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Topic	Do you ever wonder why Pokemon came out on handhelds instead of the SNES
Piplup_Sniper 04/21/23 10:46:58 AM #12:	ellis123 posted... Trading. They likened it to bug collecting and with the GB you could trade the "bugs" around, while with a console that was pretty obviously not a thing. Battling also came in as a major reason, something that was also popular with bug collectors, and that was the second thing thing they came up with that cemented it on the handheld. No. Bug fighting may have been popular but Tajiri in interviews has stated that he was aware of it but never participated in it. Capsule Monsters already had fighting as part of the concept and originally Pokmon was more like a traditional RPG. It wasn't until further in development that Pokmon started to be shaped up by Tajiri childhood of exploring nature and catching animals in which the concept of Pokmon as we know it today emerged from. But bug fighting was never part of that inspiration, when we turn to Tajiri's biography he started viewing Pokmon as these friendly creatures that are more like cats and dogs. Indeed in his biography he pretty much admits that he started to conceptualize Pokmon battles as two pet owners allowing their pets, in this case two dogs, to duke it out, not two bugs fighting one another. https://imgur.com/a/CMLcE6m --- Forbid it, Almighty God! U.S. Army. 13B. E-3 PFC <cite>Piplup_Sniper posted [p:972984706] in Do you eve... [t:80419314]...</cite> <quote>ellis123 posted... </cite><quote>Trading. They likened it to bug collecting and with the GB you could trade the "bugs" around, while with a console that was pretty obviously not a thing. Battling also came in as a major reason, something that was also popular with bug collectors, and that was the second thing thing they came up with that cemented it on the handheld.</quote>No. Bug fighting may have been popular but Tajiri in interviews has stated that he was aware of it but never participated in it. Capsule Monsters already had fighting as part of the concept and originally Pokmon was more like a traditional RPG. It wasn't until further in development that Pokmon started to be shaped up by Tajiri childhood of exploring nature and catching animals in which the concept of Pokmon as we know it today emerged from. But bug fighting was never part of that inspiration, when we turn to Tajiri's biography he started viewing Pokmon as these friendly creatures that are more like cats and dogs. Indeed in his biography he pretty much admits that he started to conceptualize Pokmon battles as two pet owners allowing their pets, in this case two dogs, to duke it out, not two bugs fighting one another. https://imgur.com/a/CMLcE6m --- Forbid it, Almighty God!U.S. Army. 13B. E-3 PFC</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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