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

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.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

I advise people to avoid workplaces that prevent Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) visits.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.