Auclairin

Auclairin (Formerly Auclairin maison d'art) is a Metropian Electronics and video gaming company founded by Edward Auclair. The company was originally founded as a freelance art company before diving into electronics in the year 1968. It is one of the most popular gaming and electronic-developing companies in Metropia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand and many more.

As a freelance art company: 1936-1968
Auclairin was founded as Auclairin Maison d'art on March 22nd 1936 by Edward Auclair. The buisiness mainly focused on developing artwork for festivals, movie posters, restaurants and commercials.

After WWII, the business became so successful, Auclair hired more people as freelancers.

Developing an early form of the modern video game console: 1968-1972
In the year 1968, Auclairin and his team focused more on developing hardware for an untitled video game console, Auclairin claimed it to be "the first of it's kind". In the year 1969, Auclairin confirmed that the console would house two built in games called "TableTen" and "Shootup!".

In the year 1970, Auclairin released their first console under the name "Auclairin 2stem" the number: "2" in the name was meant to show the consumer how many games were on the console. The 2stem was a huge success in the market, and in the year 1972, Auclairin opened it's first overseas office in the United States followed by one in Japan, and another one in Thailand.

In the year 1972, Auclairin shut down it's freelancing agency due to "lack of clients".

More Video Game consoles on the market: 1974-1985
In 1973, Auclairin released their second video game console titled: "Auclairin Sabre". The Sabre was one of the first consoles in gaming history to support ROM Cartridges rather than have the games built in.

In the year 1979, Auclairin opened some offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany. Followed by Italy, Sweden and Greece in the year 1980.

In the year 1983, Auclairin launched their third video game console titled: "Lazercom", the Lazercom was a video game console that used Lazerdiscs instead of ROM Cartridges, the system also supported the world's first voice-assistant titled "Auclairin Hayley" (named after Auclair's daughter) and an advanced main menu with various settings and gadgets. The Lazercom also introduced a new feature titled: "Auclarin Interactive Network" (AIN) which allowed players to play multiplayer games together when they aren't using the same console.

In 1985, they bought the rights to the RDI Halcyon after RDI Video Systems filed for bankruptcy, the Halcyon's capabilities were soon merged with the Lazercom's capabilities to create an add-on to the Lazercom titled: "Lazercom VOX", which was fully voice-activated.

Building an empire: 1986-1994
In the year 1986, Auclairin acquired Vermadu-based video gaming studio: Kaius Games. They also established Action-Quarter studios in that same year for production on kart-racing games.

In the year 1990, Auclairin launched an internet browsing feature titled: "Auclairin Sunset". The sunset was one of the earliest web searchers and it also had voice-control if connected to the Lazercom VOX.

In the year 1994, the Lazercom was discontinued and replaced with the Mo-A, Mo-A stood for "More Adventures" or "More Advanced". MO-A was the first Auclairin system to support a CD-rom drive. The Mo-A could also play Audio CD's too.