Pretty cool, honestly!

I just got into Gundam last fall. Started with Requiem for Vengeance, then I went on to the original MSG, Z Gundam, War in the Pocket and now ZZ Gundam. I'm not much of a giant robots guy, I'm more into the politics, war drama, tragedy and the worldbuilding.

I forgot when was my first contact into Gundam series (somewhere between 2009-2012) but there was two events:
- We happen to have a local TV airing Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and then premiering the 1st Season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (latter which we fully watch til the end)
- We got second hand PSPs which to be installed the following Gundam games: Gundam Battle Tactics and Gundam SEED OMNI vs. ZAFT Portable, then later Gundam Battle Universe and Gundam Vs. Gundam NEXT Plus

Notably I get to find out and learn much of the Universal Century lore though Gundam Battle Universe (which has campaign missions covering from 0079 Mobile Suit Gundam to 0093 Char's Counterattack, along with extras like 0083 Stardust Memory, Gundam Sentinel, Hathaway's Flash, F91), while much of the game is in Japanese I can just look up the playable units' names on the wiki and learn about them

couldn't edit above message anymore but possibly as early as late 2007-2010

Zakrello spotted! My beloved goofy MA.

yeah my first extended experience into Universal Century was when playing Gundam Battle Universe on PSP, I was amazed by the vast amount of MS and MA unlocks but when I found Zakrello ended up being a playable unit made by jaw dropped for just being really absurd in design by even the first ever Mobile Suit Gundam standards

I wish they didn't remove this feature after April 1st, it's so cool and silly at the same time.