GAME DESIGNER

Satoshi Tajiri

1965 - Today

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Satoshi Tajiri (Japanese: 田尻 智, Hepburn: Tajiri Satoshi, born August 28, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer and director who is the creator of the Pokémon franchise and the co-founder and president of video game developer Game Freak. A fan of arcade games in his youth, Tajiri wrote for and edited his own video gaming fanzine Game Freak with Ken Sugimori, before evolving it into a development company of the same name. Tajiri claims that the joining of two Game Boys via a link cable inspired him to create a game which embodied the collection and companionship of his childhood hobby, insect collecting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Satoshi Tajiri has received more than 2,852,385 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Satoshi Tajiri is the 10th most popular game designer (up from 11th in 2019), the 642nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 644th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 2.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Satoshi Tajiri ranks 10 out of 77. Before him are Markus Persson, Ralph H. Baer, Jeff Kinney, Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, and Satoru Iwata. After him are Lizzie Magie, Klaus Teuber, Sid Meier, Shinji Mikami, Shigesato Itoi, and Gary Gygax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Satoshi Tajiri ranks 66. Before him are Linda Evangelista, Zakir Naik, KRS-One, Valeria Golino, Katarina Witt, and Yahya Jammeh. After him are Darko Pančev, Haddaway, Scottie Pippen, Martin Lawrence, Melissa McBride, and Mathieu Amalric.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Satoshi Tajiri ranks 642 out of 6,245. Before him are Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Sen Katayama (1859), and Ogata Kōrin (1658). After him are Yasuo Haruyama (1906), Masaharu Homma (1888), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Kiyoshi Tomizawa (1943).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Satoshi Tajiri ranks 5. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), and Satoru Iwata (1959). After him are Shinji Mikami (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Toru Iwatani (1955), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), and Yu Suzuki (1958).

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