When you're a kid and get your first bike, you want to go somewhere you've never been before. That's like Pokémon. Everybody shares the same experien….

What's more important is that the monsters are controllable by the players.Pikachu is like the name of the species. But each player can name their ow….

I sleep 12 hours and then work 24 hours. I've worked those irregular hours for the past three years. It's better to stay up day and night to come up ….

Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart..

The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclu….

Pikachu. 'Pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse..

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects..

I was really interested in collecting insects..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many..

I was really into Space Invaders in about 1978. It got me more and more interested in video games. There wasn't any media to get information about ga….

In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip ou….

I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept about dying. They sta….

I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on T….

Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion..

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts..