All I had to go with were two Game Boy Colors and Special Pikachu edition + Blue/Red. I pretty knew how it went thanks to PRIMA back in the day, that's all I had to do. I never really knew about Mew until like what, when Pokemon 1 was showing? That's when I got my Cherubimon card too when Digimon 1 came out. I was pretty much into both, same with Squirtle, I started with an Agumon in Digimon World 1. The only way we could battle as if we had two diffrent Digimon in two seprate memory cards, same with Monster Rancher 1 + 2.
..The thing is, I had almost all the pokecards too.. about Starters 1 + 2, and the boosters... Until G/S came out and started a new line of cards.. now I have like what..? THREE books covering pokemon cards? And I barely knew about Mega Man back in the day too.