Satoshi Tajiri
is the person that created the fictional world of Pokemon. He created Pokemon because he liked to collect insects when he was a child and Pokemon is similar to collecting insects. He was born in Tokyo and in the forest he liked collecting insects. He wanted to be a scientist who studied insects. He was pushed away as a child and when he grew up he created a magazine and named it Game Freak. He then opened a video game company and called it Game Freak like his magazine. Tajiri first thought of the idea of Pokemon in 1990.
The protagonist of the Pokemon anime, Ash Ketchum, was thought to be Satoshi as a child.
1965 births
Living people
Japanese video game designers
People from Tokyo
Pokemon
Nintendo people