When the Game Boy was released, Tajiri thought the system was perfect for his idea, especially because of the link cable which he envisioned would allow players to trade Pokémon with each other.

During their " last shot " for the gold the team thought they had won back the titles only to have the decision reversed by referee Mike Chioda due to La Résistance's Grenier pinning Tajiri, not Regal, who was the legal man.

The main characters were named after Tajiri himself as Satoshi, who is described as Tajiri in his youth, and his long-time friend, role model, mentor, and fellow Nintendo developer ; Shigeru Miyamoto as Shigeru .< ref name =" 2007Top100 "> Ken Sugimori, artist and longtime friend of Tajiri, headed the development of drawings and designs of the Pokémon, working with a team of less than ten people who conceived the various designs for all 151 Pokémon.

However, the games turned out to be a complete success, something Tajiri and Nintendo never expected, especially because of the declining popularity of the Game Boy.

An example of this would be the August 20, 2001 episode of Raw when he awarded Tajiri a victory over Booker T by disqualification when Booker T started choking Tajiri with his shirt.

* 1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game designer, founded Game Freak

The design and art for Eevee and its evolutions were provided by Japanese video game designer and illustrator Ken Sugimori, a friend of the Pokémon franchises ' creator, Satoshi Tajiri.

The concept of the Pokémon saga stems from the hobby of insect collecting, a popular pastime which game designer Satoshi Tajiri enjoyed as a child.

Tajiri noticed that kids now played in their homes instead of outside and he came up with the idea of a video game, containing creatures that resembled insects, called Pokémon.

Tajiri was also influenced by Square's Game Boy game The Final Fantasy Legend, noting in an interview that the game gave him the idea that more than just action games could be developed for the handheld.

To create more hype and challenge to the games, Tajiri revealed an extra Pokémon called Mew hidden within the games, which he believed " created a lot of rumors and myths about the game " and " kept the interest alive.

In the spring of 1996, Game Freak president Satoshi Tajiri used the Japanese manga journal CoroCoro Comic as an experimental exhibition of Mew and distributed the first cards of it for the card game as free giveaways, which surprised many at Game Freak, including Morimoto.

Tajiri described using Mew to create hype around an " invisible character " within the game and to keep interest alive in the title and create rumors and myths about the game passed around by word of mouth,

On April 26, 1989, Tajiri and Sugimori started a video game development company with the same name .< ref >

Mario & Wario ( マリオとワリオ Mario to Wario ) is a 1993 Mario side-scrolling puzzle video game designed by Satoshi Tajiri and developed by Game Freak for the Super Famicom console.

Guerrero said he did it because during the match Tajiri had accidentally hit his low-rider.

However, Pokémon never bleed or die in battle, only faint – this was a very touchy subject to Tajiri, as he did not want to further fill the gaming world with " pointless violence.

Unlike other Pokémon in the series, Gengar originally appeared in the manga Capsule Monsters, an early concept by Satoshi Tajiri which evolved into the basis for the Pokémon franchise.

On the March 6, 2003 episode of SmackDown !, Mysterio defeated Tajiri and Jamie Noble in a Triple Threat match to earn a shot at the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.

In 2005, Maritato returned to his Little Guido persona for one night ; he reunited with the original Full Blooded Italians to take on Super Crazy and Tajiri in a three-way dance at the ECW reunion show One Night Stand.

He won the title on April 22, defeating Yoshihiro Tajiri at CyberSlam.

On September 23 at Unforgiven, he defeated Tajiri for the WCW United States Championship.

They held the championship for three months, including a successful title defense at WrestleMania XIX against Los Guerreros and the team of Chris Benoit and Rhyno, before losing the championship to Eddie Guerrero and his new partner Tajiri in a ladder match on May 18 at Judgment Day.

On January 15 edition of SmackDown, Noble defeated Tajiri to become the # 1 contender for the Cruiserweight Championship at Royal Rumble.

La Résistance were given another chance at Regal and Tajiri during a Tag Team Turmoil match involving five teams during Backlash.

Big Show then appeared at One Night Stand, attacking Tajiri, Super Crazy, and the Full Blooded Italians after their tag team match.

After Jindrak was drafted to SmackDown, Cade briefly associated himself with Jonathan Coachman, helping Coachman get a win over Tajiri at Backlash.

Cade later teamed up with Coachman at Vengeance to take on the debuting team of Rhyno and Tajiri.

Tajiri reclaimed the title at Backlash.

Later, Coachman achieved a singles victory on pay-per-view at Backlash, in 2004 by defeating Tajiri ( albeit with the assistance of Garrison Cade ).

* Shinkichi Tajiri, Sculptor, member of the COBRA art movement, 1955 Golden Palm Winner at Cannes, Purple Heart

is a train station shared by Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. and West Japan Railway Company ( JR West ) at Kansai International Airport in Tajiri, Sennan District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

" The artists represented at Galerie Huit were: Rodney P. Abrahamson, Oscar Chelimsky, Carmen D ' Avino, Sydney Geist, Burt Hasen, Al Held, Raymond Hendler, Herbert Katzman, Paul Keene, Jonah Kinigstein, Jules Olitski, George Ortman, Marianna Pineda, Jack Robinowitz, Haywood Bill Rivers, Robert L. Rosenwald, Shinkichi Tajiri, Harold Tovish, Hugh Townley and Hugh Weiss.

He lost the Light Heavyweight Championship to Tajiri on August 6, although he won it back less than two weeks later at the SummerSlam pay-per-view due to a distraction from Albert.

Spencer was initially a member in training, until he became a full fledged member when the tandem captured the World Tag Team Championship from Yoshihiro Tajiri and Mikey Whipwreck on August 25, 2000, on Day Two of Ballroom Blitz, which was ECW's debut at The Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.

Smith, and accompanying Little Guido to ringside for his match with Yoshihiro Tajiri and Super Crazy at ECW One Night Stand 2005.

After a successful title defense at WrestleMania XIX against Los Guerreros and the team of Chris Benoit and Rhyno, Team Angle lost the championship to Eddie Guerrero and his new partner Tajiri at Judgment Day on May 18 in a ladder match.

Two days later at the first-ever ECW One Night Stand, Whipwreck, Yoshihiro Tajiri and The Sinister Minister reunited for one night only as Whipwreck and The Minister stood in Tajiri's corner during his three way dance against Little Guido and Super Crazy.

In early 2005 at May's pay-per-view event Backlash, The Hurricane and Rosey won the World Tag Team Championship in a Tag Team Turmoil match after defeating then-champions Tajiri and William Regal, The Heart Throbs ( Romeo and Antonio ), Simon Dean and Maven and La Résistance ( Robért Conway and Sylvain Grenier ) by last eliminating La Résistance.

In July he turned face again by first squashing then heel Lance Storm in a match and then forming a tag team with Tajiri.

as part of the brand extension, and in his return match defeated Tajiri to win his first Cruiserweight Championship under the WWE brand.

His first official proper WWE outing, however, was the June 19, 2005 airing of Sunday Night Heat against Tajiri in what was designated a tryout match.