Game Freak
Predating the video game company, "Game Freak" was a self-published video game magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s. Tajiri wrote and edited the text and Sugimori illustrated. Tajiri also used "Game Freak" as his pen name when he wrote as a freelance writer to publications such as "Family Computer Magazine" and "Famicom Tsūshin".