Satoshi Tajiri, born on August 28, 1965, is a Japanese video game designer and director who is the creator of the Pokémon franchise and the co-founder and president of the video game developer Game Freak. A fan of arcade games in his youth, Tajiri wrote for and edited his own video gaming fanzine, Game Freak, with Ken Sugimori, before evolving it into a development company. He has said that the joining of two Game Boys with a link cable inspired him to create a game which embodied the collection and companionship of his childhood hobby, insect collecting.
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Satoshi Tajiri (Japanese: 田尻 智, Hepburn: Tajiri Satoshi; born August 28, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer and director who is the creator of the Pokémon franchise and the co-founder and president of video game developer Game Freak.
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The franchise originated as a pair of role-playing games developed by Game Freak, from an original concept by its founder, Satoshi Tajiri.
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