Rebirth 86: I use games to kick open the door to the world

In the next period of time, Zuo Zhen helped bring over some comics from Hong Kong and Taiwan from people he knew in Shanghai.

At that time, the style of comics in Hong Kong was changing drastically and the semi-realistic style was becoming popular, so it was very suitable for Yu Mengchen to use as a reference.

After having a reference, it was obviously much easier for Yu Mengchen to draw characters.

Coupled with his oil painting skills, Yu Mengchen also completed a series of painting tasks arranged by Zuo Zhen in one and a half months.

The main game was also completed in mid-May, and the NGS version of The King of Fighters was completely completed.

After playing and completing the NGS version of The King of Fighters, Zuo Zhen is quite satisfied.

In his previous life, he remembered that the King of Fighters seemed to have produced a copycat version of the King of Fighters for red and white consoles.

But the quality of that King of Fighters was very poor.

There are very few moves, and the character's movements are sometimes laggy.

The characters are richer than this version, but the details don't stand up to scrutiny.

In addition to the castration of the characters and battle scenes, my own version is basically the same as the arcade version.

Oh, yes, there is still something missing.

For example, Mai Shiranui’s swaying movements.

This thing consumes too many resources. Her actions alone occupy more than 40 KB, so she can only be castrated.

This Zuo Zhen is still a little regretful.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

After finishing The King of Fighters, all the work was temporarily over, and Zuozhen immediately boarded the plane to Japan again without stopping.

This time I am planning to promote the game King of Fighters.

The quality of this game is already at the end of the NGS game console era, squeezing out almost all the performance of NGS.

If everything goes well, leaving a masterpiece on NGS that can be remembered for a long time will be considered an achievement.

I just don’t know if the system will give me extra rewards because of this.

After the plane landed, Zuo Zhen didn't rush to NGS first this time.

I made an appointment with Akira Nakamura for the day after tomorrow, so I can go shopping alone these two days.

This time when he came to Japan again, Zuo Zhen found that the changes in the shapes of pedestrians on the road were even more obvious.

Everyone is wearing a suit and tie, everyone is well-dressed, and everyone is smiling more confidently.

It's only been four months since I last came here.

Japan during this period really looked different from day to day.

But Zuo Zhen, who knew what happened next, didn't feel anything.

The bubble will eventually burst, and this false prosperity cannot last long.

In fact, the Japanese government should have discovered the clues at this time, but the general tide of the social environment could not be easily controlled. When it finally became unbearable and tried to force a change of course, the backlash became even more fierce.

But this has nothing to do with me.

As long as you make money, nothing else matters.

"Hello, welcome."

Zuo Zhen came to a busy video game store. As soon as the door opened, a clerk came over to greet him warmly.

"Sir, do you need anything?"

"Nothing needed, I just took a look."

Zuo Zhen looked around.

He had never been to a video game store before, but this time he came here specifically to check out the games that were on sale in the video game store and to see what titles were chosen first by most users.

"Sir, if you want to know more about the game, I can recommend it to you."

"Oh? Then do you have anything to recommend?"

"Can I ask you how much you know about video games?"

"A little bit, I've played Super Mario, Contra, Squirrel Wars, Dragon Quest, The Legend of Zelda, and..."

Zuo Zhen said a lot of game names in succession, which even this person couldn't stop.

What do you call understanding a little bit? You have played so many games and I don’t know how to recommend them to you.

The clerk was confused and thought for a long time: "Sir, it seems that he already knows a lot about video games... But from what you mean, it seems that you haven't played the new games released in the past month or two?"

Zuo Zhen nodded: "Well, I haven't had the chance to understand this yet, because I have been busy in the past month or so."

The clerk immediately said: "In that case, I have two games that I highly recommend."

The clerk looked towards the shelf where a group of children were gathering not far away.

"Right over there."

"Oh? What type specifically?"

"This genre is relatively new. The two games were almost released at the same time. It's very amazing. I didn't expect that two companies would make the same new type of game at the same time. Sir, you can come and see with me and you will know. Over there There is a trial machine.”

The clerk immediately took Zuo Zhen to the shelf where most children gathered.

The inventory of cartridges on this shelf is the smallest among all the shelves. Obviously, the games sold here are the most popular recently.

Zuo Zhen also noticed the cassettes on the shelf.

"Sir, these are the two games, one is called Hot-Blooded Hardcore Kunio-kun, and the other is called Double Dragon."

Hot-blooded hardcore.

Zuo Zhen looked at the familiar game covers on the shelf, and his dusty memories were also mobilized.

This game was also released this year, so it kind of collided with itself.

At this time, on a trial machine, a group of children were staring at the image of a bad boy on the screen.

That's the picture of hot-blooded hardcore.

This is the beginning of the Hot Blood series.

Speaking of which, my Double Dragon was actually made by a hard-core company.

But I cut it off early and got this series in my pocket.

But he really didn't remember that Hot Blooded Hardcore was also released at this time.

The main reason is that he was already playing Hardcore and Double Dragon in the late 1990s, so he didn't pay attention to things like release dates at all.

"Sir, what do you think of this game?"

The clerk asked, pointing to the hot-blooded hardcore scene on the test TV.

"Well, it does seem interesting. What about the other Double Dragon?"

"Double Dragon is also very interesting. In fact, I feel that one of the two games should be more adult-oriented, and the other is more junior-oriented, but they are essentially the same. Both games are very popular."

"Are they both popular... Which one is better?"

"Well..." the clerk thought about it carefully, then shook his head, "I have similar impressions of the two games. In fact, most people who bought one of the games will soon buy the other one, at least in my case. almost the same."

Zuo Zhen nodded, which was not very surprising.

Now is an era with fewer games and more players.

Sometimes when a particularly fun game type suddenly pops up, players wish there were more of this type.

The release of two similar games at the same time will not necessarily form a competitive relationship, but may instead create a virtuous cycle.

However, if many companies develop it all at once, like the current role-playing industry, it will be a bit easy to overturn.

In particular, role-playing games generally take a long time to play, and players may not have the patience to play several role-playing games in a row.