12 facts I didn't know about Pokémon

(The original date I published this on my personal site was 28 Sep 2017.)

• Satoshi Tajiri pitched Pokémon to Nintendo but it was initially rejected
• Due to issues with copyright, the name “CapuMon” was considered before settling on Pocket Monsters
• Game Freak struggled with the development of Red & Green in Japan. Low finances caused many of the staff to leave
• Tajiri worked long hours, many of them unpaid
• The games were originally scheduled for a December 21, 1995 release
• The American staff who localized the games tried to change the Pokémon designs
• In the Canadian French manual for Pokémon Blue, Pokémon is misspelled as “Pokémons”
• There was a special Pikachu Yellow model of the Game Boy Printer
• A title similar to Crystal called Pocket Monsters X (unrelated to the 2013 release) was set for an April 2000 release
• The Japanese version of Crystal has an emblem of Suicune’s crest on the back of the cart’s circuit board
• It was also developed using Pokémon Gold as its basis
• A promotional coin featuring Groudon and Kyogre was available with American pre-orders of Ruby and Sapphire