designer
Satoshi Tajiri
田尻智
About
Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese game designer and the creator of the Pokémon franchise. Inspired by his childhood hobby of collecting insects, he conceived Pokémon as a game about finding, collecting, and trading creatures via the Game Boy Link Cable. He founded Game Freak with Ken Sugimori in 1989, and spent six years developing the original Pokémon Red and Green. The games launched in Japan on February 27, 1996, and became the best-selling Game Boy titles of all time.