Dai Sato if from Shimane, Japan, where he was born in 1969. Around the age of 19, he contracted with “Sold Out” and started his career working on broadcast composition and lyric writing. His interests gradually shifted toward the gaming industry and at the age of 23, Sato met Satoshi Tajiri, the game designer that brought the world “Pocket Monsters,” and began working at Game Freak.