Super Game Empire

Before making the Three Kingdoms game, Yang Yun still has two important games to hand over to the side-scrolling project team.

SLG strategy games are often several megabytes in size, and the price is ridiculously high. From a technical perspective, production is difficult, time-consuming, and has a long development cycle.

Longteng's game cards are now Golden Bull products, which can bring a lot of cash flow and sell as much as they produce, so he can't relax on the R&D and design of ordinary scroll games. Those small games worth hundreds of K are simple, easy and fun.

, the penetration rate is higher, and to put it simply, it makes more money.

So Yang Yun carefully selected two games, the classic Double Dragon and Red Fortress.

Double Dragon was produced by TECHNōS, an unknown small company in Japan. It was released in 1987 and became a hit in arcades. It was also transplanted to FC. The game is very fun and very popular with players. The reason why it is unknown is because

The company has no other famous games such as the Hot Blood series and the Double Dragon series of fighting games, and it went bankrupt in 1995.

Fighting games are a technology that must be mastered. There is no doubt about this, because Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown, and King of Fighters in arcades are all classic games that can make players obsessed. If you enter the arcade industry in the future, you must not miss these games.

Yang Yun is no exception. When he was a child, he would go to school hungry and save 50 cents for breakfast just to buy 5 game coins. After school, he would stand in the arcade game room and tiptoe next to the Samurai Shodown console.

Observe, and then after the master of Samurai Shodown leaves, grab the position of the host, invest precious game coins, PK with an opponent you think is a fish belly, choose Bawangmaru holding the famous blowfish poison, the knife spatters blood, but in the end he dies first

Or yourself.

It’s embarrassing to think of these, but no matter what, you must master the passionate fighting game!

Therefore, when making Double Dragon Fighting on the FC platform, regardless of whether it is successful or not, Yang Yun must develop it. Since he has excellent ideas, he can spur Zhang Guoqiang's team, and he is still afraid of failure in game production.

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However, due to copyright issues, the idea of ​​Double Dragon could not be completely copied, so Yang Yun came up with a very interesting idea.

Isn’t the production team of TECHNōS obsessed with Bruce Lee? Well, then Yang Yun admires the Chinese kung fu superstar Cheng Long!

In 1989, Cheng Long was 35 years old and his career was at its peak. He appeared in many classic movies, especially Police Story in 1985, which won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Film. The theme song "Hero Story" he sang was even more popular in Hong Kong.

The representative song of the police.

Such a heroic and tough guy, a kung fu superstar who never uses a substitute and does all his fights and performances in person. He was once the passerby A who was beaten violently by Bruce Lee in the movie, and the martial artist B who was kicked away by others. He was once the star of many big names.

Celebrity Wu Thibing.

But his hard work and hard performance are the secret of his success. He is a very respected Hong Kong artist, widely loved by everyone, and has an excellent public image. This is also an important reason why Yang Yun wants to cooperate with him.

The prototype of the Japanese Double Dragon is Bruce Lee, and the story takes place in New York. The Chinese version of the Double Dragon is Cheng Long, and the battle takes place in Los Angeles, closer to Hollywood.

Cheng Long's entry into Hollywood was not smooth at first, but Yang Yun is confident that he can take this opportunity to help him achieve his dream of becoming an international giant!

Another game, Red Fortress, was launched by Konami in 1988. It is the first anniversary of its release and has good sales. Unfortunately, it has no chance to enter the Chinese market because Yang Yun's Longteng Company firmly controls the mainland's game cartridge production.

, Nintendo is immersed in the joy of its huge victory in the North American market. While other pirated manufacturers have not yet become successful, the promotion of Red Fortress and Nintendo is struggling. The Chinese market has half the door closed to Japanese game manufacturers.

This is a game that deeply impressed Yang Yun in his childhood. It is also a full-scale scrolling game that Yang Yun emphasized at the company meeting. It is very playable in terms of story plot and level design. The technology is certainly better than games such as Circus MapleStory.

It’s a lot more difficult.

The English name of the Red Fortress is Jackal (Jackal Troop). Players must control a jeep to fight with enemies on various terrain maps, in deserts, jungles, swamps, and storm ports to rescue themselves from being captured.

comrades, and send them to the rescue helicopter at the designated location. Finally, they will have a fierce battle with the level BOSS to clear the level and save the world.

This game impressed me the most because Yang Yun was particularly fond of a perverted gameplay when he was a child. His favorite was to control the jeep to swing in a snake shape, dodge the bullets fired by the enemy soldiers, then run over them, and then look at the mass behind the car.

Red graphic giggle.

Now Yang Yun has come up with the idea of ​​the Red Fortress again. Konami will definitely cry if they know about it. They launched the space cruiser, and Yang Yun was the first to launch the Salamander. Now that the Red Fortress is a big seller, Yang Yun has thought of an improved version.

These are simply natural enemies...

Yang Yun has not thought about the content of this game yet, but without further ado, he must first find a way to contact Brother Cheng Long and get the Double Dragon.

Yang Yun pushed open the office door and called Fang Huimin: "Is Manager Zhao here?"

Fang Huimin shook her head: "Manager Zhao went out, probably to the office of the Development Zone Management Committee."

They should be discussing with the relevant leaders of Zhongguancun about buying land to build a factory. This is Yang Yun's instruction. If you can get a large piece of land next to the Third Ring Road while it's cheap now, you will be profitable in the future.

Yang Yun nodded: "Let him come to see me when he comes back." After saying that, he closed his eyes and began to recall the storyline of the Double Dragon and the Red Fortress in his mind, and simply drew a few strokes on the white paper.

Fang Huimin looked at Yang Yun's brush strokes flying quickly, pursed her lips and closed the door with a smile. It had already spread from the R&D department that Mr. Yang's painting style was elegant and he was simply a master of abstraction. Without Yang Yun's detailed description, there would be no Matsumoto.

Yoshino, a sharp game professional art assistant, without Xiang Tian, ​​an outstanding painter from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, to help with his brainstorming, no one except Yang Yun himself would be able to understand the sketches he drew.

Yang Yun paused for a while to meditate, and for a while he was painting smoothly. He was very happy when he was painting, and soon he had the preliminary settings for the Double Dragon game.

Zhao Yongping returned to the company in the afternoon and came to Yang Yun's office, his face full of excitement.

Yang Yun smiled and said: "Brother Zhao stepped in, one against the other. It seems that you have already dealt with Section Chief Hu of the Development Zone Management Committee, right?"

Zhao Yongping was a little proud: "Fortunately, I have lived up to my fate! The land in Zhaozhuang is four miles away from our place, and it has been moved to the suburbs. I bought a whole 10 acres of land for 1 million."

Yang Yun knew that the location of Zhaozhuang was now a large area of ​​farmland. In the future, it would be on the edge of the Fourth Ring Road. 10 acres of land would cover more than 6,000 square meters. Buying it for 1 million would really be like giving it away.

Yang Yun was very satisfied: "It seems that the name of this model worker and Long March commando is quite useful! The location is good, hey, I am quite optimistic about the land within the Fourth Ring Road of Beijing. You will know that I am right in the future.

Brother Zhao, you have to plan this land well.

Fortunately, the production plant area and office area are combined, and in the future, we can also take on part of the laboratory tasks for the headquarters. By the way, I came to you for something else. Do you still remember sister Ju Ping and uncle Dong Hao? The big overlord came to see them back then.

How much did you spend on advertising?”

Suddenly asked about this matter, Zhao Yongping was stunned for a moment, and then he looked a little weird. After a long time, he said: "When I went to CCTV to find them, Dong Hao was not in good health at that time, so he didn't come. It was that person."

Li Yang, who voices Donald Duck, took over the job by himself and said, 'Oh, it's so much fun to watch the Overlord.' We shot less than two hours of commercials in total, and I gave him 60 yuan."

"puff!"

Yang Yun almost spit out blood. 60 yuan? 60 yuan can allow a national first-class announcer and the voice of Disney's famous animated character Donald Duck to do an advertisement?

What's the difference between this and robbing money? Oh no, is this praising the noble sentiments of Chinese art workers, or is it an irony of the rising star appearance fees in later generations?

In this case, it is not too difficult to invite Cheng Long. Give him some small money and it will be easy to spend~

Two classic advertisements of Big Overlord made by brother Cheng Long suddenly popped into Yang Yun's mind, one was about Xiao Erlang and the other was about hoping that his son would become a dragon, and he couldn't help but laugh.

Many people should be able to sing the children's song "Little Erlang". "Little Erlang, I carry a schoolbag to go to school. I am not afraid of the sun or the wind and rain. I am only afraid that my teacher will scold me for being lazy, uneducated and shameless to see my parents."

Look, a person must be knowledgeable. This is what Brother Cheng Long teaches by words and deeds. If students don't buy a Big Overlord learning machine, it means they are uneducated and will have no face to see their parents.

The same is true for the advertisement for "Looking for a Child to Become a Dragon". Brother Cheng Long and another actor who looks almost exactly like him operate the Big Overlord learning machine and say the provocative slogan: In the past, I conquered the world with my fists. Now is the computer age.

To conquer the world with computers, Overlord is your best choice...

After laughing, Yang Yun asked: "Brother Zhao, what do you think of our Longteng Company asking Brother Cheng Long to be the image spokesperson?"

Zhao Yongping's eyes shone, he gave a thumbs up and said: "Mr. Yang, do you still remember what you said when we first met? I felt at that time that you had a unique vision and could see far! I quite agree with the relationship with Cheng Long.

Cooperation, I think your decision is really right! With Cheng Long promoting it for us, I believe Longteng will go further!"

Yang Yun waved his hand and chuckled secretly. In later generations, he had heard that Cheng Long was an advertising poison. In China, whoever Cheng Long endorsed would collapse the company. For example, Big Overlord declined, the CEO of Aido VCD was imprisoned, and Fenhuang Coke

Bankruptcy, Caddy sales of 900 units nationwide, Bawang shampoo causes cancer, the latest one is Canon, but it is a foreign company, maybe it is more resistant to toxicity...

But Yang Yun didn't believe this evil and said: "Well, since Brother Zhao has already prepared for Cheng Long's endorsement, why don't you help Huimin and arrange a meeting with him as soon as possible."

Zhao Yongping agreed wholeheartedly, and good news came the next day. Cheng Long's Cheng Jiaban was a guest at CCTV in Beijing to promote the movie "Miracle" starring him and Anita Mui before it was released in the mainland.

Zhao Yongping and Jiang Shaoyun each used their own connections to contact Cheng Long's agent and facilitated the meeting.

In the past few days, Cheng Long will have a meeting at the Wenhuayuan Auditorium of the Beijing Film Academy. Longteng Company has obtained two admission tickets. After the end, they can have half a day to discuss.

Yang Yun went happily!

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Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone!