Satoshi Tajiri

I’m Satoshi Tajiri. You may know me as the creator of Pokémon. As a kid I loved to collect bugs from the nearby forests, fields and ponds. I used to take them home and trade them to complete my collection of insects. I was constantly looking for different ones and finding different ways of attracting them. In fact, I was so fascinated by insects that the other kids at school used to call me “Dr. Bug.”
I never liked school. In the late 1970’s the forests and ponds I used to go to search for bugs was paved over and turned into apartments. In my break times at school I used to run to the arcade centre to play games. I spent so much time playing video games that one local arcade centre gave me a Space Invaders machine to take home with me.
In 1982, my friends, James Hanzatko, Yuusuke Santamaria and Ken Sugimori and I formed a game magazine called “Game Freak”. Ken was the one who drew all the pokemon images. In these magazines were cheats and tips for our favourite video games. They were handwritten, but we sold over 10,000 copies. I later won a contest sponsored by SEGA involving making a video game. My first video game, Quinty, was published by Namco for the Nintendo Famicom. In 1991, I discovered the GameBoy and Link Cables, and I imaged insects creeping along the cable from one GameBoy to another. I never went to college; instead I went to a two-year technical school.
I later went on to work for Nintendo and became friends with Shigeru Miyamoto, who also became my mentor. I really look up to Miyamoto-san. I memorized every piece of advise he gave me, and it was with his advice that Pokémon was made with. Pokémon is a way for children of a new generation to have a chance to collect insects and other creatures the way I did.
I have been diagnosed with Asperger's sydrome.
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