Game Development Giant

London Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest airports in Europe and the world.

Jester's charter flight arrived in London in the morning, and Claudia personally came to the airport to greet him. For Jester to bring such a large team this time, obviously, this British woman also knew that Jester was bringing a big team with him. It comes from sincerity.

Claudia's interest in cars is different from other girls of her age. Although Jester can tell from her love of playing Pokemon Pet Machine that she is eager to find the innocence she has never felt, but Jester sees her When the car was a hand-built Mulsanne that had just been put into production in the 1980s, which is the classic model in Bentley's history, I was still surprised.

Originally, he thought that a girl like Claudia would like feminine cars like Beetle, or Maserati, Lotus and other stylish super sports cars that can show off their personality, but he still didn't expect that the other party would actually drive such a car. A solemn and majestic car.

When buying any car is no problem, you can tell the character of the person driving the car from the car they drive.

In Jester's eyes, Bentley's car is like a solid armor that tightly wraps the driver's body. If a man drives this kind of car, it is like a man wearing armor. , which represents power, but a woman driving this type of car is like a woman wearing armor. This does not make people feel power, but only makes people feel that this woman is using a kind of look. It seems that something solid is protecting herself, but in fact she is afraid of the outside world.

However, Jester is not a master of psychology, and he doesn't know if his analysis is correct. He only makes judgments based on his own feelings, but his judgments are always accurate.

Naturally, the other people had special cars to pick them up, which were all arranged by Claudia. Jester was directly invited to get into Claudia’s Bentley Mulsanne, and there were only two of them in the car. personal.

London is nicknamed the Fog City, and Britain has a temperate maritime climate with constant rain all year round. It happened to rain when Jester came, so the sky was overcast and the sky could not be seen.

Claudia was wearing a light yellow business suit, a skirt, and her long hair was tied back. Although she didn't wear much makeup, she still looked radiant under her delicate face.

She did not use a driver, but drove the car herself. Except for the faint smell of perfume, there were almost no feminine decorations in the car. If Jester hadn't known about it before, he would never have thought it was a car. A car that a young woman would drive, both in appearance and decoration, was too serious.

"Take you directly to the hotel?" Claudia started the car and asked Jester directly without looking back.

Jester recovered from his previous contemplation. He stretched his arms and shook his head: "I slept all the way on the plane, and the jet lag is not over yet, and I can't sleep. Where can I go?" It's up to you, actually it would be nice to visit London, I haven't visited this international metropolis yet."

Claudia hesitated for a moment, and then nodded: "Okay." Then she paused, and added in her unique mocking tone: "Actually, there is nothing interesting to visit in London, there is decay everywhere. There is no upward vitality in the atmosphere. The people here are still living in history, and they think they are in the Victorian era!"

Jester was not familiar with London. His only understanding of London was from when he was a fan in later generations. He knew that London was the city with the most top clubs among the five major leagues. However, for Jester, a pseudo-fan, he You may know more about Manchester United, but you know nothing about other British teams in this era, except for the news that Liverpool won the UEFA Champions League in 1984 from the newspapers some time ago.

But this is not Manchester, and Jester has no interest in these teams, so he didn't say he wanted to take a look.

The black Bentley car was driving on the streets of London. Jester looked at the scene on the street from the car window. In fact, he did not pay attention to it. He was thinking about the establishment of a European distribution company. thing.

"Ahead is the Sega direct store." Claudia said after turning to a new road.

Turning his head to look at the road sign, Jester saw a string of English letters written on the road sign, but he didn't see it clearly because he was in the car.

Sega officially released the arcade games it licensed to other parties in the UK a week ago. They were also the first releases in Europe. Because of the success of the first releases in the United States and Japan, they also caused a certain sensation before the release.

Just before the official release, Sega sold more than 10,000 units through various channels. For the UK, this is a very good sales volume.

Sega's direct store model is also modeled on the direct sales of Jester's flagship store under construction in the United States. It has a dedicated experience area. There are various Sega products and games in the experience area for purchase. customer experience.

The flagship stores that Jester is building are still relatively small in scale. After all, they only have a few arcade games and one PC game that has not yet been officially released. In terms of the number of games, they are far behind those that have been released. Sega has its own home console.

But it’s just that the number of games cannot be compared.

Asking Claudia to stop the car on the side of the road, Jester wanted to go and have a look at the flagship store in Siga.

Jester asked Claudia just now. This is one of the most prosperous and densely populated communities in London. Not far from here are the famous Richmond Royal Park and the World Heritage Kew Gardens. Of course, there are also There is the prestigious Wimbledon tennis court.

Just stepping into this Sega-operated store, Jester was surprised by the number of customers inside.

There were more than twenty customers in this not-too-big shop, and several Sega waiters were busy greeting them. Even when Jester came in, they didn't have time to pay attention.

In this store, many of Sega's products are displayed in a very spacious manner, including their own arcade games, home consoles, and the four games they sell as agents.

But basically no one cares about other Sega games. The vast majority of people are queuing up to experience the games produced by Mars Entertainment.

The arcade version in the experience store is different from the one officially sold. In the experience store, Mars Entertainment only provides the content of the first few levels of this game. After all, experience is to make you feel that this game is worth spending money to play. Enough. If players are allowed to directly experience the entire game, how can the arcade bosses still flock to purchase it?

"Sir, are you also here to experience the four games that were just released?"

A young black-haired woman wearing a lavender suit with the English word Sega on the chest saw Jester who was looking around. She quickly came to Jester, bowed slightly, and spoke in a very serious tone. Said respectfully.

Although the other party was speaking English, Jester could still hear her Japanese English retroflex from her accent, although she had already made it very unclear.

The waitress is Japanese.

Jester smiled and shook his head: "No, I just took a look."

Although Jester doesn't pay much attention to his usual clothes, this time he came to the UK to represent the company's image, so he had a custom-made outfit from Armani before, and Crowe was always by his side. Dia's temperament also let this Sega employee, who was always watching what was happening, know that these two were no small figures.

Therefore, she was particularly attentive when introducing it.

"Sir, these are the latest games from Mars Entertainment, a famous American game company that we are represented by Sega. These games have caused a sensation when they were released in the United States and Japan, and according to news from our partner Mars Entertainment, they The cumulative pre-sale sales of the four arcade games have exceeded..." The Sega waiter enthusiastically introduced Jester.

However, Jester's eyes were only slightly focused on the arcade machines of his company's four games that required queuing to take turns to experience, and then moved elsewhere.

Other places are relatively deserted, of course, compared to the situation where he is experiencing the four games. There are also several other Sega arcade games with players trying them out, but queuing is obviously not necessary. .

However, there was not a single player in front of the Sega-1000, Sega's console that had only been released for a year.

This is the first home game console independently developed by Sega. From the entire design style of the game console, the shadow of the Atari 2600 can be clearly seen, especially the classic one that is obviously a complete copy of the Atari 2600. The design of the single joystick controller is even more proof of this. If it weren't for the fact that the Atari 2600 was black and the SG-1000 was white, Jester might have mistaken them.

To be honest, Jester had only seen such a cold name for this game console in the history of the development of video games in later generations. He had not really been exposed to it. After all, in China thirty years later, he might have heard of sg- 1000 Not many people have this game console, let alone have seen it or even owned it.

Jester walked to an SG-1000 game console. This machine was connected to a Panasonic color TV, but the cassette was not plugged in.

When the Sega waitress saw that Jester was interested in her company's poorly-selling game console, she quickly took out a catalog from the shelf on one side and handed it to Jester's hand. .

"This is the game cartridge for this game console. Most of them are developed by Sega ourselves..."

Jester took it smoothly, then smiled and nodded to the waiter to express his gratitude.

There were more than twenty games on the list, all in English. Jester glanced at them briefly. He had never heard of any of these games, but this was normal. Although he knew the history of game development very well, things like Sega For a game console as niche as the SG-1000, it was impossible for him to search specifically for this information in his previous life. So, Jester just clicked on a game on this catalog, then smiled and said to the waiter: "Can I try this game?"

The Sega waitress also glanced at the game Jester pointed at and nodded: "Sir, no problem, please wait a moment, I will get you the game cartridge." After that, she turned to a man Go to the counter on the side.

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