game trailblazer

Chapter 181 Master JVC
After confirming the next game development plan of the creative workshop, the time came to the beginning of September. Zhang Lexing looked at the calendar and found that it was the day when Chen Zishan was going back to school.Zhang Lexing opened his drawer, took out the air ticket on the top, carefully looked at the date on it, and checked the position circled with a red pen on the calendar, and he was relieved when he saw that the two were the same Come.Putting the ticket back into the drawer, Zhang Lexing thought for a while, but couldn't resist picking up the phone and dialing Chen Zishan's number...

Three days later, at the Capital International Airport, in the cabin of a United Airlines flight to Boston, Chen Zishan dragged a suitcase to her seat. She hadn't found that figure all the way just now, she couldn't help but sighed, and lifted Suitcase, I want to lift it up and put it in the luggage rack.At this moment, Chen Zishan heard a familiar voice behind her: "Beauty, do you want to help?"

At this moment, Chen Zishan felt as if an electric current flashed through her body, and her hands softened, and the suitcase she had just lifted fell to the floor again.Chen Zishan was very happy, but when she turned around, she put on a straight face on purpose, and said angrily, "Didn't you say you'll be leaving in two months, why are you here this time?"

"Because you are here, Shanshan," Zhang Lexing took two steps forward, hugged Chen Zishan, and continued to whisper in her ear, "Because I want to be with you!"

The feeling of happiness rushed to Chen Zishan like a tide, making her feel dizzy for a while.After a while, she woke up with a start, hurriedly pushed Zhang Lexing's hand away, and said shyly, "There are many people beside me..."

"You see, they are all foreigners. It's okay." Zhang Lexing smiled, then lifted the suitcase, and said, "Shanshan, sit down first, I'll take care of this."

"Then be careful." After speaking, Chen Zishan came to her seat, straightened her skirt, and sat down.Zhang Lexing put the suitcase away, followed him, and sat on the seat next to him.

"Hmm... Le Xing, it seems that you have planned it long ago!"

"Hehe!" Zhang Lexing smiled embarrassedly.

At this moment, the voice of the stewardess came from the radio on the plane: "Dear passengers, our flight is about to take off, please go back to your seat and fasten your seat belt...".

Not long after, the plane began to slide on the runway...

After 18 hours of flying, crossing the entire Pacific Ocean and almost the entire United States, the plane has come to the sky above Boston, and the bright lights on the ground can already be seen through the portholes.

When the plane landed at the airport, Zhang Lexing and Chen Zishan walked out of the terminal. It was already past 12 o'clock in the evening, and it was the early morning of the next day. It was obviously not suitable to go to school at this time, so the two found a star hotel and opened One room, I plan to take a rest and go to school after dawn.

The weather was still a bit hot, and she was sweating a little on the road. She felt sticky and uncomfortable, so after putting away her things in the guest room, Chen Zishan went to the bathroom to take a shower.But when it was Zhang Lexing's turn to go in and take a shower, he found that Chen Zishan had already changed into a black tulle nightgown and was sitting on the bed after the bath, her seductive body looming under the translucent tulle...

When Zhang Lexing woke up again, it was almost noon, and he stretched out his hand to touch the side, and there was no trace of Chen Zishan, but her faint fragrance still lingered in the bedding.Zhang Lexing got up and got out of bed. After looking around the room, he found that Chen Zishan's suitcase was gone. It seemed that she probably went to school.

Went to the bathroom to wash his face, Zhang Lexing went back to the bed and sat down, was about to pick up the bedside phone, but found a cup with a lid on the bedside table, opened the lid, it turned out to be a glass of water, and felt The temperature was just right. Zhang Lexing picked up the cup and took a sip. He didn't know whether it was a psychological effect or the water quality itself was good. Anyway, it tasted a little sweet.

Putting down his cup, Zhang Lexing picked up the phone and dialed the number of Chen Zishan's dormitory. The phone rang for a long time before someone answered it. Fortunately, it was Chen Zishan's voice that came from the phone.

"Hi, I'm Susan."

"Hi, I'm Lexing. Shanshan, I don't know when you went back to school."

"I got up at ten o'clock, but I didn't wake you up because you were sleeping soundly. Anyway, it's not far from school." Chen Zishan explained on the phone.

"Well, Shanshan, let's have lunch together, anyway, it's almost time."

"I'm sorry, Lexing, I still have something to do here, I'm afraid I don't have time at noon."

"That's it, alas..." Unexpectedly, he was so busy just after returning to school, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but sighed.

"Don't be discouraged, let's do this, Lexing, I'll come and have dinner with you tonight."

"Well, it's not enough just to have dinner with you, I won't refund the hotel room, what else can I do...hehe."

"You are so annoying." Chen Zishan spat shyly, and then said: "There are good Chinese restaurants near the hotel, you can choose one at random, and you can stroll around by yourself in the afternoon, so don't get lost."

"Don't worry, you will never get lost. I have a map with me."

"Well, Lexing, see you at night."

"See you tonight, baby." As soon as Zhang Lexing finished speaking, Chen Zishan's phone had already been hung up. Hearing the "beep" sound from the receiver, Zhang Lexing put the phone back to its original position.

Looking at his watch, it was only 10 minutes before noon. At this time, his stomach sounded very timely. Zhang Lexing drank the rest of the water in the cup in one go, changed his clothes, and threw away the things that needed to be washed. Entered the laundry basket, took the room card and walked out of the guest room.Zhang Lexing is not very familiar with the city of Boston. Although he has been here many times, the range of activities is not large, and Chen Zishan was basically the guide in the past, so Zhang Lexing does not plan to go too far.

After coming to the service desk downstairs and explaining that he needed to renew the room, Zhang Le walked out of the hotel. According to Chen Zishan's suggestion, he randomly found a Chinese restaurant near the hotel and had breakfast and lunch together.After dinner, Zhang Lexing walked casually along the street and near the hotel, and occasionally checked out a map of Boston.A few bodyguards followed Zhang Lexing not far away. These bodyguards actually followed yesterday, but in order not to spoil Zhang Lexing's good deeds, they kept a reasonable distance and did not show up.

Before he knew it, Zhang Lexing walked near the MIT campus. When he woke up and was about to turn around, he accidentally found a large-scale software retail store on the side of the road, so he decided to go in and take a look around to pass the time. .There were a lot of people in the software store. When Zhang Le walked in, the shopping guides in the store were so busy that no one noticed anyone coming in.

Unsurprisingly, Zhang Lexing found that his company's operating system, Kylin Windows 95, was among the most popular software in the software sales area, and in just 10 minutes of observation, three people took Kylin Windows 95 to pay.

The most popular game software here is "Command and Conquer" and "Warcraft 3" that Zhang Lexing saw at the E2 exhibition. There is even a dedicated computer for people to try, but what is unexpected is that, Zhang Lexing also saw the promotional poster of the English version of "Blood Battle on the Bund", which said: "...Fast as lightning, Special War Shanghai... Create a new model of FPS game, which is worth your expectation. There are still ten days before the official launch. Book a call...". Zhang Lexing knew that the English version of "Blood Battle on the Bund" was going to be released, but he still didn't expect it to be released so soon.

The game software area was almost turned around, and when Zhang Lexing was about to leave, his gaze accidentally swept across a shelf of game software, and then stopped.There are five boxes of the same game on the lower shelf of the shelf. A castle is drawn on the cover of the game box. There are two guards with numbers above the castle. The city gate has been opened, and there are three men, one woman, and four people on horseback. Stopping outside the city gate, they were still flying four colors of red, yellow, green and blue flags. After crossing the moat outside the city gate, there was a large group of "people" of all kinds, even griffins and hydras. , on the top of the box cover was written a line of artistic words "Heroes of Might and Magic", Zhang Lexing couldn't help but whispered: "It's "Heroes of Might and Magic 1"!"

"Heroes of Might and Magic" is a game that many people are very familiar with. Its founder is Jon Van Caneghem (Jon Van Caneghem), but many people prefer to use the nickname of Master JVC. Of course, the JVC and RBJVC appliances here But it doesn't matter at all.

Mr. JVC is not a lone ranger. As early as 1984, he founded New World Computing (NWC for short) with his friend Mark Calderwell and his wife Michaela. Their main work is "Magic Gate" " series, has been released to the fifth generation so far, and "Magic Gate 4: Mystery of the Nebula" and the second year's "Magic Gate 5: Dark Nebula" also played a trick, if the two games are installed on the same On this computer, not only can players shuttle between the two sides of Theon, but a new ending will also be activated, which can be regarded as "1+1=3".This little trick was learned by Zhiguan many years later, and he finally came up with the nondescript "Six Meridians Excalibur".

"Heroes of Might and Magic" is very legendary, and the process of its birth is even more legendary. According to rumors, in 1990, Mr. JVC independently produced a game called "The King's Bounty". It is said to be the prototype of "Heroes of Might and Magic", which already includes 4 types of heroes, 12 types of combat and adventure magic (6 types each), and a grid-style turn-based combat mode.

Later, Mr. JVC was busy making the "Magic Gate" series, and he had already forgotten the sketch game "The King's Bounty", but unexpectedly, Mr. JVC's wife Mikaela became obsessed with "The King's Bounty". Seeing Mr. JVC's "not doing business" all day long tinkering with Might and Magic, she couldn't help it, and whenever she had time, she grabbed Mr. JVC and told him: "When will you start making the sequel of "The King's Bounty"? Good game, better than Might and Magic, definitely worth your sequel."

In fact, Master JVC didn't take "The King's Bounty" seriously at all. It was purely a practice work at first, but he couldn't stand his wife Mikaela's wind, especially the frequency is getting faster and faster. From the very beginning once a week, it has already It has become once a day now, Master JVC knew that he could not wait any longer, otherwise he would not be able to conceive a new Might and Magic Gate, so he had to put down what he was doing, recruited a group of people from the company, and invested in it. The making of the sequel to The King's Bounty.

After spending a lot of money, "Heroes of Might and Magic 1" was born. In fact, New World Computer is still a small company, and JVC certainly can't do the absurd thing that spends a lot of money to make Pomeranians laugh, so "Magic and Magic Heroes 1" Heroes Invincible 1" was put on the shelves as a matter of course. Mr. JVC never thought about how much money he could make from "Heroes of Might and Magic 1", but he didn't expect that not long after it was released, all the computer game magazines showed super high ratings, and the authoritative American "Computer Game World" magazine even gave a five-star evaluation to "Heroes of Might and Magic [-]".Countless players are immersed in the game and cannot extricate themselves. Not only are they excited by the melee of the four races on the continent of Enlos, but they have also become witnesses of the Iron Fist Dynasty's conquest of the country.But the dull JVC master was just immersed in his wife Mikaela's praise at this time, and he didn't even know that his company had achieved success.

Zhang Lexing started playing "Heroes of Might and Magic" from the first generation, but when he first saw this game on a pirated CD, he was unable to enter due to lack of information.Later, the new entertainment option of computer game rooms appeared on the market, where Zhang Lexing encountered "Heroes of Might and Magic 1" again. Zhang Lexing couldn't help but fell in love with it, and the game's changeable tactics, rich races, shiny treasures and gorgeous magic made people deeply fascinated.

When I first played "Heroes of Might and Magic 1", I suffered a lot due to lack of reference materials.Zhang Lexing's first hero is a human knight, and the troops he leads are farmers with forks and archers. After scrapping the soldiers in the castle on the first day, he rushes out to hunt monsters. In the end, only the seemingly powerful farmers and The archer was soon beaten back to his hometown.Later, I learned to be good, and slowly cultivated a main hero. Unfortunately, because I didn't understand ghosts, I brought too much cannon fodder when I went to the battlefield. In the end, more and more ghosts were beaten, and the unlucky hero returned to his hometown again.Another time, because the relationship between the number of magic usage and knowledge was not clear, the heroes of the expedition used up all the combat magic, and the combat troops had to fight hard on the battlefield. What's more, the mixed team resulted in very low luck. , the main force on the battlefield was unable to move in the current round one after another. Although they barely won in the end, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and the entire army was almost wiped out.

Later, Zhang Lexing played the multiplayer battle mode with several "Heroes of Might and Magic" friends. At this time, the cheats of the game have begun to spread. In order to quickly clear the obstacles around the castle and at the same time maintain fairness, the friends It was agreed that the cheats of adding griffins can be used, but each person can only use it three times, otherwise they will be considered as losers. Looking back now, the simplicity of myself at that time makes people laugh.

When Zhang Lexing woke up from his memories, he found that he had picked up a set of "Heroes of Might and Magic 1" and walked to the cashier counter, swiped his card to pay, and ended up wrapping the game in a paper bag. Zhang Lexing left the software retail store .Carrying the paper bag, walking on the street, Zhang Lexing continued to imagine.

In my impression, after a while, in order to devote all his energy to game development instead of being entangled in sales and distribution, Mr. JVC sold New World Computer to Hawkins' 3DO, thinking of leaning against a big tree to enjoy the shade .This was indeed the case at the beginning. With the support of 3DO, Master JVC led New World Computer to continuously develop new games, three "Magic Gate" and two generations of "Heroes of Might and Magic".

It's a pity that 3DO's business situation gradually declined later, and even fell to the point where it relied on the signboard of "Heroes of Might and Magic" to cheat money. ", "Shadow of Death" successively launched, 3DO released as many as 3 "Heroes of Might and Magic" Chronicles in one breath.

Later, the launch of "Heroes of Might and Magic 4" and "Might and Magic 9" failed to save 3DO, and eventually it inevitably went bankrupt. With the auction of assets and the collapse of 3DO, the poor JVC master also Lost the development rights of "Magic Gate" and "Heroes of Might and Magic", and finally left his hometown.

Zhang Lexing also felt very sorry when he saw this news on the Internet, especially sympathized with the JVC master. Unfortunately, he was just an ordinary player at that time, and he couldn't change anything even if he wanted to.But now that "Heroes of Might and Magic" appeared in front of Zhang Lexing "again", he is no longer ordinary and he will not let go of such a good opportunity. If he can win the New World Computer, then at least Zhang Lexing will not give up because of financial problems. Making so many Chronicles to fool players will not allow such a long gap between "Heroes of Might and Magic" 4 and 5. Maybe the JVC master who has no financial pressure can make a few more generations of "Heroes of Might and Magic" Invincible" and "Magic Gate", what a happy thing for Might and Magic fans.In fact, not to mention anything else, Zhang Lexing is worth working hard for the huge fan group of "Heroes of Might and Magic" in China, so this new world computer of Master JVC is definitely going to be won.

(End of this chapter)