Chapter 106: The Father of Pokemon (One More Subscription and Monthly Pass)
In order to complete the bet with Dovetail and buy 8% of his shares, Yang Yun must ensure that GameGear handheld computers will sell 2 million units within the first month.
The main game is, of course, a Pokemon game with high hopes, the first version has 151 small pets, Yang Yun only remembers thirty of them at most, and it is basically impossible for him to make a red or green version of it completely recalled.
He was wandering around Tokyo just looking for help.
Soon he found what he was looking for in an anime and game merchandise store, a game strategy magazine called "Game-Freak", founded by Tomoshi Tajiri, the father of Pokemon that would later be known to future generations.
This magazine is mainly based on game introductions and game strategies, and Yang Yun brought a small gift to the door in person according to the mailing address left in the magazine.
In order to save money, he found a private training school and rented a small classroom office, barely able to support himself, but he has been very depressed and poor.
To be precise, because there are no Riot games products, Game-Freak's financial situation is very poor, and the partners are gone one after another, and Tajiri can only be said to be slowly suffering.
The thin Tajiri Zhi received Yang Yun, looked at the information he brought, and said in surprise: "This is ...... All the easter eggs and character specials of the famous general game? ”
Yang Yun nodded: "I don't know if you're interested?" ”
Of course, Tajiri was interested: "Of course there is!" What a timely! Famous players are the hottest game in Japan right now! So sir, you are ...... The president of Fengyun Games? ”
Yang Yun smiled: "That's right! I came to you today to talk to you about cooperation. I'd like to fund the acquisition of your magazine and make it the game magazine division of Fengyun Game Software. I have a wealth of resources for you. With a wide platform, you can choose to continue doing this business of gaming magazines. Of course...... Design games for me and become the master designer of classic games like Celebrity. ”
Tajiri was stunned.
He dreamed of making his own indie game. And has been working hard for his dream, from a game magazine, slowly to an independent Game-Freak company, he gathered a group of like-minded friends to design games, although hard, but happy.
Now that someone is willing to invest in buying his own company and providing him with the most haode platform, he has no reason to be tempted.
But the natural vigilance still made him can't help but ask more: "Are you looking for me?" I'm only 25 years old. Game-Freak is not big, and there are too many game magazines like me in the whole of Tokyo......"
Yang Yun laughed: "It was Sega who recommended you, and they were very impressed that you broke the record of a new shooting game from Sega at the age of sixteen, and they felt that you were a genius who really loved games." ”
Yang Yun only learned about this matter by accident, and the matter did exist, but the senior management of Sega couldn't remember such a small person at all, he said so. I just want to pull up Sega's tiger skin and make Tajiri more acceptable.
Tajiri wasn't sure: "If I buy it, can I really lead people to make games on my own?" ”
Yang Yun smiled and nodded: "No problem, ask for money." Ask for someone to give! ”
Tajiri asked embarrassedly, "Then can I bring another person?" He's my good friend Ken Sugimori, a talented but talented manga artist! ”
Hehe. Good friends, good friends. You guys are a perfect match for Pokemon, how could I possibly refuse? You don't say. I'll mention it too!
Yang Yun laughed: "No problem. If I can, I'd like to negotiate the acquisition as soon as possible, because I'm running out of time in Japan. ”
Yang Yun was negotiating casually on the surface, but he was always very apprehensive in his heart, and it wasn't until Tajiri Zhi agreed, that he was happy, this is a shocking leak worth billions of dollars!
Buying at the time of Game-Freak's most downfall was the most cost-effective and the only opportunity for Yang Yun.
If it is a little later, Yokoi Junpei will absorb Tajiri into the Nintendo camp, Yang Yun will lose this person forever, and there may be two monsters competing between GameBoy and GameGear in the future, which Yang Yun does not want to see.
For a buyout price of less than $500,000, the magazine became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fengyun Game Software, with Tajiri and Ken Sugimori joining.
The game magazine department was not canceled, Yang Yun kept it and let Wang Zhe arrange someone to take over the whole business.
After all, an influential professional game magazine is still very necessary for a game company, and it is very helpful for game promotion, advertorials, company publicity, and raising awareness.
With his consent, Tajiri and his good friend Sugimori Ken followed Yang Yun back to China and met the legendary headquarters of China's Longteng.
In the days when Yang Yun is in Japan, Zhao Yongping is in charge of everything in China.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council agreed to the matter of Longteng Company going to Taiwan to invest and set up factories, but because there was no exchange of bilateral economic and trade missions for the time being, it could only make special arrangements and send relevant personnel to accompany Zhao Yongping to Taiwan to provide policy guidance and checks.
Zhao Yongping got in touch with Lin Fannan, because of Yang Yun's selfishness, he still decided to let Lin Fannan become his partner in Taiwan.
The two sides cooperated in the situation of a joint venture and inspected a bankrupt LED factory, which is now in the bankruptcy liquidation stage, and can be eaten as long as the opportunity is right.
And Yang Yun quietly conveyed a message to Lin Fannan through Liu Zhixiu, using his connections in the business and political circles as much as possible, and taking advantage of the opportunity of Taiwan's Crystal Technology Group to get into financial fraud and property rights disputes, and quickly got LEDjishu.
Whether it is the direct acquisition of the LED subsidiary of Crystal Technology Group, or taking advantage of the chaos to snatch the core jishu personnel, the black methods in this are not to be expressed, this is Lin Fannan's business.
This aluminum businessman very much wants to enter the electronics industry, this is the most haode opportunity, if LEDjishu he can't get his hands, I'm afraid that the huge investment is wasted, his pace into the electronics industry is very likely to slow down for three years.
After Yang Yun returned to Longteng, he threw the MD transplant of the famous general to Zhang Guoqiang, and then took Tajiri Tomo and Sugimori Ken to find Inoue Yoshio.
"Lao Jing, I'll bring you two people!"
Inoue Yanxiong put down the work in his hand and looked surprised: "Yo, isn't this our Dr.Bug?" Hello Mr. Insect! ”
Tajiri Zhi daxiao, greeted him, gave a hug, and said with a smile: "It's you!" I said how hard it is to see you in the same people.,It turns out that you're in China! ”
"China is a country with great opportunities, and I believe you will choose to develop in China like me, and I have fallen in love with it," Inoue sighed. ”
Yang Yun nodded: "That's right, China is a country full of opportunities. Lao Jing, since you are friends, it will be easy to do. Zuihou of the Three Kingdoms finishes the work, and you leave it to someone else. From now on, the three of you are in charge of the development of a new game. The name is Pokemon, and the content is the Bug that Ash is most familiar with, a small pet monster collection and battle game. ”
Tajiri said excitedly: "President, how do you know that I like to make small pet collection games the most?" ”
Yang Yun smiled: "Because I like it too." ”
As he spoke, he took out a notepad, and drew a sketch of a Pokemon on each page, Yang Yun had worked very hard, he only remembered 29, which was far from enough, at least 100 more had to be added.
Sugimori Ken was surprised: "The image of these little pets ...... It's really good...... It's very abstract...... President: Did you graduate from a professional art school? ”
It's very abstract...... It's a sloppy thing, isn't it......
In fact, in the process of drawing, Yang Yun couldn't read it himself, so he could only draw hard.
Yang Yun was very embarrassed, pulled Xiang Tian over, and introduced: "This is a professional art school, the Central Academy of Fine Arts of China." Xiang Tian, you and Ken Sugimori are in charge of the styling design of the Pokemon, and Inoue Yanxiong is in charge of the structure of the RPG game. Tajiri Tomo, you set the most balanced attributes for each pet, and leave the combat power, resistance, flight, attributes, and mutual restraint of different elves to you. Lao Jing, you can follow the framework concept of the Three Kingdoms, use the trigger to promote the plot, and use the idea of Legion War to replace the battle of the little pet, and I will give you a script as soon as possible, and still use the original team of the Three Kingdoms project team to do the underlying coding. ”
The task arrangement is very reasonable, and the core elf is completed by Tajiri Tomo, and no one is more at ease than him.
The battle scene and the appearance of the elves, there are Sugimori Jian and Xiang Tian in charge, one is good at Japanese comics, and has a high control over popular elements, and the other is well aware of traditional Chinese elements, and the pet prototype produced is more Chinese-style.
The script is written by Yang Yun himself, and he will discuss with the screenwriters to overhaul the Pokemon script in his memory and change it to the main framework of the Shijie version, supplemented by the Gaiden version of each country and region.
For example, the original Pokemon, with the protagonist searching all over Japan, traveling around the world, constantly improving his abilities through battles, obtaining the corresponding pokemon through adventures and adventures, and finally defeating the boss and completing the elf illustrated book.
Since Yang Yun is ready to do it, how can it be only Japan? China's ancient mythology, the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Fengshen Bang, Sou Shen Ji, Liao Zhai, etc., all have an introduction to monsters and ghosts.
In addition, popular European and American dragons, Norse mythology, vampires, werewolves, and the same can be done.
In short, in a word, the story doesn't have to be all controlled in Kyushu, Japan, as long as it is properly designed, multiple versions can be launched, Pokemon European version, Pokemon Egyptian version, there is a feeling of global travel, and the series can be made all the way to decades later. (To be continued......)