Video Game Empire

"Tajiri-kun, do you have the feeling of becoming famous overnight!" Sugimori Ken patted Tajiri's shoulder and said.

On the way between the two of them from the office to the restaurant, almost every colleague who passed by secretly looked at Tomoe Tajiri with a curious eye. A few colleagues who were familiar with each other even came forward to say hello, and offered themselves to join the "Pokémon" game project team.

"I feel like a giant panda in Ocean Park!" Tomo Tajiri said helplessly.

At the end of last year, Lele and Yingying, a pair of giant pandas donated by the central government to Hong Kong, arrived in Hong Kong to meet with the public through the multi-party liaison and operation of the Haichuan Foundation under the name of Li Xuan and Huo Lao and others.

Pandas are lovable but delicate animals. Hong Kong is hot in summer. In order to provide a suitable environment for pandas, indoor panda rooms are equipped with air conditioners. All the bamboo needed to feed the pandas needs to be imported from Guangdong Province in the Mainland.

To this end, Huo Lao also specially invested 5 million Hong Kong dollars to build a new panda house for Ocean Park. The Haichuan Foundation has also pledged to provide 1.2 million Hong Kong dollars a year for the care of giant pandas.

After the pair of pandas arrived in Hong Kong, they immediately showed their strong appeal as friendship ambassadors, making Hong Kong Ocean Park at the end of 1984 a sea of ​​joy. According to Ocean Park's own statistics, in November and December of last year, as well as in January of this year, 1.2 million Hong Kong citizens went to the panda house to watch giant pandas in just three months.

And now Tajiri's situation in the Oriental game is indeed similar to that of the giant panda who just came to Hong Kong a few months ago. Everyone around him looked at him with the eyes of rare animals!

It's been more than two years since Li Xuan this **** OSS. Going out again to personally participate in game planning is definitely the hottest topic in Dongfang Game Company recently. "God of Fortune Li" started with games. This has always made the employees of Dongfang Games very proud. No matter how large the Oriental Group grows, everyone feels that they are different.

Not to mention every game that Li Xuan participated in the production of. For example, "Hong Kong Cube", "Tank Wars," "Mario Brothers", "The King of Fighters", etc., have become classics without exception. Everyone's worship of Li Xuan has reached a level of belief.

Originally, Li Sheng, who seemed to be paying less and less attention to the game business, suddenly killed a carbine this time, and once again participated in game planning in person. Since the well-informed people in the company broke the news, countless people who thought they had the strength to compete secretly began to gear up.

But no one thought that everyone had not had time to show their strength to Li Sheng, this new game project called "Pokémon". It has already been taken into the arms of an unknown Japanese!

Others will naturally not doubt the vision of the big boss, that is the "God of Wealth Li" who has created countless miracles! It's just that everyone is very curious, what kind of ingenuity did Tajiri rely on to impress Li Xuan so quickly?

Therefore, everyone looks at Tajiri Tomoshiki with a little more scrutiny, as if they want to see through his appearance and see through his hidden talents!

At first, Tajiri Zhi really wanted to impress the big boss Li Xuan with his talent. But the ideal is full. Reality is skinny! When Tajiri Tomochi really had the opportunity to sit face-to-face with his idol, the hairy guy who just turned 20 was nervous.

Most of the time when the two communicated, Li Xuan was talking incessantly. On the other hand, Tajiri Tomo just kept his head up. A series of ideas that he thought he had prepared very well before suddenly became a little out of control in front of Li Xuan's well-organized plan.

When the conversation was over, Tajiri Tomo came out of the office. He had completely lost confidence in himself and felt that his previous performance was utterly terrible. But what Tajiri Tomo didn't expect was. The company's president, Mr. Du Wenqiang, even informed him the next day that the chief planner of the "Pokémon" game project belongs to him!

In the previous life, Tajiri Tomo graduated from a technical college. He started his own business and started a company. After ten years of fighting in the game field, he was highly regarded by Nintendo. With the game "Pokémon", it became an instant hit.

In this life, after graduating from high school, Tajiri Tomo did not choose to continue his studies, but went to Hong Kong to join the game development holy land in his heart - Oriental Game Company.

Although Tajiri joined the company for a year and a half, he has received systematic training in game development and participated in major productions like "The Legend of Zelda" before, but he is still a little immature!

The reason why Li Xuan still let Tajiri to be the chief planner of the "Pokémon" project is because he is Tajiri! Let Tajiri Zhi to develop "Pokémon", Li Xuan feels that his evil taste has been greatly satisfied!

As for Tajiri's lack of qualifications, in Li Xuan's view, there is no need to worry at all. He has already formulated the framework for the entire game project of "Pokémon", not to mention that the entire project development team is not only Tajiri Zhi.

In Dongfang Game Company, the power of the project leader is very large, and the list of personnel of the entire development team is decided by the chief planner. And projects like "Pokémon" with the name of Li Xuan, as long as everyone is not blind, they will naturally flock to them.

Tajiri Zhi can completely pick some capable helpers into the development team, and there are not a few good people who have hinted to him in the past few days. And if Tajiri Zhi feels that his prestige is not enough to convince the public, he can also pull his good friend Shigeru Miyamoto into the development team.

Tajiri Zhi actually did just that. After confirming that he really became the chief planner of the "Pokémon" game project, the first thing he did was to invite Shigeru Miyamoto and Ken Sugimori to join his team.

Before he came to Hong Kong, Sugi Mori was a cartoonist, and most of the original game paintings of "The Legend of Zelda" came from his pen. And "Pokémon" is about to be released on the handheld platform. With the performance of the handheld at this stage, the picture is actually very rough.

Ken Sugimori doesn't need to spend much time on the game screen of the handheld at all. His more important work is actually responsible for the review of the previous "Pokémon" animation project. The animation industry naturally cannot become the core business of the Oriental Group. Therefore, although animation production should precede game production, it is ultimately placed under the leadership of the game development team.

After all, Li Xuan originally decided to make animations. Just to better promote the game "Pokémon". The development of cartoons is naturally subject to the overall situation of the entire game development.

Ken Sugimori's main job is to help Tajiri Tom check all the animated images in the game. The original paintings of various Pokémon have been designed by the animation team before. If he is not satisfied, he can redesign it.

As for Shigeru Miyamoto, he has just served as the main planner of the "Legend of Zelda" project, and has enough experience to teach Tajiri Tom, how to manage a game development team!

Under normal circumstances, people like Shigeru Miyamoto who have independently planned game projects are not willing to be the deputy of others. What's more, the game "The Legend of Zelda" he developed before is still a project that the company's executives are very fancy. Once "The Legend of Zelda" is successful, Miyamoto is likely to jump into the company's gold game planner in one fell swoop.

But Tajiri Tomomi is his junior and friend, and Shigeru Miyamoto is very aware of the pressure he has to bear as the general manager of a game project. So he was willing to help Tajiri Zhi, so he accepted the invitation of the other party very readily!

However, recently, Shigeru Miyamoto obviously has no intention to help Tajiri Tomomi, and his entire attention is on the sales results of the first game "The Legend of Zelda" developed by himself.

On March 1, in front of a small shop that operates game consoles in Akihabara, Tokyo, the owner of the shop, Hiroyoshi Tokumori, was opening the door with a key. Boss Desen is a very dedicated businessman, and there are not many pedestrians on the street in the early morning. And his shop will always be one of the first to open on the street.

Akihabara is the most famous electronic distribution center in Tokyo. More than ten years ago, it mainly supplied household appliances such as TVs, refrigerators and washing machines. But in recent years, some trendy electronic products have gradually become another business card of Akihabara.

Such as aan, since Sony introduced the first Walkman. This portable music player quickly became Akihabara's new favorite. Many local e-shops and foreign tourists like to come to Akihabara's dazzling electrical stores to search for the coolest Walkmans.

Except for the Walkman. Game consoles and computers are also among the new trendy electronic products added in Akihabara in recent years. And Desen's store is a store that specializes in game consoles and game cartridges.

Before there were no customers in the morning, Desen Haoxian moved a TV to the roadside outside the store. Put on a prepared table. Today is the time when Touhou Game's -2 game consoles will be released uniformly across Japan.

Desen boss at the end of November last year. After participating in Dongfang Game Company's new quarter's initial heart meeting, I immediately placed a large order with Dongfang Commercial Company, which is responsible for the sales of all products of Dongfang Game Company.

The initial heart meeting is a new product promotion meeting held by Dongfang Game Company for its own sellers, once a quarter. This distribution model is that Li Xuan stole from Nintendo, and he did not even change the name "Chuxinhui".

Through the platform of Chuxinhui, Dongfang Game Company can introduce the new games that the company is about to launch in detail to various sellers, and lay a solid foundation for the next new products to be launched.

Sellers often have the sharpest sense of smell. They have been dealing with customers for a long time and can best grasp the preferences of consumers. Therefore, the response of the sellers will directly affect the company's forecast on the prospects of each new product that will be launched.

For those game products that are generally favored by distributors, Dongfang will adjust their marketing strategies in a timely manner and increase resource investment. As for those works that are despised by dealers, Dongfang Company naturally has to control the cost of publicity to avoid losses.

Although dealers' choices may not be accurate every time, in most cases they are consistent with actual market sales. In the initial meeting in the fourth quarter of last year, the product promoted by Dongfang Games is naturally the new-generation -2 home video game console.

Desen Haoxian personally went to participate in that first heart meeting, and personally experienced it on a -2 game console for an hour. The powerful performance of -2 makes its game screen a qualitative leap compared to the previous -1.

This is not very obvious in games such as "Tank Wars" and "Mario Brothers". After all, these games are not based on pictures to win. But in the "King of Fighters" game, the effect of "The King of Fighters 2" on -2 is completely comparable to the arcade version of "The King of Fighters".

The arcade board "The King of Fighters 1" was launched as early as the market, and the internal motherboard has already used the r-1 processor as the core, and the game effect displayed is naturally far superior to the -1 game machine with the 6502 processor as the core.

Now, the newly listed -2 ​​game console is finally level with the arcade in configuration. This undoubtedly gave consumers a new reason to buy the -2 console - to bring the arcade home. What's more, in addition to the "King of Fighters" series, there is also a new game "The Legend of Zelda" that makes everyone's eyes shine.

When Desen Hoxian experienced the powerful performance of the new-generation -2 game console, he only spent ten minutes on the "King of Fighters 2" game. There are two biggest selling points of "The King of Fighters 2", one is that the new game's picture is more gorgeous. Another is that the game development team cut some of the most unpopular heroes in The King of Fighters 1, and then added several brand new heroes, while also modifying the skills of some heroes.

As a loyal player of "The King of Fighters 1", Desen Haoxian only spent ten minutes to get a general understanding of the new sales of "The King of Fighters 2", so he spent more time on testing other new games.

The second new game he tested at the time was The Legend of Zelda, and it quickly got him into it. The remaining fifty minutes of experience time, Desen Haoxian unknowingly spent on the game "The Legend of Zelda"~www.wuxiaspot.com~ did not try other new games at all.

Toksen has been selling video game consoles and game cartridges in Akihabara for five or six years, and his self-control is far better than that of ordinary gamers. And this game called "The Legend of Zelda", even he, a professional businessman who deals with various games every day, will be unconsciously attracted, let alone ordinary game fans.

So Desen Haoxian immediately decided to stock up on the -2 game console for his store, as well as the supply of CDs for the two games "The King of Fighters 2" and "The Legend of Zelda". He believes that he must be able to make a lot of money from this!

"Desen-san, are the game cartridges for "The King of Fighters 2" in stock?" A man with a square face and glasses walked into the Desen's store.

Desen Haoxian was bowing his head to tally the goods under the counter, he raised his body to recognize the other party, and immediately showed a kind smile: "It turned out to be Kitayama-kun! "The King of Fighters 2" has arrived!

But this time the arrival of "The King of Fighters 2" only has the game disc that can be used on the -2 game console, and the -1 version of the game cartridge will have to wait another month or two. I put a new -2 game console at the door, you can try it first! To be continued..)