>>33196319I feel like I remember at least one interview from years ago asking Tajiri what his role was and he said something like "nowadays I mostly just give suggestions, and answer questions from the designers".
We also do know he was a primary programmer on the first games, because his team was basically just him and Nintendo didn't really understand what kind of game he was trying to make, so they got people leftover from EarthBound and some HAL Labs folks to help him finish the game.
>>33196339Publicly, nothing beyond being executive producer and giving the occasional interview, and I don't think he even does those anymore.
He definitely deserves to retire and do what he wants, I just feel like we missed out on someone who could have been a big deal to JRPGs. Pokémon RGB don't get enough credit for some of the really smart design decisions they had because everyone talks about how they're primitive or buggy.
