28 Sept 2017
12 Facts I Didn't Know About Pokémon
- Satoshi Tajiri pitched Pokémon to Nintendo but it was initially rejected
- Due to issues with copyright, the name “CapuMon” was considered before settling on Pocket Monsters
- Game Freak struggled with the development of Red & Green in Japan. Low finances caused many of the staff to leave
- Tajiri worked long hours, many of them unpaid
- The games were originally scheduled for a December 21, 1995 release
- The American staff who localized the games tried to change the Pokémon designs
- In the Canadian French manual for Pokémon Blue, Pokémon is misspelled as “Pokémons”
- There was a special Pikachu Yellow model of the Game Boy Printer
- A title similar to Crystal called Pocket Monsters X (unrelated to the 2013 release) was set for an April 2000 release
- The Japanese version of Crystal has an emblem of Suicune’s crest on the back of the cart’s circuit board
- It was also developed using Pokémon Gold as its basis
- A promotional coin featuring Groudon and Kyogre was available with American pre-orders of Ruby and Sapphire