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> Mew was a little-known secret when Pokémon Red and Green were first released in Japan.
> Even Nintendo was not initially aware that Shigeki Morimoto had programmed it into the game.
> According to Shigeki Morimoto, the cartridges for Pokémon Red and Green had about 300 bytes of free space left after the debugging process was complete, and he thought of slotting Mew in as a last-minute addition, even after he was told not to tamper with the games post-debugging.
> In an interview with Game Freak and Creatures, Inc. in Nintendo Power issue 134, Shigeki Morimoto revealed that he created Mew two weeks before game development was finished.
> Designer Shigeki Morimoto stated that Mew's design was based on Mewtwo.Its design was made simpler than Mewtwo in order to take up less space on the cartridge.
A pokemon designed in two weeks just to fill up the available memory? This shit wouldn't fly today. They need months of research and A/B testing the fuck out of kids from different countries.
> Even Nintendo was not initially aware that Shigeki Morimoto had programmed it into the game.
> According to Shigeki Morimoto, the cartridges for Pokémon Red and Green had about 300 bytes of free space left after the debugging process was complete, and he thought of slotting Mew in as a last-minute addition, even after he was told not to tamper with the games post-debugging.
> In an interview with Game Freak and Creatures, Inc. in Nintendo Power issue 134, Shigeki Morimoto revealed that he created Mew two weeks before game development was finished.
> Designer Shigeki Morimoto stated that Mew's design was based on Mewtwo.Its design was made simpler than Mewtwo in order to take up less space on the cartridge.
A pokemon designed in two weeks just to fill up the available memory? This shit wouldn't fly today. They need months of research and A/B testing the fuck out of kids from different countries.
