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put forth the idea of Pokémon to Nintendo, though, the publishers didn’t really get it. In its time as a developer, Game Freak had its titles published by the likes of even Sony back then. This included games that were published by Nintendo on the NES and Game Boy like Yoshi and even games for SEGA like Magical Tarurūto-kun on the Mega Drive, SEGA’s console. They soon realized that the arcade scene at the time wasn’t too hot anymore and decided to develop games themselves. Tajiri was the writer, while Sugimori was the illustrator. The franchise has its roots in a gaming magazine in the early 1980s in Japan-Game Freak, started by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori. Pokémon is short for “Pocket Monsters", the original Japanese name.
