Silicon Valley

Naughty Dog and Rockstar Company suddenly acquired the acquisition request from Firefly Game Company. They were very surprised. They never thought that Firefly Game Company would take a fancy to them!

You must know that there are thousands of game companies in the world, and Naughty Dog and Rockstar are inconspicuous. Why did Firefly Games choose itself? Thinking about it, I'm quite proud. The acquisition conditions given by Firefly Game Company are very exciting.

They will fund the company at a premium and get a 70% stake, making it a game studio under Firefly Games. The studio has a certain degree of autonomy, and the parent company generally does not interfere.

Firefly Games offered Naughty Dog and Rockstar to raise $15 million and $10 million respectively, which are extremely high prices, and they couldn’t help but not be tempted.

The two companies hardly thought about it, and immediately agreed to the conditions of Firefly Games.

After acquiring these two companies, Henry sent them the two game design outlines of Crash Dogs 1 and Grand Theft Auto 1 respectively, and let them develop the game! When they saw the game design outline, they couldn't help being shocked. They felt that this game was like the game they had always wanted to develop. Before that, they had been stuck in their throats, but when they saw the game design outline, they suddenly came out, which made people excited!

They asked with admiration which outstanding game designer designed the game, and the staff told them indifferently and forcefully that it was the boss, Henry Williams!

When everyone heard it, they were shocked beyond words!

Henry has too many titles, the world's richest man, a genius writer, a well-known screenwriter, an investment genius, etc. I didn't expect him to be such a powerful game designer...

And what is Henry doing at this time?

He's considering grabbing Nintendo's super-magical work, Pokemon.

It's too late to plagiarize this game, Game-Freak was already developing it back in 1990. If Henry designed Pikachu, he might crash. Then I was charged with stealing trade secrets or something...

Those who are familiar with Pokemon should know that the father of Pokemon is Tomo Tajiri.

At first, GameFreak was just a game reference magazine, run by Tomo Tajiri. Sugimori Jian painting. Then in 1989, Tajiri Tomo, Sugimori Jian and Masuda Junichi jointly founded game-freak Co., Ltd., and their business expanded from game magazines to game development.

At this moment, they are developing games for the Nintendo platform. However, GameFreak is not owned by Nintendo. It's just equivalent to a third-party game manufacturer!

Many people joked that Pokemon is a masterpiece picked up by Nintendo!

In fact, it does. In 1990, GameFreak was preparing to develop a game called Capsule Monster. When Tajiri submitted such an idea to Nintendo, it was rejected. And Capsule Monster due to trademark rights issues, the game was also forced to change its name, initially abbreviated as CapuMon, and later changed the capsule to a pocket.

Despite the lack of support from Nintendo, Tajiri still insisted on developing Pokemon.

You know, Pokemon has been in development since 1990. It was not developed until 1996. If it could get the support of Nintendo, how long would it take?

After three or four years of intermittent development, Tajiri Tomochi took the semi-finished product to find Nintendo's best designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Shigeru Miyamoto took a look and said, oh, this game is not bad, it has the potential to be a big seller! So, with the support of Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo reluctantly contributed to the development of Pokemon by GameFreak. And agree that the game can be landed on Nintendo's game platform. Of course, Nintendo took out the game copyright by the way!

I didn't think about it, it just happened in the first place. But I found a huge golden mountain...

The value derived from Pokemon is higher than that of Super Mario, and it is Nintendo's most profitable game, no one. At that time, Nintendo was about to be beaten by Sony's PS1. Fortunately, there was Pokemon, which gave Nintendo a second spring!

Henry's mouth twitched. He chuckled: Since others take the initiative to push Pokemon out, and regard it as a piece of chaff, then I'm embarrassed...

Henry immediately sent someone to contact GameFreak and buy it with a lot of money.

Tajiri Tomomi and others almost cried. After a long drought, there is a sweet rain. Finally, they have the funds to develop the game. In the face of the amazing preferential conditions offered by Firefly, Tajiri Zhi, Sugimori Jian, and Masuda Jun immediately agreed.

Firefly Games invested $10 million in GameFreak, leaving the three of them with a 30% stake.

After Henry acquired GameFreak, he was very happy, and he held a special press conference to publicize the matter.

Nintendo expressed disdain and said to media reporters: The game designed by GameFreak first came to us Nintendo, but the game was too rubbish, so we rejected it! I didn't expect Firefly Games to pick up things we didn't want, huh, right? No game company is willing to develop games on your Atari consoles, so I'm a little hungry? Haha...

Cao Nima, the dog's mouth can't spit out ivory. When Pokemon is developed, you will cry! ! !

Henry shook his head and sneered disdainfully.

Now that he has won Pokemon, Henry is wondering if the Pokemon animation, comics, and pet toys will be launched to sweep Japan in all directions.

Just do what you say, but before that, do all the prep work.

The game is the foundation. After GameFreak got the funds, it recruited a large number of designers, programmers, and painters. Especially the painters, who have recruited more than 200 people, strive to design various Pokemon at the fastest speed. In addition, 10 excellent screenwriters were hired to design the game. In terms of game music, it also hired five of Japan's most famous musicians to design it. In terms of dubbing, many professional voice actors were invited.

It can be said that no expense was spared in the development of the game Pokemon.

Many game companies can't help but envy when they see GameFreak's wealth.

GameFreak is really lucky to be picked up by Henry Williams, and there will be no shortage of funds to develop games in the future!

I'm really envious. We have never been so arrogant in developing games! The screenwriters are themselves, and the voice actors are their own. They have to work hard to write code, and they are so tired that they have multiple jobs...

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It's still August 1992, Henry estimates. Before the end of 1993, Pokemon can definitely be made.

It's not a big game in the future. It's a few gigabytes in size, and it takes a long time to download. Today's games usually have a development cycle of only a few months. Like EA Games. He is simply a madman in the game industry. He can release several games in a month, and the quality is not bad...

Pokemon is done according to the quality game, one year is enough! Besides, Tajiri and others have been designing games since 1990, but they just didn't have the funds to develop games.

With funding, development is as fast as riding a rocket.

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The research and development of Atari's Jaguar is very confidential, and the outside world has not received any news. I'm afraid no one can imagine that the Jaguar will be a 64-bit game machine. And also online!

When the degree of confidentiality is done well, when the game console is released, it can shock and catch Nintendo, Sega, and Sony by surprise.

Jaguar features and performance are so powerful, the natural hardware cost is quite high. However, Henry is already planning to sell at a loss. As long as the first two years are passed, the production cost will be greatly reduced, when that time comes. You can make money just by selling machines. The Sony PS1 was sold in 2001 from 1994, and the Jaguar has been able to sell for so long.

And during this period, as long as the jaguar occupied the market, and then made money through the game. Not only can you make up for your losses, but you can also make a lot of money.

The loss is only temporary, but the game makes money all the time!

After the success of the Jaguar, it will have countless loyal fans, so when Atari launches the second generation of the Jaguar, everyone will be crazy!

It's hard to get started...

Currently. Atari has been failing, so third-party game makers have no confidence in it. this is a problem. Therefore, before launching the Jaguar, Henry decided to let Atari develop a product to try out a small knife and revive its glory!

At the same time, it is also a promotion for Pokemon.

What Henry wants Atari to develop is very simple, an electronic pet!

This thing was originally a product developed by Japan's Bandai Company. Bandai Company was about to go bankrupt, but because it developed an electronic pet, it became popular all over the world, and finally survived!

Electronic pets are called Toma Songzi in Japan, which can also be translated as pet eggs. The Tuoma Gezi series has sold a total of 70 million units worldwide. If there are no various pirated products, hundreds of millions are appropriate!

The electronic pet is actually a very small machine with a small screen in the middle. However, due to the introduction of a novel system of simulated breeding and its endlessly cute appearance, it caused a worldwide upsurge once it was launched. Its great charm is its Created a cross-generation fan layer, unstoppable!

Electronic pets are so powerful, but they don't have much technical content. The most important thing is creativity.

When this thing arrives in China, it will be pirated for you in minutes. Back then, all kinds of electronic pets like chickens, ducks, etc. could be seen everywhere. Almost every student bought one. Even many office workers and housewives liked electronic pets!

Later, electronic pets can also give birth to dolls online through infrared, which is more interesting.

Henry came to Atari and told them about the idea. As soon as everyone heard it, they immediately realized that such a product, once it was launched, would definitely sell out!

Henry said with a smile: The name of the product is called 'Atari Electronic Pet', and GameFreak is developing Pokemon, and you will use some of these cute pets on 'Atari Electronic Pet'. Once Atari animatronics take the world by storm, players will be pleasantly surprised when they see Pokemon, which can greatly boost sales of Jaguar consoles!

When everyone heard this, they nodded in agreement.

Henry couldn't help laughing, Pikachu is so cute, if you land on Atari electronic pets, I don't know how many people will be cute and don't want it...

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