In July 1985, New Venture Publishing Group Company announced that the game "Court of Avalon", which its company participated in investing, was about to go on sale.

The game lasted more than two years and involved an investment of more than HK$100 million. Among them, New Venture Publishing Group holds 30% of the equity. In addition, Felix Animation has a 20% interest, and New Venture Electronics also has a 20% interest. The other 30% interest is voluntarily co-invested by members of the R&D team. You don't necessarily need to take out the full amount of the funds to follow the investment, you only need to deduct it from your salary, and get a little less remuneration, which is counted as an investment share.

It is precisely because of the capital and R&D team that you have me, and I have you. Everyone's interests are deeply bundled, and it is no longer possible to distinguish who is the capital and who is the worker. Due to the sharing of risks, the R&D team will not fail to work.

There are many equity holders of this game, and the reason why the news was released by the New Venture Publishing Group is because it is a listed company. Major investment projects have an obligation to disclose, and this project is of concern to many investment institutions and retail investors. Therefore, it is good news for the company to release it.

After the news of the new venture publishing group, Hong Kong's financial media also heard the news and interviewed the relevant teams.

On July 18th, New Venture Publishing Group, New Venture Electronics Group and Felix jointly held a press conference.

"The game version of Avalon Court perfectly reproduces the style and story of the animated version, and at the same time, it can bring players a greater sense of immersion and novelty. Chang Guangxi, the former animation director and the chief planner of the game, said at a press conference, "In terms of painting style, our animation team participates in the whole process, and every detail is like a high-quality animated movie." As for,The game is more of a 2.5D engine,The effect will be more gorgeous than the 2D picture,Especially,The animation when the ultimate move is released,It can be called the special effects animation in the movie。 The battle mode is no longer turn-based, but real-time, so players don't have to worry about seeing the same combat screens. Basically, this is a masterpiece that we have developed on the current highest-configuration hardware platform, which is ahead of the times!"

"The game release schedule, the plan is July 26. Zhang Ru, CEO of Xinchuang Electronics Group Co., Ltd., said, "However, the game and the Pangu console version that players guessed before." Because, the configuration of the Pangu console version is not yet a perfect expression of the effect of this game. Therefore, the game ended up opting for a first-mover arcade version. On July 18th ~ 25th, arcade operators and game enthusiasts will be provided to experience, and on July 26th, the scheduled plan will be opened. ”

Many players of the Pangu console can't help but feel disappointed. After all, although Pangu dominates console games, there is still a certain gap between it and some high-end arcade machines.

The motherboard of the Phoenix Arcade machine is much larger than the Pangu console, and its hardware performance upgrade potential is also stronger than that of the Pangu platform.

To put it simply, the hardware configuration of Phoenix Arcade should be compared with mid-to-high-end minicomputers, not with microcomputers. Moreover, the operators of arcade halls can return to their costs through operation, and as long as the hardware platform and game software can bring them popularity and income, there are still many businesses in the early days.

This is the same as the operator of the Internet café, ordinary users even have a 2000 yuan console, which can already play most of the games on the market. All kinds of daily work and software can also run smoothly. There is no need to go to the high-end configuration in order to "eat chicken".

However, later Internet café operators, because PCs have long been popularized in the home, it is impossible to attract players to Internet cafes and pay a higher cost to access the Internet by relying on mainstream configurations and entry-level configurations. Internet café operators are desperate to think about changes and begin to host with better screens and graphics cards, so that players can enjoy the top configuration whether it is high-end chicken eating or some e-sports. The Internet café industry will not be completely eliminated in the future with the popularization of PCs in the home, mainly because it has taken the initiative to upgrade the hardware configuration to provide some competitive and gamer players with a better experience. AFTER ALL, NOT EVERY GAMER HAS THE MONEY TO BUY A HIGH-END GRAPHICS CARD THAT CAN AFFORD A 2K, LARGE SCREEN, CURVED SURFACE, AND A MONITOR ABOVE 144HZ.

In this era, there were no Internet cafes, and the game hall was similar to the Internet cafes of later generations. Although, many players can rely on the console and play the game at home. However, the configuration of the home console is always not comparable to the arcade machine. So, in order to experience those masterpieces on the arcade platform, I had to spend money to go to the arcade.

The collapse of the arcade market in later generations is not only because the experience of consoles, PC stand-alone and online games is getting better and better. What's more critical is the arcade manufacturers themselves, which are too uncompetitive, and the performance and experience of the arcade machine have gradually dropped from high-end to low-end. It is not possible to make console players feel that the arcade platform is many years ahead of the console.

Gradually, arcade machines were naturally replaced by other console and PC platforms that were developing with each passing day.

The arcade business of the new venture electronics group is not the most priority for development in the future. But arcade hardware performance has always been at the forefront. Many new technologies are also the first to be experimented with on arcade platforms, and then ported to console platforms when the technology matures.

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Because of the influence of new start-up electronics companies in the industry, large game companies or arcade operating companies all over the world will set up branches in Hong Kong. In this way, you will be able to learn about the new products of the start-up electronics company more quickly.

After the news of the release of "Court of Avalon", major game companies have asked representatives of their Hong Kong branches to come to their homes as soon as possible to learn more about the new game.

This game has not yet been officially released, and tens of thousands of players and distribution channel manufacturers have come to experience and visit it every day.

"Combo, combo!

“Excalibur！”

The Avalon Court game itself is an RPG, but it's not a side-scrolling RPG, nor is it a turn-based RPG in battle mode, but a combination of real-time calculus and playback animation.

In a real-time game, the screen and special effects that the player sees are not fixed animations, but images generated by the system even if they are calculated. So, there will be a lot more possibilities during the battle, not exactly a specific animation is randomly broadcast, it looks gorgeous, but in fact it is very monotonous.

And when the player manipulates the character he controls to release the ultimate, that is, the "Treasure", in order to have a better effect, he still has to use the mode of broadcasting. Later, many games got bigger and bigger, not because the game program really got bigger, but because there were a lot of high-definition animations in it. If you need to use a certain animation, it will be broadcast as if it were a movie. Once the story animation is triggered, the player has very little choice but to watch the characters in it as if they were watching a movie, and act according to the established animation shots, instead of operating themselves. This kind of effect will make the player feel a tear, and it will not take a while to broadcast the film, which looks gorgeous, but in fact, it covers up the defects of the production company's poor technical level.

Most of the programs in "Court of Avalon" are real-time calculations, and the broadcast is limited to the Noble Armor animation, which is to make specific ultimates more gorgeous. It is precisely because of this that the plot direction is very smooth. At the same time, the 2.5D picture is also very much a graphics card. As a result, the graphics card had to be upgraded!

Throughout the story, players need to complete the set tasks within a limited time. If you can't do it quickly, you die.

The course of the game is mainly based on combat, but combat is not brainless slash and slash. And it's already starting to take into account elements such as positioning, blocking, dodging, and so on. If the player is stupid and slashes with monsters like a stake, most of them won't even see the boss of the first level, and they will die in the group of monsters.

All kinds of operations and awareness must be in place to see the BOSS with low damage throughout the process. And fighting against the BOSS is more about relying on skill or teamwork, and the direct recklessness is a boss who will never be able to do any level!

During the trial process of the whole game, it not only amazed the experiencers, but also made everyone feel that they were abused too badly. Of course, as you understand the rules of the game more and more, especially the more you know about the details of each previous small level, the player has already mastered the third level. However, the whole game is divided into 7 levels, and players need to spend countless experiences and memories to master more skills.

Of course, this is a single-player difficulty, and Court of Avalon actually offers a multiplayer mode that supports up to 8 joint levels. The perspective and map of the 8 units are different, so everyone can do their own thing.

To put it simply, 8-player online has been close to the LAN game of the Internet café in later generations, before the popularization of online games, this kind of game that provides LAN networking functions can be called the most popular game type of Internet café.

For example, classic games such as "Interstellar", "Warcraft", "Red Alert", and "CS" all provided LAN connection functions at the beginning, and this function could only be better experienced in Internet cafes, so it has also become a powerful tool for Internet cafes to attract players. Later, the infrastructure of the Internet got better and better, and the speed of the Internet became faster and faster. There is no need to set up a local area network, players only need to download some clients that provide online games, and they can find players with the same interests and hobbies as themselves to play online together.

To put it simply, the game was so ahead of its time that all the microcomputers in the world couldn't be configured to move.

After more than two years of game development, the initial goal was the Pangu console platform, but in the end it was abandoned on the console version and chose to be released on the Phoenix arcade platform.

After all, the Phoenix arcade platform is currently an 8-core XRM16CPU, and the hardware foundation is far better than the Pangu platform.

And if the Phoenix platform wants to run smoothly, it still needs to upgrade the memory and graphics card. Upgrade the memory of the entire platform to 10MB and the video memory to 5MB. The cost of the hardware upgrade is $2,000.

In addition, new games sold on 512MB hard drives are priced at up to $1,000.

There are about 400,000 arcade machines on the Phoenix platform in the world, and the operators of these arcades want to introduce the Arcade of Avalon Garden, in addition to buying games, they also have to pay for graphics cards and memory!

So, many arcade publishers and large operators who heard the bad news were almost angry!

Is the game good?

So much so, in a few days, there have been a bunch of brainless fans. These fans don't want to eat, they want to know how to get past the level of "Court of Avalon". In this, every monster is not stupid, sneak attack, poisoning, pretending to be dead, disguise, how obscene and how to come. The simple and kind monster in the past, in this game, can no longer be seen.

The charm of the game is also huge, and representatives of the major game publishers who have played countless games are fascinated by the fans of this game.

But......

Top-notch games are also top-notch at a top-notch price!

Seeing the latest offer for the arcade game "Court of Avalon", many game hall owners gradually lost their smiles!

You must know that the price of the whole machine on the Phoenix platform was as high as 10,000 US dollars, which is ten times more expensive than some cheap arcade platforms. Buy a hard disk game on the platform, the price is also as high as 800~1000 US dollars!

And now the price of this new game is only $1,000, and you need to pay another $2,000 to upgrade the hardware!

Come on!

Is this a $10,000 arcade machine, so quickly obsolete that you need to upgrade your hardware?

"Sir, you can choose to buy a new machine, the 10-core CPU, graphics card and memory are all the latest configurations, the price is $10,000. If you are not willing to upgrade the whole machine, buy graphics cards and memory to upgrade, this is already the lowest cost solution!" the sales staff said very awesomely, "Of course, this is just our company's professional advice, you can also choose to only buy games, without upgrading the memory and graphics card, but ...... Don't blame our company for not reminding you - this game is very memory and graphics card eater!"

To put it simply, it is to love to buy, not to buy!

"Court of Avalon" will not compromise with the owner of the arcade who is reluctant to pay for it, and there is no way to compromise. Because, the game configuration is so high, this is still the result of the company's optimization and optimization. Without in-depth optimization, the memory and graphics card requirements may increase several times!

Of course, this is not the first time that the Phoenix Arcade platform has been so arrogant, and the Phoenix Arcade platform has always had this attitude.

Because, the Phoenix arcade platform belongs to the highest level in the game industry. Consoles will have to wait at least three or five years for the same experience. Handheld Platform ...... Well, haha, you want to play a big game on the handheld, you better go back to sleep, you have everything in your dreams!

Moreover, the large-capacity mechanical hard disk game, which is also the original creation of Xinchuang Electronics, only Xinchuang Electronics Company has made an unprecedented breakthrough in mechanical hard disk technology.

Other computer configurations are still stuck in 5~10MB hard disks, and hard disks belong to the era of luxury. The hard disk of Xinchuang Electronics has started at 128MB and started at 256MB. As for the hard disk for arcade games, it is already 512MB of capacity!

Although the capacity of the 512MB hard disk does not exceed the capacity of a CD disc, the read and write speed of the hard disk is incomparable to that of a CD.

At the same time, the capacity of hard drives is much larger than those semiconductor ROM chips.

It is precisely for this reason that the Phoenix Arcade Hard Disk Edition game at this stage is the highest level in the entire game industry!