{"id":18396,"date":"2025-12-25T00:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getoutratracemascot.com\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2025-12-25T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:02:07","slug":"the-art-of-autism-empowering-through-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getoutratracemascot.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/the-art-of-autism-empowering-through-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Autism – Empowering through the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Art of Autism – Empowering through the Arts<\/h1>

Calling Pokemon a world-wide phenomenon would be a gross understatement. The franchise has redefined a generation through its hordes of games, TV seasons, manga adaptations, toys, cards, and so much more.<\/p>

But as Pokemon fans prepare for the release of\u00a0Pokemon Sun\/Moon<\/em>\u00a0or despair over Ash losing yet\u00a0another<\/em>\u00a0Pokemon League tournament, it\u2019s easy to forget how it all got started. Before\u00a0Pokemon Go<\/em>, the Johto region, Master Balls, and even Pikachu, there was a man named Satoshi Tajiri.\u00a0 In honor of Pokemon\u2019s 20th Anniversary, I think it\u2019s only right to look at the man who started it all.<\/p>

Born in Tokyo in 1965, the young Satoshi had various obsessions \u2014 collecting bugs as a kid and arcade games as a teenager.<\/p>

The latter captured so much of his time and attention that he actually cut classes and wound up flunking high school. His parents were concerned; they actually didn\u2019t understand his obsession with games and thought he was a delinquent throwing his life away.<\/p>

He eventually took make-up classes and got his high school diploma, but he only did a two year stint at the Tokyo National College of Technology studying computer science and electronics.<\/p>

If you think that he put a cork in his video game obsession during his studies, think again. When he was seventeen, he started writing and editing a fan magazine that focused on the arcade game scene called\u00a0Game Freak<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>

Sound familiar to any fans? That\u2019s because Game Freak is one of the companies that makes the\u00a0Pokemon\u00a0<\/em>games, their logo and name appearing every time you start the game up. How did it jump from fan magazine to game juggernaut?<\/p>

Enter Ken Sugimori, the man who would later to go illustrate the original 151 Pokemon (for the uninitiated, the franchise began with 151 unique monsters players would try to catch; there are currently 721 with more to come).<\/p>

He came across the magazine in a shop, liked it, and joined the team as the illustrator.\u00a0 After\u00a0Game Freak\u00a0<\/em>grew and got several more contributors, Ken and Satoshi decided that they were disappointed with the current batch of video games and decided to make their own. Thus, after studying the coding language they would need to go forward, Game Freak went from magazine to game company in 1989.<\/p>

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