The United States, Japan, and even other countries that have not officially released video games already have a certain industrial scale.
Some game production teams from countries around the world also seem to be quietly appearing.
Kazuo Murakami is a person who has witnessed the rise of video games with his own eyes, and is a close witness. He has a lot of emotions.
He was particularly attentive to this online award. 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 several independent game reviewers who are already well-known on the website individually, and they will get together to discuss this year's annual game awards.
When they learned that Yinan Game Network was actually founded by a child who was still in junior high school, they were really shocked for a while.
However, Murakami Kazuo is also very humble, and has always said that he is just a person standing in front of the stage, and that he has a teacher behind the scenes who has been teaching him secretly.
This explanation also relieved these people. They were really a little afraid of Murakami Kazuo's potential.
At such a young age, we already have a website with such a huge user base. The future is truly limitless.
However, it’s a sigh of relief that the focus of their work is still on game selection.
Then after a month of selection and player voting, the online selection was finally announced on December 29th after Christmas and on the eve of the New Year.
The best game of the year: Street Fighter.
This is a completely new genre.
And whether in Japan or the United States, this is the most talked about and most popular game this year.
No matter what, this game deserves its reputation.
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 and inconsequential ones in the following, all of which were 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 goes to Street Basketball.
The best racing game went to Surui Electronics' 3D Racing.
Need for Speed was originally great too.
But because 3D racing is epoch-making, and the quality of the game itself is not much worse than Need for Speed, in the end, after careful consideration by Murakami Kazuo and others, 3D racing was given.
In fact, there is another reason, that is, except for 3D racing, all other selected best games were dominated by Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
There's really no way around it.
They actually want to be more diversified and select more other game companies.
It's just that the quality of the games played by Youxing Electronic Entertainment is so terrible that they are not one-dimensional at all.
For example, the best story game was given to Final Fantasy 5, and the best role-playing game was Dragon Quest 4.
In the end, there was no other way, so Murakami Kazuo and others discussed and came up with several awards for the most promising emerging game companies.
In this way, it can avoid being dominated by Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
After all, Youxing Electronic Entertainment is no longer an emerging company, but a giant in the gaming 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 a company that exclusively produces games on SFC, and is still inseparable from Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.
The so-called selection of the best games is sometimes similar to the awards in other industries.
In the case of equal strength, try to be as fair as possible.
You take it this year and I take it next year, which is what is called dividing the pork.
It’s just that the current video game industry is somewhat extreme.
The top-level games are really disappointing, and there is no sign of surpassing them yet.
For players, in fact, this kind of award evaluation does not consider fairness. They only want to see whether the best game in their minds wins the award.
And this is the first game selection, at least there are not too many profit factors involved. Even if equality is somewhat considered, more than 90% of the awards are still given to Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
The players are of course very happy about this. They are happy that they have indeed chosen the wrong game platform, and indeed all the games developed by Youxing Electronic Entertainment are the best.
Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is uniquely the world's dominator.
Regarding the game selection, Zhu Youxing didn't pay much attention to it. At most, he just took a look at the list after the awards.
In fact, he basically has some doubts about the selection of the best games.
So far, no one can compete with him. Surui Electronics' 3D racing car can be said to have broken through the barriers of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment and won an award.
This also proves that Surui Electronics is indeed working hard enough, and they are worthy of Zhuyouxing's extra serious treatment.
This is really a powerful opponent in the future and must not be underestimated.
After the awards ceremony, 1995 passed quietly, and time came to 1996.
As soon as the new year started, the video game industry immediately expanded rapidly again.
In the United States, three more companies have chosen to transform and develop electronic game consoles, obviously hoping to get a share of this industry.
Because according to speculations by Wall Street professionals, the number of game players in the United States may grow to tens of millions in 1996.
Few companies can ignore users of this size.
So they devoted themselves to the production of video games.
In addition to developing game consoles, there are also several companies that focus on developing online games for PCs.
Because there was a company that produced a game called Mysterious Dragon Treasures before and made a lot of money.
Other companies suddenly discovered that making games does not necessarily require a game console.
Can't you think of a personal computer as a large game console?
Moreover, game development for personal computers does not require any licensing fees, and even the cost of disc production can be saved.
Because you can download games and play them through the Internet.
What's more important is that the game can be played online.
This greatly increases the social nature of the game.
Mystery Dragon Treasure has just been launched in the United States and has been immediately welcomed by many people.
Youxing Electronic Entertainment has developed more players who love games.
And My Dragon Treasure is equivalent 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 soared rapidly in a short period of time. In less than half a year, their current valuation in the United States has reached US$500 million, which is very scary.