Super Game Empire

When Cao Kairui and Pu Yamauchi were intriguing and trying hard to negotiate, Yang Yun was not idle either. He was calling, calling people he knew one by one.

In 1992, in addition to the more important real-time strategy game "Dune 2", there is another thing that Yang Yun cannot miss, that is the establishment of 3DO.

One reason why this company can remember Yang Yun is that their game "Heroes Invincible" and the other reason is that the home game 3DO console.

The first 32-bit home game console in the history of gaming was earlier than Sega, the hardware leader, and Sony, the king of 32-bit game consoles. It was launched by Panasonic in 1993, which really attracted the attention of players and led the CG and

The 3D trend of movie games.

Unfortunately, 3DO is not afraid of his god-like opponents Sega and Sony, but is afraid of his pig-like teammates Panasonic.

Panasonic has no experience in operating game consoles at all. He has good consoles, but he just can't do business. Few people can afford 3DO consoles priced at nearly $700. Although they do not charge any fees to software manufacturers, software production

Businesses are responsible for their own profits and losses, and this alone makes many companies afraid to make 3DO games.

No one buys hardware and no one makes software. The rich and handsome 3DO, which is a well-known family, stopped production within a few years, and transformed from a hardware manufacturer to a software manufacturer. It is as down and out like Sega, even though it is acquiring "Magic Gate" and "

"Hero Invincible" became popular for several years, but eventually it fell into a miserable state of bankruptcy.

Yang Yun, who is familiar with this history, did not act rashly. He knew the origin of 3DO. Japan's Panasonic, the United States' EA, AT&T, Time Warner and other companies jointly invested to get a share of the home game market that made a big profit.

Obviously, 3DO is Yang Yun’s competitor and is here to grab his job.

Logically speaking, when the wolf comes, there should be a hunting gun to attack them, and Longteng will mercilessly kill ambition companies like Panasonic and EA.

But Yang Yun stopped because EA has not yet broken up with Long Teng. Moreover, he has already made enough enemies in Japan. If he continues to do so hard, he may become a public enemy of Japan.

NEC, Sega's current largest host chip supplier, is about to be abandoned by Yang Yun and switched to Motorola. It is Longteng's partner in name only.

NEC's 8 PC-E and 32 PC-FX jointly developed with Hudson are all competitors of Sega. A company like NEC that is both a referee and an athlete will sooner or later become enemies of Yang Yun.

Nintendo, Sony, and Yang Yun's mortal enemy, neither convinced each other. They both wanted to defeat the other party until bankruptcy, and it was impossible to reconcile.

Then there are the numerous small and medium-sized companies and related companies in the animation and game industry. They were either acquired by Yang Yun or beaten to bankruptcy. Now, when peers in the Japanese game and animation industry hear the words "Fengyun" and "Longteng", they both

He looked sad and angry.

After a detailed description, among the large Japanese electronics companies, only Hitachi HITACHI, Sharp, and Panasonic are temporarily in a neutral state with Yang Yun. If they really fight with 3DO, Panasonic will be the direct opponent, then I am afraid that only Hitachi and Japan will be

Sharp supports Yang Yun.

This is not a good thing.

If you don’t even have a barrier to Essinos, you dare to post on the World Channel to say that you are awesome MT. This is a group ridicule.

Without Chen Jinnan's strength, don't compete for the leader of the Tiandihui Association, otherwise you won't know how to die. Making enemies from all directions is something that fools do.

After straightening out the relationship, Yang Yun called Alexei and Jiang Shaoyun in the United States to ask about the news about EA, AT&T, Time Warner, and Universal Pictures.

At the same time, he also instructed his client to inquire about Panasonic's recent actions.

He finally confirmed the fact that the negotiations and negotiations for 3DO are underway and no conclusion has been drawn yet.

This made Yang Yun very happy, muddying the water and then fishing for troubled waters. This is his favorite thing to do.

Then he used a hidden move to shout out the substitute in his private back garden, which was KTT.

On June 29, 1992, Alexey found Larry and followed him to Japan to attend the secret meeting prepared by 3DO.

After more than a month of difficult negotiations, multiple parties redistributed their interests, and KTT acquired a 5% share of 3DO and joined the alliance camp of Panasonic and EA.

On August 12, 3DO Company was officially established. This company, which has only a name but does not have an entity, is mainly responsible for specific affairs by alliance members.

EA is the leader, and is responsible for the production of game software and sales of North American markets together with KTT.

Panasonic is a hardware manufacturer, responsible for the development of new 32-bit 3DO hosts.

AT&T, Time Warner, Universal Pictures and other capital consortiums provide funding, providing technical support for game CG, and adaptations between games and movies.

Everything looked beautiful, everyone was full of confidence, and seemed to see the broad road covered with gold bricks, and rushed in without hesitation, hoping to make a big profit from the home game market.

Only Yang Yun was sneering and watching all this, and silently said: "Come on those who are not afraid of death!"

He asked KTT to join 3DO to insert a spy liner into it. In fact, 5% is too much. If he can take 2% or 3% to enter the board of directors, he will not waste money.

3DO cannot kill the budding state, but instead encourage them, promote their development, make the home game console market more turbid, and make Panasonic, which is a newborn calf, is not afraid of tigers, spends huge amounts of money on host development, allowing EA companies to waste a lot of time without any effort.

In the production of energy and money, these companies are dragged into the quagmire and unable to extricate themselves.

Then when it comes to a certain time, 3DO people will find that they work hard and make the world's first 32-bit host, guiding players to adapt to 3D games and cultivate players' habits. As a result, after a few years of trouble, the market is still

They were taken away by SS and PS. At that time, their expressions must be very good!

Waiting, the second half of 1992 has been waiting, and Yang Yun is waiting bored.

Sega's sixth-generation 32-bit host SegaSoturn is developing in an orderly manner, Motorola's 32-bit CUP, ATI's 32-bit GPU, YAMAHA sound source, Toshiba memory, just looking at these data made Yang Yun very excited.

Change the history, change the history of the original SS dual 32-bit CPU, and change it to the same data as PS. In this way, it can greatly improve the competitiveness of SS and make it possible for Longteng and Sega to defeat Sony!

Many experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ATI, and Motorola gathered at the Sega Hardware R&D Center in Tokyo to do research day and night. Dozens of Chinese engineers worked hard and eagerly learned international advanced technology. They were

Competing with 3DO Company is also enhancing itself and ready to return to China to serve at any time.

In addition to consoles, Longteng Company has also made great progress in handheld gameplay. "Reversal Referee" entered the test stage in September, and "Star Kirby" was offline in October. Both games have not been launched yet, so Yang Yun keeps it.

it works.

The arcade department completed the 1992 mission six months ahead of schedule, leaving half a year to develop new games on its own. Longteng's first batch of support plans have grown up with far more than four small and medium-sized enterprises. They all made their voices internationally.

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The PC game department lived up to expectations. The domestic RPG game "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" was launched in August and was sold well in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and the mainland. A group of experienced PC RPG game programmers have accumulated, which made Yang Yun overjoyed.

The SLG game "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2" was completed in September and became the SLG fist work of Longteng and Glory Company in confronting PC.

"God is Crazy 3" was launched as scheduled in October, and Bullfrog Studio once again received praise from the world.

Cards, toys, movies, animations, and Longteng Company are operating normally, very good, and its profitability makes every company in the global gaming industry envious.

Among them, we have to mention the matter between Nintendo and Blackstone Group in August. Hiroshi Yamauchi was not stubborn this time and sold 20% of Nintendo's shares for US$420 million. Blackstone Group invested in the investment and obtained the right to dilute the equity after additional investment. This is

A win-win outcome.

It is obvious that Hiroshi Yamauchi knows the inside story of ATI's acquisition. He restricted the Blackstone Group's shareholding ratio and restricted the terms of no transfer if he died. It is impossible for Yang Yun to indirectly own Nintendo shares.

The mortal enemy is the mortal enemy. There is no possibility of reconciliation between Yamauchi Hiroshi and Yang Yun. After the release of "God is Crazy 3", Nintendo and Sega fought again because of the encounter with Ximu Company.

In early November, at a regular meeting at CESA, Nintendo expressed his dissatisfaction with Sega and initiated a complaint.

"Sega implements double standards for global game production companies, which violates the anti-unfair competition law and has no fairness. The life and death of game suppliers are controlled by some people, rather than the public standard terms.

.” Nintendo Legal Class expressed indignation for this, “We call on global game production companies to resist this bad trend, otherwise we will regret losing in the future!”

Wang Zhe is not willing to be outdone: "This seems to be Ximu's resentment? Well, Nintendo will let you let people go now. Sega allows Ximu to sell "Dune 2" on the MD platform. If you don't, please shut up and prepare.

Let’s take the test of the market, there are countless companies in this world that make real-time strategy games!”

When fighting, everyone on Longteng is never afraid!

The collision between Longteng and Ximutou's two "Dunes" became the most anticipated thing in the game industry at the end of 1992!