Naughty Dog and R Star Company were very surprised by the acquisition request sent by the sudden acquisition of Firefly Game Company, they never thought that Firefly Game Company would take a fancy to themselves!

You know, there are thousands of game companies around the world, and Naughty Dog and R Star are inconspicuous, so why would Firefly Games choose them? The acquisition conditions given by Firefly Games are very exciting.

They will raise a premium financing for the company and get a 70% stake in it, making it a game studio owned by Firefly Games. The studio has a certain degree of autonomy, and the parent company, in general, does not intervene.

Firefly Games Company's financing amount for Naughty Dog and R Star is $15 million and $10 million respectively, which is a super high price, and they can't help but be unimpressed.

The two companies barely thought about it and immediately agreed to Firefly Games' terms.

After acquiring these two companies, Henry sent them two game design outlines, "Crazy Dog 1" and "Grand Theft Auto 1", and asked them to develop the game! When they saw the game design outline, they couldn't help but be shocked, feeling that this game was like the game they had always wanted to develop.

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

When everyone heard this, they were shocked beyond measure!

There are too many titles for Henry, the richest man in the world. A genius writer and a well-known screenwriter. Investment genius and so on, I didn't expect him to be such a great game designer......

And what is Henry doing at this time?

He's thinking about snatching Nintendo's supermasterpiece, Pokemon.

It's too late for plagiarism in this game now. Back in 1990, the Game-Freak company was already developing. If Henry had designed Pikachu, he might have crashed and been charged with stealing trade secrets or something......

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

At first, GameFreak was just a game reference magazine, run by Tomo Tajiri and illustrated by Ken Sugimori. Then, in 1989, Tomoshi Tajiri, Ken Sugimori, and Junichi Masuda founded Game-Freak Co., Ltd. The business expanded from game magazines to game development.

At this moment, they are developing games for the Nintendo platform. However, GameFreak does not belong to Nintendo, it is just a third-party game manufacturer!

Many people jokingly call "Pokemon" a masterpiece picked up by Nintendo!

In fact, it is. In 1990, GameFreak was ready to develop a game called Capsule Monsters, but when Tajiri presented the idea to Nintendo, it was rejected. And "Capsule Monster" was also forced to change the name of the game due to trademark issues. At first it was abbreviated as CapuMon, and later the capsule was changed to a pocket.

Despite not receiving Nintendo's support, Tajiri still insisted on developing Pokemon.

You know, Pokemon has been in development since 1990. It wasn't developed until 1996, so if it had been supported by Nintendo, how long would it take?

It was developed intermittently for three or four years. Tajiri took the semi-finished product and found Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's best designer, and Shigeru Miyamoto took a look. Ouch, that's a good game. So, with the support of Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo reluctantly funded to help GameFreak develop "Pokemon", and agreed that the game could be released on Nintendo's game platform. Of course, Nintendo paid for it, and by the way, it also took the game copyright!

I never thought that I would do it easily, but I picked up a huge mountain of gold......

Pokemon derivative value is higher than Super Mario and is one of Nintendo's most profitable games, without one. At that time, Nintendo was almost beaten by Sony's PS1, but fortunately, there was "Pokemon", which gave Nintendo a second spring!

The corners of Henry's mouth lifted and he chuckled: "Since others took the initiative to push out Pokemon and regarded it as chaff, then I'm embarrassed......"

Henry then sent someone to contact GameFreak and buy it at a large price.

Tajiri and the others are almost about to cry, and after a long drought and a rainy day, they finally have the funds to develop the game. In the face of the amazing preferential conditions offered by the fireflies, almost without thinking, Tajiri Tomo, Sugimori Jian, and Masuda Shun immediately agreed.

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

After Henry acquired GameFreak, he was very happy, and held a special press conference to publicize the matter, the purpose of which was nothing more than to deliberately show Nintendo.

Nintendo expressed its disdain and said to media reporters: "The game designed by GameFreak first approached us Nintendo, but the game was too rubbish, so we rejected it! I didn't expect Firefly Games to pick up what we didn't want, hehe, is there no game company willing to develop games on your Atari console, so it's a little hungry......?"

Cao Nyima, the dog's mouth can't spit out ivory, and when "Pokemon" is developed, you will cry!!

Henry shook his head and sneered disdainfully.

Now that he has won "Pokemon", Henry is wondering if he will launch "Pokemon" animation, comics, and pet toys and sweep Japan in all directions.

Just do it, but before you do it, make all the preparations.

Games are fundamental, and after GameFreak received funding, it hired a large number of designers, programmers, and artists. In particular, more than 200 artists were recruited to design a variety of Pokemon as quickly as possible. In addition, 10 excellent screenwriters were hired to design the game. In terms of game music, five of Japan's most well-known musicians were also hired to design it. In terms of voice acting. I invited a lot of professional voice actors.

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

Many game companies see that GameFreak is so wealthy. I can't help but be envious.

"GameFreak was lucky to be picked up by Henry Williams. In the future, there will be no shortage of funds to develop games!"

"I'm really envious, we've never been so bold in developing games! The screenwriter is the screenwriter, the voice actor is the voice actor, and I have to work hard to write code, and I wear many hats, and I'm tired of being a dog......

“……”

It's still August 1992, and Henry estimates that Pokemon will definitely be made by the end of 1993.

It's not a big game in the future. There are several 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, it's a crazy guy in the game industry, and you can release several games a month, and the quality is actually good......

"Pokemon" is made according to the high-quality game, and one year is enough! Besides, Tajiri and others have been designing games since 1990. It's just that there is no money to develop the game.

With funding, the speed of development is like riding a rocket.

……

The development of the Atari "Jaguar" was very secretive, and the outside world did not receive a hint of it. I'm afraid no one could have imagined that the Jaguar would be a 64-bit game console. And it's also networked!

The degree of secrecy is well done, and when the game console is released, it can be shocking. to make Nintendo, Sega. Sony was caught off guard.

The Jaguar is so powerful in terms of features and performance that the hardware cost is naturally quite high. But. Henry was already planning to sell at a loss. As long as you survive the first two years, the production cost will be greatly reduced, and when the time comes, you can make money just by selling machines. The Sony PS1 sold from 1994 to 2001, and the Jaguar can also be sold for so long.

And during this period, as long as the jaguar occupies the market and then makes money through the game, it can not only make up for the losses, but also make a lot of money.

Losing money is only temporary, but making money from the game continues!

After the success of the Jaguar, it will have countless loyal fans, so when Atari launches the Jaguar II, everyone will inevitably go crazy!

Is it hard to get started......

At present, Atari has been failing, leaving third-party game manufacturers with little confidence in it. This is a problem. So, before launching the Jaguar, Henry decided to let Atari develop a product to test its muscles and reinvigorate it!

At the same time, it can also be regarded as promoting "Pokemon".

Henry wanted Atari to develop something very simple, it was an electronic pet!

This thing was originally a product developed by the Japanese Bandai company, and the Bandai company was originally going bankrupt, but because of the development of electronic pets, it swept the world and finally survived!

The electronic pet is called "Takuma Utako" in Japan, which can also be translated as pet egg. The "Tuoma Gezi" series has sold a total of 70 million units worldwide, and 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, but, due to the introduction of the novel system of simulated breeding and its cute appearance, it has triggered a worldwide craze as soon as it was launched, and its huge charm has created a cross-generational fan layer for it, which is unstoppable!

The electronic pet is so awesome, but there is not much technical content, and 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 pet chickens, ducks, and so on, were everywhere, and almost every student bought one, and even many office workers or housewives were very fond of electronic pets!

Later, electronic pets can also be connected to the birth of dolls through infrared rays, which is even more interesting.

When Henry came to Atari and told them about the idea, everyone immediately realized that such a product, once launched, would definitely be a super hit!

Henry said with a smile, "The name of the product is 'Atari Cyber Pet', and GameFreak is working on Pokemon, so you can use a few of these cute pets for 'Atari Cyber Pet'." Once the Atari electronic pet takes the world by storm, players will be pleasantly surprised when they see Pokemon, which can greatly boost the sales of the Jaguar console!"

When everyone heard this, they nodded their heads and said yes.

Henry couldn't help laughing, Pikachu is cute, if you log in to the Atari electronic pet, I don't know how many people will be cute by it......

(To be continued.) )