Pokemon Did You Knows?

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^ Mew being trademarked halfway through 1990 would mean he initially wasn't designed to be a Pokémon, was he? Sugimori stated Rhydon was the first Pokémon he designed, followed by Clefairy and Lapras, and work appeared to have started in the fall of 1990: http://www.unseen64.net/2009/02/04/pokem...blue-beta/



From that same source we learn that Pokémon was called Capsule Monsters during development, but was renamed as Satoshi Tajiri had trouble trademarking the name. Capsule Monsters was put on hold in early 1992. After Game Freak developed Yoshi for the NES and GameBoy, they resumed working on Capsule Monsters (now Pocket Monsters) in the summer of 1994.

Also, it appears that Pokémarts were supposed to sell Pokémon, as appears from this early sketch by Sugimori:


The Omanyte and Kabuto lines used to share a trait in their names, where the first stage was a three letter name and the complete line making a word: Omanyte and Omastar were Ess and Kargo; Kabuto and Kabutops were Att and Lantis.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/P...type_names

Last, and probably mentioned before, Blaziken and Latias used to be a single Pokémon: http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/68/L...aziken.jpg