Twitter appears to be in its death throes, but the app has at least given us one more surprising video game Easter egg, and it cuts straight to the origins of Pokemon as we know it.
As our friends at PC Gamer spotted, Junichi Masuda, co-founder of primary Pokemon developer Game Freak and now "chief creative fellow" at The Pokemon Company itself, recently posted an innocuous photo of a Japanese studio with the (auto machine translated) caption: "On the 5th of July, Pokemon was born in Japan, where Game Freak once lived."
