Chapter 33 Establishment of the Propaganda Department

Takahashi didn't rest for long, less than ten minutes.

Although the entire process of "Interstellar Power" takes more than 20 minutes, the people facing off on the stage have changed five or six waves.

Arcade games are like this, there are always only a few people who can clear the customs with one coin, and the vast majority of players can only experience the content for a few minutes if they don't renew the coin.

It's not a player's dish, it's a deliberate design by the game's designers. If a game is too simple for players to play all the time, and the arcade owner can't make money, who will buy the arcade machine?

You know, many arcade owners are gnashing their teeth at those arcade machines that can make most people play for a long time.

With the two-way choice, the difficulty of the arcade machine steadily increases as the average player increases.

The benefits of increasing the difficulty don't stop there, it can also significantly reduce the flow of the game. Replacing length with difficulty, a game with a twenty-minute process looks like it has infinite levels at a low level. This allows you to spend time designing one game into designing two games.

The more games you design, the more you will objectively increase your market share, making it more profitable for game manufacturers.

Based on these two points, arcade games generally move in the direction of high difficulty and short process.

Takahashi opened his eyes, and his face was slightly better. The reporter who had been standing beside him saw that Takahashi was awake, and quickly put down the camera in his hand and introduced himself to Takahashi.

"My name is Asami Kishimoto and I'm from the University of Tokyo's Journalism Training Institute. I've been watching your game just now and I've taken a lot of photos. I'm interested in you and what you're doing, can I interview you?" Asami Kishimoto said smoothly.

Takahashi looked at Asami Kishimoto, based on the age of the two people's bodies, Asami Kishimoto already has some meaning of a big sister compared to Takahashi.

Of course, it's not that Asami Kishimoto is old, but that Takahashi is too young.

Takahashi judged from the details of her that she still had a high chance of being a journalist.

"My name is Takahashi, interview me, what do I have to interview?" Takahashi asked rhetorically, looking at Asami Kishimoto.

Asami Kishimoto, who was wearing a suit and skirt, also looked at Takahashi in detail, and after hearing Takahashi's words, she quickly explained, "I want to do an interview about video games. This venue is built just for you, I see you've been playing and have the highest scores. There were so many people challenging you just now, so I wanted to interview you. ”

"That's right. Takahashi looked at Asami Kishimoto again and said, "Ask whatever you want, but hurry." I went too late and it was messy. ”

With permission, Asami Kishimoto methodically asked the questions she had prepared just now, one by one.

The problem is gradual and deepens.

The first question is, "What kind of activity is this?"

On the spot, such a question looks a bit silly. You won't know what the event is at a glance.

However, this question is useful when it comes to paper, when it becomes a transcript.

Just having a picture, whether in color or black and white, can't show much information.

If, without introducing the background, the reader simply cannot form a valid imagination.

Neither Takahashi nor Hiroshi Kudo thought they would be interviewed, so naturally there was no standard answer prepared in advance.

"Hmm...... This should be a challenge. You can see that I'm playing a little bit better. In order to make video games fun for as many people as possible, I took on the challenge here. After a short period of thought, Takahashi used relatively short language to describe what kind of activity this was and what relationship it had with himself.

Not surprisingly, his answers were clichΓ©s.

Asami Kishimoto finished recording it in her notebook and asked a second question, "Do you think your goal of making people just receive the fun of video games has been achieved?"

Takahashi continued to reply, "I think it's done, you see so many people here, it's all accumulated in the past two days. Doesn't it look good. ”

Asami Kishimoto nodded and asked the third question, "What do you think of those challengers just now? Do you think they are bad? Did you fight particularly hard just now?"

Takahashi nodded, "It was really hard to fight just now. I don't think they're bad, though. They didn't do any tricks in secret, they all came openly, and they got into a bitter battle, which was purely my own problem. Any player is looking for a win, going for the first, and I identify with them. However, it seems that they failed today's challenge. Still couldn't beat me, and in the game "Interstellar Force", I was still number one. ”

Asami Kishimoto looked at Takahashi in a flat tone and said something quite domineering, with some surprise on her face. She could see that Takahashi was not a high-profile person who liked to talk big, so what he said should be the truth.

Some noisy shopping malls are not a very good environment for interviews.

After Asami Kishimoto recorded this answer, she didn't continue to ask. She asked Takahashi for his contact information, and Takahashi gave her Hudson's address, Hudson's phone number.

In this day and age, it is normal to provide contact information for units. Mobile phones are still expensive, difficult to use, and inconvenient to carry large toys, and landlines are not installed in every home.

Besides, if Takahashi really left the address that he didn't know when he would move away, the news big sister on the other side would have to make a lot of effort to find him again.

Unlike Takahashi who told the address with her mouth, Asami Kishimoto chose to give the address with her hands, and she took out a business card from her bag and handed it to Takahashi with both hands.

Takahashi took it and looked at it, it was a clean business card.

Only the unit, name, contact address, and contact number.

This style of design of business cards, in 20 years, will not look outdated.

"Can you let me take a picture?" Asami Kishimoto held up the camera, and Takahashi gestured towards the camera.

There were more people in the mall in the afternoon. Although Takahashi was tired, he did not try to blow Cleopatra's head again.

Even, the finger that pressed the shooting button has changed from the thumb to the current index finger.

However, even if he didn't blow up Cleopatra's head, he didn't fall into a disadvantage.

Those who formed a group to challenge him had already formed a group and left. The rest are purely mall shoppers.

Their level is so poor that Takahashi hasn't even played with them for more than five levels.

Although the challenge right now doesn't look very exciting. But there are still a lot of people in the audience. In addition, the old audience who has been standing here for a long time will preach to the new audience about the duel that took place from morning to noon.

He said that he worships the strong, even if it is just a strong man in the game. Coupled with the addition of material in the narrator's retelling, Takahashi is almost like the lone hero full of personal heroism that is now in popular American films.

Someone else made a point of showing Takahashi's thumb, saying that this finger had already been injured in the game, and you see that he is not using his index finger now. This gives Takahashi more of a tragic hero.

If he faints now, if he walks off the stage with a weak look now, maybe someone will make up the picture of the hero's twilight.

Of course, this fantasy is unrealistic, Takahashi is still very young, and he is still far from the twilight of the hero.

But when people have paid attention to the truth, people have always focused on big news that attracts and demands for appalling news.

Today, it wasn't until the mall closed at 8 p.m. that Takahashi finally relaxed.

On both days, he worked more than twelve hours a day, and most of the time he was in a very busy state.

He was really tired and tired, but he couldn't go home and rest immediately, he had to go back to Hudson to report to Kudo Hiroshi on the completion of today's work.

In the office full of the smell of tea, Kudo Hiroshi listened to Takahashi's story, and his face showed a contemplative expression. He unplugged the German brand Pelikan fountain pen of German origin and wrote something on the paper.

"When you go to work tomorrow, you'll be transferred from the games department to the propaganda department," he said. You already know that our Super Interstellar Force is in the works, right? I'm planning to hold a Tokyo-wide Super Interstellar Force competition, and I've been looking for a few potential players in the past few days, and they're all in the Publicity Department, and you're responsible for training them so that they can play better exhibition matches.

It's just you, it's still too little. Even if you go to different shopping malls every day, you can only go to as many as you can in a year.

Besides, there are no equal opponents, and the game is not so good. Pulling up a team is more efficient for promoting the game. ”

Takahashi nodded in agreement.

Kudo Hiroshi handed today's bonus slip to Takahashi and said with a smile, "I'll call Sapporo back after receiving the money, Shin'ichi will look for you, and wait for you to reply." My brother will be back to see you in a few days, and you should prepare in advance. ”