In an interview with the former president of Nintendo, it now emerged that the creation of one of the most famous Pokémon would go back to a lucky coincidence. We are talking about the legendary Pokémon Mew. The curious history of MEW A Pokémon becomes a legend in the schoolyard The curious history of MEW Did you know that Nintendo's ex-boss runs your own interview format? In the "Iwata asks" format, Satoru Iwata talks to various sizes from the Japanese video game industry. Brand new: an interview with the creators of Pokémon. In the interview said, it recently emerged that the legendary Pokémon Mew only made it into the first editions, because it happened to be 300 bytes storage space on the module . However, this was only possible because shortly before the end the debug features were removed from the Greens and the Red Edition. The newly won space on the module was then used for the legendary pocket monster. A Pokémon becomes a legend in the schoolyard ...