About the creator

Career

Director, Game designer

Born

28 August 1965

Place of birth

Setagaya

Known games

11

Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese game designer who began Game Freak as a self-published arcade-game fanzine with Ken Sugimori before turning it into a development studio. As the company's co-founder and president, he created Pokémon and directed its early releases before moving into an executive-producer role.