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However, no matter how serious the game was, it was useless. This time Umehara Daigo failed to achieve two consecutive perfect kills to complete the elimination early, but for Umehara Daigo, it was just a little more time.

Jester was also at the scene during the qualifiers, but because it was a round-robin competition, there would not be a special auditorium. This was just a slightly decorated small convention and exhibition center. The area was not large, and there were dozens of people. It's still a bit crowded inside, and if you want to watch the game here, you need to walk around the venue.

Tickets don't cost much, but the location of this game has not been made public, and it is a bit far from downtown Anaheim, so the people who come are basically not employees of Mars Entertainment or their friends and family. They are the friends of these contestants.

As soon as Jester arrived, he discovered Umehara Daigo, who seemed to be surrounded by stars - he was surrounded by a group of at least a dozen people, and of course he was the most eye-catching. Jester had seen Umehara Daigo's photo before, and in his When he won the Tokyo District Finals, compared with the Umehara Daigo he met later, he, who was less than ten years old, certainly looked very immature. But judging from his expression during the game, it can be seen that he takes every game extremely seriously.

In addition to the "Street Fighter" competition, there is also the "All American Rally" competition. For "All American Rally", the Mars Entertainment development team specially designed eight competitions specifically for this competition and tested them for nearly half a year. At the time, it was released to the public one month before the start of the qualifiers, announcing that this was the map for the official competition.

The design of these eight game tracks is not just a whim of the design team. Instead, several retired racing drivers and team coaches were truly invited, and after extensive reference to their opinions, the design was carried out based on their opinions. , the combination of straight lines and curves is just right. Therefore, on these eight tracks, you will find many shadows of tracks that have actually existed.

This is also inevitable. It is definitely impossible to design so many runways in a short period of time. We can only borrow a lot from runways in the real world.

Moreover, the arcade frame specially used for competition this time is also specially made. The cost of each arcade frame for competition exceeds 10,000 US dollars. Of course, Jester will not do a loss-making business, except in Apart from keeping a few as souvenirs after this carnival, most of the remaining ones will be auctioned off, and now he doesn't have to worry about not being able to sell them, because he just revealed the news not long ago. More than a hundred people have expressed their willingness to participate in the auction. Jester walked around the qualifying venue of "All American Rallycross" and felt the excitement of the competition. Then he said a few words to the person in charge and left in a hurry. Now he is leaving the carnival. It won't be long before the official opening, and there are many things that need to be dealt with by him.

In front of the Anaheim Convention Center, people from Mars Entertainment are installing large posters and portraits on the glass wall above the entrance of the convention center. There are more than a dozen in total, all of which are characters from Mars Entertainment's most popular games. . From a distance, it was quite spectacular. When Jester passed by here, he took a look and felt a little proud.

After all, this is a testament to my hard work and struggle over the past four or five years. The hard work spent was not in vain, and Blizzard's twenty-four years of accumulation only accumulated three commendable series, and now it is itself. At least seven or eight, or even more than ten games have a large number of fans around the world. Of course, I am now in the world of my own memory. The Nintendo of this period is far from being comparable to a small studio-like group like Blizzard Entertainment that was only established in the 1990s.

In Jester's memory, Nintendo at this time was so influential and powerful that it was unique in the entire history of video games.

Now Jester still remembers an anecdote about Nintendo during this period, from which we can easily see the dominance of Nintendo in the industry at this time. This anecdote is about the leader of Nintendo, Hirakazu Yamauchi, who first betrayed Nintendo. The royalty program is among Namco's.

After Namco saw that the PC-E they cooperated with Nippon Electric had no future, they wanted to return to the Nintendo camp. Although Nintendo agreed to their request, it did not treat their royalties well. It has been reduced to the lowest level, equivalent to those third-rate small game companies. You must know that Namco was enjoying the highest level of royalties from Nintendo. The royalties for each cartridge only cost one hundred yen, and it was also Have the right to burn your own cassettes.

Among the entire franchise companies of Nintendo's royalty plan, there are only two companies that have these two privileges.

Just when Namco was furious and wanted to argue with Nintendo, they received a merciless reply from Hiroshi Yamauchi. This reply was basically the most domineering declaration in the history of video games.

Hiroshi Yamauchi said this: "If you don't meet Nintendo's rules, then go make your own rules."

Just from these black and white words, Jester can feel the obvious scorn of Hiroshi Yamauchi or Nintendo, despising all domineeringness. He is far from being able to do this now. At that time, Nintendo almost ruled In the entire electronic game industry, the market share of fc/nes once reached more than 90%, but now the market share of drembx, in the whole world, only reaches 70%. , the highest in the United States, which can be stabilized at 80%, while the lowest in Japan, reaching over 30% at the highest point, but this share cannot be stable for a long time, such as now, the market share of drembx In Japan, it can only be maintained at about 28%.

Although the carnival will not officially open for more than two days, there are already many loyal fans queuing up. Jester even saw that some people had started to set up tents, seemingly treating this place as a camping site.

There were even many csplay enthusiasts walking around dressed up as their favorite game characters. From time to time, players would come over and take photos with the csplayers who dressed up very similarly. At this time, Jester remembered that csplay has always been They are all important parts of video game culture. Blizzard Entertainment, which has always been regarded as a reference model for holding carnivals, will have a CSPlay competition in every one of their events.

But now it’s too late to think about it. This was not planned and we can only wait until next time. It’s not very realistic to do it now.

The current Anaheim Convention and Exhibition Center is prohibited from entering. Only those with special passes can enter. These are Mars Entertainment staff. Now when I look inside the Convention and Exhibition Center, it still looks very messy, but Jester Before being reborn, I had participated in the on-site construction of the CJ Game Show in China, so I didn’t take it seriously when I saw the messy scene now.

Because he knows that now that the site is full of materials, it seems that the construction has not started yet, but when it is actually built, the speed is very fast.

"Have you tested the LAN communication problem?" After Jester walked around the venue, he came to the venue specially built for "Quake" after the opening of the carnival, where he will be officially launched this year. This game has been busy for nearly a year, and will introduce a new game method to all players, LAN battles.

Therefore, the requirements for LAN communication will be very high. It is not that building a LAN is complicated, but this is the first time they have built such a network on such a large scale. A total of 300 computers were used in "Thor" In the demo area of ​​"Hammer", players who try it here can choose to play online or individually.

But in Jester's opinion, maybe some people will choose the mission mode at the beginning, but as time goes by, Jester can predict that most players will definitely choose it even in one morning. Online battles are also determined by the game characteristics of games such as FPS.

This is not a conclusion that Jester came to by patting his head and guessing, but a conclusion that he summarized after twenty years of memories in his mind.

Under such circumstances, the stability of the local area network is the first issue that must be ensured.

"We have tested it many times, and there is no problem with the server's processing pressure." The person in charge of setting up the local area network in the venue said confidently. After hearing this, Jester also nodded. , temporarily relieved.

The entire venue will be divided into many venues. In these different venues, there will be some introduction sessions or press conferences about different games at the same time, such as "Fire Emblem" adapted by Matsuno Taiki. "The second work of "Super Balotelli Racing", another example, "Pocket Monsters"...

There are many such press conferences, and Jester chose the "Quake" conference site among "Quake" and "Pokemon". He came to promote it in person. This was his first time in 1985 on Mars. Entertainment officially launched drembx, which was the second time since I personally went on stage to promote Mars Entertainment's games and products at the ces show.