I guess I'll have to tell the whole story sometime, but when I was at Nintendo, one project I worked on was helping rename most of the Pokemon from Gold and Silver for the US release. I can be held responsible for Girafarig, Natu, Xatu, Wobbuffet, and many others.
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Replying to @RookeeAlding
Honestly we needed a Pokemon that started with X, so he was the prefect fithttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/xat
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Replying to @Chris_Kraft @RookeeAlding
After the success of the original games they wanted to make sure they had a Pokémon for each letter of the alphabet for merchandise. So part of my job was to find good names for the letters we didn't have yet like X (Quilava was my answer for Q).
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Replying to @Sellak
if i may ask, does "they" refer to Nintendo of America or The Pokémon Company? or both?
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Replying to @anzasquiddles
Both. Not sure where the directive originally came from just that it was expressed it would be nice to have.
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