GameFreak Club, the office of Tomoshi Tajiri.

The area of the office is very small, more than 10 square meters, and the bright sunlight outside is blocked by the adjacent building, and the whole office looks a little cold and gray.

The decoration is also very simple, with a few cheap paintings from an unknown craft shop hanging on the bare walls.

The cramped office also has a few somewhat shabby desks, cluttered with piles of papers and Nintendo's GB handhelds.

At this time, there are two people in Tajiri's office arguing, one is Tajiri Tomo, and the other is Yuji Hara, the vice president of GameFreak Club.

"President, we must stop developing Pokemon! It's a bottomless pit, the company has been in development for several years, not only has there been no progress, but it's also dragging down the company!

Now the company doesn't have much money on its books! Half of the employees are gone! Pokemon is impossible to develop!"

Yuji Hara's tone was very excited.

"Harama, it's impossible for me to give up Pokemon, it's my dream, and I also believe that Pokemon will definitely be developed. ”

Tajiri's expression was equally excited.

Yuji Hara took a few deep breaths and said in a serious tone: "President, you have been concentrating on the production of Pokemon, and I am in charge of the daily operation of the company, you may not understand how serious the company's situation is now.

The company currently has only 6 employees and only 8 million yen in capital, and because more than half of the employees have been lost, the company's two profitable game projects have been stopped.

Now the company only has one game project that is profitable, and if you continue to invest most of the profits in Pokemon, after 2 months, the GameFreak club will end up going out of business. ”

Tajiri's originally white face turned even whiter when he heard the words of Yuji Hara.

As the founder and top leader of GameFreak, Tajiri also knows the company's current situation.

But Tajiri has turned a blind eye and invested all of his own energy and most of the funds of the GameFreak club into the development of Pokemon.

A few years ago, Tajiri founded GameFreak and developed a game, which was distributed by NAMCO and made a good profit.

And got to know the father of GB, Gunhei Yokoi, and assisted him in the development of GB games.

In the process of developing a GB game, Tajiri suddenly thought that if he developed a game to fight insects, it would definitely be a big hit.

Then Tajiri wanted to develop the game, but the difficulties he encountered were far beyond his imagination.

GameFreak is a small game company with little game development experience and is very new to the GB console architecture.

These difficulties cost Tajiri several years of time and a lot of money, and there was no progress in the development of the game.

This game has become a demon in Tajiri's mind, and he is bent on developing it, ignoring the company's other game projects.

Fortunately, the vice president of GameFreak, Yuji Hara, is a good friend of Tajiri's college friends and manages the day-to-day operations of GameFreak Club very well.

However, Yuji Hara's game development ability is not very good, and Tajiri Tomo, who has the highest game development ability, is obsessed with developing Pokemon.

As a result, the company's other game projects quickly ran into difficulties, and Tajiri did not have the energy to solve them, which led to the resignation of some developers and the forced cessation of development of these game projects.

Some profitable game projects were forced to stop development, but the unprofitable "Pokemon" swallowed most of the funds of GameFreak and all the energy of Wada Jiri.

Then there is a vicious circle, the development of profitable game projects stops, GameFreak has no money, and employees are lost, and then more profitable game projects are stopped from development, and GameFreak is even more out of money, and there is more staff loss.

Tajiri looked at Yuji Hara with some guilt: "Harama, you know my game development ability, you have to believe that I will definitely be able to develop "Pokemon" soon." ”

"President, you've said this countless times. Ayuji suddenly sighed: "Forget it, anyway, GameFreak Club is a company founded by you, and it's none of my business if it goes out of business." ”

After saying that, Yuji Hara left the office without waiting for Tajiri's answer.

Tajiri sat on the sofa a little confused, and Yuji Hara, who had always supported him, said something like this, and he didn't know if it was a mistake to choose to develop Pokemon.

But he was not willing to let a few years of time and a lot of money go to waste.

However, the reality is forcing him to give up, the financial crisis of GameFreak Club, the loss of employees, these cold realities are telling him, give up!

Tajiri leaned back on the couch with his eyes closed, wondering if there was any other way to help him get through this difficult time.

The door of the office was pushed open, and Tajiri opened his eyes and saw that it was Yuji Hara: "Hara, is there anything else?"

"President, Xu Qing, the author of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, came to our company, and he wanted to meet you. Yuji Hara said excitedly.

"Xu Qing, how does he know about me, why do you want to see me?"

He and GameFreak Club are not famous in Tokyo, Xu Qingyuan is in the United States, how did he know him, and came to GameFreak Club.

"It can't be a bad thing, Xu Qing is waiting outside, hurry up and see him. "Ayuji Hara urged Tajiri Tomo.

"Wait a minute, I'll fix my hair and clothes first. ”

Tajiri took off his crumpled coat and changed into a relatively neat set of clothes, then picked up a small mirror and combed his hair.

After feeling that everything was okay, Tajiri and Yuji Hara walked out of the office.

Xu Qing and the three of them were sitting on chairs in the office area of the ordinary employees of GameFreak Club, and Xu Qing looked at this small office area.

There are 6 employees at work, and there are nearly 20 seats in the office area, and these employees are not in a very good state of mind, not yawning, listless.

Tajiri's situation is indeed very depressed.

Xu Qing sat for more than a minute when he saw Yuji Hara and a young man walking quickly in his direction.

Xu Qing stood up and guessed that the young man should be Tajiri Zhi.

Tajiri Zhi walked up to Xu Qing and stretched out his hand with a smile: "Mr. Xu, welcome to GameFreak Club, I just heard Yuan Ma say that you want to see me, I can't believe it at all."

You are a world-famous writer, and I am a nameless little person, how could you know me and come to see me.

Yuan Ma repeatedly confirmed that it was Mr. Xu himself who wanted to see me, not a liar, so I dared to come out. ”

Xu Qing couldn't help but glance at Tajiri a few more times, he thought that Tajiri was like many game developers, unsociable, but he didn't expect Tajiri to speak so smoothly.

It's not good to fool, this is Xu Qing's first impression of Tajiri Zhi.