Was Pokemon originally called Capsule Monsters?

I was searching through and found this. Is it true?

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The original concept of Pokemon was inspired by capsule machines contain various collectible toys. The machines were called Geshapons or something like that.

It went from Capsule Monsters to Capumon for trademark issues. Then it was switched over to Pocket Monsters.

With the help of Ken Sugimori and other friends, Tajiri formed GameFreak and much later the design studio known as Creatures. When Tajiridiscovered the Game Boy and the Game Boy Link Cable, it gave him theimage of insects traveling along the wire, which led to the conceptfor a new game called Capsule Monsters. After several failed attemptsat pitching this idea to Nintendo, Tajiri’s new friend ShigeruMiyamoto pitched it to the company, and Nintendo began to fund theproject, spending six years developing the games that would become aworldwide sensation. Due to trademarking issues, the name “CapsuleMonsters” was changed to “Pocket Monsters”.

And then me and my breaking-into-the-coding-and-ruining-the-cartridge-out-of-curiosity-to-answer-a-question just had to step in…

In that coding, an undefined area of code is there that does nothing. It copies the naming of the creatures, but replaces “Pocket” with “Capsule”, so you can assume that it was scrapped in development.

No. It was call pocket monsters. They were thinking of making it Capsul Mosters but changed their mind in favor of Pocket monsters, or Pokemon.

Poket= Poke.Monsters= mon.Poke+mon=Pokemon!!!