And as such, they developed many other games while still working on Red/Green. While development has started once more, numerous interruptions (all money related) kept popping up. In the summer of 1994, “Pocket Monsters” resumed development. In 1993, it was put to an internal vote as to whether Game Freak should complete the Pokémon games (then still called Capsule Monsters). The surprising success of that game helped to give GameFreak the resources that it needed. They then developed “Yoshi” for the NES & the GameBoy. About 80% of the music was already finished. From what I can tell, there was not enough funds to continue development so, “Capsule Monsters” was put on hold in early 1992. It looks like development started in the Fall of 1990 & was scheduled to be released in December of 1991. Apparently, Tajiri had trouble trademarking the name “Capsule Monsters” so he changed it first to “CapuMon” and then later “Pocket Monsters”. The name “Capsule Monsters” is inspired by Japanese gashapon machines. The Pokemon project originally started in 1990 and was internally know as “Capsule Monsters”, as found out by Celebi23 in his researches on the development of the saga. Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue (Pokèmon Green in Japan) are the first installments of the Pocket Monsters series of RPG developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy 1996.
