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

On the third day after the release of Thunder Fighter, the game sales have reached one million levels.

Everyone at Sega is very excited. The better this game sells, the better their Sega MD game console will sell.

Because this time it’s not just previous players who are interested in the game, but people who have never played the game are also attracted by such a picture.

This is already the best picture that can be displayed on the Sega MD. Unless a special performance-enhancing chip is added to the cartridge, this is the best video game at this stage.

The game has also received considerable praise from several media outlets.

BEEP was naturally the first to bear the brunt. The two magazine headquarters in the United States and Japan immediately published relevant reviews of the Thunderbolt fighter, and directly gave full marks to it.

"Full score?"

In Famitsu Magazine, several editors bought the latest BEEP magazine, and then they gathered together to read the content of their opponent's game magazine. On the one hand, they studied, and on the other hand, they also looked at the quality of their opponent's articles.

"The Thunderbolt Fighter does deserve a high score due to its graphics, but if you want to get full marks..."

They don't particularly trust this evaluation.

Because BEEP magazine's game scoring standards are only evaluated by one or two people, personal judgments are very subjective.

Unlike their famitsu counterparts, they think their way of evaluating games will be more professional.

First, they will separately arrange four reviewers with different tendencies and hobbies to play the game.

These four people with different tendencies will rate the game based on their personal preferences after playing it.

Then the scores scored by the four people are considered comprehensively to arrive at the final result of the game.

Famitsu has always been proud of its own evaluation system, which can make game ratings more objective to the greatest extent possible.

And if a game can still get perfect scores in such a state, it can really be said to be rare.

Most of the top games can only get a score of 36, which is the so-called Platinum Hall level score. It is difficult to get a perfect score.

"BEEP magazine has a very good relationship with the real game and Sega, and I guess there is some personal emotion attached to it," an editor said.

"But the Final Fantasy that was made before the real game was also very good, and it should be very strong."

"Indeed, but I still feel that a perfect score is unreliable."

"We'll find out if we have some fun."

After several editors finished talking, one of them suddenly said as if he remembered something: "By the way, where is our person who reviews the Thunderbolt fighter? It seems that guy hasn't come to work these days."

"Oh, he said he was playing at home and didn't plan to come over to work for the time being."

"But if he doesn't come, we won't be able to review the Thunderbolt Fighter. Give him a call and ask him to get the game back as soon as possible."

"Okay, I'll fight right away."

There is no clear cooperative relationship between Famitsu and Sega, and Famitsu itself has a good relationship with NGS, so Sega will not take the initiative to send its games to Famitsu for evaluation.

Famitsu, on the other hand, can only take the initiative to buy games for review.

However, the Thunderbolt fighter has become too popular recently.

Every time they tried to buy, they were sold out.

NGS also spent a lot of money to buy three cassettes.

So Famitsu has only gotten one Thunder Fighter cassette so far.

It’s unclear how long this hot buying situation will last.

"The call didn't go through, I didn't answer it at all."

The editor who went to make a phone call returned to the office feeling helpless.

"Huh? Did he die at home?"

"Hahaha, this joke is not funny, but we should really care about our colleagues. How about we bring some food and wine to his house when we get off work."

"Okay, let's do it like this. I just asked someone to buy a bottle of 1990-year-old fine red wine from abroad. It cost more than 300,000 yen. I just want to share it with you."

"Aha, then we are in for a treat!"

Several editors immediately beamed and began to look forward to life after get off work.

After the day's work was over, several editors left the magazine together and headed to the home of the reviewer who reviewed the Thunderbolt fighter.

It didn't take long for them to arrive in front of a single-family house, and several of the editors showed a look of envy.

"This guy is really lucky. He has been trading in stocks and buying and selling houses recently, and he has made a lot of money."

"Yeah, it's rumored that he doesn't even want to work anymore. He just speculates in real estate and stocks every day. This is how people live their lives."

The editor holding the fine red wine said disdainfully: "Actually, that's it. I know his house. He just bought it with a loan of 100 million yen."

"That's great too. If you can buy a house with a loan, it will increase several times in value in a few years. If I had the original capital, I would also buy such a big house!"

Several editors were discussing enthusiastically while walking to the door and ringing the doorbell.

Soon a female voice came from the doorbell.

"Hello, who is this?"

"Hello, we are **Sang's colleagues. Seeing that he hasn't come to work for several days, we came over with drinks and food to get together with him."

"Oh okay, please wait a moment."

The female voice disappeared, and then the door of the courtyard opened and a young and beautiful woman walked out.

"Hello fellow colleagues, I am **, his wife."

"Oh hello ma'am, you are so beautiful."

Several people praised the woman's beauty and entered the house one after another.

"He has been working upstairs for the past two days. He seems very busy. He does not come downstairs every day. If you did not receive a good reception when you arrived, I would like to apologize on behalf of my husband."

"It's okay, it's okay. We're all used to it. Can we go upstairs and see him?"

"sure."

Several people put the drinks and the dishes they brought at the door, then took off their shoes and tiptoed upstairs, intending to surprise this colleague.

After arriving upstairs, they quietly opened the door of their colleague's study room, and then wanted to yell to scare him, but as soon as they entered, they found that their colleague was lying on his back on the ground and fast asleep, with the handle of the TV in his hand. Above, the game ending screen of Thunder Fighter is playing.

"Did you... fall asleep while playing?"

"It seems so... I can fall asleep while playing a game. It seems that this game is not as amazing as I said, it just looks better."

When they entered the room, they no longer had any intention of being frightened. Instead, they took good care of their colleague and settled him down so that he could sleep well. Then they looked at the true purpose of their visit.

"Let's let this guy have a good sleep first, and take advantage of this time to play with this thunder fighter."