Satoshi Tajiri
Satoshi Tajiri had initially used Nintendo's "Family BASIC" (1984) as a gateway to build his understanding of the internal operation of the Famicom. This inspired him to create his own handmade Famicom game development hardware from spare electronics parts, spend two years learning programming, and spend one year making Game Freak's debut game "Quinty". Tajiri had already written entire issues of his magazine called "Game Freak" solely about his favorite arcade game, "Xevious" (1983), so he wanted "Quinty" to be published in Japan by Namco, which had made "Xevious" and several other cute, colorful arcade games.