The arcade of "Breaking the Sky" is unsurprisingly popular!

In addition to the power of media propaganda that has aroused the curiosity of many players, the innovation and experience of the game itself has too many advantages compared to this era. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

For some of their own players, this game is another surprising title, and many veteran players who have experienced hundreds of games for several years have to be completely immersed in the fun of the game as if they were new to video games.

For new players who are new to arcade games for the first time, after being exposed to RPG masterpieces like "Breaking the Sky" at the beginning, it is inevitable to feel disdainful when they experience other games: "Those are also games?"

In addition, many players of "Breaking the Sky" and the novels and comic versions have also completely fallen into the pit of video games because of this game.

On the first day of listing, Hong Kong's local sales exceeded 2,000 units, and after a period of time, gamers throughout Hong Kong basically entered the arcade and only grabbed the machines of "Breaking the Sky", and the popularity of other arcade games also plummeted.

This unreported popularity has caused the game hall that has already purchased the arcade of "Breaking the Sky" to start additional purchases. And some game halls that were originally hesitant because of the high price are no longer hesitating, because their game halls do not have the new game "Breaking the Sky", and their business has plummeted.

In addition to the purchase orders for the arcade, the arcade machine "Breaking the Sky" was also purchased by some veteran players. Some hardcore players are not satisfied with rushing to get on the machine with others in the game hall, so they simply buy a toy to store at home as their own exclusive toy.

As a result, the sales of the "Breaking the Sky" arcade in Hong Kong have gradually created a myth that even new start-up electronics companies dare not believe.

Even in a few decades, when the game industry talks about the sales of "Breaking the Sky", it has to say: "Times are different, this is an irreproducible miracle." At the beginning, players were shocked by RPGs for the first time, which is beyond your imagination. Now it seems that most of the games on the market have far better graphics than Breaking the Sky back then. But from the perspective of the year, the first feeling is,, alien technology, how can the game be so powerful?!"

"It was a popular game in the arcade throughout the '80s, and even in the '90s, it could still be seen in the arcade. Compared with many later RPGs, "Breaking the Sky" "still stands the test of time." ”

"The game production team of the new start-up electronics company of that era was super supernatural part-time. Of course, it's also very godly now, but now there are too many great games in the world, and no matter how good a game comes out, it is not as shocking as it was at the beginning......"

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Hong Kong, Golden Harvest Entertainment Company.

On the day of the launch of "Breaking the Sky", Zou Wenhuai's office had an arcade machine, and then, he spent several hours, the character died dozens of times, and probably invested more than 30 coins, which is still a bit regrettable, the next few levels are too difficult, and it requires skills and teamwork. No matter how much rookie wastes more game currency, he may not be able to pass the last few levels.

Accompanying Zou Wenhuai to play the game for several hours was Jackie Chan.

"Jackie Chan, what do you think of "Breaking the Sky"?" Boss Zou of Golden Harvest, after the game was launched, 150 units have been purchased, and Golden Harvest's theater chain has been completely reorganized into two-thirds of the space is a movie theater, and one-third of the space is a game hall.

"Boss, I think...... The game is quite fun. Jackie Chan felt confused and said, "But, what does this have to do with me?"

"No, it's very relevant!" Zou Wenhuai said with a smile, "Golden Harvest Company is not only the largest film and television company in Hong Kong, but also a game producer second only to the new venture electronics. Originally, there was an exchange with Boss Lin about developing games, and he suggested that I adapt his popular movies, or simply use stars as gimmicks to adapt games, which I was at a loss for. However, after seeing "Breaking the Sky", I already know, follow this idea to make a game, what is it called RPG or PRG? Anyway, the meaning of Chinese is role-playing, that is, to show the scenes of the original martial arts action movie with games!"

"In my opinion, it's more promising than the movie. Golden Harvest's general manager, Zou Wenhuai's old buddy, Jackie Chan's godfather He Guanchang, smiled and said, "A Hong Kong movie has a box office of more than 10 million, but games like "Breaking the Sky" are expected to sell at least 50 million yuan in Hong Kong. In addition, the revenue of new startups accounts for a very small proportion in Hong Kong, and it is estimated that the global distribution of this game may reach hundreds of millions of dollars, which is also the same level as Hollywood's biggest selling movie!"

"Taking our Golden Harvest as an example, we invest more than 50 million yuan in the film market a year, but after recovering the capital, we can earn one or two million yuan, which is already good. Zou Wenhuai couldn't help but say proudly, "However, I began to invest in the game industry last year, with an investment of less than 30 million, and now the cost has been recovered, and it is still contributing no less than four or five million yuan of profits every month." Since the beginning of this year, our company's profit source is probably based on games. ”

At this time, Jackie Chan couldn't help but show a look of surprise and said: "The game is so profitable?" At the same time, Jackie Chan is also a little disappointed, no matter how hard he works to make movies, he can't make so much money.

"Of course, our game production level and innovation ability are not as good as those of new start-up electronics companies, so we can only imitate and drink soup after us. Fortunately, Boss Lin of the newly start-up electronics company did not plan to monopolize it, so we still had the opportunity to drink soup behind us. Zou Wenhuai said to Jackie Chan, "Now I give you a chance to make a fortune, I am going to adapt the game with you as the protagonist, and the name will be named "Jackie Chan Adventure", which requires you to cooperate with the production and promotion." ”

"What can I do?" Jackie Chan couldn't help but be surprised.

"It's like making a movie, you do what the director tells you to do. "A game producer is a director in the game industry. You, as the protagonist of the game, let you pose for action. ”

In this way, Jackie Chan signed an agreement that he later regretted very much, and fully authorized the game development copyright of Jackie Chan's portrait and stage name to Golden Harvest. The authorization is permanent, and the price paid by Golden Harvest Company is only to pay Jackie Chan 500,000 yuan per year.

According to the market in 82 years, signing this agreement and getting 500,000 yuan per year for drought and flood protection is too cost-effective.

However, Jackie Chan never imagined how valuable his future IP was, and after the game IP was monopolized in the hands of Golden Harvest, no matter how popular his movies were, it was just to convey popularity to the game IP.

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Japan. Tokyo.

The flagship game hall operated by the new venture electronics company, a large game hall with more than 500 arcade machines, is crowded. In the entire game hall, at least a thousand people were attracted.

Most of the crowds are attracted by the newly launched new game "Breaking the Sky".

In fact, in Japan, although the novels and manga of "Breaking the Sky" have been translated and listed, the market response has been mediocre. Although, the average sales volume of a single book exceeds 10,000, which can be regarded as a translation work that can make a little money. However, those royal comics in the Japanese market have sold tens of millions of copies in a single book, and many of them can sell millions of copies in a single volume.

Even though there is no IP effect, the game has just been displayed in the game hall, and it quickly attracted groups of players to try it out and watch.

Originally, 40 new machines have been placed in the self-operated game hall, which is theoretically enough to meet the players of the game hall.

But in fact, the sophistication of the game graphics and the excitement of the fighting special effects of "Breaking the Sky" have become a weapon to attract attention.

From posters posted to game consoles placed in the game hall, players are already surrounded by water. There are a lot of players with a lot of 100 yen coins in their pockets.

The arcade machine adopted a 100 yen coin, which may have been the basis for the prosperity of the Japanese gaming industry. This is because the price of a 100 yen coin is already much more expensive than arcade games in most regions.

Two or three coins can buy an issue of the weekly comic book. Arcade games are not cheap, so players in Japan are very picky about quality.

It may also be because of this that the arcade market in Japan in this era has few garbage games. Because, garbage games are difficult to pass the rigorous market test.

"Magnified moves...... Xiao Yan's nirvana eight extremes collapse!" A teenager excitedly pressed the joystick button, rubbed out the nirvana, and felt inexplicably excited.

"It's so powerful, one move killed half of the blood of the boss in the first level. Another bystander also looked excited.

"Cut, the Eight Extremes Collapse is not the most powerful, the must-kill will be different with the upgrade of the protagonist, and there will be different must-kills such as the Emperor's Seal Decision, the Emperor of Flame's body, etc. ”

"Who wants to see Xiao Yan's nirvana, let Xiao Xun'er nirvana. ”

"Queen Medusa's nirvana is also very good-looking. ”

"Damn, don't you anyone pay attention to Yao Lao's nirvana?"

"The aid of the medicine elder's nirvana, the collective blood is added. The added blood is less than one-tenth of the health bar, and the creeps are lost after a single hit. And it's too hard to be full of anger. ”

"Myrrh is old, and everyone can't pass a few levels. ”

"The technique is good, it doesn't hurt, and it doesn't hurt at all. ”

Throughout the game, players can choose different characters. Among them, there are four roles to choose from, such as Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, Xiao Xun'er, Queen Medusa, etc. The process of the game is not only to follow the map in the plot of the novel, but also to gradually adventure through the level.

The main innovation here is that the basic attributes of the character, such as level, health, attack power, and defense power, have matured. In addition to being necessary to clear the mission, you can also get experience points, which can also allow you to upgrade your character, thereby improving your basic attributes.

At the same time, there are various exercises and props. Some of the exercise cheats upgrade the basic attributes, and some are upgraded to kill, so that the power of the must kill is greater.

Arcade games are for the benefit of the arcade, and naturally cannot be as slow-paced as later online games. Each level map has a time limit. If you don't complete the level within the time limit, all players will die and restart the level.

In this way, it is to avoid players from delaying time indefinitely, so that the operating efficiency of the game hall is reduced, so that the game hall will naturally not buy such machines that cannot produce benefits.

Each player can add three lives to the character by throwing coins once, and after three deaths, the player can choose to continue to invest in coins to continue his life, or leave with regret.

The whole game can be played by one person, or by up to four players, you can play the game in a group. For example, the character of Yao Lao can't be alone in the game, and can only add blood to teammates or use auxiliary skills to enhance attack and defense when there are teammates......

Many years later, people look back on the history of RPG games and can't help but regard the 82 version of "Breaking the Sky" as a classic. Because, most of the RPG games in later generations cannot be separated from the influence of the originator "Breaking the Sky".

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"President, new statistics are out. An office worker wearing glasses reported to Uejima, "The three self-operated game halls in Tokyo have invested 240 new machines of "Breaking the Sky", excluding the revenue of other games, and the daily revenue of 240 machines exceeds 1.5 million yen!"

"That's good!" said Uejima's face with a blush, "According to this market feedback, it is enough to attract the entire Japanese game hall to buy new machines! This year, the performance of arcade machines may exceed expectations!"

"Order...... President, this is an order from Tokyo Sato Amusement Company, 300 units, they want 300 units!" At this time, an employee ran over excitedly with a document spit out by a fax machine.

Ueshima suppressed her excitement and said, "Sato Amusement Company?

The owner of this company, Bin Sato, is very optimistic about the game market, and has obtained a bank loan by mortgaging his property. The employee said.

"I think it was the Yamaguchi-gumi who gave the money, right?" said Ueshima, "This Sato company is the money laundering company of the Yamaguchi-gumi. Therefore, they can only collect cash from them, and they should not be in arrears!"

There are about 30,000 game halls in Japan, most of which are traditional pachinko (gambling machines), and violent and gang groups such as the Yamaguchi-gumi control most of the market share of these traditional pachinko markets.

However, in recent years, video games have sprung up, and traditional pachinko entertainment venues have had to introduce a large number of arcade machines in order to attract popularity and cope with competition.

Some of them are pachinko with huge profits, and some of them are arcade machines with relatively low profits, but they are still ultra-high gross profit arcades for traditional businesses, which has gradually become the main pattern of the arcade market in Japan at this time.

In particular, the game hall with the background of gangs such as the Yamaguchi-gumi is even more like this.

As a regular company, Tokyo Shin Venture Electronics is not afraid of any gang. It's just that it will be more troublesome to find a gang to collect debts, so do business with the gang members, but ask the other party to pay in full in cash, and refuse any plan to defer payment.

"The parent company gave us the goal of selling 10,000 units!" said Uejima domineeringly, "but I think 10,000 units is too conservative, so our goal is 50,000 units! ”

"Yes!"

"No problem!!"

"50,000 units only!"

"Donkey Kong games can sell 50,000 units, and we're sure we can!"

In the past, the sales of the "Chinese Cube" and "Tank Wars" arcade machines in the Japanese market also reached more than 10,000 units. In addition, the average sales of more than 10 arcade machines listed by new startup electronics companies in the Japanese market rarely fall below 3,000 units.

What's more, the parent company's handheld business sells nearly 100 million units worldwide in a year, and it can sell 20 or 30 million units in the Japanese market!

It is for this reason that the employees of the company have confidence in the quality of the parent company's games!