When the Game Freak president , Satoshi Tajiri , found out about it , he told about it being in the game . In the spring of 1996 , Game Freak president Satoshi Tajiri used the Japanese manga journal CoroCoro Comic as an experimental exhibition of Mew and distributed the first cards of it for the card game as free giveaways , which surprised many at Game Freak , including Morimoto .