Chapter Fifty-Eight: Just Around the Corner [Asking for Recommendation Votes!First Update]
The rise of the Asian tigers is the rise of the foundry industry and the rise of the transfer and elimination of production capacity in Europe and the United States.
One of the four tigers, Taiwan (Harmony) Bay, chose to undertake the electronics industry.
The benefits of this choice are still beginning to become apparent.
On the one hand, while carrying out relatively low-end electronic product OEM for European, American and Japanese companies, copycat game consoles and pirated arcade machines led by Xiao Tiancai also dug out the first pot of gold for the electronics industry in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
It's a linear process from imitation to learning to creating your own.
Practitioners in the video game industry in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay, who have already copied the game for an unknown number of years, have gradually begun to develop their own games.
Daewoo Company in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay is a member of the company engaged in self-developed games.
Although at the root of it, there are also some black histories, but those black histories, how can anyone care if no one digs them?
Hong Kong (Harmony) Hong Kong's films also influence Taiwan (Harmony) Bay and the entire Greater China area.
The "Legend of the Martial Arts Heroes" that flowed out of the mainland also affected many Taiwanese gamers.
Make Chinese people's own games, and make games with Chinese culture and Chinese characteristics.
This has become the path that many video game manufacturers independently developed by Taiwan (Harmony) Bay are aiming for.
First, there are some cultural barriers between Japanese games and American games on the market.
On the other hand, it is also "The Legend of the Martial Arts" that proves that the production of Chinese-style games has a market and can make money.
Founded in 1991, Elephant Electronics is a company that focuses on the production of mid-to-high-end commercial game consoles, that is, arcade games.
It realistically learned from Wanhu's fighting game "Blood", and produced the fighting game "Huang Feihong" with Huang Feihong as the protagonist, and the fighting game "Huo Yuanjia" with Huo Yuanjia as the protagonist.
In addition to this, a series of puzzle games have been made, such as the Chinese Dragon series.
These high-quality games have laid a good reputation for Xiangxiang Electronics, and also made the Chinese people have hope for Chinese games.
This is true for arcades, and it is also true for computer games.
Daewoo's original game was called "Annihilation".
The quality of this game is average, the reputation is average, and what can make it survive in the fiercely competitive land of video games in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay is not this game, but the magazine they founded, "Software Star".
The magazine "Software Star" is, to some extent, the sinicization of the "Player's Heart" magazine.
Even the development trajectories of the two magazines are not much different, both of them have evolved from a pamphlet of only a dozen pages to a full-fledged business magazine.
Of course, Daewoo also has a strong interest in Chinese-style games.
"Xuanyuan Sword", which was produced and distributed by them, received praise from many people as soon as it was launched.
The game "Xuanyuan Sword" is based on the "Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" by the famous Xianxia writer Huanzhu Lou in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
However, unlike "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan", the game "Xuanyuan Sword" pays more attention to the combination of plot and history.
Like Mozi, like tricks, like all kinds of interesting and quite Chinese-style settings, are all vividly reflected in this game.
Although this game takes the path of Japanese role-playing in terms of route.
But so what, it's just fun.
The content of the game cannot be copied, but what is the problem with the same game type?
You must know that at this moment in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay, it is not easy for any Taiwan (Harmony) Bay video game company to achieve good sales results.
Because, you know, they're in direct competition with the best video games in the world.
And how long has Ben's video game been developing, from the early 80s to the 90s, at least a decade.
The video game industry, which stepped on the corpse of Atari, has a wealth of experience.
The level of video game production, which is only Hong Kong-style original video game for two or three years can catch up with the Taiwan (Harmony) Bay manufacturer.
The level of the opponent far exceeds their own, and the video game manufacturers in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay want to survive, while seeking differentiation, they must also ensure the quality of their games.
And this is also one of the conditions for the birth of Chinese-style games.
Of course, the field of computer games where Daewoo is located is actually the weak link of this game.
It's not that there aren't video games on their PCs, but their main battlefield is console, arcade, and handheld.
The other is that the computer of this book is not compatible with the personal computer of Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
After trying the benefits of standard-setting, I want to set my own standard for everything.
Sony, a company known for its black technology, has forcibly pushed a lot of standards.
From the color standard of TV, to the compression standard of audio, to the standard of various spare parts.
In the eighties and nineties, in this era when this product was popular all over the world, there were many standards, which really became a fact and were accepted by the market.
However, standards like personal computers. It is controlled by large technology companies in the United States. It is said that there is a lack of sufficient leading enterprises.
Natural standards cannot be implemented abroad, but can only be implemented at home.
And this also provides trouble and barriers for video game manufacturers to produce overseas PC games.
It also leaves room for the survival of computer game manufacturers in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
Even due to the relatively high penetration rate of personal computers in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay, Daewoo has made plot games such as "Xuanyuan Sword". A number of party games have also been made.
Like the classic "Monopoly" series, like the "Star Three Missing One" series, like the "Star Volunteer" series.
It can be said that Daewoo during this period was a period of high production of works, and not only did the games produced not only be made, but also the quality was not bad.
The game "Monopoly" has even been rated as an excellent educational game by the relevant departments of Taiwan (Harmony) Bay many times.
In addition to making these excellent video games, Daewoo is also because of "Software Star", which is almost the only local game magazine. has a very high right to speak, and it also has a great influence on the local video game producers in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay in addition to them.
Even, it is not an exaggeration to say that it has the power of life and death.
Even, even some Japanese and American games, if they want to sell well in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay and sell well, they have to pay money to put them on the page of "Software Star".
The influence of Software Star and Daewoo is evident.
It seems that the rise of video games in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay as a whole is just around the corner.