The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.

Pikachu. 'Pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse.

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

I was really interested in collecting insects.

In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads.

Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart.

Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.

When I was 18 I already had a business going.

I was really into Space Invaders in about 1978. It got me more and more interested in video games. There wasn't any media to get information about games, so I came up with Game Freak magazine.

I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.

Pray regularly for the members of your family.

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

'When two people meet who are obviously attracted to each other, like we are, it always starts out as a game. I make a move, you make a move, and if the moves are correct, we both win.'

Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

We have some states that I think are very competitive in that no Republican has ever been competitive in.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.