Satoshi Tajiri

Profile

1965	Born in Tokyo on August 28th.
1981	First prize award winner in the "TV Game Idea Awards" held by Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
1982	While in the Tokyo National College of Technology Satoshi Tajiri establishes an information and attack method magazine for arcade games called the "Game Freak". The magazine gained zealous readers all over Japan.
1984	Starts a career of writing about games, by introducing and criticizing games on TV, on radio programs, in regular, computer and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) specialized magazines.
1987	Starts development of his own software with the release of "Quinty", the NES software.
1989	In April, incorporated "Game Freak, Inc.". He became Chief Executive Officer of this company.
1990	Writes up a youth-oriented novel called "Catch the Packland" for the game generation (published by JICC).
1991	Becomes a guest speaker at the Vantan Design Institute Department in a lecture entitled "Introduction to Games". The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) software "Jerry Boy" receives the Character Design Award in the Multimedia Grand Prix Video Game Section.
1992	Becomes appointed as a judge at the Multimedia Grand Prix.
1995	Publishes a book for TV games inspiration called "New games Designing" (published by Enix).
1996	Guest lecturer at the Human Creative School.
1997	Receives the Japan Software Grand Prize, the CESA Award and the New Concept Award for his Game Boy Software "Pocket Monsters".