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Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese computer scientist, entrepreneur, and screenwriter born in Setagaya in 1965. He is a male resident of Machida who works in the video game field. Tajiri began his work period in 1989 and is employed by Game Freak. His native language is Japanese, which he also speaks and writes.
He is the author of five works, including *Pokémon*, *Shen qi bao bei*, *Pokémon the Movie*, *POKéMON Coloring Book*, and *I Chose You (Pokemon TV Animation Comic)*. In the writing department, his name appears as Satoshi Tajiri, with the native name 田尻 智 and the kana name たじり さとし.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1965
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Shen qi bao bei
- Pokémon the Movie
- POKéMON Coloring Book
- Pokémon
- I Chose You (Pokemon TV Animation Comic)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- August 28, 1965 ( 1965-08-28 ) (age 60), Setagaya, Tokyo , Japan
- Alma mater
- National Institute of Technology, Tokyo College
- Occupations
- Game director , game producer , game designer
- Employer
- Game Freak (1989–present)
- Known for
- Pokémon series
- Title
- President & CEO
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Satoshi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Setagaya
- Employer
- Game Freak
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Field of work
- video game
- Residence
- Machida
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1965-08-28
- name in kana
- たじり さとし
- start of work period
- 1989-00-00
- name in native language
- 田尻 智
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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 of the same name. Tajiri claims that the joining of two Game Boys via a link cable inspired him to create a game which embodied the collection and companionship of his childhood hobby, insect collecting. The game, which became Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green, took six years to complete and went on to spark a multibillion-dollar franchise which reinvigorated Nintendo's handheld gaming scene. Tajiri continued to work as director for the Pokémon series until the development of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, when he changed his role to executive producer, which he holds to this day. Tajiri has also worked for other Game Freak projects.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Satoshi Tajiri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.