Chapter 137: The Summer Storm (Part II)
In 1996, after the expansion of the Fengyun Game Club, the membership event became a regular monthly party, and the originally slightly crowded venue became more spacious after expansion, and the number of players who came to the party reached a new high, not only in Beijing, but also in the surrounding area, and even occasionally there were fanatical players who came by plane to catch the venue. On the last weekend of July, on a very ordinary Saturday morning, the Fengyun Game Club, which had been quiet for a while, was noisy again, and this month's membership activities began, this time with the theme of game cosplay.
Zhao Wei chose to join the Fengyun Game Club last year because he wanted to get more free game currency from the Oriental Video Game City, but after participating in several membership activities, his interest gradually changed, and the originally very attractive and popular arcade games were no longer in his eyes at all, and he now likes the feeling of playing against people online.
The game appreciation area in the game appreciation area of Fengyun Game Club has a wide variety of games for players to choose from, from the role-playing "Legend of Sword and Fairy", "Xuanyuan Sword", "Might and Magic", to the first-person shooter "DoomII", "Wizard of Destruction" and "Bloody Battle on the Beach", as well as the popular action game "Crusader" and shooting games "Rage Tank", "Nova Storm", as well as what simulation management, strategy simulation, adventure puzzle, and even some of the latest games that have just been seen in magazines. However, among so many games, the most popular and attractive is the real-time strategy game, like "Command and Conquer" and "Warcraft 2", as well as the "Three Kingdoms" that has just been added, all have their own fans, from time to time there will be people who call friends to come to a few games, and even on non-member activity days, there are also people who do not hesitate to pay money to play a few handfuls, anyway, the charge of 4 yuan and 1 hour can still be afforded.
Even if the number of PCs was later increased to 50, it still couldn't satisfy the players who were full of expectations, so much so that other areas became hot. Anyway, they are all in line for the number, and the players who are far away from the numbers often choose to go to the show to eat, or go to the board game area to try their skills, and the killing game with low requirements for the venue is even more popular, and even many players who sit in the game appreciation area and wait will get together to play a game or two to pass the boring time of waiting, or two or three people to play battle cards together. In short, the wait is boring, but the options to pass the boring time are still very rich, and with the different theme activities of each member activity day, players can always return with a full load, and feel that the trip is worthwhile.
This time, Zhao Wei still came directly to the game appreciation area as usual, and Li Wenbo and Wu Yufei, who came with him, went to the board game area, it is said that there are new games coming there, and the rules of the killing game have also been upgraded, but these can't shake Zhao Wei's "real-time strategy heart", he has already made up his mind and has a good fight. I got the number plate, sat in front of the computer and turned on the power, and as soon as I got to the desktop, Zhao Wei noticed that there was a new game, and there was another icon called "Highest Alert Experience Version" in the real-time strategy area.
"Isn't this the same game that was introduced in last month's conference magazine, and I didn't expect to be able to play it myself. Zhao Wei sighed with emotion, and clicked on the "Supreme Alert Experience Version".
The screen darkened for a moment, and soon the screen of "Supreme Alert Experience Version" appeared, Zhao Wei was surprised to find that the single-player game could not be clicked, and he could only choose the online game, he couldn't help frowning slightly.
When Zhao Wei was hesitating, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "3vs3, there is still one person missing, if you are interested, add 'Qiaojiabao Assault'." ”
Zhao Weiwei listened, and immediately didn't care about thinking about the problem of the single-player game, quickly connected a few points, and successfully added the "Qiaojiabao Assault" to the 3-on-3 game, he looked at the menu, and randomly chose an organization called "Zhongzhou Alliance", the color was red, and then the game started quickly.
As the screen lit up, Zhao Wei found that there was an extra thing in the middle of the screen, which looked like a car, and he could really move around after selecting it with the mouse, with the literacy cultivated by "Command and Conquest", he quickly judged that this was his base car, so he quickly unfolded the base, and the black panel on the right immediately appeared a few more icons.
Zhao Wei looked at it a little, it was a bit similar to "Command and Conquer", so according to his previous experience, he first built a power plant, then a mine, and then another mine. As soon as the second mine was put on the ground, the power immediately fell below the green line, Zhao Wei hurriedly replenished another power plant, and then he remembered that he was not armed, so he built another barracks, and a few soldiers with guns and grenades began to explore around.
Not long after running out, Zhao Wei found a green mining vehicle, it was obvious that there was another player nearby, in line with the habit of hitting people first and making money, he commanded his soldiers to secretly fire at the mining vehicle, and after several rounds of attacks, the mining vehicle exploded. At this time, another mining truck came, Zhao Wei organized people to continue the siege, and after blowing up the second mining truck, he led his people to run quickly. Not long after running out, a wail sounded in the game appreciation area: "Who beat my mining truck, it's too despicable." ”
Before the words fell, the same wail sounded again: "Damn, whose soldier is this, why did you come here?" Oh my God, and throwing grenades, ahhhhh
It didn't take long for the player who chose green as the flag to be sad, he looked at his messy base in pain, and the minions who were slowly strafing or throwing two grenades in the base, and sighed with great resentment: "What are you doing, I just want to play games!"
After the first blow, Zhao Wei was triumphant, he sent the newly created soldiers and two tanks in the base out, and after the two troops converged together, he continued to look for other players, and the original 3-on-3 alliance had long been left behind him. Soon the purple player was discovered by Zhao Wei again, relying on his own strong soldiers, he rushed up to be a fat beating, the other party barely resisted and collapsed, Zhao Wei only paid the price of 4 small soldiers and bulldozed the family again.
Just when Zhao Wei was full of ambition, he suddenly found that six blue tanks appeared in his base, and when he woke up to the fact that it was the enemy who came, the remaining troops in the base had been broken by each one, and only the last tank was still smoking. Zhao Wei panicked, and while working hard to produce troops in the barracks and arsenal, he called back the attacking troops outside. When the attacking troops rushed home out of breath, Zhao Wei was also in a mess, although the buildings were basically still there, but there was no power plant left, and the result was obviously not short of money, but it couldn't produce anything at all, so he could only wait for the first power plant to be produced.
Before Zhao Wei could breathe a sigh, seven or eight yellow tanks rushed out from the left side of the screen, followed by a bunch of small soldiers, looking at the only two remaining tanks in the base with green smoke and five or six small soldiers, a feeling of despair rose from the bottom of his heart. After a burst of ping-pong, five or six yellow tanks and a pair of small soldiers blew past Zhao Wei's base like a whirlwind, leaving only a clean, smoky ground.
At this time, Zhao Wei calmed down, and looked up at the wall clock very leisurely, he found that although it felt like a long time had passed, in fact, this tense and fierce battle only took him more than seven minutes, and the battle between the remaining few people ended in four minutes. Compared with the previous real-time strategy games, Zhao Wei feels that the game speed of the "Supreme Alert Experience Version" is faster, usually a regular-sized map, and the previous games generally took more than twenty minutes to see the results, but now this game only takes ten minutes to almost the same, compared to it, it is quite time-saving, and the feeling of battle is more tense and intense.
Zhao Wei knew that if he wanted to play the "highest vigilance experience version" better, he had to adjust his strategy, and he played it for the first time just now, and he played it ignorantly, and even the 3-on-3 game became a six-party melee, although it was also very interesting, but it became a chaotic war, so he began to think about his gains and losses in this round, and pondered how to deal with the next round of the war.
Players who were still playing other games happened to notice this fierce and interesting melee and began to try it, after all, compared to the ancient or otherworldly Jinge Iron Horse, modern warfare such as tanks and cannons is still much more attractive to players. So the "highest vigilance experience version" quickly occupied the screens of most computers, and this situation continued even after the substitution, if these computers were not equipped with headphones but speakers, the entire game appreciation area was probably filled with the sound of guns and cannons.
It's a pity that the time of the game always flies quickly, especially the game is very seductive, and when there are more people waiting next to it, it seems that there are more monks and less porridge, and the time seems to pass with a brush, and it is not enjoyable to play at all. The next day, those who had played the "Supreme Alert Experience Edition" yesterday and some players who heard the news rushed to the Fengyun Game Club, but they found a new game "Blackstone Legend Experience Edition", which was simple and easy to use, and it could also be played online, which immediately attracted a lot of players to invest in it.
As a result, at the end of the day, not only did not get enough of the addiction of the "Supreme Vigilance Experience Edition", but players were worried about the "Legend of Blackstone Experience Edition", but unfortunately the event day has ended, even if you pay to play, you have to wait until next weekend, this feeling of not going up or down makes many players like scratching their hearts, and many players who have not had the opportunity to come to the scene to participate in the interaction, have heard about the hot scenes of these two games through newspapers and magazines, and they are also itching to watch. After two weeks of suffering, many of these players who have seen or not seen "Supreme Alert" and "Legend of Blackstone" have secretly made up their minds to buy a set of games to prepare for at home as soon as they are released.
In early August, some D-disc sellers with fixed booths began to be frequently harassed, and from time to time someone would always come to inquire if there were two games, "Supreme Alert" and "Legend of Blackstone", but unfortunately these D-version disc sellers had never seen it themselves, so they could only wait helplessly and depressedly for the time when the new goods were sent to the house. Some of the quick-witted D-disc mobile booths printed their own covers, and used other game discs to pass off "Supreme Alert" and "Legend of Blackstone", but they took advantage of the chaos to make a small fortune.
On August 10, the day when the Chinese Simplified Chinese versions of "Supreme Alert" and "Legend of Blackstone" were released, Fengyun Interactive had prepared in advance to put 100,000 sets of "Supreme Alert" and "Legend of Blackstone" into the channel through prior warm-up and according to market feedback, and left more than 30,000 sets in their hands ready to deal with members' mail orders and some emergencies. As for the Chinese Traditional version and other language versions, Asia Interactive, Activision and EIDOS are responsible for the launch, and the launch time is also scheduled for the same day.
Before 9 a.m. on August 10, every software store covered by Fengyun Interactive channel put the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "Supreme Alert" and "Legend of Blackstone" in the most prominent position. As soon as the doors of the store opened, players flocked to pick up one or two games from the most conspicuous position, pay the money and leave, and there were also some people with different moods, such as the owner of the computer room who was already disappointed with the seller of the D version of the CD, and the manufacturer of the D version of the CD who was planning to rush for time.
Most of the players who bought the game and went back couldn't wait to install it on the computer to play a few times, but the vast majority of people could only experience a single-player game at home or bully the computer in a multiplayer game or be bullied by the computer, and only a few lucky people had the opportunity to experience the feeling of playing against others because they had two new computers at home or more people in the same dormitory bought computers. Some of the lucky ones who snapped up a set of two sets of games back to the game room quickly became the most popular place in the city by virtue of their own advantages, and even many players who bought genuine games couldn't help but run online to have a hand, the popularity of the game scene made individual shrewd bosses find it a good idea to occasionally buy genuine games.
The manufacturer of the D version of the CD, who secretly bought back a few sets of games, was so greedy that he could only urge the technicians under his command to crack the game as soon as possible. Finally, someone cracked "Supreme Alert" in less than two weeks, and then "Legend of Blackstone" was also successfully cracked, and the D version of the disc manufacturer rushed to the production master of the roar, and then went to the assembly line and began to produce wildly.
However, fortunately, Fengyun Interactive's action of distributing goods in large quantities in advance has achieved good results, and the Chinese Simplified Chinese versions of "Supreme Alert" and "Legend of Blackstone" have exceeded 90,000 sales in just twelve days, plus 20,000 sets sent out through mail order channels, although the swarm of piracy after two weeks led to a plummeting sales, but with the reserves of the first two weeks, "Supreme Alert" and "Legend of Blackstone" still set an incredible sales record.
Many game companies that are paying attention to Fengyun Interactive and companies that are ready to enter the game industry have also seen this achievement, and at the same time, they have also begun to launch their own projects, or began to enter the game industry, including Shangyang Electronics, which sent Wu Gang and others to investigate, and their Mr. Shen finally approved the proposal to develop games under the persuasion of Wu Gang, and handed over the matter to Wu Gang to be fully responsible, starting the first test of Shangyang Electronics in the game industry.
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