game trailblazer

Chapter 365 An Untimely Born NGC
"Sir, what do you think of the newly launched Nintendo Game Cube game console?" A location hostess holding a microphone asked a player who had just come out of a game store.

The player with a childish face scratched his hair, and said embarrassedly: "I haven't played it yet, so I can't say it. But I believe in heaven, so I believe in NGC!"

As he said that, the player held up the NGC he had just bought, and shook it in front of the camera. He couldn't tell whether he wanted to show something, or just wanted to show off.

"Hmm..." The hostess on location turned to face the camera, and said into the microphone: "It seems that this player is still very optimistic about the Nintendo GameCube game console!"

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RB Kyoto Minami District Kamitoba Hokaricho, Nintendo headquarters building...

More than ten hours have passed since NGC started selling in North America. Hiroshi Yamauchi has been in an inexplicable mood since he woke up in the morning. All this is due to the special operation of NGC listing this time.According to Nintendo's past habits, or certain practices of RB companies, NGC's listing should start from the RB market, such as the Nintendo Famicom, Super Nintendo, and even the N64.However, the disastrous defeat of the N64 in the RB market that year cast a shadow on Hiroshi Yamauchi's heart. In addition, Sony Computer Entertainment was unwilling to fail and offered a low-priced killer. PS2 game consoles and DreamBox128 killed blood in the RB market. , leaving little room for others to survive. In order to avoid another NGC failure, Hiroshi Yamauchi gave up the previous practice and put NGC's debut in North America. For this reason, he also transferred his cronies there.

With a soft "ding dong", Hiroshi Yamauchi turned his head to look at the display screen on the desk, moved the mouse with his right hand at the same time and clicked, there was a slight click, and a new email popped up on the display screen, which read : "...As of 43562:[-] p.m. Eastern Time, NGC game consoles have sold a total of [-] sets, and the current inventory is very abundant..."

Seeing the few figures, Hiroshi Yamauchi frowned slightly. This result is not very good, not to mention the PS2 and DreamBox128 that are currently shopping, even the N64 that year and the almost delisted Dreamcast performed better on the first day of listing.According to this sales speed, it will take at least half a month to break through one million. By then, maybe others have already reacted.

"Wait a little longer, maybe the situation will get better later." Hiroshi Yamauchi comforted himself in his heart. After all, NGC has only been listed for fourteen or five hours now, and there should be a lot of room for growth. Maybe it will be tomorrow. There will be good news.

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In the suburbs of Buffalo City, New York, USA, on the 8th floor of the apartment at No. 5 Lucirie Avenue, the home of Wells Reed...

At this time, Wells Reed had already returned to the bedroom to rest, leaving only the NGC packaging scattered on the floor, the NGC game console and the large-screen TV that had been turned off in the entertainment room.If it is normal, Wells Reed will at least stop playing until the early morning. Unfortunately, this time "Louis' Haunted House" is not as attractive as imagined, and the game process is not as expected. It was so interesting, and he was exhausted from queuing up, so he didn't insist on it anymore. He planned to rest early and go to the game store tomorrow to try his luck. Maybe Nintendo will come up with some new games.

In the blink of an eye, the next day, Wells Reed had breakfast and drove to the city center in a leisurely manner. Buffalo is not a big city, and when there is rarely a traffic jam, he drove for more than ten minutes. You're back where you left off yesterday.After finding a vacant space to park the car, Wells Reed got out of the car and was going to try his luck at the Nintendo authorized game store yesterday.

Before he had gone far, Wells Reed noticed a long queue at the entrance of a shop in front of him. From his position, it was at least two to 300 meters long, and people came to join him from time to time. team.Wells Reed couldn't help but stop and take a look. This store is also a game store from the signboard, but from the style and image, it should be one of Nintendo's competitors, a store that sells DreamBox128 games.

Looking at the long queue, an idea suddenly popped into Wells Reed's mind: "Why don't you go and see what these people want to buy?"

As a relatively staunch Nintendo fan, Wells Reed usually doesn’t care about what’s going on on other game platforms, even if he passes by a Nintendo competitor’s game store, he doesn’t look at it, but today’s situation is quite special. Yesterday's "Louis's Haunted House" had already disappointed him, and he came here today just in case of hope. When he suddenly saw a long queue in front of someone else's shop, he suddenly had a whim in his mind.

"Hello, may I ask what are you planning to buy in this queue?" Wells Reid randomly chose a kind-looking white boy and asked.

The guy replied casually: ""GTA3", I have been waiting for a long time."

"What is "GTA3"? A game?" A series of question marks emerged from Wells Reed's mind. At this moment, a bell rang at the door of the specialty store, and the team began to become a little agitated.

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"Excuse me, is this Mr. Smallwood?" A strange man's voice came from outside the door.

"I am." Craig Smallwood agreed through the door, leaned over the peephole to look out, and a blond guy in FedEx overalls appeared in front of his eyes.

Craig Smallwood was overjoyed. He knew that the game he had scheduled had probably arrived, but he still asked cautiously through the door: "Who are you?"

"Mr. Smallwood, you have a package." The blond boy raised the small package in his hand and said with a smile, "Please sign for it."

Craig Smallwood was relieved this time, reached out and opened the door, took the package from the blond boy and checked it, and it was indeed the game he had ordered, so he signed with a few strokes and took Turn around and leave with the package.The long-awaited game finally arrived. Craig Smallwood was so excited that he almost forgot to close the door. Fortunately, the guy from FedEx reminded him very responsibly. There was no oolong.

After closing the door, Craig Smallwood couldn't wait to unpack the package as he walked, and soon a red and black inner package appeared in front of his eyes. With the words "Grand Theft Auto III", it is officially "GTA3" that he has been waiting for for a long time.After opening the inner package and finding the game DVD disc, Craig Smallwood put the rest of the package on the square table in the entertainment room, then came to the big-screen TV, turned on the power of the DreamBox128 game console and the TV, Insert the DVD disc into the host, and began to sit down and wait for the game screen to appear.

As a gold member of DreamBoxLive, Craig Smallwood is relatively well-informed. He had heard of this "GTA3" as early as eight months ago, and he had also played the previous generation of "GTA2" on a PC. GTA2", at that time was still a very violent 3D top-down action game.Eight months ago, what Craig Smallwood saw was a fully [-]D new game, and the plot of the game has also undergone great changes. In the past, he could only play gangsters to fight and kill, but now it has changed It has become a completely open world, a Liberty City that is close to reality and has a multi-ethnic and cultural background.The player’s identity in the game is an undercover police detective, but the game does not limit the direction of development. Players can communicate and interact with anyone in Liberty City at will, and can accept tasks from gang bosses, policemen and businessmen. Both the unwillingness to accomplish and how to accomplish it are in the player's hands.Players can completely degenerate into real gangsters in the game, or they can stick to the bottom line and continue their undercover career, and they can even drive around the city without caring about anything.

The video released at the beginning showed some means of transportation in Liberty City, such as luxury cars, taxis, sports cars, etc., but in the official version, Craig Smallwood heard that there are more choices, Trucks, trucks, ambulances, garbage trucks, police cars, even speedboats and police helicopters have the opportunity to become their own cars, and weapons and equipment will be more abundant.

With free game choices and rich game fun, Craig Smallwood has been looking forward to getting the official version of the game since eight months ago. I immediately made a set using the convenience of a gold card member, in order to get a game in time, and now I finally got my wish.

Accompanied by the slight sound of disk reading, the picture on the TV screen began to change, a red sports car rushed out quickly, followed by several police cars with flashing lights, and followed by the piercing sound of sirens , the sound of bullets whizzing and the roar of helicopters came from the air...

When Wells Reed woke up from his dizzy state, he found that he had an extra set of "GTA3" game in his hands. He was infected by the trailer on the big-screen TV at the entrance of the store just now, coupled with the turbulent crowd at the scene. , he didn't know when he followed in, and even bought a set of games under the bewilderment of the surrounding fanatical atmosphere.

Holding the "GTA3" in his hand, Wells Reed looked at the deserted Nintendo game store not far away in confusion, and finally turned around as if he had made up his mind to leave, but he suddenly turned back after walking two steps turned around.Wells Reed remembered a key thing, he took the game away patronizingly, and there was no console suitable for the game at home. Thinking of this, he glanced at the Nintendo game store not far away, and walked into I went to the game store in front of me.

(End of this chapter)