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Pokémon, collection, and connection
When Satoshi Tajiri first came up with the idea for Pokémon, he was fueled by two inspirations. The first was his childhood passion for collecting bugs. The second was the Nintendo Gameboy’s Link Cable. Satoshi imagined bugs crawling back and forth between the Link Cable, and children being able to collect, compete, and connect. Later…
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Change your hands, change your psychology
When you want to receive energy and be open to what’s around you, rotate your palms up to the sky. Hold them there for as long as you like. When you want to ground your energy and be calm, rotate your palms down to the ground. You can elaborate on this, and put your palms…
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The six lean, long, years of starting up Pokémon
The Pokémon Company is owned by three companies. One company is Game Freak, which is owned by the person who came up with the original idea for Pokémon, Satoshi Tajiri. Game Freak developed the original Pokémon video games, and owns roughly ⅓ of the company. In 1990, Satoshi approached Nintendo to publish and distribute the…
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Early experiences with Pokémon
Over the past few days, I have waded into the waters of Pokémon stats—and there are a lot, most uncited!—which reminded me of a lesson I had learned. I’d written a similar, summary-style section of a book before, about a different topic, and my editor responded asking if I used AI. I hadn’t, but I…
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Evolve or die
Before people, dinosaurs ruled this world for many millions of years. I recently watched a great new miniseries on this topic, and the theme that resonated with me was evolution. More specifically, as the Earth’s environment changed, the dinosaurs that adapted were the ones that survived. Some species developed in size, smarts, or stamina. Others…
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The first Pokémon
It’s no surprise that Pikachu is the most popular Pokémon. (There’s literally a movie based on it!) But the title of the first Pokémon goes to an unexpected one. When art director Ken Sugimori was first tasked with designing Pokémon characters, he started off by drawing characters that looked like kaijuu. (If you’ve seen Godzilla,…