Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 242 Best Game (910)

1995 was a magical year.

The rapid rise of video games.

The United States, Japan, and even other countries that have not officially released video games have already established a certain industrial scale.

Some game production teams from countries around the world also seem to be quietly appearing.

Kazuo Murakami, a person who witnessed the rise of video games with his own eyes, and he can be regarded as a close witness, has a lot of emotions.

He put extra effort into this online award presentation, even though it could only be held online this time, he started preparations about a month ago.

First, open a player voting channel.

Then contact a few well-known independent game reviewers on the website individually, and get together to discuss this year's annual game awards.

When they learned that Yinan Game.com was founded by a child who was still in middle school, they were really shocked for a while.

However, Kazuo Murakami is also very humble, always saying that he is just a person standing in front of the stage, and he has a teacher behind the scenes who has been secretly teaching himself.

This kind of explanation also made these people breathe a sigh of relief. They were really a little afraid of Kazuo Murakami's potential.

For a website with such a huge user base at such a young age, the future is truly limitless.

But the sigh is the sigh, the focus of their work is still on the game selection.

Then after a month of selection and player voting, finally on December 29th after Christmas, on the eve of the new year, the online selection was finally announced.

Game of the Year: Street Fighter.

This is a completely new genre.

And whether it is in Japan or in the United States, this is the most topical and most popular game this year.

Either way, this game deserves its name.

Almost no one has an opinion on this.

Then the best action game was also given to Street Fighter.

Best sound effects, also Street Fighter.

There are also several insignificant bests in the back, big and small, all given to Street Fighter.

It wasn't until the best game category that there were some differences in the selection of games.

The best sports game went to Street Basketball.

The best racing game was given to Surui Electronics' 3D racing car.

Need for Speed ​​would have been super awesome.

But because 3D racing is epoch-making, and the quality of the game itself is not much worse than Need for Speed, after careful consideration by Kazuo Murakami and the others, 3D racing was still given.

In fact, there is another reason, that is, except for 3D racing, all the other best games selected were dominated by Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

There's really nothing you can do about it.

In fact, they really want to diversify and give more selections to other game companies.

It's just that the game quality of Youxing Electronic Entertainment is too horrible, it's not one-dimensional at all.

Like what best story game is given to Final Fantasy 5, best RPG is Dragon Quest 4.

In the end, there was really no way, Kazuo Murakami and the others discussed it and came up with several awards such as the most promising emerging game company.

In this way, it can avoid being dominated by Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

After all, Youxing Electronic Entertainment is no longer a new company, but a giant in the game industry. Of course, it is impossible to compete for such an award.

It's just that the emerging game company with the most potential is still the company that exclusively produces games on SFC, and it is still inseparable from Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

The so-called selection of the best game is sometimes similar to the awards in other industries.

In the case of equal strength, the opponents should be as fair as possible.

You take it this year, and I take it next year, which is the so-called sharing of pork.

It's just that the current video game industry is somewhat extreme.

The top game is really desperate, and there is no sign of surpassing it yet.

As for the players, in fact, this kind of awards will not consider any fairness, they just want to see if the best game in their mind wins the award.

And this is the first game selection, at least there are not too many interest factors mixed in, even if equality is considered to some extent, more than 90% of the awards are given to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

The players are of course full of joy, they are glad that they did not choose the wrong game platform, and that all the games developed by Youxing Electronic Entertainment are the best.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment is the master of the world.

Zhu Youxing didn't pay much attention to the selection of games, at most he just looked at the list after the awards were over.

In fact, he was basically a little bit worried about the best games selected.

So far, no one can compete with him, that is, Su Rui Electronics' 3D racing car has broken through the barriers of Youxing Electronics Entertainment and won an award.

This also proves that Su Rui Electronics is really working hard enough, and they are also worthy of Zhuyouxing's extra serious treatment.

This is really a strong opponent in the future and must not be underestimated.

After the award ceremony, 1995 passed quietly, and the time came to 1996.

And as soon as the year started, the video game industry immediately expanded rapidly again.

In the United States, three more companies chose to transform and develop video game consoles, obviously wanting to get a share of this industry.

Because according to the speculation of Wall Street professionals, in 1996, the number of game players in the United States may grow to tens of millions.

Few companies can ignore users of this scale.

So they have invested in the production of video games.

In addition to developing game consoles, several companies have focused on developing online games for PCs.

Because there was a company that made a lot of money before making a game called Milong Treasure.

It was only then that other companies suddenly discovered that making games doesn't necessarily have to go to a game console.

Can't you see that a personal computer can be regarded as a large game console?

Moreover, game development for personal computers does not require any licensing fees, and even the cost of making CDs can be saved.

Because the game can be downloaded and played through the Internet.

More importantly, the game can be played online.

This greatly increases the social nature of the game.

As soon as Milong Treasure was launched in the United States, it was immediately welcomed by many people.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment has developed more players who love games.

And Milong Treasure is tantamount to opening up more PC network users and players.

This also made the development company of Milong Treasure Instantly become the darling of capital, and its valuation has skyrocketed in a short period of time. In less than half a year, their current valuation in the United States has reached 500 million US dollars, which is very scary. .