The Secret Origins: When Did Pokémon Start and Why It Changed Gaming Forever
The first time Satoshi Tajiri sketched a creature resembling a frog with a tail on a train ride in 1989, he didn’t know he was birthing a phenomenon. That doodle became Pikachu’s precursor, and with it, the answer to *when did Pokémon start*—not in some corporate lab, but in the wilds of Japan, where Tajiri’s … Read more
