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Satoshi Tajiri (Japanese: 田尻 智, Hepburn: Tajiri Satoshi, born August 28, 1965 [1]) 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.
The Nuzlocke challenge is a self-imposed fan-made gameplay formula designed to make video games in the Pokémon series more difficult. Players using the Nuzlocke challenge are unable to use their Pokémon again if they are knocked out in combat once and can only add the first Pokémon they encounter in a select area to their team.
Predating the video game company, Game Freak was a self-published video game magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s. The first issue was published in 1983 by Tajiri. [ 3 ] Sugimori would join the magazine at a later date as an illustrator after finding the magazine in a shop and liking it. [ 4 ]
Creatures Inc. [a] is a Japanese video game company affiliated with Game Freak and Nintendo, and is one of the owners of the Pokémon franchise. [2] It was founded by Tsunekazu Ishihara in November 1995, with the assistance of then-president of HAL Laboratory, Satoru Iwata, [4] as a successor to Shigesato Itoi's company Ape Inc. [5]
Pokémon Essentials was a development tool for Pokémon fangames developed by Maruno and released in 2007, functioning as a free add-on for RPG Maker XP. It was notably used to create a number of Pokémon fangames before being taken offline alongside its Fandom wiki in 2018 following a copyright infringement claim by Nintendo. Its shutdown was ...
The Pokémon Company (株式会社ポケモン, Kabushiki Gaisha Pokemon, TPC) is a Japanese company responsible for brand management, production, publishing, marketing, and licensing of the Pokémon franchise, which consists of video games, a trading card game, anime television series, films, manga, home entertainment products, merchandise ...
Junichi Masuda (増田 順一, Masuda Jun'ichi, born January 12, 1968) is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, singer, programmer and trombonist, best known for his work in the Pokémon franchise.
A highly popular game made in RPG Maker XP that allows players to create their own Pokémon games using assets taken from official games. Essentials has been highlighted for helping to popularize the creation of fangames. [9] The game received a takedown notice from Nintendo in 2018, with its associated Wiki being taken down as well. [31]