game trailblazer

Chapter 120 The End of the Acquisition of Konami

After three days of secret talks, Zhang Lexing, as the representative of the acquirer, reached a final acquisition agreement with Konami with the help of Mai Jiajun and others. Shang Yuejing, one of the founders of the company, retained no more than 8% of the Shares, and will continue to stay in the company as the CEO (CEO), and the other two founders Nakama Yoshinobu and Miyazaki Tatsuo will leave the company to find new goals in life.Later, the news media received an invitation letter from Konami, which said: "... On July 7th, Konami will hold a press conference at the Okura Hotel in Tokyo. At that time, an important news will be announced,... respect All friends are welcome to come!  …”

The news media that received the invitation thought of the recent turmoil in Konami's stock price, and they all felt that there must be big news to dig out, and sent important officials to go there one after another.Of course, there are also some pervasive paparazzi moving around, trying to get some exciting inside stories before the press conference. For a while, Shang Yuejing was often blocked by people in various situations, which made him not very disturbed To.Fortunately, Zhang Lexing and the others hid directly after they settled the matter, so they were not dug out by these ferocious paparazzi.

Under such circumstances, a certain gossip magazine miraculously produced a strange article, swearing that there was a mysterious consortium contacting Yue Jingzheng, Konami may have major changes, and it was accompanied by an allegedly Last Yuejing was receiving photos of the mysterious consortium, but the photos were blurry, except last Yuejing was able to see people, and the one next to him couldn't see what it was at all, a typical one who spoke convincingly but was empty prophecy.Although the article is not liked by people, the meaning revealed in it has aroused many people's interest in Konami's recent situation, and the news media has become more and more active.

At nine o'clock in the morning on July 7, Konami's press conference was held at the Okura Hotel in Tokyo as scheduled, and more than 7 news media came to interview.On the left side of the rostrum, there were Yue Jingzheng and the presidents of Konami branches from various places, and there were four vacant seats on the right side. The news media in the audience were all guessing for whom it was reserved for.At three past nine o'clock, a few people in a hurry walked in from the side door. After entering, they went directly to the rostrum and sat down. The host standing in the speech seat announced: "This press conference officially begins. I will give the floor to the CEO of Konami Corporation."

Yue Jingzheng came to the speech seat last month, adjusted the height of the microphone, coughed a few times, and then said: "Welcome friends, today I am here to announce an important news, Konami will officially start from Tokyo and Osaka. The local exchange will be delisted."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the audience, and many reporters couldn't bear to get up to ask questions. Shang Yuejing pressed down with both hands, signaling everyone to be safe and calm, and the staff in the audience cooperated , his speech can continue.

"Don't worry, everyone, please listen to me." Yue Jingzheng continued: "Some time ago, the major shareholders of this company have reached a consensus and agreed to transfer part of the equity to Dongfang Holdings. Shareholders. As for the delisting of the company, one is due to the listed company system, and the other is the request of the major shareholder. After the company delists, it will issue 83.82 additional shares to the major shareholder Orient Holdings, raising 24,330,973 billion yen for the company’s technological innovation and console game development...

With the support of major shareholders, the agency will continue to maintain its current independent status, and all game development plans will continue. In addition, the agency is authorized to launch a new version of the famous game "Devil City" on the PC-E console. Tentatively named "Castlevania X: Reincarnation of Blood", it will make full use of the PC_E host's functions and the characteristics of the large capacity of the disc. It is planned to add many exquisite animations to the game, and the scenes and characters will also be more refined...

In the near future, our agency will also cooperate with famous American game development companies KF-Panda, Lucas Art, etc., and plans to develop some more American-style home console games, and further expand overseas markets..."

After Jingzheng finished speaking last month, the host came to the speech booth again and said into the microphone: "Everyone, the representative of Dongfang Holdings, the major shareholder of Konami, will speak next."

Zhang Lexing came to the speech seat, glanced at the audience, and said with a smile: "Hello, everyone... Regarding Konami, our company has been observing for a long time and believes that it has great potential for development. We will continue to support Konami's development in the future." Development, bringing more and newer games to players..."

Next, representatives from KF-Panda Company, Oriental Copyright Exchange Co., Ltd., and Scowell Company also made speeches. The general topics revolved around the wise decision of this acquisition and the huge room for Konami’s future development. Wait around.After all that should be said, came to the questioning session of the press conference. Fortunately, thanks to the relationship between Yue Jingzheng and others last month, the media present were very respectful and did not ask any tricky questions, so everyone was happy. Next, the press conference ended successfully.After the meeting, with the help of many news media, the news of Konami’s major changes spread to everyone. It doesn’t matter to players, as long as new games come out. But for Konami’s many competitors, Konami’s capital increase and expansion It is not good news that stocks and strength have increased greatly.

After the scene is over, Zhang Lexing and others can also come to Konami in an aboveboard manner and discuss with Yue Jingzheng about the company's future adjustments. The specific operation of Konami is still in charge of Shangyue Jingzheng. Zhang Lexing just put a few of his own people in some key departments of the company as usual. Although the investment comes from Dongfang Holdings, the daily management will be handled by Dongfang Electronic Entertainment, a professional company, and Shangyuejing. He is in contact, so there is no need for him to worry about everything.However, Zhang Lexing still gave some suggestions on the future development direction of Konami, the most important of which are the three future development directions-"digital entertainment", "health services" and "games and systems". I am also planning to slowly adjust Konami according to this plan.

In fact, according to Zhang Lexing's vision, Konami's future arcade business can also consider PS arcade interchangeable substrates, but it is not the time yet.After the completion of the acquisition, Zhang Lexing also got some surprises. Konami’s headquarters and branches have specialized game training institutions, and the teachers in charge of training are actually some Chinese. After sending people to contact, there are eight who are willing to return to China for development. , plus three game development trainers (Americans) from Blue Dragon Games in the United States, the teacher problem that Lao Xiao had been talking about for a long time was finally solved, and he no longer had to rely on those half-assed ones to make do.

When Zhang Lexing was busy jumping up and down at Konami, the founder of a finger dance online game company in the future had just joined Konami and was participating in the research and development of walking-controlled business game consoles in Kobe. But without knowing it.

After Konami was settled, Zhang Lexing broke up with Mai Jiajun in Tokyo. Mai Jiajun originally had a lot of ideas, but after receiving an international long-distance call, he honestly bought a plane ticket and flew back to the United States. The two assistants collected the checks and went to enjoy their lives, while Zhang Lexing bought a plane ticket and flew back to BJ. Before leaving, he even pried away a development team from Konami. It is said that he has been developing sports games before. This is Zhang Lexing The two domestic companies have never set foot in the field, but these people have been developing on the Super Nintendo, which is far from the creative workshop. Zhang Lexing had to send them to Shanghai to form Tianzhiyuan (Shanghai) An independent studio under its umbrella.

After returning to BJ, Zhang Lexing went to see the working situation of the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" project team. It has been almost three months. I don't know if this group has done anything.

Under the leadership of Zhan Jun, Zhang Lexing first came to the programming department. Since everyone is relatively unfamiliar with game engines, only a small part has been realized in the past two months. The current RPG engine can only be completed in the map and You can move around the scene, you can talk to NPCs in the scene, and you can enter the incomplete combat system for testing. Many functions planned at the beginning have not yet been written.Zhang Lexing was not in a hurry, anyway, he still had time, so he could take his time.

Next, Zhang Lexing went to the planning department and the art department. The planners of the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" project are currently busy writing NPC dialogue scripts and planning the NPC's activities in the scene, while the art department is busy describing the game scene. There is also an action breakdown diagram of the game characters, but it doesn't make sense to separate them like this. It seems that we have to wait for a while.

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Time came to August. Although the cooperation with the editorial department of "Game Concentration Camp" failed for some reason, the magazine that was promised was delivered to Zhang Lexing as promised.

The first series of "Game Concentration Camp" is not yet an official publication. Zhang Lexing started to read the second series back then. Later, he always wanted to buy a copy of the first series but never got his wish. Unexpectedly, he finally got one today. Ben, Zhang Lexing couldn't help feeling mixed feelings in his heart.

"Game Concentration Camp" is the earliest video game magazine officially published in China, but it is not the first video game magazine in China.To put it early, "Guide to Electronic Games", which was founded around the Spring Festival in 1991, should be counted. Strictly speaking, there is still a big gap between "Guide to Electronic Games" and regular magazines. One is that the publication time is basically fixed, sometimes once a month. , sometimes every two months, and the printing of another "Guide to Electronic Games" is also very simple. The cover is a 16-motage white paper with "Guide to Electronic Games" printed in large characters, and the cheapest paper is used for the inner pages. Printed in black and white, pure text with no pictures at all.Later, "Video Game Guide" has been trying to be formalized, and has published two volumes (named "Video Game Fans") using the ISBN number. Unfortunately, it has not been able to obtain an official issue number, and it will gradually disappear.

The cover of the first series of "Game Concentration Camp" is the poster of "Dragon Warrior", which looks much more fancy compared to ordinary magazines, and there is a very eye-catching word "Game Concentration Camp" on it.The content of the magazine has a lot of articles that can be regarded as the main feature of the magazine even after a few years, such as "Dragon Quest 5 Complete Raiders", the fantasy MUD novel "Game of Death", "Ten Years" mentioned on the cover of the magazine Brilliant Nintendo" (written by Long Ge himself), etc.Zhang Lexing also found that the magazine actually introduced a computer game "Quick Fight Supreme" (produced by Quanwei Information), which is a little different from the style of not introducing computer games at all in the future.

In fact, the most striking thing about this magazine is not the wonderful articles on the inside pages, but a passage on the back cover:

"As a customs-breaker family, you must break through
Breakthrough Clan Great Breakthrough
If you don't have enough wisdom, you can't rush in

If you don't have enough composure, you can't break out
Only those who can enter and exit are great heroes and heroes
Winning at play is a talent

Playing but not obsessing is a kind of character
Self-control is a kind of self-cultivation

Playing and being infatuated is a realm”

Many people couldn't help but want to go to the editorial department in person just because they saw this, held the hands of those old editors and editors and said, "Comrades, I finally found an organization!"

(End of this chapter)