"Tajiri-kun, do you feel like becoming famous overnight!" said Ken Sugimori, patting Tajiri on the shoulder.

On the way from the office to the restaurant, almost every colleague who passed by secretly looked at Tajiri with a curious eye. A few colleagues who were more familiar with each other came up directly to say hello and recommended themselves to join the "Pokémon" game project team.

"I feel like a giant panda in Ocean Park!" said Tajiri with some helplessness.

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

Pandas are a cute but delicate animal, and in order to provide a suitable environment for pandas in the hot summers in Hong Kong, indoor panda rooms are equipped with air conditioning. All the bamboo needed to feed the pandas needs to be imported from the eastern province of Guangdong in the mainland.

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

Upon their arrival in Hong Kong, the pandas immediately demonstrated their strong appeal as ambassadors of friendship, turning Ocean Park Hong Kong into a sea of joy at the end of 1984. According to Ocean Park's own statistics, in November and December last year alone, and in January this year, 1.2 million Hong Kong residents visited the panda pavilion to see the 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!

Li Xuan, the big boss, is more than two years later. Going out of the mountain again to personally participate in game planning, this is definitely the hottest topic in Oriental Games Company recently. "God of Wealth Lee" started with games. This has always been a source of pride for the employees of Oriental Games. Regardless of the size of the Eastern Bloc, everyone feels different.

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

Li Sheng, who originally seemed to be paying less and less attention to the game business, suddenly killed back this time and personally participated in the game planning again. Since the well-informed people in the company broke this news, countless people who think they have the strength to compete have secretly begun to gear up.

But no one expected that everyone hadn't had time to show Li Sheng their strength, this new game project called "Pokémon". It's already been taken into the arms of a little-known Japanese!

Naturally, others would not doubt the vision of the big boss, it was the "God of Wealth Li" who had created countless miracles! It's just that everyone was very curious, what kind of intelligence did Tajiri rely on to impress Li Xuan so quickly?

Therefore, when everyone looks at Tajiri Tomo, it is inevitable that there is a little more scrutiny, as if they want to see through his appearance and see through his hidden hidden talent!

At first, Tajiri really wanted to use his talent to impress the big boss Li Xuan. But the ideal is plump. When Tajiri really had the opportunity to sit face to face with his idol, this hairy guy who had just turned 20 years old was nervous.

Most of the time when the two communicated, Li Xuan was talking endlessly. And Tajiri kept nodding his head. The series of ideas that he thought he was very well prepared before suddenly became a little difficult in front of Li Xuan's well-organized plan.

When the conversation was over, Tajiri walked out of the office. He had completely lost faith in himself and felt that his previous performance was completely terrible. But what Tajiri didn't expect was. Mr. Du Wenqiang, the president of the company, informed him the next day that the position of the chief planner of the "Pokémon" game project belonged to him!

The previous Tajiri graduated from a junior college. started his own company, and worked in the game field for ten years before he got the attention of Nintendo, and became an instant hit with the game "Pokémon".

After graduating from high school, Tajiri did not choose to continue his studies, but went to Hong Kong to join the game development mecca in his heart, Oriental Game Company.

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

The reason why Li Xuan still asked Tajiri to be the chief planner of the "Pokémon" project was because he was Tajiri Tomo! Let Tajiri Tomoki develop "Pokémon", Li Xuan felt that his bad taste had been greatly satisfied!

As for Tajiri's lack of qualifications, in Li Xuan's opinion, there is no need to worry about it at all. He has already laid out the framework for the entire game project of "Pokémon", not to mention that the entire project development team is not alone Tajiri Tomo.

In Oriental Games, 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 Li Xuan's name, as long as everyone is not blind, they will naturally flock to it.

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

That's exactly what Tajiri actually did, and the first thing he did after confirming that he had really become the general planner of the Pokémon game project was to invite Shigeru Miyamoto and Ken Sugimori to join his team.

Ken Sugimori was a manga artist before coming to Hong Kong, and most of the original game art for The Legend of Zelda was written by him. And "Pokémon" is ready to be released on the handheld platform, with the performance of the handheld at this stage, in fact, the picture is very rough.

Ken Sugimori doesn't need to spend much time on the game screen at all, and his more important job is actually to be in charge of the review of the previous Pokémon animation project. Naturally, the animation industry could not become the core business of the Eastern Group. So while animation production precedes game production, it is ultimately led by the game development team.

After all, Li Xuan decided to make cartoons in the first place. It's to better promote the game "Pokémon". The development of cartoons is naturally subordinated to the overall situation of the overall game development.

Ken Sugimori's main job is to help Tajiri control all the animated characters in the game. Concept art of various Pokémon that have been designed by the animation team before. If he is not satisfied, he can redesign.

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

Under normal circumstances, people like Shigeru Miyamoto, who have independently planned game projects, are not willing to succumb to being someone else's deputy. What's more, the game "The Legend of Zelda" he developed before is still a project that the company's senior management is very interested in. Once The Legend of Zelda is a success, Shigeru Miyamoto is likely to become the company's gold medal game planner.

But Tajiri is his junior and friend, and Shigeru Miyamoto is well aware of the pressures that come with being the head of a game project. So he was willing to help Tajiri Zhi, so he accepted the other party's invitation very happily!

However, in recent times, Shigeru Miyamoto has obviously not bothered to help Tajiri, and his full attention has been focused on the sales results of his first game, "The Legend of Zelda".

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

Akihabara is Tokyo's most famous electronics hub, and more than a decade ago, it mainly supplied home appliances such as TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines. But in recent years, some trendy electronic products have gradually become another business card of Akihabara.

For example, the Walkman, since Sony launched the first Walkman. This portable music player quickly became the new favorite of Akihabara. Many local and foreign tourists like to come to the dazzling array of electronics stores on this side of Akihabara in search of the coolest design of the Walkman.

And in addition to the Walkman. Game consoles and computers are also one of the new electronic products that have been added in Akihabara in recent years. And Boss Desen's shop is a store that specializes in game consoles and game cartridges.

In the morning, when there were no customers, Tokusen moved a TV to the side of the road outside the store. Place on a table prepared in advance. Today is the time when the FC-2 console of Oriental Games Company will be launched uniformly throughout Japan.

Desen boss at the end of November last year. After participating in the new quarter of the Oriental Game Company's initial intention meeting, he immediately placed a large order with the Oriental Commercial Company, which is responsible for acting as an agent for the sales of all products of the Oriental Game Company.

The Chuxin Club is a new product promotion meeting specially held by Oriental Game Company for its own sellers, once a quarter. This distribution model was stolen by Li Xuan from Nintendo, and he didn't even change the name "Chuxinhui".

Through the platform of Chuxinhui, Oriental Games can introduce the company's upcoming new games to various sellers in detail, and lay a good foundation for the next new product launch.

Sellers tend to have the sharpest sense of smell, and they have been dealing with customers for a long time and are the best at grasping the preferences of consumers. Therefore, the reaction of the sellers will directly affect the prospect of each new product that will be launched in the future.

For those game products that are generally favored by dealers, Oriental Company will adjust its marketing strategy in a timely manner and increase resource investment. For those works that are looked down upon by dealers, Oriental Company naturally has to control the cost of publicity to avoid losses.

Although the choice of dealers may not be accurate every time, in most cases it coincides with the actual market sales situation. At the beginning of the fourth quarter of last year, the product promoted by Oriental Games was naturally a new generation of FC-2 home TV game consoles.

Tokusen went to the meeting and spent an hour on an FC-2 console. The powerful performance of the FC-2 makes its game graphics a qualitative leap compared to the previous FC-1.

This is not so obvious in games like Tank Wars and Mario Bros., which are not meant to be won by graphics in the first place. But on the "King of Fighters" game, the effect produced by "The King of Fighters 2" on FC-2 is completely comparable to the arcade version of "The King of Fighters".

The arcade board's "The King of Fighters 1" was launched as early as the market, and the internal motherboard has used the ERM-1 processor as the core, and the game effect shown is naturally far superior to the FC-1 game console with the 6502 processor as the core.

Now, the newly launched FC-2 game console is finally on par with the arcade machine in terms of configuration. This undoubtedly gave consumers a new reason to buy the FC-2 console - to take the arcade machine home. What's more, in addition to the King of Fighters series, there is also a new game called The Legend of Zelda that will dazzle everyone.

Tokusen spent only ten minutes on The King of Fighters 2 when it came to experiencing the power of the next-generation FC-2 console. The King of Fighters 2 has two biggest selling points, one is that the graphics of the new game are more gorgeous. The other is that the game development team cut a few of the most unpopular heroes in The King of Fighters 1 and then added a few completely new heroes, while also making changes to the skills of some heroes.

As a loyal player of The King of Fighters 1, it only took him ten minutes to get a general idea of the new selling point of The King of Fighters 2, so he spent more time testing other new games.

The second new game he tested was The Legend of Zelda, and it quickly got him hooked. For the remaining fifty minutes of experience, Hiroshi Tokusen unknowingly spent himself on the game "The Legend of Zelda", and did not try out other new games at all.

Tokusen 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 the average gamer. 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 Toksen immediately decided to stock his store with FC-2 consoles, as well as two game CDs, "The King of Fighters 2" and "The Legend of Zelda". He believes that he will be able to make a lot of money from it!

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

Tokusen Hiroshi was bowing his head to tally 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!

However, the arrival of The King of Fighters 2 this time is only available on the FC-2 console, and the FC-1 version of the game cartridge will have to wait another month or two. I have a new FC-2 game console on the door today, Kitayama-kun can go and try it out first!" (To be continued......)