similar to Shiny, now that I've realized. Afterwards, I bought Diamond and the original Pokemon Rangers, and then Pokemon Battle Revolution... and later Platinum and PMD: Explorers of Darkness. However, I lost nearly all of my DS games with the exception of Diamond because of various little children. Like Shiny, I also use an emulator ^^;