tutti frutti. Before I knew enough about the series that the story had a timeline to it, I sort of accidentally skipped over Chain of Memories. Before I got the game I thought that it was something like a gambling type of game until later. Did anyone else really skipped over Chain of Memories before playing KH2? I know I did since it puzzled me like crazy trying to figure out how Sora and co. got into the pod at the beginning of KH2.

I did but then again I didn't even know about com at the time.

yes but i came back to it later when i figured out there was a certain order to play the games in

I forced my OCD brain to play it, in the end it actually made kh2 a lot better, sort of like I had to eat the broccoli that was the card system in order to really enjoy the awesomeness that was kh2

Yeah I never beat the GBA version. I went straight from KH 1 to KH 2, then later I beat Re: CoM.

Yup, because of the fact that Re:CoM was never released in Europe, and I didn't know about the GBA version at that time.

Yeah , thanks for the Square logic, in europe, this game never releashed in ps2. 

But I get this in manga -sadly in german language

I did skip it, but that was because I hadn't realized how important COM is to the story.  After I completed KH1 and 2, I immediately turned around and played it.

I played most of CoM on an emulator, then I lost everything on the hdd of the computer and eventually bought the GBA game and beat it shortly before KH2 was released.  As for Re:CoM I'm actually playing through it  right now on my PS2

I did, but the funny thing is that I started to play KH series thanks to an advertisement of CoM . Anyway to tell the truth I had the possibility to play it with a friend (he had the GBA) after finishing KH I, so maybe it's not completely correct to say that I did skip it.