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Date of Birth
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Began writing and editing
Satoshi began writing and editing a fanzine called Game Freak from 1981 to 1986, focusing on the arcade game scene because he became fascinated with arcade games as a teenager -
Evolved Game Freak into a video game company,
Tajiri and Sugimori evolved the magazine into the video game development company Game Freak in 1989. -
Pokémon idea
Tajiri first conceived the idea of Pokémon, The idea came together after he saw a Game Boy and the ability to communicate between Game Boys, and Tajiri decided Pokémon made the most sense on the handheld console. -
He worked with Nintendo
Tajiri assisted in the design of two Mario spin-off games for Nintendo: Yoshi and the Japanese-only release Mario & Wario. He also worked on Pulseman. -
Released Pokemon Red & Blue
After been working with Nintendo he finally released Pocket Monster.
