Chapter 19: The Beginning of Online Games (Part I)

Except for those who saw some relevant reports through the Internet at the beginning of the incident, the vast majority of people can be said to be unaware of this matter, and are still living a happy and simple life, which may be considered a kind of happiness to some extent compared with the chaotic outside world.

Life is still going on, and the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "Network Genesis", which was originally expected to be approved in June, was unexpectedly advanced, but fortunately, Fengyun Interactive and the newly established Fengyun Network (fully owned by Chen Zishan) responsible for game operations have already been prepared, and the corresponding server group has been debugged, so it was not caught off guard. Considering that the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "Network Genesis" has met the operating conditions, Fengyun Network decided to advance the game server launch date to May 18, and also released the corresponding news on the Chinese official website of "Network Genesis", which has been publicized to everyone, and arranged for customer service staff to use the phone to notify all users who have pre-ordered the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "Network Genesis" in advance, everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

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After graduating from school, Li Wenbo, under the arrangement of his family, went to a government office and set up an iron rice bowl. As for his two college classmates, Wu Yu flew into a well-known IT company in Beijing to work, that is, he often advertised on TV, saying that "if humanity loses xx, what will happen to the world", he is very busy on weekdays, and it is rare to see each other once or twice a month. And Zhao Wei actually went to Fengyun Game Academy for further study after graduation, and said that he would enter the best game company in China after graduation, to be honest, Li Wenbo and Wu Yufei were taken aback when they heard the news, it is said that Zhao Wei, this kid is not very attentive to learning on weekdays, and he is a guy who is temporarily crammed before the exam, and he can exceed sixty points on OK, but he didn't expect to make such a big determination, and he would embark on the road of developing games.

After coming to the government office, there are more idle days, and Li Wenbo has more energy to devote to the game, after all, he also has some income, although it is not much, but there is still money to buy one or two games every month, and there is some additional income at the end of each year, such as the PS game console he often plays recently is bought with a sum of money accumulated at the beginning of the year. In fact, Li Wenbo belongs to the PC fan, although he has played a lot of home game consoles before, what Nintendo red and white machine, almost all of the Super Nintendo has declined, but playing around, his favorite is still the game on the PC platform, after all, there are more relatively complex simulation games on the PC.

There are only some exceptions for the PS console, which has some games that cannot be played on PC, such as the "Resident Evil" series, "Silent Hill", and "Pro Evolution Soccer", which claims to be a domestic game. Especially "Pro Evolution Soccer", compared with the "FIFA" series on the PC, whether it is the authenticity of the game or the tactical arrangement, etc., it feels much more fun, and the control feel of the game is not to mention, with the cooperation of the pair of analog sticks, players can flexibly make various actions on the field, which is not at all controlled by the keyboard "FIFA" can be compared.

On weekdays, when he has nothing to do, Li Wenbo will practice two "Pro Evolution Soccer" at home, and sometimes there will be colleagues in the unit or former players who come to play one or two 1VS1 Pro Evolution Soccer battles, but unfortunately there are not many people in the circle who like football games, and most of the time he can only be bored and abuse the computer over and over again. Recently, though, he hasn't been thinking about Pro Evolution Soccer or any new games coming out on PlayStation because Cyber Genesis is coming.

Ever since he saw the news about "Cyber Genesis" in the magazine "Home Computers and Game Consoles" last year, Li Wenbo has paid attention to it, for no other reason, the name of the graphic Mud alone is worth exploring, otherwise how would he be embarrassed to claim to be a doctor of games. But at first he didn't have much hope, as a group of people who were relatively early on the Internet, what the domestic Internet is like, he still knows very well, want to rely on that snail-like speed to access the game server in the United States, it is definitely a test of patience, and it is the kind of connection failure rate as high as 99%.

However, at the end of the year, on the Fengyun Game Club journal "Game Fengyun", Li Wenbo saw a pleasant news that surprised him, Fengyun Interactive has signed a contract with the copyright owner of "Network Genesis", and the game plan will be launched in mid-1998, and it is the kind of Chinese Simplified Chinese version that has been Chineseized, and game servers will be set up in China, and the places where game servers will be set up may include Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places. What is Shanghai, Guangzhou, Li Wenbo will not care, but the words "Beijing game server", "Chinese simplified Chinese version" and other words still stimulate him, which means that he does not have to drive a kitten to squeeze the sheep's intestine trail-like "information superhighway", and he does not have to guess the E text full of screens, when he thinks of this, he can't help but be excited.

In the days that followed, Li Wenbo could see the news about the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "Network Genesis" from time to time, sometimes it was a few pictures after Chineseization, sometimes it was an introduction to the game profession, sometimes it was seen in magazines such as "Home Computer and Game Console", "Game Storm", and sometimes it was found on the Chinese official website of "Network Genesis", among which the most attractive, or the most seductive, was a paragraph published in "Game Storm" The game demo video on the accompanying CD, in which a knight in black armor slowly walks out of the flames on a horse, is even more shocking.

Time passed day by day, and the expected launch of the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "Network Genesis" on June 22 was getting closer and closer, Li Wenbo had long been unable to hold back his excitement, and used his membership card to book a set of the upcoming Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "Network Genesis", and then went to the official website every day to see the latest news, or hung ICQ and a group of quasi-online gamers gathered together through the Internet to chat and imagine the future of "Network Genesis".

Late one night in mid-May, Li Wenbo opened the official website of "Network Genesis" as usual, and while waiting for the page to refresh, he started ICQ again, entered his account and password, and while waiting for the login process, he switched the page of the official website again. The official website of "Network Genesis" has not been completely refreshed at this time, but there is an extra line of words in the title bar at the top than in the past, ""Network Genesis" game server is advanced to May 18th online ......", Li Wenbo was stunned, and immediately became excited, and quickly clicked on the chat room attached to ICQ, ready to share the good news with players, who knew that by the time he squeezed into the chat room, it had already turned upside down, and no one was sending "Meet on May 18" Network Genesis " in various fonts and other similar words, and others are enthusiastically discussing what kind of career they should pursue after entering the game, and some people have even begun to book customers for future carpenters and blacksmiths. Looking at the surging words, Li Wenbo smiled self-deprecatingly, he understood who made him late.

After chatting in the chat room without a match, Li Wenbo turned out the relevant materials of "Internet Genesis" that he had accumulated before to quench his thirst, but he always had a feeling of emptiness in his heart, as if he wanted to do something but never did it. Li Wenbo closed the browser casually, and was going to shut down the computer to go to sleep, just when the mouse just moved to the start button, a small ICQ window suddenly popped up in the lower right corner, which said "Welcome to Lianzhong Game World", his hand stopped, and then subconsciously moved the mouse to the small window and clicked, the browser that had been closed popped up again, and then gradually opened a new website "Lianzhong Game World". Looking at the new website that was gradually opening, Li Wenbo's eyes slowly widened......

Perhaps there was a matter of ICQ Chinese server being launched in the early morning, and after months of hard work, the "Lianzhong Game World" finally chose the time for the server to be launched in the early morning of May 16. Two weeks before that, Bao Yueqiao and others moved the debugged game server to the server area on the second basement floor of the office building of the creative workshop, in order to facilitate the timely handling of the failure in the game, they also simply picked an empty office on the first floor of the office building, as their "branch", and octopus, creative eagle Xiang as a neighbor.

Before Bao Yueqiao and others moved here, a Nanjing company named Polaris heard the news that Lianzhong was developing a chess and card game, and even made a special call, asking them not to disrupt the market at a very low price. This phone call made Bao Yueqiao and others very helpless, and they were also a little crying and laughing, because they didn't plan to follow the old path of Polaris to sell the finished game to ICP, but planned to operate it themselves, and the business of the two companies was actually not connected at all.

After two weeks of "internal testing", "Lianzhong Game World" has gradually become more and more perfect, and with the help of a few employees on loan from the workshop, the variety of games has also increased from three in the original plan to seven games, including Go, Chinese chess, checkers, upgrade, arch pig, etc. The time gradually came to the night of the 15th, and the time for the official launch of the "Lianzhong Game World" was getting closer and closer, Bao Yueqiao, Jian Jing and Wang Jianhua stayed in the office nervously, watching the hands of the clock on the wall walking forward minute by minute.

"Lao Bao, did you say that someone will come to play then?" Jian Jing suddenly said coldly, and the words were obviously lacking in confidence.

"It should be no problem, the big guys weren't having a lot of fun during the LAN test in the past two weeks, right? Bao Yueqiao replied, but his words were more like giving himself firm confidence.

"The big guy came to play to help us test, and through the LAN and don't have to spend any extra money, if you change to the Internet, it will not be good, now the Internet fee is not cheap, and playing chess and card games is not like receiving email, you can get it in minutes." Wang Jianhua, who was lying on a marching bed with his eyes wide open, was also very unconfident.

The three of them swept their gazes to the wall clock on the wall again, and then sighed in unison......

At 23:30 on May 15th, the staff on duty in the server area on the second floor of the basement connected the Internet line of "Lianzhong Game World" according to the predetermined plan, and the game server was opened, and then the necessary tests were carried out on the server connected to the Internet according to the predetermined plan.

At 0:20 on May 16th, the game server test was completed, all the results were normal, and the "Lianzhong Game World" server was officially launched.

At 0:25 on May 16, the official website of "Lianzhong Game World" was officially launched, and five minutes later, the ICQ Chinese server pushed the advertising window of "Lianzhong Game World" to all users according to the scheduled time. At this point, in fact, Bao Yueqiao, Jian Jing and Wang Jianhua have nothing to do, at least there is no need for all three of them to stay here, but no one is willing to leave, they all want to see with their own eyes whether the game they designed is popular with users.

"One thing that comes to mind is that we need at least two people to play, and some even require four people to play, and if there are only one or two people at a time, and they don't have enough people to play, then they have to wait. Jian Jing, who was nervously staring at the background monitoring program, suddenly thought of a possibility, and in order to avoid adverse effects, he hurriedly said it.

"Well, that's really a problem. Bao Yueqiao touched his chin, his eyes suddenly lit up, and said: "This problem is easy to handle, we have registered three accounts by ourselves, and one person looks at a platform, so that as soon as someone comes, you can play immediately." ”

"That's a good idea. Wang Jianhua rolled over from the marching bed and sat up, agreeing.

"Okay, that's it!" Jian Jing also nodded.

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Li Wenbo briefly browsed the "Lianzhong Game World" website, and roughly understood that this is a chess and card game website, you need to download a game lobby program, and then register an account to play. He glanced at the number of bytes of the lobby program, which didn't seem to be too big, so he clicked on the download link of the game lobby, launched a download software called "Internet Vampire", and put it in the background to download it slowly, while he took advantage of the download software to go to the homepage of the "Lianzhong Game World" website to register an account. Open the registration page, Li Wenbo found that you can choose to re-register, ICQ users can also choose to use their own number to directly activate the corresponding Lianzhong account, he thought about it for a while, and also chose to re-register, filled in a bunch of information, and got the account within a few minutes, and waited for a few minutes, the Lianzhong game hall was finally finished.

Li Wenbo skillfully installed the Lianzhong game hall, then launched it, entered the account and password, logged in to the hall, and clicked on the game "Arch Pig". Entering the game room, Li Wenbo found that he didn't know if he came too early, except that there were only three people in him, and the names were also very interesting, "Jingtian 1", "Jingtian 2", "Jingtian 3", as if he was here to line up, fortunately, he could make up a table of cards. Li Wenbo casually clicked on the only table with people and began his online "arch pig" journey......

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