Careful Quote by 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 shares the…

— 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 game from…

— 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 motion.

— 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 they rip…

— 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 stay up…

— 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 can name…

— 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 media to…

— 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 with Ultraman…

— Satoshi Tajiri

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

— 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 mentor for…

— Satoshi Tajiri

When I was 18 I already had a business going.

— Satoshi Tajiri