Empress Co

Empress (Empress Co or Empress Company) is a video game company based out of the Fletcher Republic known for their Magic Kid series of games.

Early Beginnings
Empress was founded by Robert Dale in 1981, he was a former programmer at Atari and left because the pay wasn't great while still being disrespected but using the knowledge he learned from Atari would found is own game company called Empressvison soon renaming it to just Empress, at first, the company made games for the Atari 2600 with their first game being a racing game called Turbo Wheels, the company's games were well received and would make a total of four games until the Video Game Crash of 1983 when the company abandoned home gaming and switched to making arcade games with the most successful was Turbo Wheels II released in 1985 selling over fourteen million units.

Early Success
Around the same period as these releases, Nintendo released the NES in North America however would not release the NES in the Fletcher Republic until 1988 giving Empress who were now experienced in making hardware and software to release a console of their own, and on November 10th 1987 the Empress Game System officially launched in the Fletcher Republic to massive success due to it not having many competitors in the country, the system launched with a couple of games with the most famous being Magic Kid, a platformer based around a kid getting magical powers and going out to rescue his friends, Magic Kid was a massive commercial success for the company along with the console, the company would expand into the United States in 1989 with some success and continue to make consoles like the Empress Mega System in 1994 and the Empress Ultra System in 2003 which were both financial successes for the company.

Near Collapse and New Success
However in 2008, the company were starting to fall into bankruptcy due to the company's executives poor decision making such as an attempt to expand into southern North America and not really being on the cutting edge of tech compared to their competitors like Sony and Nintendo, in desperation to find something successful they created their fourth console called the Empress Trident which was a VR based home console released in 2014 when VR was just taking off, the console was a massive success for Empress and catapulted them ahead of their competitors in technology and innovation becoming their best selling console yet with 32 Million units sold so far as of 2021.

Slogans
There have been three slogans the company has used throughout the years.


 * "Only the Best!" 1981-1986
 * "Excitement in your home!" 1987-1995
 * "Empress of Games!" 1995-Present

Trivia

 * 1) The Empress Game System was originally called the Empress Home Arcade System.
 * 2) Empress is the third largest company in the Fletcher Republic.
 * 3) In 1995, Nintendo of the Fletcher Republic was bought out by Empress.
 * 4) Despite mostly making games for their consoles, Empress has made and released games for computers and even on Microsoft's Xbox.
 * 5) In the 2000s, Empress worked with Telecom to produce a handheld game system called the Azura but it never saw release.