Hello everyone, this is the positive shock game, I am your positive shock little brother.
Players who have played since the 90s of the last century are absolutely familiar with many FC games. Some domestic FC game companies must also have heard a little, today the little brother will take you to see a domestic game manufacturer that once made a living from Chinese FC games and is still strong - Fuzhou Alien Computer Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Alien Technology).
In the 1990s, home red and white machines occupied the vast majority of the home electronic entertainment market, and the first echelon of FC game production at that time was almost all Japanese companies, such as Nintendo, Bandai Namco, sega, and so on. However, the genuine game cartridges that could be bought on the domestic market at that time were almost invisible for some reasons, so in a sense, it gave the domestic game manufacturers at that time an opportunity to compete for the FC game market.
Although some manufacturers had already begun to develop new games independently, there were already many complete and well-known game pearls in Japan, and many manufacturers began to imitate the road. The imitation here is called "Sinicization", and the ugly thing to say is piracy, because many people directly take the original Japanese game to make the content Chinese. The original copyright company of the game has not authorized it, and Alien Technology is a company that started out in the gray industry.
The history of the development of alien technology here is actually the history of the Sinicization of many games in Japan, it can be said that as the first Chinese Japanese FC game company in China, many players have heard, seen and played many FC games almost from this company. The first person mentioned by the younger brother before the domestic magic reform and production of FC games" "Fu Zhan" is the senior consultant and director system of this company, and the alien technology in the game market at that time can be said to be the guarantee of quality and quantity.
If you are a fan of cassette games, then you must have played some very famous games in the cassette you bought. Some of the Chinese versions of the games here, such as The Fire Emblem Series, the Pokemon Series, the Dragon Ball Z Series, the Legend of Zelda Series, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Series, and many other works from Japanese game companies.
The game plot text is Chinese translated here, although most of them are full of machine translation, but this also allows domestic young players who did not have the opportunity to contact such games at that time to experience these japanese RPG games with rich quality and content.
Flame Emblem first generation
Dragon Ball Z
In addition to doing Chinese to many games, Alien Technology has also done some other work, such as some localization of many Nissan games. For example, the company's "Biography of the Three Kingdoms Zhi Yingjie" is actually a Sinicization of "Devouring Heaven and Earth", not the glorious "Three Kingdoms Zhi Yingjie Biography". But the glorious game has been transformed by alien technology into "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms" and so on. All of these changes are about replacing the game's name and changing some of the game's materials into "pseudo-original" works.
Tales of the Three Kingdoms (Pseudo)
Tales of the Three Kingdoms (Pseudo)
Not to mention some of the "original" works of Alien Technology itself, which are rarely of quality and content in these works, which are not superior games in terms of current vision, and the game's graphics or combat mechanics are all cobbled together from Japanese games. For example, in this paragraph of the alien technology masterpiece game "Mirror Flower Edge", I believe that everyone should be able to see which game material to use.
Battle screen of the Mirror Flower Edge game
Of course, if you think that Alien Technology is just a company that can pirate Chinese, then you have a narrow vision. The potential of alien technology is simply not clear to the average person, because you can even play many games on this game that are not accessible in FC platforms. For example, this "Resident Evil 1" was made into a cross-platform version and Chinese version by alien technology. After being discovered by foreign netizens and translated into English by foreign netizens, foreigners have praised the game's reverse platform port.
In addition to FC games, Alien Technology also tried to seize the trend of home computers at that time to launch its own PC games. But this game is also the last straw that crushed their attempts to expand and transform, and it is said that alien technology spent nearly one million yuan in 1998 to set up a game group to develop a completely independent domestic PC game, which is this "Chivalrous Story: Anti-Smoking Storm".
It tells the story of the player playing the role of a chivalrous guest who follows Lin Zexu to fight various Chinese and foreign tobacco dealers. Although the game quality and graphics are acceptable, due to a combination of publicity and timing, this game has not received much attention at that time, and even now, many players have not played this game.
The failure of this game fixed the biggest brilliant moment of alien technology in the FC market at that time, and the popularity of computers after entering the 21st century can be said to be a dimensionality-reducing blow to the FC game market. But even if the FC game was hit hard, the alien technology did not respond to the ground into a chicken feather, as for the reason, here has to mention that at that time, the domestic FC game hardware time is almost a monopoly of the small overlord.
The founder of Alien Technology at that time was named Fang Hongqi, which was founded in 1993. After several investigations by the younger brother, although the founder of Xiaobawang is another big guy, that is, Duan Yongping, the founder of OPPO and BBK mobile phone before, the name Fang Hongqi appeared in the chairman list of Xiaobawang Company after Duan Yongping, and stayed for several years.
It can be said that alien technology is a game support manufacturer that Xiaobawang is promoting its own hardware, and the two belong to the binding relationship, and alien technology is almost equivalent to a subsidiary of Xiaobawang Company. In 2004, Alien Technology signed a cooperation agreement with Yihua Group, the majority shareholder of Xiaobawang, and established Zhongshan Xiaobawang Education Electronics Co., Ltd. In 2009, after continuous resource integration, Alien Technology was also renamed Zhongshan Alien Culture and Education Technology Co., Ltd.
Due to the limitations of the times, at that time, Alien Technology and Xiaobawang registered more than a hundred patents on original games such as FC in the patent office, which were protected by patent-related laws.
At this time, it can be said that aliens have basically been a subsidiary of software supporting services for Xiaobawang's hardware, so after entering the 21st century, where is the focus of Xiaobawang's work, that is, trying to imitate Nintendo and become the old Ren in Chinese's heart.
Just in 2006, Nintendo launched its new game console Wii, which can have a sense of the game became a hit. Xiaobawang also launched its own somatosensory game device "Xiaobawang Family Somatosensory Interactive Video Game Console".
In the early days of this somatosensory game console, in fact, there is a big gap with Nintendo in terms of game screen clarity and sensitivity of somatosensory, but in the continuous iteration of the product after that, the quality of somatosensory games is gradually rising. Little Bully not only focuses on somatosensory games, but also constantly tries some other types of games and devices, such as dancing mats, VR games, and so on.
And these game software, basically rely on the support of this alien technology. In the encyclopedia details page of Alien Technology, it claims to be one of the largest software solution providers in the domestic somatosensory sports and game industry, which also has a lot to do with the market business expansion of Xiaobawang.
However, the little brother found that Fang Hongqi, the founder of alien technology, has a record of restricting high consumption. This record is that in a previous judgment, Fang Hongqi, chairman of Xiaobaiwang, must return the equity transfer payment of 7.49141 million yuan and liquidated damages of about 2.8556 million yuan to the applicant executor; Fang Hongqi paid 80,000 yuan in legal fees and 8,000 yuan in guarantee fees to the applicant executor. And because there is no execution, it becomes a dishonest executor, which is commonly known as "Lao Lai".
According to the younger brother's inspection, the current legal person of Alien Technology is Fang Guiying, although the same surname is Fang, but the younger brother did not find evidence of a direct relationship between the two. However, the younger brother also noticed that the alien technology in 2021 also triggered the restriction of high consumption records, and the alien technology companies themselves and the corresponding senior executives, including Fang Hongqi and Fang Guiying, were executed.
As early as Xiaobawang Cultural Development Co., Ltd., it had applied for bankruptcy reorganization, but because the Xiaobawang brand had registered too many companies, the Xiaobawang that applied for bankruptcy reorganization and the Xiaobawang brand we know are not the same company, which may be the cause of many lawsuits to restrict high consumption.
However, at present, the development of Xiaobawang and alien technology is on the right track, and has its own development direction, although the revenue is not as rich as the original monopoly market. In the end, alien technology is still a popular game company that conforms to the development of the times, although it has developed well in the FC market, but it has become the dust of history after the innovation of Internet technology.
Looking back, it seems that alien technology has made a Chinese version of many games, and although the behavior of piracy is very poor with dialectical thinking, it is really exposed to the excellent game culture of Japan for the domestic public teenagers, and the effect of popularization is achieved, which is also regarded as the historical mission of Chinese manufacturers.
Seeing here, the little brother can only say that he can only blame alien technology and Xiaobawang, although he wants to be a domestic Nintendo, he cannot have the same products that Nintendo is proud of, so the lack of competitiveness is gradually declining. The younger brother can only hope that the future of domestic game manufacturers is getting better and better, and gradually aligned with the international!
One last question: Which game of alien technology are you impressed with?