Sorry to disappoint, but no, not because you're old. But I'm happy that you are here to answer XD
Elite games seems to be underrated series, as an open world space game I see it wasn't as booming as No Man's S%#!
And I'm pretty sure the stuff you had to do in Pokemon back then didn't annoy the players as much as "to-do-stuff" in open world games these days, or did it?