Early LifeBorn to a car salesman and a housewife in the then rural city of Machida, Tokyo, Satoshi Tajiri spent a great deal of his childhood exploring the outdoors. He was especially interested in collecting and trading insects, which he would find and catch in the fields and forests around town. His hobby earned him the nickname “Dr. Bug” and as a kid he dreamed of being an entomologist.
However by the late 70s a lot of the rural area Tajiri grew up in had been paved over by concrete. As a teenager he became more fascinated with arcade games, which lead him to cut classes so he could spend as much time at the arcade as possible. He was attending the Tokyo National College of Technology at the time, where he studied electronics. His father wanted him to be an electrical utility repairman when he graduated, but he had other ideas.
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