Damn, Gaff, that's spooky - I popped in Pokemon Red a couple days ago, and I'm about 7 hours in myself (just got the third badge, and Charmander/Charmeleon just finished his final evolution into Charizard)!
Funny thing is, I'm not a big Pokemon geek at all - I was just looking through my old GameBoy games and happened to find it, and got sucked in.