Game Freak

Game Freak, Inc. is a Japanese video game company that makes video games for Nintendo game consoles. It is most well known for developing the Pokémon series of role-playing video games.

Game Freak, Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Video game
Founded	April 26, 1989
Headquarters	〒 154-00044, No. 1 chome, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Taishido Carrot Tower 22F Japan
Key people	Satoshi Tajiri (founder) Ken Sugimori (Pokémon art director) Junichi Masuda (Pokémon game director)
Products	Games for Nintendo video game consoles
Number of employees	85 (as of April 2013)[1]
Website	gamefreak.co.jp

Game Freak was originally a gaming magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s. On April 26, 1989, Tajiri and Sugimori started a video game company with the same name.^[2][3]