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

Regarding the contract, nothing was agreed on the first day.

Zuo Zhen hopes to give Mega Man and Squirrel Wars each a production quota of more than 1.5 million boxes.

The commissioner who signed the contract decisively refused.

The production quota of one million cartridges for one game is the limit.

It is almost impossible to obtain a million-dollar cartridge production quota for two games at the same time.

Do you think you are a top gaming company?

Even large game companies have to go through several rounds of negotiations.

Moreover, NGS has recently launched many first-party games, and they must give priority to producing cartridges for their own products.

Zuo Zhen was already prepared for this. He couldn't do it again this time. Anyway, he had more than half a month, so he just needed to finalize the contract within this time.

Or you can finish the Squirrel War first and let Mega Man go.

However, Akira Nakamura is obviously unwilling to give up two games easily.

He also feels that it is very possible for both games to achieve millions of sales.

The contract specialist obviously didn't think so, and he needed to ask his boss for instructions first.

Zuo Zhen left the NGS headquarters before the contract was negotiated, planning to come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

However, the process of taking over Contra's profits is already underway, and all funds will be converted into Japanese yen within about a week.

Now is the time when the Japanese yen has appreciated significantly. Converting it into Japanese yen can greatly increase the purchasing power of your money.

The profits from Contra were finally converted into Japanese yen, plus tax deductions from various countries, and the amount was almost 60 million yen.

Some funds must be left to pay for the cassette production costs in advance.

The best-case scenario is that both Squirrel Wars and Mega Man can obtain the 1.5 million cartridge quota.

The money required for this is not a small sum of money.

Before Contra didn't have to pay this amount of money, it was all thanks to Akira Nakamura's help. Zuo Zhen couldn't keep asking him to help. Even if he owed a big favor, it would be very troublesome to pay it back.

After walking out of the NGS building, Zuo Zhen did not go back to the hotel immediately, but went directly to Tokyo.

He planned to go to the headquarters of BEEP magazine.

BEEP is located in Akihabara, which will be the mecca for otakus in the future.

But that doesn’t count here yet. At this time, more than half of the stores are still mainly selling electrical appliances, and there is not yet the strong ACG atmosphere of later generations.

All the way to Akihabara, BEEP’s office is in a small office building next to Akihabara.

It was almost time to get off work, and several people were discussing what to do in the evening.

"Ozawa-san, do you want to play games tonight? I just found the latest Contra gameplay, let's play together."

Kenji Ozawa was sorting out documents and replied without raising his head: "No, I have a date tonight."

"Oh~? On a date? With the girl from last time?"

Ozawa Kenji showed a happy smile: "Yes, I have already started to think about getting married."

"So that's it. That's really congratulations. I'll have a drink some other time to celebrate you."

Ozawa Kenci was very happy. He had already thought about what to do on the date tonight.

First buy a gold necklace, then buy a bouquet of flowers, go to the other party's company downstairs and wait for the other party with the flowers, and then invite the other party to a luxurious restaurant for dinner.

Although this series of procedures was a bit expensive, he decided to spend it for a lifelong event.

Humming a little tune, seeing that the time was getting closer to get off work, he was ready to get up and run away.

Just then, a voice came from the door.

"Is this the magazine office of BEEP?"

"Yes, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm here to see Kenji Ozawa."

"Looking for Ozawa?"

Zuo Zhen's voice immediately attracted everyone, including Ozawa, to look up at the door.

"Huh? It's a man. I thought he was your date.

"Is Ozawa an acquaintance of yours?"

"I don't know him." Ozawa Kenji shook his head. He was very confused about who would come to him at this time.

The person at the door pointed out Ozawa Kenji's work station to Zuo Zhen, and he walked straight to that position.

Ozawa Kenji saw Zuo Zhen walking over and subconsciously bent down politely.

"็ Hello Who are you……"

"Hello, this is the first time we meet. My name is Zuo Zhen. I am from China and I am a game producer."

The people next to me were surprised, "Wow, he's a Chinese game producer? This is really rare."

"China?"

Ozawa Kenji suddenly felt as if he remembered something.

"Excuse me, what's the matter with you?"

"Yes." Zuo Zhen nodded, "I came here to meet the editor who praised my game, and I also want to thank you."

"Give you a good review of your game...what game is it?"

"Contra."

"Contra!!"

As soon as Zuo Zhen finished speaking, the group of people next to him became uneasy.

"Did you make Contra?"

"Really? Really? I didn't expect it to be made by a Chinese."

"Are you stupid? Can't you understand the English spelling of Zuozhen, which is so big at the beginning and end of the game? This is obviously not a European and American name. This kind of name only exists in the East Asian cultural circle."

"But I didn't expect that he would come in person. Could it be that he is a Chinese game producer working in Japan?"

Kenji Ozawa looked at Zuo Zhen in surprise: "Are you the producer of Contra? I thought you would be very old. You are only... twenty years old now, right?"

Although the gaming industry has just emerged, Zuo Zhen still looks a bit too young.

Zuo Zhen ignored the discussion of those people and just said to Ozawa Kenci: "Ozawa-san, are you free tonight? We can have a good chat."

"Well, I'm sorry, I have an appointment tonight, how about tomorrow?"

Kenji Ozawa has a very important date tonight.

This date may determine his future life-long events, so no matter what happens, he must put it aside now.

"Well, that's a bit of a pity. Today I originally wanted to show Ozawa-san my latest game. It is a new game that I plan to release on NGS in a while."

Ozawa Kenji's ears twitched at that moment.

A new game from the creators of Contra.

This moved him very much.

The people around him became interested: "Is there a new game? What is it like?"

"It is a side-scrolling adventure game like the previous Contra, but they are two games with a different style of painting from Contra. There are also many optimizations in the gameplay. I personally think it is more fun than Contra."

"Wait a minute, what you just meant is that you already have it with you, and there's more than one game that's more fun than Contra?"

Ozawa Kenji stared at Zuozhen.

"Yes, Ozawa-san, are you interested?"

"I'm afraid that's not possible." Ozawa Kenji's colleague said at this time, "Ozawa, he..."

"Yes, I'm very interested!"

Kenji Ozawa replied immediately.

His colleagues were stunned: "But Ozawa, you..."

"It's okay. We can make another appointment in the future, but you can't miss the new game!"