After three days of secret talks, Zhang Lexing, as the representative of the acquirer, with the help of Mak Ka Chun and others, reached a final acquisition agreement with Konami Company, one of the company's founders, Keimashi last month, retained no more than 8% of the shares and continued to serve as the company's chief executive officer (CEO), while the other two founders, Nakama Yoshinobu and Miyatsuki Tatsuo, will leave the company to find a new purpose in life. Subsequently, the news media received an invitation from Konami with the words: "...... On July 7th, Konami will hold a press conference at the Hotel Okura Tokyo, where an important announcement will be made,...... Thank you for your visit! ……”

The news media that received the invitation thought of the recent surge in Konami's stock price, and they all felt that there must be big news to dig up, and they sent dignitaries to it. Of course, there are also some ubiquitous paparazzi moving around, trying to get some exciting inside information before the press conference. Fortunately, Zhang Lexing and others hid directly after negotiating the matter, so they were not excavated by these fierce paparazzi.

In this case, a certain gossip magazine still magically concocted a strange article, swearing that there was a mysterious consortium to contact Shangyue Jingzheng, Konami company may have major changes, and it was also accompanied by a photo of the alleged reception of the mysterious consortium by Shangyue Jingzheng, but the photo is blurry, except for the last moon Jingzheng can also see people, next to it is not clear what it is, a typical but empty prophecy. Although the article was not well received, the meaning of the article aroused the interest of many people in the current situation of Konami Company, and the news media became more and more active.

At 9 a.m. on July 7, Konami held a press conference at the Okura Hotel in Tokyo, with more than 120 media outlets coming to cover the event. On the left side of the podium sat Kamitsuki Keimasa and the presidents of Konami branches, and on the right there were four empty seats, and the news media in the audience speculated about who it was for. At three o'clock in nine, a few hurried people walked in from the side door next to them, and after coming in, they came directly to the rostrum and sat down, and the host who stood on the speaker announced: "This press conference has officially begun, and first of all, I would like to invite the CEO of Konami Company to speak. ”

Kazuki Jingzheng came to the speaker's seat, adjusted the height of the microphone, coughed lightly, and then said: "Welcome friends, I am here today to announce an important news, Konami will be officially delisted from the exchanges in Tokyo and Osaka. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the audience, and many reporters couldn't help but get up to ask questions, Shangyue Jingzheng pressed down with both hands, signaling everyone to be calm and not impatient, and with the cooperation of the staff in the audience, his speech could continue.

"Don't worry, listen to me." Last month, Jingzheng continued: "Some time ago, the main shareholders of the company have reached an agreement to transfer part of the equity to Oriental Holdings, and now Oriental Holdings has become the majority shareholder of our company holding 83.82% of the shares. As for the delisting of the company, one is due to the listed company system, and the other is the request of major shareholders. After the company is delisted, it will issue 24,330,973 additional shares to its major shareholder, Oriental Holdings, raising 38.929 billion yen for the company's technological innovation and the development of home games......

With the support of the majority shareholder, the company will continue to maintain its current independent position, all game development plans will continue, and the company has been authorized to launch a new version of the famous game "Castlevania " on the PC-E console, tentatively named "Castlevania X: Blood Reincarnation", which will make full use of the functions of the PC_E console and the large capacity of the CD......

In the near future, we will also cooperate with KF-Panda, a well-known game development company in the United States, Lucas Art, etc., and plan to develop some home console games with a more American taste, and further explore overseas markets......"

After Jingzheng finished speaking, the moderator came to the speaker again and said into the microphone: "Ladies and gentlemen, the representative of Oriental Holdings, the major shareholder of Konami Company, will speak next. ”

Zhang Lexing came to the speaker's seat, glanced at the audience, and said with a smile: "Hello guests...... We have been observing Konami for a long time and believe that it has great potential for development, and we will continue to support Konami in the future and bring more and more updated game ...... to the majority of players."

Next, representatives of KF-Panda, Oriental Rights Trading Co., Ltd., and Scowell also spoke, and the general topic revolved around the wisdom of the acquisition decision and the huge development space of Konami in the future. After saying everything that should be said, I came to the question session of the press conference, but fortunately, with the relationship between Jingzheng and others last month, the media present were very face-saving and did not ask any tricky questions, so in an atmosphere of great joy, the press conference ended successfully. After the meeting, with the help of many news media, the news of Konami's major changes spread to everyone, and it doesn't matter to players, only if a new game comes out, but for many of Konami's competitors, Konami's capital increase and share expansion, and the big increase in strength are not good news.

After the scene has passed, Zhang Lexing and others can also come to Konami Company openly and discuss the company's future adjustment with Shangyuejingzheng. Konami's specific operation is still in charge of Shangyue Jingzheng, Zhang Lexing is just a few of his own people in some key departments of the company, although the investment comes from Oriental Holdings, but the daily management will be contacted by Dongfang Electronic Entertainment, a professional company, and Shangyue Jingzheng, but he doesn't have to worry about everything. However, Zhang Lexing still gave some suggestions on the future development direction of Konami company, the more important of which are the three major development directions in the future - "digital entertainment", "health services" and "games and systems".

In fact, according to Zhang Lexing's vision, Konami can also consider PS arcade interchange boards in the future arcade business, but now is not the time. After the completion of the acquisition, Zhang Lexing also got some surprises, Konami company's headquarters and branches have special game training institutions, and the teachers in charge of training actually have some Chinese, after sending people to contact, there are eight who are willing to return to China for development, plus three game development trainers (Americans) from the United States Blue Dragon Games, Lao Xiao Nian's long-term teacher problem has finally been solved, and there is no need to rely on those half-people to make do.

Just when Zhang Lexing was busy jumping up and down for Konami, the founder of a future finger dance online game company had just joined Konami at this time and was participating in the research and development of a walking control business game console in Kobe, but of course Zhang Lexing had no idea about it.

Get the Konami company, Zhang Lexing broke up with Mai Jiajun in Tokyo, Mai Jiajun originally had a lot of ideas, but after receiving an international call, he honestly bought a ticket and flew back to the United States, and several assistants who came with him collected the check and enjoyed their lives, while Zhang Lexing bought a ticket and flew back to Beijing, and when he left, he also took away a development team from Konami, it is said that he has been developing sports games before, which is an area that Zhang Lexing's two domestic companies have never set foot in, but this group of people has been engaged in development on Super Nintendo, and there is a big distance from the creative workshop, so Zhang Lexing had to send them to Shanghai to form an independent studio under Tianzhiyuan (Shanghai).

After returning to Beijing, Zhang Lexing went to see the work of the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" project team, it has been almost three months, and I don't know if this group has done something.

Under the leadership of Zhan Jun, Zhang Lexing first came to the programming department, because everyone is relatively unfamiliar with the game engine, so only a small part has been realized for more than two months, and the current RPG engine can only complete the movement in the map and the scene, and can talk to the NPCs in the scene, and then can enter the incomplete combat system for testing, and many of the functions planned at the beginning have not yet been written. Zhang Lexing is not in a hurry, anyway, there is still time, you can take your time.

Next, Zhang Lexing went to the planning department and the art department, the group of planners of the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" project are now busy writing NPC dialogue scripts and planning the activity rules of NPCs in the scene, and the art department is busy depicting the game scene and the action decomposition of the game characters, but it can't be seen to be famous when they are separated like this, and it seems that it will take a while.

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The time slowly came to August, although the cooperation with the editorial department of "Game Concentration Camp" was unsuccessful for some reason, but the magazine that was promised was delivered to Zhang Lexing as promised.

The first series of "Game Concentration Camp" is not an official publication, Zhang Lexing started to read it from the second series, and then he always wanted to buy a copy of the first series but never got his wish, but he didn't expect that he finally had one in his hand today, Zhang Lexing's heart couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

"Game Concentration Camp" is the first officially published video game magazine in China, but it is not the first video game magazine in China. To say early, the "Video Game Guide" founded around the Spring Festival in 1991 should be counted, strictly speaking, the "Video Game Guide" and the regular magazine is still a big gap, one is the publication time is fundamentally fixed, sometimes one in January, sometimes one in two months, the other "Video Game Guide" is also very poor in printing, the cover is a "Video Game Guide" printed with a few large characters of 16 white paper, the inside page is the cheapest paper, black and white printing, pure text without pictures at all. Later, the "Video Game Guide" has been trying to formalize, and two books (called "Video Game Fans") have been published under the book number, but unfortunately it has never been able to get an official issue number, and it will gradually disappear.

The cover of the first series of "Game Concentration Camp" is a poster of "Dragon Warrior", which looks much more fancy compared to ordinary magazines, and there is a very eye-catching word "Game Concentration Camp" on it. There are many articles in the magazine that can be regarded as the main feature of the magazine even after a few years, such as "Dragon Quest 5 Complete Strategy", the fantasy MUD novel "Game of Death", and the "Ten Years of Brilliant Nintendo" mentioned on the cover of the magazine (written by Brother Long himself). Zhang Lexing also found that the magazine actually introduced a computer game "Kombat Extreme" (produced by Quanwei Information), which is a little different from the style of not introducing computer games at all in the future.

In fact, the most striking thing about this issue of the magazine is not the wonderful articles on the inside pages, but the passage on the back cover:

"As a member of the Guanguan clan, you can't help but break through

The Breaker Clan

If you don't have enough wisdom, you can't rush in

If you don't have enough composure, you can't get out

Those who can enter and exit are big heroes and heroes

It's a talent to be able to play and win

It's a character to play without getting lost

Being able to control oneself is a kind of cultivation

It's a realm to be infatuated while playing."

Many people can't help but want to go to the editorial office in person because they see this, hold the hands of those old editors and editors, and say: "Comrades, I have finally found the organization!" ”

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