Gold & Silver: Powered Up
Let’s move on to Gold and Silver. What sort of features did you devise for those two games? Watanabe: The first order of business was to expand the number of…
Let’s move on to Gold and Silver. What sort of features did you devise for those two games? Watanabe: The first order of business was to expand the number of…
Here we’ve gathered the untold stories from Pokémon’s creators. Show off your newfound knowledge to your friends! 1. Mew was born because of a programmer messing around! It was Morimoto,…
Did you predict that Pokémon would be such a big hit? Watanabe: I didn’t think it would be such an explosive hit when we were first making it. I felt…
Did you have everything planned out from the very beginning, right down to the little details? Or did you gradually add things along the way? Masuda: Game Freak’s modus operandi…
There are many different types of Pokémon, like water and grass. Did you have that in mind from the beginning? Sugimori: The idea came to us during development. Battles would…
What was your first impression when you heard about the idea of Pokémon from planner Satoshi Tajiri? Sugimori: Pokémon is an idea that was inspired by the Game Boy’s hardware.…