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Satoshi Tajiri

1965 - Today

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Satoshi Tajiri is the 14th most popular game designer (down from 10th in 2019), the 737th most popular biography from Japan (down from 642nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Satoshi Tajiri ranks 14 out of 77. Before him are Alexey Pajitnov, Satoru Iwata, Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, Toru Iwatani, and John Carmack. After him are Sid Meier, Todd Howard, Steve Jackson, Shigesato Itoi, Masayuki Uemura, and Klaus Teuber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Satoshi Tajiri ranks 81. Before him are Robin Sharma, Chris Rock, Tim Scott, Lennox Lewis, J. B. Pritzker, and Fredrik Reinfeldt. After him are Guenther Steiner, Raí, Zakir Naik, KRS-One, Sam Mendes, and Shania Twain.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Satoshi Tajiri ranks 737 out of 6,245. Before him are Choei Sato (1951), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Seichō Matsumoto (1909), Tatsuhiko Seta (1952), and Shintaro Abe (1924). After him are Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Prince Morikuni (1301), Toshio Takabayashi (1953), and Hon'inbō Shūsaku (1829).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Satoshi Tajiri ranks 6. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), Satoru Iwata (1959), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), and Toru Iwatani (1955). After him are Shigesato Itoi (1948), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Shinji Mikami (1965), Naoto Ohshima (1964), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974).

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