The first yo-yo I had was a Playmaxx ProYo that my dad bought in ~1997. He showed me tricks like Rock The Baby and Walk The Dog and while I was impressed, I didn’t really get hooked.
Fast forward to ~2002, there was a really popular anime called Super Yo-yo that aired on TV. A yo-yo fad began. During this period I acquired a Yomega Brain, a Yomega RBII and a Hyper Dragon Aqua (had to google that, couldn’t remember the name). This was the time I learned more advanced tricks like Double Or Nothing, Loops, Braintwister etc was truly the time when I got into this hobby. When the yo-yo fad ended and many of my friends stopped playing, I did too but would always come back to it eventually. I’ve a fleeting relationship with yo-yos. I could go for months without throwing one then look through my drawers, accidentally finding a random yo-yo and go back to playing it for weeks before forgetting about it again. This has been happening for the past 10 years haha.