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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pokemon is famous for being the first game to employ child psychologists in its development Team, to analyse what young boys like the most, and to feed that to them.

Your friend, is playing, due to corporate manipulation, when they were young, which triggered all the things in them, they wanted to trigger.

Dark, but true. I'll try and find a source on this later, when I have some time.

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, yes, when a man takes inspiration from insect-collecting in his childhood, he becomes the world's first child psychologist in directing and developing video games

/s

Edit to clarify: you kept making downvoted assumptions in this thread about an existing source on Pokemon creators having targeted the young boys audience. It's only natural to think you could be misremembering all the articles that came out about Satoshi Tajiri's inspiration for the OG games coming from bug collecting as a young boy.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

You linked to the director, not the psychologists they onboarded for the project.