I was 8 years old when Pokemon came over to the states, but I didn't get into it until a year later. I still have all my cards I got as a kid! My best friend actually gave me a bunch of cards to start my collection, which I thought was pretty cool. My wife also loves Pokemon and she kept her cards from childhood too and so we combined our collections together. We have a complete set of base 1 cards, and almost a complete base set 2. We mainly want to get the older sets.