Game Development Giant

With the broadcast of the program, the news that Mars Entertainment will hold a carnival at the end of the year has become known throughout the United States.

Then through many media reprints and quotes, the news also spread to Japan, especially after Jester mentioned on ABC’s program that he would hold an e-sports competition at the Mars Entertainment Carnival at the end of the year, there were countless game enthusiasts There was a strong interest in this.

After Jester’s detailed introduction in the program, curious people basically understood what the so-called e-sports competition is.

To put it bluntly, it is like a sports competition similar to chess, but the contestants are not competing in chess events, but in video games. Jester announced that there are only two competition events for the first time, one is "Environment "American Rally", and the other is "Street Fighter" which has become popular around the world not long after its release.

Due to the high price of the frame, the popularity of "Tour of America" ​​is far lower than that of "Street Fighter". Originally, as soon as "Street Fighter" came out, there was, unmistakably, 3.s. that dominated arcades everywhere. The trend of the hall, this time after Jester's promotion, the high prize of 50,000 US dollars for the champion was stimulated, and the players immediately followed.

Mars Entertainment officially started selling tickets for the carnival two weeks after the show was broadcast. The sales locations were mainly in the United States, with only a very small number of tickets sold abroad. Some people even hyped it up, and a ticket ended up being so hyped that it tripled its original price.

Acting vigorously and resolutely is Jester's style. While the tickets are on sale, the regional trials for the "Tour of America Rally" and "Street Fighter" he is preparing have also officially begun. However, if you organize it yourself, it would require too many manpower and resources, and it would be inconvenient.

In this world, Jester remembered some methods of organizing such competitions in later generations. He asked branches in various places to contact local arcades and select one or several to host the selection competition.

This is a good thing that is equivalent to free advertising. Naturally, the owners of the arcades are not willing to take second place, and they have put forward their own conditions. Each one is better than the other, and this problem is easily solved. Especially in an arcade in Japan, for the right to host this competition, they purchased thirty brand-new "Street Fighter" and ten brand-new "Tour of America" ​​arcade frames from Mars Entertainment. So many people like to read game magazines. Basically, in addition to buying a copy of "Fai Tong", I also always have a Japanese version of "Gae".

Just like Umehara Daigo, although he is only an elementary school student now, he likes reading these types of magazines very much. But he hasn’t been playing games for too long. In fact, although he had played some sporadically before, it really made him obsessed with video games. It was a trip to the arcade a few months ago.

In Japan, arcades are not a place where good kids go, and Umehara Daigo is not planning to become a Yakuza when he grows up. So he rarely goes to such places.

It was filled with smoke and there were people of all races. In addition, Umehara Daigo was young, so he only went to play for a while unless he was playing with a few friends.

Although Umehara Daigo is very addicted to games, he is very talented in gaming. No matter what game he plays, his friends are no match for him. Even after he has mastered it a few times, many of them are older than him. Many of them are no match for him.

Once he competed with someone who was already in junior high school in the game "American Cube". Umehara Daigo won easily because he was so hard that it took almost no effort. The junior high school student was a little angry, but it seemed that Umehara Daigo was just Even a child doesn't care about him.

In the eyes of Umehara Daigo, video games were just some interesting toys, and they were not too difficult for him. Until some time ago, he played the game called "Street Fighter" for the first time. after the game.

Fighting games, Umehara Daigo once played a game on his FC at his cousin's house. The game was called "Kung Fu". In Umehara Daigo's eyes, this game was very boring, and he couldn't understand why. His cousin was so obsessed with this game, and for such a simple game, he immediately passed the level after mastering it for more than ten minutes. However, his cousin had never reached the bottom of the level.

But with the game "Street Fighter", Umehara Daigo felt for the first time that video games are not always that simple.

"Huh!"

Umehara Daigo, who was walking while looking at the "gae" magazine he had just bought, was suddenly startled and had a strange look on his face. He was reading an article titled "Mars Entertainment Carnival". "E-Sports Competition" article, and then his eyes moved down and saw the line that said the first place winner's prize was fifty thousand US dollars.

Walking with Umehara Daigo, several of his companions were chattering about something. They seemed to be discussing where to go for the weekend. They all knew that Umehara Daigo didn't like others to disturb him when he was around, but when they heard Umehara Daigo There was a sound of surprise, and when he turned to look at Umehara Daigo, he also saw the report at the same time.

"Fifty thousand US dollars! The competition is "Tour of America", "Street Fighter"...it's "Street Fighter"!" One of them, a little fat, quietly read out the words from the "gae" in Daigo Umehara's hand. After a while, he repeated the words "Street Fighter" again as if he couldn't believe it.

These people are good friends with Umehara Daigo, and they all know that Umehara Daigo has been practicing hard recently since he was humiliated by someone playing "Street Fighter" more than a month ago, and his level has improved by leaps and bounds. If you were to compete with Umehara Daigo in "Street Fighter", I'm afraid he would basically be killed perfectly by him.

Perfect kill is the setting of the later game "King of Fighters" and the King of Fighters series. If a character is not hit by the opponent in this sentence of the game, then when the word "KO" appears, it will appear next to "KO". Perfect appears below, which is the English word perfect, which represents a perfect kill.

As a latecomer, Jester certainly knew the sense of accomplishment that a perfect kill once brought him, so he told Mark Saini about this setting, and Mark Saini also agreed deeply after hearing it, so he made it This setting was added to his "Street Fighter".

Before Umehara Daigo could react, he was surrounded by his close friends. They all looked at Umehara Daigo with bright eyes, which made Umehara Daigo feel uncomfortable and even made him Unconsciously, he took a few steps back and asked, "What are you doing? What are you looking at me doing?"

"Mezono, you go and participate in this competition! It's fifty thousand US dollars!" A friend of Umehara Daigo said to him excitedly.

Umehara Daigo rolled his eyes after hearing this. Although he was young, he was relatively precocious. When he heard his friend say such unreasonable words, he said with no shame: "You are stupid, you are participating in this competition." There must be a lot of people, we are just kids, how can we have a chance to win the award?"

However, several of his friends did not take it seriously. Some of them had already read this report, so they continued to encourage Umehara Daigo with a smile: "This Mars Entertainment Carnival is holding the finals, and not everyone can do it." To participate, you need to participate in the qualifiers if you want to participate in the finals. The prize money in the qualifiers is also good. The first place in the qualifiers in our Japanese division is worth 5,000 US dollars! And as long as you can enter the main draw of the national competition, you will get 1,000 US dollars. Dollar bonus!”

This makes Umehara Daigo very excited. After all, he is still a child at heart. He also has many toys that he wants to buy, but the pocket money given by his family is definitely not enough. It would be very good if he can get bonuses by participating in competitions.

But as soon as he thought of this, Umehara Daigo immediately showed a frustrated look. He felt that he had thought too much. He was just a child, how could he possibly get a ranking.

Several people were walking while talking, and before they knew it, they arrived at the door of an arcade they often went to.

At this time, someone pointed at the door of this arcade, and there was a new notice posted on a notice board in front of the door. The content on it was the same as what they had just seen about the e-sports competition at the Mars Entertainment Carnival. The reports are similar.

The difference is that this arcade is one of the qualifying competition points in the Tokyo area.

Five or six children looked at the notice for a long time, and then they all looked at Umehara Daigo: "Meion, do you want to go in and sign up?" It was obvious that several people had encouraged Umehara Daigo to participate in the competition. They were very enthusiastic when they came, but when it came time to sign up, they no longer had the same enthusiasm.

Umehara Daigo looked at this notice for more than a minute, then looked at the arcade in front of him, and then bit his lip.

"I'll sign up!"