>>39892463That theory holds no water. You can tell what each locale is based on by its name because each name is a rough English translation of the real life Japanese name.
The Ruins if Alph in the Spaceworld 1997 demo are in the town of Font (フォント). It corresponds to the real life Moji district, with Font being Game Freak's English play on the word moji which means "letter/character". It's the same for every other location.
Silent Hill = Shizuoka, meaning "quiet hill"
Newtype = Niigata, which can mean "new type"
Old = Nagoya, which means "reputed age"
Prince = Fuji, which can mean "rich person"
Blue Forest = Aomori which literally means Blue Forest
Stand = Sendai
Birdon = Tottori (literally "bird upon")
And so on
