Poke Amice Docs · English research guide

Recovered Pokémon Sources & Game Freak Archives

Explore reconstructed Game Freak archives, magazine interview scans and recovered sources, with publication context, archived versions and multilingual translations.

This is an English discovery layer. Detailed records remain in the Chinese archive; original sources and available translations are linked separately.

Source recovery and reconstruction

Historical research needs more than an article title. A recruitment URL can change speakers, a magazine scan can lack pages, and a publisher's website can disappear. Source records connect translations to the version or scan used, so readers can inspect that context before citing a claim.

The archive includes 52 scan records. Scans, OCR and translations have different error risks; individual pages record their sources and available workflow status. An archived snapshot date is not necessarily a publication date.

Find magazine scans in the Chinese archive

Game Freak and multilingual source collections

Game Freak archive reconstruction

Read Junichi Masuda's director columns with their original dates, source records and Chinese translations. These are first-person columns, rather than interviews.

Game Freak recruitment interviews

Compare archived versions of recruitment pages. The same URL can hold different interviewees and text in different years; version records preserve that context.

Japanese interview translations

Read Japanese AI translations of selected interviews originally published in English and other languages. They are not human proofread; each page links to its source and Chinese version.

Game Freak art blog reconstruction · Game Freak staff archive research

Recently recovered sources

These additions come from the recruitment reconstruction and magazine recovery batches. Addition dates are recorded separately from the dates of the historical sources.

2024 · Game Freak 採用情報

Shigeru Ohmori's archived recruitment message

An archived Game Freak recruitment page, linked to its recorded version and Chinese translation.

Works discussed: Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

People in this record: Shigeru Ohmori.

GAME FREAK 开发负责人寄语（2024，大森滋）：持续创造超越以往系列作品的新玩法

Added to this archive: 2026-10-09. The year above refers to the source record.

2019 · Game Freak 採用情報

Game Freak programmer roundtable — archived 2019 version

A recovered version of a reused recruitment URL. Compare the speakers and source snapshot before citing the interview.

People in this record: T.T., K.I..

GAME FREAK 官方对谈 程序员篇（2019 年版）：土生土长的游戏程序员与拥有最新技术的程序员的合作（T.T. × K.I.）

Added to this archive: 2026-10-09. The year above refers to the source record.

Using the material

Follow original source links whenever possible. For a lost or replaced page, inspect the archived version supplied by the record. Chinese and Japanese translations help discovery, but the source's wording and publication context remain the basis for research.