Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 77 77. Has the president finally stopped being a human being?

pokemon, also known as "Pokémon" or "Pokemon", "Pokémon", "Pocket Monster", "Pocket Elf", "Pokémon"...

But it's all the same thing.

Pokémon is a series of games developed by Game Freak and Creatures Co., Ltd. and published by Rentendao.

The original work was a Game Boy role-playing game released in Japan in 1996.

The Pokémon series is the second-best-selling video game series in the world, behind Rentendo's Super Mario series.

How influential is Pokémon?

In the 21st century, as long as you say the name Pokémon, there will be almost no one who has not heard of it, from over 6 years old to under 40 years old.

Although it is second only to Super Mario in terms of sales, it is not lost at all in terms of fame, and was even once hailed as the world's largest IP.

We have everything from Pokémon games to animations to peripheral toys and figures.

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Pokémon can be said to be a development-based pet battle turn-based role-playing game.

The game mechanism itself is not particularly complicated, but its advantage is that it satisfies players' desire to collect and has a variety of interesting and cute Pokémon pets, which fascinate players.

Although Pokémon is very powerful, the process of becoming famous is very bumpy.

In his previous life in 1995, Rentian, the ruler of the game world, also fell into the abyss.

At that time, Rentendao was preparing to withdraw from the handheld market due to market changes, and wanted to move its target to home consoles and develop the GameBoy replacement "VirtualBoy" (VB for short), which was considered the first prototype and attempt of a VR helmet.

But unexpectedly, VB's ideas were too advanced and failed completely. The two generations of N64 consoles began to collapse, and the console field was cannibalized by Sony and Sega.

The failed Rentian was like a person about to fall off a cliff, but at this time he saw a glimmer of hope, and that was "Pokémon".

At the beginning of Pokémon, the game was finally produced, but it was completely beaten by its rivals "Final Fantasy" and "Dragon Quest", the two signature Japanese national RPGs.

Players are not very interested in Pokémon, and Famiton only gave it a low score of 28 points.

But when Rentian decided to believe in "Pokémon", of course he also helped it "evolve".

Rententian first serialized the comic book "Pokémon Pippin" and then advertised it in major magazines, making Pokémon gradually more widely known.

Later, due to the animation and the accidental appearance of [Dream Cassette], Pokémon became famous and became a world-class IP.

[Dream Cassette], the legendary Pokémon No. 151 "Mew".

To put it simply, the capacity of the original cassette at that time could not hold so many pieces, so it was deleted to only 150 pieces left.

But the creators of Mew took it upon themselves to secretly insert it into some cassettes after fixing the bug.

It is equivalent to making a [Collector's Edition], and this Collector's Edition has the 151st Pokémon [Mantasy] that is not available in other versions.

Unexpectedly, this unexpected move made players crazy.

Nintendo also struck while the iron was hot and launched a limited event where you could get a "Dream Cassette". At that time, there were only 20 prizes, but it attracted nearly 80,000 people to sign up. It can be said that even Nintendo was shocked.

So we rushed to work, and a few months later we launched a blue version with many bugs fixed, and sales increased again.

If the "Legend of Zelda" series allowed Rentendo to change the gaming world, then it was definitely the "Pokémon" series that changed Rentendo itself.

It is precisely because of Pokémon that Rentian was able to get out of the predicament and become the dominant handheld player again.

It can even be said that without Pokémon, Rentian would be like a broken leg.

Without Pokémon, Rentenda wouldn't even be able to survive the 1995 crisis.

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In short, from the birth of Pokémon to becoming famous and becoming a world-class IP, the journey was really bumpy, and some luck was involved.

It is said that time comes and heaven and earth all work together, but heroes are not free when they are transported.

All kinds of coincidences, starting from the original author Satoshi Tajiri, to Renten being in trouble, seeing Pokémon as hope, to handheld consoles, to the chance of fantasy cassettes, to comics and animation... there is a problem in any of them. , none of the Pokémon can succeed.

Qing Zhiyuan can't guarantee that if he develops Pokémon, he will be as brilliant as in his previous life.

However, it is better than giving it to Rentian.

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"hiring."

Qing Zhiyuan put the coffee cup in front of little HR and patted her table.

"Eh?"

Akane Ayase first looked at the half-drunk coffee cup in front of her. Her eyes were confused for only a second, and then they lit up instantly.

"Okay president. You finally remembered me."

The secretary's work takes a long time, and the body subconsciously wants to refill his cup of coffee.

But when she heard the word "recruiting", the HR soul in Akane Ayase finally woke up.

There was even a hint of emotion.

She quickly dug out her notebook from the drawer, picked up her ballpoint pen and got ready.

"President, what kind of talents are you recruiting? What positions and what are the specific requirements?"

Before Qing Zhiyuan could answer, she frowned and asked, "But president, it's been less than half a year since the last recruitment request, are we going to recruit new people?"

"Well, pokeni is also on the rise now." Qing Zhiyuan said lightly.

Tsk tsk.

It's really not easy. Some time ago, I had to live or die.

It's on the rise now.

It's good to be confident.

But is the president really not afraid of hiring too many people and causing the company to suddenly collapse?

But...

As HR, Akane Ayase still hopes to have something to do.

"Then do you have any requirements?"

Qing Zhiyuan stood there, leaning against her table, tapping her fingers on the table.

"College students who have graduated from zoology, botany, biology, paleontology, entomology... these majors will suffice."

Hiss...

Ayase Akane's fingers trembled.

"Um...President, what do you need such a talent for?"

"Planning post, for our next new game, we want to create more insect and plant-type protagonists."

Ah this...

"Okay, President."

Ayase Akane sighed silently.

Although it has long been known that the president has [non-human] tendencies, this is the first time that he has been so straightforward.

Before, it had more or less humanoid appearance and packaging. Such an explicit and terrifying request was unheard of for Akane Ayase.

Has the president finally stopped being a human being?

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