Today was Sugita Noboru's birthday, and he had received such a wonderful birthday gift.
Sugita Noboru felt that there was nothing happier than this.
His parents watched his joyful expression, exchanged glances, and in addition to happiness, there was a hint of worry—
Was buying a game console a good or bad thing?
sega gp wasn't cheap, 12,500 yen, plus the Pokémon cartridge, it cost about 20,000 yen.
However, seeing Xiao Sheng's happy face made it seem worth it.
…
Sugita Noboru eagerly opened the sega gp and inserted the Pokémon FireRed cartridge into the game console.
With a ding, the Pokémon start screen appeared.
It was exactly like the first scene in the anime, with Nidorino and Gengar battling.
After pressing the button, the game jumped to the start menu.
Children are always so impatient; it's almost impossible to make him watch the entire opening animation.
At the top of the screen were the large letters POKEMON.
Below was Ash holding a Poké Ball, and by his side stood not Pikachu, but Charmander.
In the bottom right corner were the large characters for [FireRed].
The game screen had a very strong pixelated feel; after all, the sega gp handheld was only an 8-bit machine, and although it was in color, its performance was not as good as the Famicom from 10 years ago.
Therefore, to make Pokémon run on it, resources had to be compressed again and again, and it was decided from the beginning to go with a pixelated style.
However, Aoki Haruhi himself thought very clearly that the original Pokémon became popular this way, so there was no need to demand too much from the graphics.
Start a new game.
The scene changed, and Professor Oak stood in the middle, holding a book.
Professor Oak said, "Hello, welcome to the world of Pokémon."
"My name is Okido, and everyone calls me Professor Oak."
"In this world, Pokémon are everywhere; they are in the clouds, in the earth, in the water, in the fire, in the forest…"
"Some people treat Pokémon as pets, while others treat Pokémon as their partners."
"My profession is to study them."
"Oh, first, what is Your Name?"
Immediately after, a naming interface appeared.
It was a Katakana chart of 50 sounds.
Sugita Noboru named himself Xiao Sheng according to his own name.
After the selection was completed, another boy appeared on the screen.
Professor Oak introduced, "This is my grandson, he will be your important rival, his name is—"
The naming interface continued to jump.
Sugita Noboru paused, "Eh? So the rival's name is also chosen by me?"
In the anime, this grandson's name is Shigeru.
Then I'll call him Shigeru too.
After naming the rival, the game officially began.
Xiao Sheng appeared in his home, with a game console in front of him, looking like a sega gp.
He controlled the character to exit the room and go down the stairs.
For this type of RPG game, Sugita Noboru was already quite skilled; he definitely had to find various NPCs to talk to first and search every corner of every room thoroughly.
Either he would get coins or some items.
After searching for a long time, Sugita Noboru got a potion, and then learned from the NPC mother that—
Today, Xiao Sheng was already 10 years old and could become a new Pokémon trainer, and Professor Oak was looking for him; he could get a Pokémon by going to Professor Oak.
Oh yeah!
Sugita Noboru got excited.
"Pikachu, it must be Pikachu waiting for me!"
After some exploration, upon arriving at Professor Oak's laboratory, he found that Professor Oak was not there.
After walking for a while, he realized that he had to go into the grass above to trigger Professor Oak's plot.
So, returning to the laboratory, Sugita Noboru saw three Poké Balls placed on the table.
Professor Oak explained that there were Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle inside, and he could choose one as his starter Pokémon.
"Eh?"
Sugita Noboru was completely stunned.
No Pikachu?!
Why no Pikachu?
Where is my Pikachu?
After careful consideration, Sugita Noboru finally chose Charmander.
The main reason was that this game was 'Pokémon FireRed' and the cover was Charizard, so choosing Charmander couldn't be wrong.
He also gave this Charmander a beautiful name: [Pikachu].
After choosing his Pokémon, just as he was about to leave, he was entangled by the Doctor's grandson, Xiao Sheng, who said he wanted a battle.
"Who's afraid of whom?" Sugita Noboru thought.
This battle was actually the Pokémon beginner's tutorial.
After successfully defeating the opponent's Bulbasaur, Charmander's level immediately rose to level 6.
He felt great.
Sugita Noboru officially embarked on his trainer journey.
At this moment, he was like Ash in the anime, completely excited.
Setting off with Charmander, Sugita Noboru quickly felt like the greatest training master in the world.
As soon as he left Pallet Town and entered the tall grass, he encountered a level 5 Pobo.
"I choose you, Pikachu!"
Although the name was read as Pikachu, what was thrown out was a Charmander with a flame lit on its tail.
After a battle, Pobo was successfully defeated, and Charmander's level also increased significantly.
…
The plot of Pokémon FireRed is actually quite simple and can be summarized in a few sentences—
After obtaining his first Pokémon, the protagonist aims to become the strongest Pokémon trainer and begins his Pokémon training journey in the Kanto region, starting from Pallet Town.
During his adventure, in addition to completing the task of challenging all Gyms, the protagonist will also encounter a group of guys who use Pokémon to do bad things; they call themselves Team Rocket.
After thwarting the evil scheme of Team Rocket's boss, Sakaki, at the Indigo Plateau, the protagonist completes challenges against the Elite Four and Blue, becoming the champion.
It can even be said that this game has almost no plot to speak of; when you encounter a trainer, you fight, and when you encounter a wild Pokémon, you catch it if you can.
After catching them, you check their attributes, discard some useless ones, and keep the ones with good attributes.
However, the game itself is very fun.
It is considered an early game with open-world elements.
The game stage of 'Pokémon Red and Green' is set in the Kanto region, modeled after the Kanto region of Japan.
Whether in mountains or rivers, forests or the sea, Pokémon live in every corner, and humans live with Pokémon, either doting on them or making them battle each other.
Wild Pokémon can be found in various places such as grass, water, caves, sand, swamps, underwater, and in the air.
Different Pokémon have their own habits, personalities, and specific locations where they appear, making people feel that this is a truly existing Pokémon world; these rich and colorful Pokémon form a very good and complete ecological network, making the world as splendid as a rainbow.
Many humans in the Pokémon world travel with Pokémon and participate in Contests to win Ribbons.
There are also those who collect badges and challenge the Pokémon League; such people are called Pokémon trainers, and they make Pokémon battle other trainers or wild Pokémon, by utilizing the cooperation between Pokémon of different attributes, fully considering abilities, matching moves and held items, cultivating abilities, and thinking about and cultivating ability values, to build a powerful Pokémon team.
Players can obtain new Pokémon by catching Pokémon, breeding new Pokémon, receiving them from NPCs (Pokémon or Pokémon eggs), in-game link trades, event distributions, and link trades with other players.
In this process, Sugita Noboru gradually became fascinated.
He couldn't stop playing.
"Xiao Sheng, it's time to sleep." His mother said somewhat angrily, "It's already 10 o'clock."
This was the second time his mother had urged him.
If he didn't listen again, Sugita Noboru would face his first beating on his birthday.
"Alright."
He reluctantly turned off the game.
"Well then, see you tomorrow, Charmander." Sugita Noboru stroked the GP screen.
…
When he went to school on Monday and talked about getting the Pokémon game, Sugita Noboru instantly became a big star among his friends.
"Ah~! I envy you so much, you actually got Pokémon, I also want to get such a birthday gift on my birthday."
"Your father is so good to you."
"Can I borrow it to play sometime, Sugita-kun?"
"No problem." Sugita Noboru touched his nose and laughed happily.
However, among elementary school students, Sugita Noboru was not the only one who owned Pokémon game; several other children in the next class also had game consoles bought by their families.
In Japan, game consoles are quite common; mainly, they don't believe that playing game will particularly affect children's studies.
Sometimes adults have a need for game, let alone children who are naturally playful.
So this time, after the handheld was purchased, Pokémon gradually became popular among elementary, middle, high school students… and even college students.
"Did you know? After you clear Pokémon once, even though the game can be restarted, you can inherit the original Pokémon and the corresponding Pokédex."
"Huh? Really?" Sugita Noboru learned this news from his classmate and expressed extreme surprise.
"Really, Sugita-kun."
"This game is too good to the players, isn't it?"
"Mm-hmm, this is called New Game Plus, allowing us to continue collecting Pokémon carefree."
In many games' New Game Plus, the plot changes, but equipment and items are not inherited.
But Pokeni's games have always had a tradition of inheritance; the newly made New onmyoji is like this, New Game Plus can directly inherit the equipment from the first playthrough.
Because in Aoki Haruhi's view, unless there are special needs and the combat strategy is rich enough, the main purpose of New Game Plus is to experience branching plots, so there is no need to continue wasting players' time on combat.
Of course, this is optional; you can also choose not to inherit.
Fully giving players subjective initiative.
"Sugita-kun, after you clear the game, how about we battle with the Pokémon you've trained?"
"Eh? Can you actually battle?" Sugita Noboru said he had no idea about this.
His friends laughed heartily, "Then it's settled. We can also trade good Pokémon we catch then."
"Eh? You can even trade Pokémon?" Sugita Noboru expressed extreme surprise.
But then he thought, I've already developed feelings for my own divine pet, so I probably wouldn't want to trade it to someone else.
…
After the Pokémon game was released, as the anime continued to progress, players' discussions also grew more and more.
"Pokémon is so fun, it's like watching an anime, I've always wanted to experience being a Pokémon trainer. I didn't expect Pokeni's game to come out so quickly."
"Yeah, I didn't expect catching pets to be so interesting, it feels like I'm back in elementary school, when we used to go to the mountains to catch rhinoceros beetles after school in the afternoon, and to the river to catch frogs or something…
It was so much fun."
"Mm-hmm, in elementary school, I was the class's small animal feeder, playing Pokémon felt like going back to childhood, and I still remember the name of the first pet I raised."
"I miss my pet cat too, playing Pokémon really feels like raising a pet, it's super happy.
Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is let out a howl.
At this time, no matter where my cat is in the corner, it will meow and then climb onto the bed to rub against my face."
"It's really not easy to make a handheld game like this, with so many Pokémon each having their own characteristics and different skills."
"Ah… I wish there was a creature like Pikachu in real life."
"Hahaha, if there really was a Pikachu, it would probably electrocute you."
…
Although it received good word-of-mouth, the sales of 'Pokémon' Red and Green seemed to be not so good.
"This is bad, this is bad, President."
Early in the morning on September 1st, Ayase Akane said with a worried expression.
"What is it?" Aoki Haruhi frowned.
"The sales of Pokémon…" Ayase Akane glanced at the President's face, feeling a torment in her heart.
She hesitated and said, "A week has passed since Pokémon was released, and so far less than 20,000 copies have been sold, President, please don't be too sad."
Yes, Pokémon, since its launch on sega gp, has only sold over 17,000 copies so far.
Compared to Pokeni's previous works, this was a complete flop.
"Pokémon took so much effort and cost so much money, now we're going to lose everything."
However, Aoki Haruhi looked indifferent.
"What are you afraid of? Let the bullets fly for a while!"
"Huh?" Ayase Akane was a little bewildered, looking at her President with an incredulous expression.
The President was too calm, wasn't he?
Was it because he had money now and wasn't afraid of burning it?
Or was it that the President had been stimulated by this terrible result and his brain was a little abnormal?
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