Super Game Empire

As time gradually enters summer vacation, many players find that the popular games in Japan seem to have undergone great changes this year.

In the past, before every holiday, Capcom, SNK, Sega, and Korami, these companies would fight to the death in the arcade market, fighting to the death, and their propaganda methods were overwhelming, and they used all kinds of means, and they were bound to fight.

During the peak sales season, there will definitely be a number of classic games on the market every year, which is a feast for players.

Two years ago, Street Fighter, Famous General, Devour the World, and Mutant Ninja Turtles, all of these classic arcade games were launched before the summer vacation.

This year, there is only one voice from the Japanese arcade industry, that is Sega!

Capcom was acquired by Sega, SNK was acquired by Nintendo, and Korami's life and death were unknown. The NEOGEO substrate games on the market are basically extinct. The rest are CPS1 and Model1 substrates, all of which are owned by Sega and Longteng!

Before the summer holiday in 1992, Fengyun Game Software Company held a grand exhibition and launched 8 arcade games at one time, which shocked the Japanese arcade industry. Everyone had only one impression, that is, the arcade industry was

Longteng monopolizes!

Let’s take a look at those games, is there any game that is not fun...

Flying shooting games include classic "Caijing 1945", violent "Pearl Harbor", and fantasy "Cosmic Shuttle 1992", which has impacted the existing old-fashioned airplane game in Japan, bringing a fresh look

flying shooting game trend.

Fighting rookies include "Dragon and Tiger Fist" and "Street Fighter 2". It goes without saying how classic these two games are. "Dragon and Tiger Fist" has been sold in Japan through the Canton Fair for nearly two months, but it still has not been satisfied.

All Japanese markets, once launched, basically 100% of Japanese arcade halls have purchased this game.

Not to mention "Street Fighter 2", Capcom's famous work became a family after being acquired by Longteng. There was no copyright dispute anymore. With the help of the King of Fighters design team, they accelerated the research and development progress.

Before the summer vacation, the improved version of "Street Fighter 2" attracted North American and European customers to flock to buy. North American and European customers prefer fist-to-meat fighting and don't have much love for the fancy King of Fighters.

The horizontal version of the game includes the classic "Flash Tornado 2" and "Dinosaur Kombat". The fantasy "Journey to the West" is the legendary "Flowering the Evil" of Journey to the West.

"Quick Tornado 2" is another classic work of Capcom. With the technical support of Longteng, the original Capcom team easily produced efficient and high-quality content, which was highly praised by players and dealers.

Before "Cadillac and Dinosaurs" was filmed, the game adapted based on the comics was actually not as good as the movie was filmed before it was released. This is very obvious.

But classics are classics. "Dinosaur Kombat" won the Canton Fair second only to Longteng, which is of course not a good example. This time it also occupies 100% of Japan's arcade halls.

"Journey to the West" has too advanced design ideas that made Japan unable to accept them all at once, but it is still easy to conquer some customers who have tried them out. Qimingxing Technology finally won about 40% of the market in Japan and gained benefits.

After the friendship of the famous comic master Akira Toriyama, he obtained the right to adapt the game of "Dragon Ball" and gained a lot!

In addition to these companies from Longteng's direct line, there are also several independent Chinese companies participating, and 6 high-quality arcade games have been launched. In addition to the horizontal fighting pass type that focuses on Europe and the United States, even Chinese mahjong has been made.

Become a game!

Players still enjoy a happy summer game feast. This seems to be no different from previous years.

However, peers in the gaming industry do not think so. Experts and senior practitioners have said that when an industry becomes a monopoly, the operating conditions of this industry will become worse, which is very unfavorable for long-term development.

Yang Yun disagreed with this. He smiled and said to Wang Zhe: "Those people can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour. If Nintendo monopolizes the arcade industry, see what they say one by one!"

"I will definitely call Hiro Yamauchi a national hero and blow it to heaven!" Wang Zhe laughed and said, "Mr. Yang, many people are asking me about Korami. "OnlyLove" is silent. Last month, Jing was going

On vacation, we released another "Heartbeat Memories". In fact, everyone guessed that we should have reached an agreement with Korami, but no one came forward to admit it. Do you think you should follow the flow and make the news public?"

Yang Yun pondered for a while and said, "Don't panic! Yang Zhan's layout in the financial market has not been completed yet, and my friend has not given me any notification. I'd better wait for the news and wait and see what's going on!"

Wang Zhe nodded, but couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Yang, since Nintendo and us are mortal enemies, why don't we directly fight it to bankruptcy? Now it seems that the host, handheld machine, arcade machine, PC, every

Nintendo is not our opponent in every field. Apart from the limited games such as Super Mary and Legend of Zelda, there is still value, I don’t think there is really a need to buy Nintendo!”

It seems that it is true now. Nintendo has all the things that Longteng has, and nothing is worth getting. Yang Yun doesn't care about the small profits of 50 cents per piece of flies.

But Yang Yun has been carefully dealing with the relationship between Sega and Nintendo. He cannot fight too hard or too lightly. How to maintain a balanced strength so that Nintendo always feels that it is just a little bit short of it. Persist for another year, and then

It is actually very difficult to control by releasing a few games.

Yang Yun knew very well that a giant like Sony was destined to be unable to take it for himself. When Longteng had the funds to acquire Sony with tens of billions of dollars in assets, he could ignore everything and enjoy his life.

So even though she knew that Sony would grow up and become the overlord, Yang Yun had been using the drag-on technique, perfunctory to Ken Kuroki, delaying Sony's own hosting speed, leaving more preparation time for Longteng.

In real history, Sega launched the 32-bit host Saturn SS in November 1994, and Sony launched the 32-bit host PS in December. Nintendo had nothing. After a year and a half, it directly launched the 64-bit host N64, but it was still a fool.

Use game cassettes.

Now, because of Yang Yun's participation, Sega has reached the threshold of 32-bit hosting in 1992. If nothing unexpected happens, Sega launched 32-bit hosting in 1993.

Sony also cooperated with Sega because of Nintendo's betrayal and also obtained some of Sega's technology in console production. It is very likely that it will launch PS in the first half of 1994 at least half a year in advance.

So by counting this, Yang Yun can only get one year of preparation time at most, which is not safe, because he changed history and had no way of knowing what the battle between Saturn and PS that was made in advance would be.

Looking at Nintendo again, there were many failures. Hiroshi Yamauchi had learned his lesson and started to go back and secretly send a secret message with Philips and Sony, preparing to lean towards the CD-ROM game.

Although Nintendo is not afraid of now, Yang Yun dares not beat it to death. What if he defeated Hiro Yamauchi by fighting, Nintendo is desperate and becomes a second-rate company, and cooperates with Sony?

If Sega 1VS2 and Sony only needs to interrupt the supply, Yang Yun may lose!

Before Sony came out, Yang Yun was just a little bit of the upper hand now, not an absolute advantage over Nintendo!

"Although Nintendo is lower than us in market share, it is undeniable that Hiroshi Yamauchi only needs to use the cash reserves in his hand to kill you and me. This old guy holds hundreds of millions of dollars in his hand!" Yang Yun

He teased that as long as Nintendo has a huge sum of money in his hand, he dared not take it lightly. He could only look at the guy hiding in the turtle shell, and always beware of them getting out of the hole and biting him.

Wang Zhe shrugged and stopped asking.

Yang Yun was actually very anxious. The friend he was waiting for was Cao Kairui from Blackstone Group.

Moreover, Yang Zhan is now operating Nintendo stocks on the Tokyo Exchange. All of them have only one purpose, which is to suppress Nintendo and then find a way to acquire them at a low price.

Within two days, Cao Kairui came to Tokyo in person. The mysterious representative of the Blackstone Group acted very quickly. After receiving Yang Yun's notice, he immediately made the proposal and reported it to the company's decision-making level.

Blackstone Group completed its inspection of Nintendo in just three days and passed Cao Kairui's proposal. It was believed that it was worth entering Nintendo at this time, so the headquarters arranged for Cao Kairui to fly to Tokyo in person to discuss with Yang Yun.

"Manager Cao, thank you all the way! Do you need to make a jet lag?"

"Mr. Yang, why has the title been separated again after just half a year?"

"Haha... Then I'll call you Carey, you'd better call me Brother Yang!"

After meeting at the airport, the two got into Sega's special car for welcome guests. Not long after driving away, Cao Kairui, who was full of energy, couldn't help but ask: "How is Nintendo's recent situation?"

Yang Yun smiled and shook his head: "I am not Yamauchi, so I certainly don't know the specific situation. But the stock price plummeted in the stock market is inevitable, and it fell by 30% in two weeks. At the same time, I'm still waiting for your news.

, As long as you are ready, I can release that message at any time and put pressure on Nintendo."

Cao Kairui showed joy and nodded, "This is much easier to do. I have obtained the highest authorization from the headquarters and are fully responsible for the negotiations of Nintendo. I have made an appointment for meeting with Hiroshi Yamauchi, tomorrow morning.

Before we discuss, the Blackstone Board will have a question to ask me for you.”

"What's the problem?" Yang Yun was surprised.