Satoshi Tajiri

Um, and you brought this up, but I have it here in my notes.

It, it matters historically, Saga does, because, uh, Satoshi Tajiri later cited it as an important inspiration for making an RPG on the Game Boy, which led directly to Pokemon, like you were saying.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, so anyway, that, that was the mark that it left, and that was a, a really big...

So we're working on an episode all about trick-or-treating.

And we want to know, if you could dress up as anyone from history, who would you choose and why? Maybe Josephine Baker, the talented dancer, singer, and spy? Or Satoshi Tajiri, the inventor of Pokemon? Camilla, who would you choose?

So I really know who to pick.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick between these two people.

That part goes all the way back to the beginning.

Satoshi Tajiri grew up in Mishida, outside Tokyo, at a time when there were still rice paddies, rivers, woods, and ponds around him.

He collected insects obsessively.

Other kids apparently called him Dr. Bug.

Then development started transforming the area.

Trees and insects disappeared.

Tajiri specifically remembered a fishing pond becoming an arcade.

Years later, he said that urbanization was one reason Pokemon took the form that it did.