| Game Freak, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Industry | Video game |
| Founded | 26 April 1989 |
| Key people | Satoshi Tajiri (founder) Ken Sugimori (Pokémon art director) |
| Products | Games for Nintendo video game consoles |
Number of employees | 85 (as of April 2013) |
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 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.