Video Game Empire

In another time and space, the most well-known image in the history of the game industry is definitely Mario, a wretched uncle in blue overalls, a red hat, and a mustache. ￥℉ small,

The cumulative total sales of the entire Mario series of orthodox games exceeded 250 million copies. If you include Mario Kart, Mario Tennis and other miscellaneous games that borrowed the image of Mario, the total sales exceeded 500 million copies.

Although the Mario series is the most familiar game of all time, it is not the most profitable game. Because there is a Pokémon called Pikachu that is even worse than Mario.

"Pokemon" was also called "Pokémon" and "Pokemon" after it was introduced into China. No matter what name it is called, in short, this is a story about a child named Ash, with a little monster named Pikachu, who adventures around in the world of Pokémon.

But Ash and this short, chubby yellow elf have created a huge industry worldwide with a cumulative output value of more than 4 trillion yen.

What is the concept of 4 trillion yen, which is about 33 billion US dollars in US dollars. Developed by Blizzard and regarded as a classic online game by countless game fans, "World of Warcraft" has a total sales of about 10 billion US dollars, only one-third of "Pokemon".

In another time and space, "Pokemon" was released in 1996, which was the darkest year in Nintendo's 20 years into the gaming industry. The new concept console b has encountered market waterloo, and the super red and white console s has been losing ground in the home game console market competing with Sega's console.

The sqar company, which used to be a heavy third-party partner of Nintendo, took another turn and switched to the Sony camp with "Final Fantasy 7". Nintendo was hit hard. The stock price has plummeted, and it can only be supported by a's dominance in the handheld world. The handheld market at this time has also been seriously sluggish compared to the heyday of b.

At this time, a third-party game called "Pokemon" was under the full support of Nintendo. Start landing on a handheld platform. This game, made by an obscure small studio, quickly sold 10 million copies in one breath to everyone's exclamations.

This "Pokemon", which was born out of nowhere, directly ignited the already decadent handheld market, and made a, which had already declined in sales, to be snapped up again by game fans, and it also made Nintendo endure the most difficult times. of a period of time.

However, in this life, because of the appearance of the big butterfly Li Xuan, Nintendo has not done anything in these years, and naturally there is no chance to embark on the road of hegemony!

Another time and space. "Pokemon" is released on Nintendo's handheld platform a. Nintendo's a handheld is completely different from the A handheld that Touhou Games is now selling.

Li Xuan just copied other people's names, but he couldn't copy other people's technology. Technically, the A handhelds of Dongfang Game Company are actually similar to the first Aa handhelds launched by Nintendo, and they belong to the first generation handhelds.

The a handheld is the second-generation handheld launched by Nintendo in 198-9. At that time, the president of Nintendo, Yamauchi, originally planned to use the n LCD screen on the a, but the n LCD screen was blurred and dim, and the afterimage was serious.

In the end, Nintendo adopted Sharp's newly developed sn LCD screen on a. But now the time goes back to 1984, and the sn screen is still in the laboratory research and development stage. The display is precisely one of the most important parts of the handheld.

As early as 1961, the Princeton laboratory of ra company in the United States discovered a series of electro-optical effects of liquid crystals such as dynamic scattering and phase transition of liquid crystals. And successfully developed a series of digital and character display devices. And practical products such as LCD clocks and cockpit monitors.

But ra company finally missed out with the LCD industry because of strategic choices. Li Xuan bought its LCD division from RA long before it acquired RA last year. In recent years, Li Xuan has been spending a lot of money in the LCD department, with the support of his heavy money. The LCD division is rapidly catching up with the R&D progress of Japanese companies.

Not long ago, it has been merged into the research and development department of the liquid crystal project under the Oriental Research Institute, and has made a major breakthrough in the sn- (super twisted nematic) liquid crystal display. Industrial production could be achieved within two years at the earliest.

However, due to the early research and development of sn-, Japanese companies have mastered a large number of key patents. So it is very difficult for Eastern companies to get cheap in this generation. Now the focus of the Oriental Research Institute's public relations is - (thin film transistor) liquid crystal display technology. That is, the liquid crystal display commonly used in computers and televisions in later generations.

Compared with the first product launched a few years ago, the latest a handheld console sold by Dongfang Games has made some progress in display technology. Dongfang Game Company first used a printed LCD screen, and now it uses an array LCD screen.

Compared with the former, the latter can already make the performance of the game screen more free. But both belong to n-LCD. This technology is still relatively rudimentary and cannot display more delicate pictures. Therefore, on the current A handheld, only simple games such as "Hong Kong Cube" and "Snake" can be displayed.

Now, Li Xuan has released "Pokemon" more than ten years in advance, and naturally it will be released on the current a handheld platform. In fact, in addition to its great success in the field of handheld games, "Pokemon" has also achieved brilliant results in the fields of cards, TV animation, and movies~www.readwn.com~ TV Tokyo has produced the first film since 1997. Following the animation of "Pokemon", this series of animations continued until Li Xuan's rebirth, and was continuously updated every year, becoming one of the longest-lived animations in the world.

Later, "Pokemon" was introduced into China and translated into "Pokémon", which accompanied countless children born in the 90s and 00s through their childhood. And Li Xuan also hopes that Pikachu, this cute Pokémon, can accompany his children and spend a happy childhood!

Li Xuan has specially formed a strong production team and started to produce the first cartoon of "Pokémon". Although it started with a cartoon, the division of labor within the team is actually very meticulous. Some people are responsible for building the outline of the story and setting the world view of the Pokémon world, while others start to use their wild imaginations to design various 's Pokémon styling.

You must know that before Li Xuan's rebirth, the total number of Pokémon in the latest generation of games exceeded 500. Li Xuan naturally couldn't remember what all the Pokémon looked like, the only thing he remembered was the cute yellow elf - Pikachu. (To be continued..)

ps: There is a second chapter, but it will be later