Chapter 100: The Second Wave of the Summer Season
After playing for three hours in one breath, Li Wenbo stopped unsatisfied, he had passed ten official game levels in a row, and it should have passed two levels, and this special reward level has also been seen twice, each time more hilarious, the first meeting was just a villain crawling out and throwing grenades, the second time because the enemy tank came out too much and too fast, he didn't have time to defend, and when the headquarters was about to be knocked out, the eagle actually flew away, Even funnier is that the besieging tanks still have a question mark on the top.
The formal level design is great.,The battle is extremely hot.,The scene is full of tricks.,Even the means of enemy attacks are changeable.,The shape of the big and small bosses at the bottom of the level is even more different.,Let it be played in one breath and basically have no feeling of repetition.。 Especially in one level, when the cartoon tank jumped over the obstacle through the bounce point, there was also slow motion and zooming in the screen, looking at the tank jumping in the air in the sky full of artillery fire, Li Wenbo's heart couldn't help but tighten, until his tank slowly fell to the opposite land, he relaxed.
After quitting the game, Li Wenbo suddenly had the idea of communicating with others, wanting to share his joy, tension and excitement, so he turned out the manuscript paper in the drawer, picked up the pen and wrote......
It took three days to experience the level of "Rage Tank" a few times again, Li Wenbo found a new fun, it turned out that this reward level was not fixed, at least he had played more than six modes of reward levels, all of which were with tanks as the protagonists, in addition to the classic "Tank Wars", and even tank racing games. At the same time, Li Wenbo felt that the article "The Days of Fighting in the Continent of Armia" was also completed, this Armia continent is where the story of "Tank of Fury" took place, after writing the article, he put it in the envelope as quickly as possible, wrote the address and sent it to the "Home Computer and Game Console" magazine, in fact, he didn't care about the remuneration of the article, he just hoped to share his feelings and feelings with his friends, but unfortunately the Fengyun Game Club did not have any party activities, Otherwise, he wouldn't have to write anything like this.
Fengyun Interactive's game sales activities are vigorous,Other game companies are not idle,It is the Taiwanese game company that is in full swing to launch a large number of games in the summer vacation,Among them, there are many excellent works such as "Yanlong Knights 2", "Commercial Revolution at the End of the Century", "Warrior Battle 2", etc., and the company was stimulated by Huayi International's transplanted PC-98 game "Pretty Girl in the Ring" and "Special Service Mecha Team" last year to win the sales championship of the month, and began to try to transplant PC-98 games in Chinese. In order to strengthen the appeal, some companies simply to make money will inevitably focus on certain games with "H", of course, there are basically no "H" graphics, such as "Sailor DreamWorks 2", but for well-known reasons, colored ones like "Saints' Sentai 1" are always more popular. With the help of "omnipotent" pirates, these PC-98 ported games, both colored and uncolored, began to spread to the mainland, and the fledgling game industry soon encountered a mess.
In addition to the creative workshop and Xishanju who came out of the game this summer, there is only Jinpan Electronics, this time they launched an action game "Charge", which belongs to the side-scrolling customs clearance type 2D action game, and the vertical part is occasionally interspersed in the middle, a bit similar to "Contra". As for other mainland computer game development companies, because they started relatively late, the games are still in development, or even only in the conception.
Just when many people were busy being bosses in "Zhongguancun" or fighting fiercely on the continent of Breamia, Zhang Lexing received the survey results from Blue Information Market Research Company and Russell Market Research Company, and the investigation of the two companies invariably pointed to the two companies TSR (Strategic Learning Research Specification Company) and Wizards of the Coast, in fact, other companies were also mentioned in the report, such as White Wolf Games, a company that began to get involved in table games in 1991, but because Zhang Lexing had not heard of it, The results were selectively ignored.
According to the investigative report, "TSR is a company developed by Gary. Kigax, Don. Kay and Brian. Founded in 1973, the three Brumme officially launched the original Dungeons & Dragons in January of the following year.
In 1976 the company changed its name to TSRHobbies, and in order to alleviate financial difficulties, Gary Brown. Quigax sold two-thirds of his shares to the Brumme brothers and was forced to relinquish control of the company. After a period of prosperity, under the toss of the Broume brothers, who are not good at management, TSR's business situation began to deteriorate, and even turned from profit to loss, and even appeared 1.5 million US dollars in debt.
In 1985, the Brumme brothers, who were kicked out of the board, transferred their shares to Rowling. Williams, and this man is Gary. Eventually Gary sold his shares, and TSR entered the Williams era and began a period of rapid development.
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Due to TSR's blind market policy, it has begun to decline in recent years, after the successive failures of "Curse" and "Dragon Dice", TSR's debt is as high as 24 million US dollars, and recently it was reported that SSI has not renewed its contract with TSR, if it does not reverse the decline as soon as possible, TSR may go bankrupt at any time.
TSR is highly valuable for acquisition, and the cost is expected to be between 42 million ~ 50 million US dollars (including 24 million US dollars of liabilities), if the acquisition can be completed, with TSR's position and influence in the board game industry, I believe that it will occupy enough market in the shortest time. ”
Seeing this, Zhang Lexing realized that the name of his original card was not accurate, and the correct statement should be a table game or TRPG, but fortunately, the people who investigated the company were clever enough to find the wrong direction.
The section of the investigation report on Wizards of the Coast reads: "Wizards of the Coast was founded in 1990 by Peter Bush, who was still working at Boeing. Atkinson and his six friends......
In 1992, Wizards of the Coast launched its first product, The Primal Order, but was involved in an infringement lawsuit because it cited other companies' rule systems......
In 1993, Wizards of the Coast launched its first trading card game, Magic Storm, which became a hit at GenCon that year, and sales of Magic Storm decks skyrocketed, surpassing 40 million copies that year. With the Super Money Printing Machine, Wizards of the Coast has grown to 250 employees this year.
Wizards of the Coast has a lot of acquisition value, and because its shareholders are relatively dispersed, it is believed that it will be easier to achieve the purpose of the acquisition as long as it can propose a suitable purchase price, but due to the success of "Magic Storm", Wizards of the Coast has more funds on hand, and the purchase price will be relatively high, and it is expected to cost about $100 million. In addition, according to the survey, companies such as Hasbro are also interested in Wizards of the Coast. ”
The report later included brief information about Hasbro and other companies, with Hasbro stating: "Founded in 1923, Hasbro is the world's second-largest toy company, after Mattel......
Through years of acquisitions and mergers, Hasbro has acquired a wide range of brands, including Playskool, Milton Bradley, ParkerBrothers, and Transform......ers.
In fact, a lot was written later, but Zhang Lexing's eyes were completely attracted by the words "Transformers". Many people see "Transformers" for the first time, the animated version translated by Shanghai TV, the majestic Optimus Prime, the proud Megatron, and even the sound waves of the talking urn have become the object of imitation by many children. Zhang Lexing watched "Transformers" for the first time at that time, although he was no longer a child, but he still liked these transformable robots, that is, there were already Transformers toys on sale in the store, but the price was relatively expensive, at least Zhang Lexing, who had just graduated at that time, could not afford it. Later, the cartoon was discontinued, and the Transformers gradually disappeared, but the dream of the Transformers was buried in the hearts of many people, until the release of the live-action version of "Transformers" in 2007, the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time finally erupted, and Zhang Lexing was one of them.
Unexpectedly, after being reborn, he actually met Transformers in such a form, Zhang Lexing's mind was immediately occupied by Hasbro, and he couldn't wait to buy this company immediately, but judging from the scale of the company mentioned in the report, Hasbro is not so easy to acquire, and it seems that it needs to be considered in the long run. After all, TSR used to be the boss of the board game industry, and there is still a lot of inventory on hand, and Wizards of the Coast as a new army in the industry, is very pioneering, if these two companies can be combined into one, I believe it will be more competitive, Zhang Lexing also hopes to use the resources of these two companies to help him develop trading cards, and even be able to develop a perfect Xianxia game system like Dungeons and Dragons, such as "Sword and Fairy World".
However, if you want to eat two companies at once, you still need to plan well, at least Wizards of the Coast has competitors, and you can't just do it rashly, only by planning in advance and achieving your goal as quickly as possible can your competitors not have time to react. Of course, the first thing to do now is to continue to track the situation of TSR and Wizards of the Coast to avoid accidents, and Hasbro has also entered the attention list of the investigation company because of Zhang Lexing's request.
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On July 16th, the second wave of game sales of Fengyun Interactive Summer began, and this time it was the simulation management category "Happy Farm" and the adventure game "C+ Detective" on the market.
Wu Yufei is in a much better mood now, his family conditions are not as good as his classmate Li Wenbo, and the money to buy games comes from part-time jobs or the balance of living expenses, so naturally he can't buy all the eye-catching games back to play, so after receiving the trial disc of Fengyun Game Club last time, after making a choice, he decided to buy "Rage Tank" and "C+ Detective". Because Wu Yufei used to like to play "Tank Wars", he was more fond of tank games, and he was more obsessed with detective novels recently, so he made such a choice, and the others could only give up, and it was a big deal to suffer a little loss and find Li Wenbo to borrow it to play.
It's a pity that Wu Yufei didn't catch up with the first release of "Rage Tank" last time, so he had to buy it by mail order, but during the waiting time, Li Wenbo, who had played for a few days, always liked to show off in front of him when he had nothing to do, which made him depressed for several days, until he received the "Rage Tank" sent to him, and his mood gradually improved.
This time it was the turn of the launch ceremony of "C+ Detective", Wu Yufei didn't want to suffer the loss last time, so he was ready early, and ran to the venue as soon as it was dawn, originally thinking that he was just a slightly higher seat, but he didn't expect to get No. 1, which made him feel refreshed in his heart, especially when he saw that Li Wenbo's kid got more than 80 numbers, his heart was even more happy, and the previous depression seemed to have completely disappeared.
After standing for a long time, it finally started to sell, Wu Yufei showed his membership card and got his long-awaited game "C+ Detective" at a discounted price of 92 yuan. Put the game in the car basket, Wu Yufei rode into the car and rushed to the dormitory, at this time he had no heart to appreciate Li Wenbo's expression anymore, he just hoped to go back as soon as possible, so that he could play the game earlier.
Back in the dormitory, Wu Yufei couldn't wait to open the game's box, which was similar to the last "Legend of Sword and Fairy", the content in the box was also very rich, a translucent crystal box containing the "C+ Detective" color printing game CD, a thick game manual, a beautiful "C+ Detective" game poster, several new game promotional color pages, and a doll figure that is said to be one of the four heroines in the game, looks very attractive, As soon as he found out about this, Wu Yufei locked the doll in a drawer as soon as possible, so as not to be seen by any roommate.
After putting away the irrelevant things, Wu Yufei sat down in front of the computer, turned on the power, put in the disc and started the installation, and started the game immediately after completion.
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"Boss, get up quickly, don't sleep, you sleep every time you get to the office, why don't you find a few cases to deal with when you have this time, don't you know that the detective agency is running out of money." A gentle but stern voice came.
When I opened my eyes, I saw Weng Yalin, she was a beautiful woman who looked very gentle on the outside, but in fact she was a kung fu beauty, I suffered her loss when I first met, and she is currently working as an investigator at Siming Detective Agency.
"I'm not sleeping, I'm just thinking with my eyes closed." I casually made up a reason, but my eyes couldn't help but move to the opening of Weng Yalin's clothes on her chest, which seemed to be a little larger than before.
"Boss, you're so annoying!" Weng Yalin covered her chest with her hands, said a word shyly, and turned to leave.
My name is Zhao Siming, my family is in the mid-levels, quite rich, my father has always wanted me to inherit the family company, but I have no interest in managing the company at all, I just want to be a detective looking for the truth, so despite the opposition of my family, I opened such a Siming detective agency, and recruited four employees. But recently, my dad gave an ultimatum, interrupted my finances, forced me to go home, and the business of the detective agency is very bad, often only some cats and dogs are found in the business, and the money is not much and damages my image, this kind of CASE is usually refused, so now the detective agency is a little embarrassed.
After taking a look at the situation in the office, I got up and was about to pour myself a glass of water, when suddenly a capable woman walked in from outside and said to me in a heroic tone: "Zhao Siming, there is something to do, Murong Ling took a case for investigation." ”
Her name is Yu Xue, she used to be said to have been a senior inspector, but then she didn't know why she didn't do it, she was very good, and she was very good at playing with guns, and now she is an investigator of the Siming Detective Agency. And Murong Ling mentioned by Yu Xue is in charge of the contact business of the detective agency, and she took back the previous cases of cats and dogs, I don't know what kind of case it will be this time.
"What is it? This isn't about looking for a lost pet. I asked, sitting in my back chair.
"This time it's a serious CASE, looking for the missing father. This is a beautiful woman's commission! Yu Xue said with a strange expression.
I suddenly felt full of fighting spirit, and said happily: "Okay, this CASE will be handed over to my detective Zhao Siming, it must be handy, ahaha......"
"If you need the details of this CASE, you can go to Cai Xiuzhen to get it." After Yu Xue finished explaining, she turned around and left angrily.
I got up and left my office and went outside.
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With the investigation of this missing case, the plot of "C+ Detective" officially begins. Wu Yufei originally thought that it should not be difficult to deal with the foundation of his research detective novels, the missing "father" was found, but the "father" had an accident the next day, although the commission was completed, and the beautiful client Wang Yamei also paid the fee, but Zhao Siming (Wu Yufei) always felt that things were not so simple, but there were no clues in his hands and he could not continue the investigation. Next, Wu Yufei took another case in the game, investigating whether his wife had an affair for the antique dealer Qian Million, but he didn't expect the antique dealer to encounter an accident immediately, under Wu Yufei's analysis, the real murderer finally revealed the clues, this time it was done perfectly, Zhao Siming (Wu Yufei) did not have the anxiety of the last time. At this point, the game came to an abrupt end, and the ending appeared, Zhao Siming (Wu Yufei) continued to live a life of being squeezed by women every day, and worked hard to solve some cases, and the evaluation at the end was "35% plot development, 30% plot completion, and a total evaluation of D+".
According to the instructions in the manual, Wu Yufei found that he did not observe carefully enough and did not fully promote the plot. Because the tips on the instructions were more vague, Wu Yufei thought for a long time, and finally found that the problem was in the first case, it turned out that his hunch was right at the time, that case was really not so simple, so he called up the progress and started the investigation of the first case again, this time he put the target on the suspicious beauty client Wang Yamei......
After several weeks of hard work, after maneuvering between traps and anti-traps, traps and anti-traps, and breaking the layers of fog, Wu Yufei finally obtained the evaluation of "100% plot development, 100% plot completion, and overall evaluation A+", at this time he found that this game contained five seemingly unrelated cases, but there was a dark line that connected these cases, if you can find out this line, you can find a hidden backlog (at the beginning of the game, There is news of this case in an old newspaper in Zhao Siming's office), so that he has a chance to get a perfect ending, and Zhao Siming (Wu Yufei) has a chance to develop an intimate relationship with one of the beautiful assistants.
Thinking of this, for the sake of the "happy" life of other players, Wu Yufei took the pen and wrote on the manuscript paper: "When I first saw Wang Yamei, I thought there was something wrong with her, and later facts confirmed my guess, because the lipstick she used was too mature......"
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