game trailblazer

Chapter 376 Crazy FC Mini
"...The new president Tetsuko Koyama announced that Sega will give up the research and development of Dreamcast follow-up consoles from now on...the company's game hardware research and development department (including the research and development of business machines) will be split and reorganized into an independent company, and Sega's headquarters will gradually transform For a professional game development company... Existing Dreamcast console and Saturn game console users can continue to enjoy comprehensive after-sales service..."

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"...At Nintendo's special press conference, Hiroshi Yamauchi officially announced his resignation from the company's management and was transferred to the company's special advisor. The position of Nintendo's chairman was taken over by Atsushi Asada, and Minoru Arakawa took over the position of president... President Arakawa said in the press release At the meeting, Xu Yeming, a representative of Oriental Industrial Group, signed a cooperation agreement. The two parties expressed that they will carry out more in-depth cooperation in the future...Nintendo senior research and development personnel Genyo Takeda confirmed that Nintendo will abandon the home game console market and focus on the development of portable handheld consoles... ..."

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July is coming in a blink of an eye. During this period, the most ups and downs are the executives of Sony Computer Entertainment, especially Ken Kutaragi, who is the president.At first, they had a good discussion with Sega, and Sony Computer Entertainment even invited Sega to set up a joint venture company to jointly develop games. If Isao Okawa hadn’t been pushing three obstacles and four obstacles, Sega might have become Sony Computer Entertainment’s number one company long ago. Two parties.After finally waiting for the annoying old man Isao Okawa to burp his fart, and before Ken Kutaragi was happy for a long time, suddenly the internal situation of Sega Company changed suddenly, and Hideki Sato, whom he had placed high hopes on, was completely defeated, and the easy-to-get president's throne flew under his nose After leaving, Xiang Shanzhe, who had always disliked Sony Computer Entertainment, took the stage, and then Sega switched to the embrace of Dongfang Industrial Group.

The ups and downs, ups and downs, are like riding a roller coaster. If it weren't for Kutaragi Ken's knowledge and psychological endurance, he might have to follow in the footsteps of Okawa Kou.Originally Ken Kutaragi thought he had reached the bottom of the valley, but who would have thought that it would not be long before Nintendo broke the news that Lao Yamauchi stepped down and Arakawa Minoru took over as president. What's worse, Nintendo also joined the camp of Dongfang Industrial Group, and even claimed that Will give up NGC game consoles and focus on the portable handheld market.This made Kutaragi Ken almost didn't know what to say. It was originally a four-nation war, but in a blink of an eye it became a three-legged confrontation, and in a blink of an eye it became a one-on-one match. The previous Sony Computer Entertainment could also consider a vertical and horizontal alliance. Now he can only go head-to-head with Dongfang Industrial Group. Perhaps the only good news for him is that the overseas sales license of the PlayStation 2 game console has finally been approved again. Fight.

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Maeda Chusaburo is an old player, and he is the kind of ashes player whose machine age reaches double digits. He has seen the inexplicable restart failure of early red and white machines, and also experienced the weird red game screen of VRBoy. Through the fierce collision between DreamBox128 and PS2.

With the continuous improvement of game hardware, the game screen is more and more gorgeous, and the scale of the game is also getting bigger and bigger. From the early cassettes counted in K, it has gradually become a disc. The world of "Final Fantasy" has changed from A small flat map grows into a huge 3D space, but Chusaburo Maeda always feels that he can't find the simple fun he used to have. Sometimes when he hears the high school students living nearby discuss excitedly Whether it is Han Jinpeng (one of the protagonists of "Adventure King: Journey to the New World")'s Qinglong Bengshou or Yu Chengjing's (one of the characters of "VR Warrior")'s white tiger palms is more handsome, he will There is a feeling like a world away, and occasionally weird thoughts such as "Is it because I am old..." come up.

"Beep~beep~~beep~~~" When Maeda Chusaburo turned on the TV one day, a very familiar synthesized electronic sound came out from the speaker of the TV, and a man sitting in front of the old-fashioned TV appeared on the screen. The children playing games, the red and white hosts in front of the old TV and the galloping tanks on the old TV screen evoked something deep in his heart, and at that moment, he even felt his eyes a little moist.

"Regaining childhood dreams, please look forward to FCMini..." Listening to the voice-over from the TV, Maeda Tadasaburo secretly made a decision.

July 7th, Saturday, the release date of "FCMiniforDreamBox7"...

In a blink of an eye, the day when "FCMini" was launched, Maeda Chusaburo stood in the line, looked at the long crowd in front of him, and sighed softly in his heart.Originally, he thought that there would not be too many people with the same nostalgic complex as himself, so he didn't deliberately go to the queue early, but he didn't know that the situation was different from what he expected, and someone came to the game store before dawn There was a queue at the door, and some even brought tents.

"Damn it, I should have thought of it earlier!" Maeda Tadasaburo squirmed forward slowly with the team, muttering in his heart very unhappy.

Carrying a big paper bag, Hidaka Harano carefully squeezed out from the door of the game store. This is a set of "FCMiniforDreamBox128" he just bought, a total of 10 old games from the FC era, each only 2000 yen, In terms of price, it is still very cheap.Strictly speaking, Hidaka Genno has never played the ancient games on red and white machines before. When he started to get in touch with game consoles, FC game consoles had long been a frequent visitor to medieval game stores. As a young man in the new era, As a game player who has been baptized by big scene CG, he was never interested in this kind of old games before.

As a DreamBox128 controller, Hidaka Yuanye, who is not short of money, basically buys a set of DreamBox128 platform games as soon as they are launched on the market for research. It is out of a player's instinct.Having studied many DreamBox128 games, Hidakahara also has his own evaluation of platform game developers, such as Capcom, Konami, Square Enix and Shanghai Tianzhiyuan, which are basically first-class games, and printed with Asian Games with interactive badges are usually not bad in quality, and this time "FCMiniforDreamBox128" has the logos of Shanghai Tianzhiyuan, Asia Interactive, and even Nintendo's participation, which means that the quality of "FCMiniforDreamBox128" must be guaranteed Yes, so Hidaka Genno prepared the banknotes without hesitation, and made another move.

Haneda carefully walked around the dense crowd in front of him. He had already walked for more than 5 minutes for the usual distance of less than 10 minutes, but the destination still seemed out of reach.Haneda is planning to go to a second-hand game store in Akihabara. He found this place from the Tokyo Second-hand Game Network. It is said that a batch of games from the MD era have just arrived, and some of them happen to be the ones he failed to collect all those years ago. Sega games, even though he has now embraced the DreamBox128 game console, the Sega complex in his heart still exists, even when he heard the news that Sega gave up home game hardware and transformed into a professional game developer. It didn't disappear but was temporarily buried in his heart, so when he saw pictures of old Sega games that he hadn't collected from the Internet, his mind became active again.

A guy carrying a big paper bag suddenly appeared not far in front of Haneda, his eyes swept over, and he immediately recognized that the guy was his annoying and arrogant neighbor Hidaka Yuanno, who likes to carry something all day long. A package of DreamBox128 games dangled in front of his eyes, and not once or twice.

Haneda snorted softly, turned around and changed the direction of travel, he didn't like dealing with that guy Hidaka, especially now that he was carrying a big paper bag and obviously bought a game, if that guy Hidaka Seeing himself, he might take out the game box to show off.

Squeezing forward another ten meters, the crowd became thinner, and the signboard of the medieval game shop finally appeared in front of Haneda Wuren. He looked back at Hidaka Genno who was struggling in the crowd, curled his lips in disdain, and then accelerated He stepped up and walked towards the medieval game shop.

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"...It's crazy buying again, audience, you are not mistaken, these fanatical players came to line up early just for a newly released game, but this is not a masterpiece of that company's game, but a very old one. The game "FCMiniforDreamBox128" can even be said to be a super cold meal king, but it seems that these players obviously don't think so...

The above is the report sent by reporter Yamane from Akihabara! "

Kutaragi Ken watched the news on the TV screen with a livid face, he was in a very bad mood now.As the summer vacation is an important time for game sales, Sony Computer Entertainment attaches great importance to it. For this purpose, it has specially prepared more than ten games of different styles, in order to compete with the DreamBox128 game console.However, the current situation is not as expected. The three games that were launched almost at the same time as "FC Mini for DreamBox 128" have encountered a cold wave, and they have not sold 20 sets in total. More than 40 sets, the situation of players rushing to buy is staged in RB, Akihabara, Shibuya, Kyoto, Osaka, and even the ancient FC game consoles are showing signs of recovery, as if time has returned in a short period of time The most glorious era of FC game consoles.

Recalling the first time he heard that Orient Industrial Group and Nintendo were going to jointly launch "FC Mini", Ken Kutaragi laughed at this move in front of many Sony Computer Entertainment executives, "It seems that they have lost their ability to innovate, and they will use With such an ancient game dug out, don’t they think that players are fools”, and now the booming market of “FCMini” made his words at that time turn into self-inflicted humiliation.

While Ken Kutaragi was still struggling, the popularity of "FCMini" continued, and it successfully surpassed the goal of 1 million sets in just one week, but the popularity of players showed no sign of weakening, and even appeared on EBay. There are many high-priced auctions of "FCMini".

Masashi Tanaka, Director of Public Relations of Sony Computer Entertainment, accidentally slipped his mouth when confronted with reporters’ questioning: “RB consumers are so crazy that they are rushing to buy the old-fashioned “FCMini” for all ages. The high-tech product PS2 is disregarded..."

These remarks did not bring the slightest benefit to Sony Computer Entertainment, but angered many players. Not only did the sales of PS2 and related games decline, but even several more radical players raised their hands at the gate of Sony Computer Entertainment. A protest sign reads: "We don't need someone to tell us which games to play, because we are the ones playing the games!"

Seeing this situation through the one-way light-transmitting window, Ken Kutaragi's face, which was not very good, became even uglier...

(End of this chapter)