I don't personally collect any more, but my kid had a phase a while back and we're still playing from time to time, it was nostalgic and good fun, though there were so many new pokemon I have never heard of 😂

I used to collect when I was a kid, I had quite a stacked collection, well preserved in a binder with protective sleaves. I had plans to hold onto them a long time as I already then recognised the collectable value of them, some cards being very early editions and rare iterations. In my late teans I moved away from home and left a bunch of stuff as storage in my parents attic. Some time later I went looking for the cards, they were gone... my parents had sold them on ebay for like 50 bucks when they cleared out a bunch of our old kids stuff 😭 I was so mad as I knew the value was at least 4 times that at the time and today probably way way more but of course I learned a valuable lesson in humility and communication that day 😆