Underbelly, a part infotainment and part skit comedy show posted on YouTube weekly interviewed Stuart Zagnit, the original voice of Professor Oak in the English dub. In the interview he discusses his role as Professor Oak and tells a few experiences that he had while recording the show. Below is Underbelly's interview with Stuart Zagnit.



Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/underbellyshow

An interview in the 69th issue of The Official Nintendo Magazine featuring Game Freak Director Junichi Masuda and Game Freak Artist Ken Sugimori have them both reiterating that a Pokémon Massively multi-player online game is not on the horizon but they reveal that they have thought about the idea. They also reiterate that Nintendo's portable systems is the best venue for the main Pokémon games. Below are excerpts from the interview.

Will Davey asks: Are you interested in the idea of a Wii version of the DS game, with 3D graphics?

Sugimori-san: I am interested in strong visual effects. However, I believe that Pokémon is most appropriate for portable consoles.

Masuda-san: I'm really not thinking about having the main Pokémon games on the Wii, because using portable consoles means you can always carry Pokémon around with you and you can play with other players, so that's the future I'd like to emphasise.

Samurai Ferrett asks: Have you ever thought of developing a MMO Pokémon game?

Masuda-san: There are so many possibilities for Pokémon games, so of course I've thought about it. But, currently, this is what we do.

The full interview is available at the official Nintendo Magazine website and it is mirrored here on our site and can be viewed by by clicking here.

Source: http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/26083/features/the-best-of-pokmon/

Reshiram and Zekrom have taken over Official Nintendo Magazine. With Pokémon Black & White on the way to the UK on 4 March, the Official Nintendo Magazine UK went to Game Freak headquarters in Japan to find out more about the biggest Nintendo games of the year.


How did they make Reshiram and Zekrom, how do they create so many likeable Pokémon and how do they make battle music that doesn't become annoying? All is revealed in the new Official Nintendo Magazine UK. Plus you can find out everything you need to know about Black & White.

How we created 150 new Pokémon - Ken Sugimori

Game Freak has revealed how a trip to the zoo inspired the creation of the 150 new Pokémon in Pokémon Black & White.

In an exclusive interview which appears in the new issue of Official Nintendo Magazine, Pokémon designer Ken Sugimori said: "In the Pokémon World there are Pokémon that look like dogs, that look like horses, deer - as you can see we always look at wild animals to get the inspiration.

"But those Pokémon, the dogs, deer or horses already exist in previous games so we took a fresh start, we went back to basics. We took the designers to the zoo to study different animals."

Of course, not all of the new Pokémon are based on animals. There's a goth girl named Gothitelle, a coffin with arms named Cofagrigus and a gear that goes by the name of Clink.

Sugimori didn't reveal how he found inspiration for these Pokémon but he did shed more light on how he and his 30-strong team of designers make Pokémon likeable.

"The secret is that they're easy to understand and they show diversity," he said. "Its feature or ability or shape is key.

"There's a mixture of cool and cute Pokémon. That makes it easy for the audience to pick their favourite. That's the reason it's popular and the reason it's like all over the world."

Full Interview Available in the February 2011 issue of Official Nintendo Magazine UK.

Source: http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=23031

An Afternoon with Mike Pollock

Interview originally Recorded on October 11th, 2010

Mike Pollock is one of New York's premier animation voice-over actors. Saturday morning cartoon viewers of FOX and The CW might recognize his voice as Garbageman on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dr. Eggman and Ella on Sonic X and the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, Bigoriki in Gororiki, and Langston Lickatoad in Viva Piñata.

He is well known to Pokémon fans as the Narrator and Mr. Contesta. Earlier this year we asked viewers of this website for questions to ask Mr. Pollock and he has graciously answered them in the interview. TSS_Killer and inu-liger had the opportunity to interview Mike and to discuss voice acting with him on October 11th, 2010. Below is that interview. A full transcription of the interview is also available. Be sure to post your comments about the interview on the forum thread.

Video of Interview

Source: itsamike.com

In the Iwata Asks interview for Kirby's Epic Yarn, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata and Masanobu Yamamoto, the Character Supervisor at HAL Laboratory, Inc. discussed the early development of Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64.​ Below are the relevant excerpts from that interview.

Itawa Asks: Kirby's Epic Yarn Interview Excerpts

Iwata: Originally, Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64 system wasn't a Pokémon game, but rather a normal game in which you took photos, but the motivation for playing the game wasn't clear. We wondered what players would enjoy taking pictures of, and later on we made a somewhat forced switch to taking pictures of Pokémon.

Yamamoto: That time, adopting the Pokémon world clarified what we should do and the direction we should head, and I came to like Pokémon, so I felt like that had saved us.

Source: http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/kirbysepicyarn/vol1_page4.jsp

Voice actor Mike Pollock, best known for his role as the 2nd Narrator in the Pokémon series' English dub as well as Dr. Eggman in the more recent Sonic X anime and video games, has kindly agreed to an interview to be conducted on October 11th, and PocketMonsters.net would like YOU, the readers and fans, to help submit questions to be used in the interview, not necessarily limited to Pokémon topics!

See the forum thread at: http://www.pocketmonsters.net/forum/threads/3156 to participate.

Questions are to be submitted by October 7! The full interview transcript will be posted on the site within the week following the interview.

Sean Robbins (a.k.a. SeanBird) from the J-Pop Exchange has posted on the Imageboard stating that the audio, unreleased BGM from Advanced Generation and transcript from his exclusive interview with Mr. Miyazaki on his radio show are available on his website from August 30th through September 6th, 2010. The interview was recorded in mid-April of 2009 and aired on May 30th, 2009. We originally reported about the interview at that time.

Below is excerpts from SeanBird's post on the Imageboard explaining a bit about the interview: "...you can listen to two pieces of music that are, as of this writing, not available on CD (I don’t know what tracks are going to be on the CD that is going to be released in September). They were given to me, at my request for airplay on my radio show The J-Pop Exchange, which airs on WVCR 88.3 FM.

The pieces are: The 6th Cue that was recorded in the 2002 Work order. This is my favorite piece that Mr. Miyazaki created for the Pokémon TV series. This is the piece that you hear in episode 1 of the original Japanese version of Pokémon Advanced Generation in which Ash climbs the mountain with Pikachu. Please note the cue you hear when Ash is on the phone earlier in this episode is actually a separate BGM. The cue I have is the more orchestral one."

Shinji Miyazaki's latest CD, TV Anime Pocket Monsters Original Soundtrack Best 1997-2010 will be released in Japan next week.

Source: http://www.jpopexchange.net

The official Pokémon website has posted an interview with the main members of GAME FREAK who were responsible for the latest games Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. This is a different interview than the one that was posted on the official Nintendo Europe site last month.


The interview has also been archived on our site and can be viewed here.

Source: http://www.pokemon.com/us/news/vg_hgss_interview-2010-03-31/

GamePro Magazine had the opportunity to conduct a short interview with Game Freak, the developers of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. The interview discusses the challenges of recreating Gold and Silver and how the developers were able remake the classics.


The interview has been archived on our site and it can be viewed by clicking here.

Source: GamePro

The Official Nintendo UK website has posted a long interview with Tsunekazu Ishihara-san, President and CEO of The Pokémon Company and Shigeki Morimoto-san from Game Freak. The interview was conducted by Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata.

The interview discusses the upcoming Pokémon games HeartGold and SoulSilver as well as some of the history of the Pokémon franchise.

The interview has also been archived on our website and can be viewed here.

Source: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/iwata/