Satoshi Tajiri

When you're a kid and get your first bike, you want to go somewhere you've never been before. That's like Pokémon. Everybody…

— Satoshi Tajiri

The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good…

— Satoshi Tajiri

Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the…

— Satoshi Tajiri

In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where…

— Satoshi Tajiri

I sleep 12 hours and then work 24 hours. I've worked those irregular hours for the past three years. It's better to…

— Satoshi Tajiri

I was really interested in collecting insects.

— Satoshi Tajiri

What's more important is that the monsters are controllable by the players.Pikachu is like the name of the species. But each player…

— Satoshi Tajiri

I was really into Space Invaders in about 1978. It got me more and more interested in video games. There wasn't any…

— Satoshi Tajiri

I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed…

— Satoshi Tajiri

You all think you have great ideas or Pokemon games, but if I actually listened to all of you and we combined…

— Satoshi Tajiri

Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a…

— Satoshi Tajiri

When I was 18 I already had a business going.

— Satoshi Tajiri

Pikachu. 'Pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is…

— Satoshi Tajiri

I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.

— Satoshi Tajiri

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

— Satoshi Tajiri

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

— Satoshi Tajiri

I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept…

— Satoshi Tajiri