Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 130 34. Combination Fist

The image of Kimura is too alluring.

Although it is pretending to be cute, it is very natural, and it will never give people any feeling of being a girl. Even when you see his face, you are easily attracted by the other person's eyes.

He patted Pikachu's doll and said "want", and it didn't make people feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, you can read the desire and temptation from it, so that the girl's heart is bursting.

Qing Zhiyuan had already learned this point in his previous life, and this guy was like this when he was doing a lipstick advertisement.

It would be difficult for any other actor to handle it so well.

If you are not paying attention, it is easy to fall into the misunderstanding of "too sissy" or "too serious". It is difficult to express comfortably like Kimura Takuya.

Big man, little fresh meat, idol, holding a big plush toy, this kind of ad that resembles a little girl but has masculine charm, once it was broadcast, it immediately swept the whole neon.

It has become a wonderful flower in the advertising industry.

Of course, this weirdness is a compliment. Before that, advertisers didn’t seem to take this contrast into consideration.

After all, whether it’s with plush toys, the theme of cute products is basically to find sweet girls to shoot, and game products often find some famous players, such as "Takahashi Celebrity Adventure Island" "The advertisement spokesperson is [Takahashi Toshiyuki] who is very good at playing games

Many of Rentiantang's advertisements are looking for popular stars, or big names in variety shows.

Today's advertisers are still stuck in some inherent thinking.

Although Kimura's advertisement this time is not as classic as lipstick, it can be regarded as opening up a new idea.

……

The preheating of the cartoon has successfully promoted the IP, making the audience familiar with and loving Pokémon, and then playing Kimura's advertisements and posting corresponding posters, so that the popularity of Pokémon continues to increase.

Then pokeni announced that it will release the Pokémon game in August, creating a sense of anticipation.

This is the so-called combo boxing.

After a set of combined punches, the heat couldn't be hotter.

Now many children are clamoring to receive Sega GP as a gift. Of course, the most important thing is to have a Pokémon cassette.

……

Although the animation is broadcast on Neon, and the main basic disk is also Neon, pokeni has already made preparations early and has translated the Pokémon game into English.

After all, Sega's plate is in Omi.

Animation first, Qing Zhiyuan approached Kyoto Animation's Pokémon director Masaharu Kigami and president Hideaki Hatta to discuss the Englishization of Pokémon.

"Then we have to find a TV station in the United States to broadcast it. The distribution review over there is actually quite strict and weird." Hatta Hideaki said, "But we can first find someone to do the dubbing production."

What Hatta Hideaki said is true.

And in a place like the United States, you must have a relevant license for everything you do.

Not to mention these troubles, but also to pay a large sum of money. At that time, Tom Kolinski, the general manager of operations of Sega’s American branch, spent a long time explaining the licensing system to the president Hayao Nakayama, and even the special tortoise Mao's neon people are incredible.

At that time, it is estimated that it can only be entrusted to Kyoto Animation, and let them figure out a way to deal with it themselves.

In this way, Omi's animation does not know when it will be available, and on which TV station it will be broadcast.

"However, some content may need to be paid attention to." Qing Zhiyuan said.

"Huh?" Hideaki Hatta and Masaharu Kigami raised their heads in unison.

"In the future animation design, the English version needs to avoid some unnecessary troubles."

In the previous life, in "Pokémon: Muji", the design of Pokémon fan lip sister, the face is black.

Related plots have caused similar controversy. Later, the official changed the color of Miss Lips to dark purple. There is no picture of Miss Lips on the US version of "Pokémon" website.

In the 64th episode of "Pokémon: Sun and Moon", Xiao Zhi disguised himself as a throwing monkey in the second half of the plot, so he painted his face the same black as the throwing monkey.

This behavior is considered to have touched on the "black face" problem in American culture, that is, non-black actors or characters deliberately blacken their faces, which is considered an act of discrimination against black people and is suspected of racial discrimination. The English dubbed version broadcast in China will skip Chapter 64.

There are actually many similar problems.

Anyway, it's annoying, and these have to be modified according to the specific national conditions of different countries.

"Okay, President Ao, we will pay attention." Masaharu Kigami wrote it down in his notebook.

……

On August 1992, 8, Sega's new handheld GP went on sale.

Because of the excellent preview at the Chicago Consumer Show in June, many people are full of endless expectations for this game console.

After the game console was released, sales exceeded 60 copies worldwide soon.

Except for Sega's own "Sonic the Hedgehog", many of the games that can be played on GP are English versions, for example:

Addams family.

Batman

Alien series
tennis
There are relatively few local games here in Neon, only sumo wrestling, Pac-Man, match-[-] games...

There aren't many big RPG genre games yet.

Basically, they are a collection of small games made by Sega and Sony.

Many game companies, such as Konami and Capcom...are waiting and watching.

And a company like Square is still in the honeymoon period with Rentian, hugging the big brother's thigh tightly.

But this is also very normal. If it hadn't been backstabbed by Ren Tiantian in the previous life, Square Enix would not necessarily fall into Sony's arms.

Glorious Company, which has a slightly better relationship with Sega, is now trying to develop games, but the main energy is still on TVgame.

Generally speaking, there are nearly 100 kinds of games that can be played on Sega's new handheld, but the quantity and quality of these games do not seem to satisfy the appetite of current players, and the market is far from being developed.

Under such circumstances, in addition to Sonic the Hedgehog, players seem to be looking forward to a great work that can appear on the Sega GP and become a symbol of the new handheld.

……

On August 1992, 8, Pokémon was officially released.

After work in the evening, Gu Chuanhaoze still went to the game store as usual.

As soon as he walked into the store, he saw a meaningful smile on the corner of the store manager's mouth. He pushed his glasses and said with a smile, "The pokeni game is new."

"Hey? Really? Is it a new work?" Hiroshi Furukawa asked eagerly.

"Of course." The store manager nodded, "It seems that you have been very busy at work recently, and the game advertisements of P agency are everywhere, and you didn't notice it."

"Yeah." Furukawa Haoze nodded embarrassedly, his cheeks flushed.

Recently, the company has been working too much overtime, and various reports have to be made. What's even worse is that some things are clearly the responsibility of other departments, but they are all thrown to their departments.

I don't know what the minister was thinking, so he panicked and took all these tasks over.

It's really a ghost if you don't work overtime.

"So what's the name of the new pokeni game?" Hiroshi Furukawa asked curiously, and then walked to the shelf on his own.

"Well, it's over there, on the middle shelf in the second row from the left." The store manager guided, "It's called Pokémon."

In fact, Furukawa Haoze can see it without any guidance from the store manager.

Because this time the position of Pokémon is very conspicuous, and it is placed on the display stand in the middle along with Sega's new handheld GP.

"Huh? Is it actually a handheld game?" Gu Chuan Hao Ze was a little surprised.

But he quickly remembered that there have been a lot of Pokémon advertisements these days, and you can often see elementary school students imitating the trainers in Pokémon...

Furukawa Haoze picked up the game box and looked at it.

Although the cassette box for handheld games is made to be about the same size as an ordinary cassette box, the volume of the cassette inside is much smaller, so it can be said that there is an empty box.

The cover depicts a charizard with a huge mouth open and flames blazing.

There is a red sign around it, which says 【THE POCKET MONSTER TRAINER】

In the upper left corner is the pokeni logo, and below is the Sega GP exclusive label.

Games for all ages?
Furukawa Haoze muttered suspiciously.

It's not that he is disgusted with games for all ages, the main reason is that he is used to the 16+ logo of pokeni.

Most of P Club's games are 16+, except for the halfway hit "Famous Academy".

Seeing this, a bad memory flooded in Furukawa Haoze's mind.

When I bought Pocket Academy, I had a similar feeling.

As long as pokeni starts to use the brains of all ages, there will be no good results.

Pokémon shouldn't be a street hit, right?

Do you want to buy it?
Furukawa Haoze couldn't help frowning.

This game is clearly made by that bastard Qing Zhiyuan. Although Diablo is quite successful, it is difficult to guarantee that Qing Zhiyuan, the producer, will do something wrong.

Among the two producers of P Company, only Guyuan Chunqiu's works have been very stable.

The other Furukawa Haoze didn't dare to try it lightly.

……

"Master, why are there two different versions of Pokémon?"

Furukawa Haoze noticed the Pokémon boxes on the shelf, one was fiery red and the other was green.

The fiery red one has a charizard on the cover, and the green one has a frog flower on the cover.

"Ah, this," the store manager recalled for a moment, and then turned out the notebook from the drawer to look it up.

Although he is the store manager, he doesn't have that much time to play games, but the manufacturer's requirements and introductions are all recorded on his side.

Obviously pokeni has long known that customers will ask such questions, so when the cassette was delivered, it also thoughtfully gave an introduction manual.

"Although both games are Pokémon, the red one is called Pokémon Fire Red, and the green one is called Pokémon Leaf Green."

The store manager explained with a smile, "The game progress is basically the same, but the corresponding Pokémon are not exactly the same."

The difference between Pokemon Red and Green is that the version-limited sprites, Fire Red and Leaf Green have some exclusive sprites respectively, and the other contents are exactly the same.

Exclusive elves in the fiery red version: Arbor snake, Arbor monster, walking grass, stinky flower, attacking form Deoxys...etc

Leaf green version exclusive elves: mountain rat, mountain king, six-tailed, nine-tailed, morning glory, mouth flower, defensive form Deoxys...

"Huh?" After listening to the store manager's explanation, Gu Chuan Hao Ze became even more confused.

"Why is this done? To make players buy both versions?"

but……

In this way, the game process is completely consistent, so why should I repeat the experience?

Is it just to collect different Pokémon?

I don't understand.

But Furukawa Haoze instinctively smelled money.

Pokeni does this, is he really not afraid of offending the players? It stinks of money.

I didn't expect that this once handsome guy would also start to degenerate.

Thinking of this, Furukawa Haoze couldn't help feeling a little disgusted.

……

"It seems to be because the game has battle and exchange functions." The store manager adjusted his glasses, and according to the introduction manual, "The two versions of Pokémon have different production probabilities, and they have their own exclusive Pokémon. There will be differences in the Pokémon we collect.

In this way, children can use their own unique Pokémon to fight against other players.

At the same time, you can exchange Pokémon and fully enjoy the fun of the game. "

When it was over, the store manager added:
"That's what the manual says."

"what?!"

This explanation directly shocked Furukawa Haoze.

fight? !
In this era when there are no online battle games, when you hear this word for the first time, you will be somewhat confused.

Furukawa Haoze really couldn't rely on his own brain to imagine what the battle would be like.

However, the concept really surprised him.

What kind of weirdos are the producers of pokeni?
Can you think of fighting and exchanging through different handhelds and cassettes?

What kind of genius can come up with this thing?

……

Furukawa Haoze raised his head, closed his eyes, and imagined the battle scene.

No no no.

unimaginable.

He shook his head.

After hesitating for a long time, Furukawa Haoze still decided not to buy it.

Wait and see for a while.

The main reason is that this game is too young, and it doesn't look like pokeni style at all.

To be precise, it was not Gu Yuan Chunqiu's style that he liked.

……

At the same time, the home of elementary school student Noboru Sugita.

"Happy birthday!"

The parents yelled together.

Noboru Sugita was blissfully blissful, then made a wish and blew out the candle.

"Xiao Sheng, what kind of birthday gift do you want?" My mother asked with a mysterious smile.

"Um……"

I want Pokémon games.

But if you say that, it won't work.

Noboru Sugita shook his head, "I won't tell you."

The father smiled gently beside him, and then took out a gift box from behind and put it in front of him.

"Look, it may not be to your liking."

After taking it apart, I found that it was really a Sega GP, and there was a brand new cassette——

"Pokémon Fire Red"!
"Wow! Long live! Long live Daddy!"

Sugita raised his voice.

……

(End of this chapter)