Game Development Giant

There were a lot of people gathered around "Final Fantasy II". Itagaki Tomonobu looked at it for a while and felt that he didn't know when it would be his turn to try it out, so he went to the front and bought two boxed copies of "Final Fantasy II" cassette and two scratch-off lottery tickets.

This is a small means specially set up for rough promotion. It is very common in later generations. Jester has used it once before when the game was released, and the effect was good. Therefore, every time Mars Entertainment releases a new game, it will also be used. Get one. The prizes are not expensive. The first prize is just a Dreambox game console. The second prize is a game cartridge produced by Mars Entertainment. The third prize is a redemption coupon. If you hold this coupon, When you purchase Mars Entertainment products in the future, you can offset a certain amount of trees.

However, the winning rate is not very high, it is just a lottery.

After getting it, Tomonobu Itagaki didn't even scratch it, and threw these two together with the two "Final Fantasy II" game cards he just bought into the bag. Logically speaking, as a person who likes gambling, Generally speaking, Itagaki Tomonobu probably scratched the prize ticket immediately after getting it, but maybe he was in a hurry to find a game to play, so he didn't bother.

After walking around, there were fewer people in the area where Mars Entertainment's arcade products were displayed, so Itagaki Tomonobu quickly approached, and the classmate named Aokino who had been chatting with him for a long time was also stopping here to watch. . Aokino also saw Itagaki Tomonobu, he smiled and said proactively: "The game on those arcade machines is called "Street Fighter". It is a fighting game from Mars Entertainment. It has not been released for a long time even in the United States. We in Japan It was only officially released in the past few months. I have played it in the arcade several times before, and it is very fun!"

Hear Aokino's explanation. Itagaki Tomonobu nodded, not knowing whether he understood or not, and took the initiative to step forward. Heads stretched out, people gathered around to watch.

After watching it for more than ten minutes, Itagaki Tomonobu realized that this game called "Street Fighter" seemed to be the same as those swordsman biographies he liked to read. It was just two characters, like the swordsman in the novel. Generally, a duel begins, and the joysticks and buttons control how the characters inside perform moves.

Looking at the game screen in front of him, what came to Tomonobu Itagaki's mind was the part about the duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro in the Miyamoto Musashi Chronicles that he had just finished watching. At the same time, because he was not very familiar with this game, he queued up and waited for the people in front to finish playing, while asking Aokino next to him about how to play this game called "Street Fighter", but now This game may be what Aokino said, but it was just released in Japan, and he has only played it a few times, so he is not very familiar with it, and he doesn't even recognize all the characters in it. I just knew some simple moves, so I told Itagaki Tomonobu.

Then I waited slowly at the back.

The final result was that Itagaki Tomonobu got carried away playing with Aokino at the end. Having missed the afternoon Shinkansen, Itagaki Tomonobu was unlikely to attend his favorite professor's class in the evening. Although he regretted it a bit, it was obvious that even after leaving the flagship store of Mars Entertainment Shop, from Itagaki Tomonobu's face, it can be easily seen that he still has some unfinished thoughts about today's experience.

In addition to the convenient bag containing the two game cartridges he just bought, he was holding in his hand. He also held a boxy box in his hand, neither too big nor too small.

The box is beautifully printed. It has the word "dreambox" printed on it in English and Japanese, obviously. There is a Dreambox machine installed here. It is not that Itagaki Tomonobu bought it with his own money, but that he just bought it from the two

Won the scratch-off ticket.

Because of this shitty luck, Itagaki Tomonobu also made Aokino jealous. Although a dreambox was not too expensive, it was definitely not cheap either. After all, it cost more than 200 U.S. dollars when converted into U.S. dollars.

Since they missed the afternoon bus, there is no need for the two of them to rush back. They will go to have a meal first, and then decide whether to take the evening bus back or stay one night in Tokyo. They will leave tomorrow and the food will be Japanese. Very common ramen, ramen only emerged in Japan after World War II. Before World War II, Japanese people basically did not eat ramen. Even the word ramen was passed down from China.

Moreover, in the 1950s, the Japanese only used ramen because supplies were extremely poor after the war, so it was easy and simple to make ramen to satisfy their hunger.

And as we all know, after a few decades, those who have been to Japan will see that Japanese ramen is very exquisite, and the soup is rich and mellow. In fact, this is something that the Japanese slowly improved and studied after the economy improved. In the first five years, In the 1900s, these ramen noodles were sold along the streets by small vendors carrying burdens.

In this case, of course, it is impossible to have any other ingredients such as pork bone puffer fish, grilled shrimp cakes, etc., and a bowl of ramen is not delicious, with 70% of the soup and 30% of the noodles. At that time, the soup base was just added. Just rinse the MSG with hot water. It's so salty that it's almost unpalatable.

Of course, this is no longer the case even in the 1980s. After all, only after you are full and warm can you go back and think about how to eat comfortably and live beautifully.

Itagaki Tomonobu and Aokino both drank a bowl of steaming tonkotsu ramen. Originally Itagaki Tomonobu suggested that he want to go to a bookstore in Tokyo. Since he couldn't go to Tokyo University's library, he should go to the bookstore. It would also be a good idea to see if there are any good books and buy one.

But obviously, Aokino is a serious game addict. He was still interested in playing the game cartridge of "Final Fantasy II" when he bought it before, but it was mostly because Hironobu Sakaguchi, a rookie who had just come into contact with video games, was playing "Street Fighter" This is a slightly new game, so I didn’t try the protagonist “Final Fantasy II” this time.

But when Aokino passed by several machines where he was trying out "Final Fantasy II", he couldn't help but take a few glances at them. With just a few glances, he was shocked by what he saw at that time. He felt that this game was simply not comparable to any RPG game he had played before.

Even "Phantasy Star", which is said to use the same technology, cannot be compared to the same, because the pictures he saw were too gorgeous.

Originally, he would not have been able to play without a Dreambox, but Itagaki Tomonobu was so lucky that he got a Dreambox as a prize. So, after just finishing dinner, after Aokino's earnest persuasion, Itagaki Tomonobu finally gave up. I thought of taking the overnight train back tonight.

They found a hotel with a TV in the bedroom, and the two of them checked in.

In fact, Itagaki Tomonobu had spent the whole day fighting at the Mars Entertainment flagship store. He almost only played "Street Fighter" and he still had some unfinished thoughts. So after Aokino just said to him, he just thought for a moment and then agreed.

Because he really wanted to play this game called "Final Fantasy II" himself to see if it was as good as other people boasted.

In particular, it's not as fun as Street Fighter.

And the result is obvious. Itagaki Tomonobu and Aokino stayed up almost all night. They both studied the game instructions that came with the game cartridge all night. However, although they didn't sleep all night, in the early morning, the two of them They were also very energetic, and they were even looking at the TV screen without blinking. The game characters they controlled were fighting monsters.

"This game is not as good as Street Fighter."

Itagaki Tomonobu, who stretched out and had some pain in his back after working all night, said casually that although he also thought this game was fun, the confrontation was still not as intense and exciting as "Street Fighter" gave him. When he was playing "Street Fighter", he had the feeling of being in the Warring States Period, transforming into a top swordsman, and fighting people in life-and-death battles.

This feeling is what he cares about most.

And this game called "Final Fantasy II" is fun, so I feel a little tired while playing it. It is far inferior to the kind of tension that "Street Fighter" gave him, which kept him tense and never even glanced at it. , when playing "Street Fighter", it's too late to concentrate on it, how can I get tired.

However, Aokino obviously disagrees with Itagaki Tomonobu. He played "Street Fighter" with Itagaki Tomonobu yesterday. Because he had played it before, he always won the battle with Itagaki Tomonobu at the beginning, and Itagaki Tomonobu also Don't be discouraged, keep being tortured by Aokino, and then slowly learn the skills.

However, Aokino's level is average, not even average. After Itagaki Tomonobu became familiar with four or five games and became proficient in the moves of the characters he used, he eliminated Aokino three times, five times and five times two times. Well, Aokino didn't believe in evil at the beginning, and wanted to continue fighting with Itagaki Tomonobu.

However, as the number of games increased, in the end, the character he controlled could not even touch the clothes of Itagaki Tomonobu's characters, and was KOed by Itagaki Tomonobu.

Seeing KO appearing on the screen and the perfect English text below KO, Itagaki Tomonobu was naturally very excited, while Aokino was naturally dejected and extremely angry, so he also expressed his disapproval of the game "Street Fighter" Opinions have also grown.