>>55357491Nintendo, given TPC weren't yet established as a company due to it being 1999 and Iwata not ascending to President of Nintendo until 2000. Nintendo licenced production of all the merch and were responsible for the marketing of the thing until then, because it wasn't yet the monster it was becoming. Picrel is the tag off my claw game Pikachu from 2000, showing the three rights holders' names and Nintendo's quality logo.