Super Game Empire

On November 21, 1989, Yang Yun was alone, transiting in Hong Kong, and boarded a plane bound for New York, USA.

In the first half of November, Alexei had already called Yang Yun twice. The American branch of Nintendo has urged KTT several times. The Tetris patent licensing negotiations need to be negotiated as soon as possible. The Christmas season is coming, and Nintendo Co., Ltd.

In order to make the fourth quarter financial statements more beautiful, the company will never miss this opportunity.

It's just that Yang Yun is busy with the development of Longteng Three Kingdoms, and he really can't spare time in the early stages of the project.

Inoue Yanxiu split the game framework provided by Kudo Akiko, and Yang Yun added and deleted appropriately, striving to make the Dragon Edition and Namco Honor Edition different, adding interesting dialogues and folklore that are common in later generations.

Waiting for easter eggs, reducing redundant and less important nodes, making the Dragon Edition full of Chinese style, enhancing the fun and playability.

SLG games cannot be played in ten minutes or one hour, so Yang Yun called Fang Jindong and arranged for him to use the game cartridge battery to store the game progress.

It is most appropriate to leave this hardware design to Fang Jindong, who is doing CNC at Harbin Machine Tool Factory. This is not the first pioneering work in the world, but it is definitely a leading technology.

In addition, Sega came over from time to time to inquire about the progress of game development. Yang Yun felt very relieved when he thought of Sega.

In order to fight against Nintendo, this world-renowned player in the home game console market really tried every means to win over every partner, fearing that the other partner would be dissatisfied and leave for Nintendo. They always played the role of bitterness.

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Now, in order to curry favor with Long Teng and hoping that Long Teng's version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms game would turn around, Nagano even personally paid for the international long-distance calls between Kudo Akiko and Long Teng Company at his own expense. Sega's American branch also helped Yang Yun obtain a business visa in advance and provided transportation.

The machine service is very sincere.

After being sold and counting money for someone, Yang Yun couldn't help but laugh when he thought of these words. His voice was a bit loud, which made a young woman on the other side of the aisle look sideways.

Ahem, Yang Yun realized something was wrong and took a sneak peek. She was a Chinese girl who looked very pleasing to the eye. She couldn't help but blush, and subconsciously whispered an apology.

This woman was not restrained at all. Instead, she was very interested in Yang Yun. Across the narrow aisle, she asked in a low voice: "What are you looking at? Is it so funny?"

Yang Yun was holding a stack of white paper in his hand. He punched a few holes with a pin on the edge and tied it with thin strands of cotton thread to make a simple binding. This was a note pad made by Yi Zhongtian's wife.

It was a manuscript written down by Yi Zhongtian himself. He had nothing to do just now, so he took it out to kill time.

Passing it over, Yang Yun smiled: "This is a very interesting diary written by a friend..."

Phew...

The girl flipped through two pages, suddenly laughed, covered her mouth and said in embarrassment: "How could anyone comment on Yuan Shao like this?"

Yang Yun looked over and saw that Yi Zhongtian's handwriting was very beautiful, but the content made him twist his nose in anger.

"Cao Cao returned to the allied base camp covered in blood, but what were Yuan Shao and the princes doing? They were still drinking and feasting, not doing their jobs, having parties, playing video games..."

Damn it! Yi Zhongtian’s tail is up again! Is playing video games a dereliction of duty? I finally transferred you to the National People’s Congress and asked you to check the Three Kingdoms game, but you still cheated me!

It’s unbearable! This paragraph must be cut off. It must not appear in the Longteng Three Kingdoms game and Yi Zhongtianpin Three Kingdoms!

Yang Yun's back molars hurt, but looking at the warped and darkened paper, it was probably written a long time ago. No wonder Yi Zhongtian didn't think much of making games before, but now he is a fanatical game supporter

who!

He could only explain in embarrassment: "This friend said the essence of the matter in a humorous tone, that is, Yuan Shao and others really have no ambitions and are not doing their jobs properly, instead of actually having a party and playing video games, ah no, playing video games.

Video games are not an idle occupation, no, no, having parties is actually an important way for people to interact with each other, ah, in short, ahem, you know..."

It was okay if he didn’t explain it. Once he explained it, the girl’s smile became even more exaggerated. The hand that was holding the manuscript loosened and it fell on the aisle with a clatter. Yang Yun lowered his head to pick it up, and bumped his head against the girl’s head.

The two of them covered their heads respectively, looked at each other, and giggled at the same time.

"Let me meet you, my name is Yuan Xinyi, a senior staff member of Beijing Puhua Accounting Firm."

"My name is Yang Yun, the young boss of Longteng Entertainment and Game Company in Beijing."

Yuan Xinyi is very familiar: "Looking at your young age, I didn't expect you to be a successful person!"

Yang Yun smiled casually: "It's just a fool's errand. You are not even a few years older than me. You will be more successful if you can work in a large international firm like PricewaterhouseCoopers!"

This young boss who works in entertainment games actually knows the accounting industry? Yuan Xinyi was a little surprised and corrected: "Puhua Waterhouse is Puhua Waterhouse, and Cooperstown is Cooperstown. We are two different firms."

It was idle along the way. The long-distance flight lasted for more than ten hours. Not long after takeoff and before it was time to go to bed, the two of them just started chatting casually.

Although Yang Yun was young, he had accumulated some common sense knowledge in his previous life, but in 1989, it was already shocking and too advanced. Yuan Xinyi was greatly impressed and kept praising Yang Yun for knowing so much.

Similarly, it is also a great achievement for young Yuan Xinyi to reach the position of senior staff at Puhua Waterfront. The International Accountant is one of the most difficult exams in the world, and Yuan Xinyi is a typical representative of the elite.

By the time they arrived in New York, the two were already very familiar with each other and felt quite sympathetic to each other, leaving each other's domestic and overseas contact information.

Of course, Yang Yun is instinctively afraid of such elite women in the workplace. For him, ahem, he accidentally burned a hole in his girlfriend before he was reborn. An innocent boy like him is really not good at dealing with it.

The relationship between men and women, coupled with the past six months of rebirth, has been extremely busy every day, and it has delayed the enjoyment of life...

Sega America's branch sent someone to pick him up. Someone held Yang Yun's Chinese name high and waited quietly at the exit.

There was a tall white man, a short but extremely lean middle-aged Asian man, and a sweet-looking baby-faced girl. Yang Yun recognized them at a glance. This was the contact person Nagano had mentioned, and he waved quickly.

He signaled and walked over.

"Hello! I'm Yang Yun!"

The middle-aged Asian man greeted Yang Yun with a smile in Japanese English and introduced: "I am Fujita Sai from Sega America Branch, this is my deputy Pete, and this is the translator Ms. Mita."

The two parties shook hands, and Peter gave Yang Yun a warm bear hug, laughing and saying: "Welcome to New York!"

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When he arrived at the hotel where he settled, Yang Yun did not ask for jet lag rest, but left Qi Fujita and Pete to discuss the matter.

This time we are mainly negotiating with Nintendo. The person who knows Nintendo best is of course Sega, its mortal enemy. Only by knowing one and the other can we win every battle. Yang Yun has some questions that he needs to ask clearly.

Yang Yun asked: "Fujita-kun, do you know the approximate sales volume of Nintendo GameBoy in North America?"

Sai Fujita replied: "According to the public data of Nintendo's third quarter report, in the North American market, GameBoy handheld sales volume was 2.2 million units and supporting game cards were 2.9 million copies. However, according to our knowledge at Sega, this data so far

It may rise by 15%. It has only been on the market for three months, and this sales volume is already considerable. Generally speaking, sales during the Christmas period will account for more than 40% of annual sales. Nintendo's fourth quarter data may increase again.

peak."

Yang Yun calculated that 15% above 2.2 million would be 2.53 million GameBoy handheld consoles. This has just been launched. When the number of outstanding games ported to the GB platform increases in the future, sales will continue to rise.

But Nintendo sells so well, so Sega...

Yang Yun looked at the other party strangely and asked: "Mr. Fujita, when will Sega's handheld console be launched? How many sales of 16-bit consoles are there? This winter, I'm afraid it won't be so easy for you in North America, right?"

Fujita Sai was really hard to answer. He hesitated for a long time and said: "It's really hard. According to the market survey report of DownHill, an authoritative American statistical company, Nintendo now occupies 85% of the share in North America..."

Yang Yun was shocked: "85%? Is it that bad?"

Sai Fujita sighed: "Since the bankruptcy of Atari, the American game industry has been severely weakened and sluggish. It was not until Nintendo entered the FC that it saved the American game industry. But Nintendo's marketing is excellent, and its market share has increased from 50% to 50%.

% began to increase year by year, and now almost no one can match them, and we, Sega, are always one step late."

Yang Yun asked: "Didn't our Longteng company also provide several games for the Sega game platform? Doesn't it help the sales of Sega games at all?"

Sai Fujita lamented: "Without your Dragon Soar, maybe Nintendo would have captured 90% of the market share."

The three of them were silent. The behemoth Nintendo is really too scary. Yang Yun has not produced many classic games. Even if Sega fully supports it, it can only capture 2.5% of the market share.

Maybe after the Dragon Warrior and Suicide Squad games are made, they can grab another part of the market from fans of Nintendo's Double Dragon and Red Fortress games. After the Three Kingdoms is made, they can take another big chunk from the mouths of Namco and Glory.

Fat, but it’s not enough. After all, these games are still not popular enough. They are far from as crazy as Super Mario, Tetris, Final Fantasy, Gundam, and Pokemon that will appear in the next few years.

If he wants to defeat Nintendo, Yang Yun suddenly feels that there is a heavy weight on his shoulders and there is a long way to go!

Seeing Fujita Qi and Pete looking full of frustration, Yang Yun felt something in his heart and secretly screamed, "Oh no!" Could it be that Sega was thinking of quitting?

Yang Yun asked calmly: "Mr. Fujita, how is Sega's sales in the traditional arcade market? It can't be that it has lost to Nintendo in the arcade market, right? If you have lost in video games, are you ready to give up and instead go all out?

Guarding the arcade market?”

Only then did Fujita Sai smile a little: "Of course not. In the arcade market, we at Sega have the final say. Our substrate performance far exceeds that of our peers, and other hardware companies are far behind. We will not give up on video games either.

The research and development of GameGear is progressing very smoothly, and the performance of the fifth-generation Sega machine is unmatched by the Nintendo FC! We are the best hardware company in Japan!"

It’s this argument that technology is king again! You do have the best hardware, but your software is lousy! Although Nintendo’s hardware is second, their software is first! Nintendo’s life is much more comfortable than yours!

Yang Yun kept shaking his head in his heart, and he had already begun to curse.

Sega, what a mistake!