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Mew's original creator shares details on the Pokemon's inception
Game Freak's official YouTube channel has added a new video that dives deep in the lore of Mew. Mew's original designer, Shigeki Morimoto, is the one dishing out the details. Check out a summary of the info shared below.
- Mew was originally only released to 20 players via CoroCoro in 1996, with a second distribution to 100 people happening later
- each Mew was procedurally generated on Morimoto’s PC, even having different Pokemon IDs
- Morimoto had to trade it to each chosen player one by one via Link Cable
- the third distribution in Japan happened at World Hobby Fair
- Morimoto would later have a hand in planning the Old Sea Map event that would lead players to catch Mew on Faraway Island
- when Morimoto first went to see Mewtwo Strikes Back, he was in complete amazement of Mew actually moving around
- Mew’s movements were decided on by the anime animators, as they would be working on the original 2D pixel art only
- nowadays, they design Pokemon with the intent of turning them into 3D models
- the designers have a hand in saying what the animations will look like, drawing Pokemon from various angles
- Mew was designed off Mewtwo’s design
- Morimoto designed Mew to be a simpler version of Mewtwo in order to take up less space on the cartridge