While the players are manipulating tanks, planes and soldiers to defend their country, and while the players are manipulating the task force composed of missile destroyers, aircraft carriers and submarines to defend against invasions from the sea, Zhang Lexing is sitting on the sofa in his office with a children's book "HarryPotterandthePhilosopher's Stone". Written by Rowling's single British mother, she submitted it to many publishing houses, but she was rejected, and somehow it was picked up and published by a British publishing house under the Kunpeng Group. In order to open up more markets, the British publishing house has sent a number of English editions of Harry PotterandthePhilosopher's Stone to its headquarters, with the intention that the headquarters will coordinate the distribution of other language versions.

Zhang Lexing also happened to see the original English books sent from the headquarters of Kunpeng Group, and felt that the cover of the book looked a little familiar, so he went back to study it. Hiding in his office and spending three days roughly flipping through the book, Zhang Lexing could finally determine that the book had been read before, but at that time it was in the Chinese version, and the title was "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

Zhang Lexing first watched the "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" movie, and then turned to read books, and gradually fell in love with the world composed of Muggles and wizards, and later because of curiosity to study the "Harry Potter" in front of and behind the scenes, and was surprised to find that "Harry Potter", which is basically a children's book, is actually a gold mine, and J.K. Rowling, the author of seven "Harry Potter" novels, became a member of the "10 billion club" and used "Harry Potter" The series of novels made a series of films, and the two films of Time Warner's bald head earned $1.8 billion at the box office, and even EA, which bought the rights to adapt the game from Time Warner, made a lot of money. However, now that Zhang Lexing already knows all this, he will naturally not give this kind of good opportunity to Time Warner again, and plans to take advantage of the fact that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" has just been released and its reputation is not yet famous.

Just when Zhang Lexing arranged for someone to fly to the United Kingdom, he went and is still called Joan. When Rowling's British single mother negotiated the rights to purchase Harry Potter-related merchandise, Southeast Asia was already sinking deeper and deeper into the whirlpool of the financial crisis.

Following the resignation of the Governor of the Bank of Thailand at the end of July, the Bank of Thailand announced the closure of 42 financial institutions with high rates of bad and bad debts on August 5, and the Thai baht was completely lost. On this same day, Thailand announced that it had accepted the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) standby loan program and package of measures with onerous conditions, ceding its financial sovereignty.

At the same time, other countries in Southeast Asia have gradually lost their ability to resist under the aggressive offensive of international speculators, and have been forced to give up control of their own currency exchange rates, and in order to save the crisis, the heads of these countries have to ask for help everywhere. In mid-August, the Thai baht collapsed, the Philippine peso plummeted, the Malaysian ringgit plummeted, the Indonesian rupiah plummeted, the stock markets of East Asian countries were even more mournful, and the people's confidence fell to the freezing point. Finally, the IMF's long-delayed aid was announced at a press conference, although Southeast Asian countries did not get the cash, but the heads of these countries felt a lot more at ease, coincidentally, at this time the international speculators also died down, and the currency exchange rates of Southeast Asian countries also temporarily stabilized, and many people were relieved, thinking that the storm had finally passed.

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On August 23rd, another game "Adventure King" was launched, and "Adventure King" placed a lot of expectations on Zhang Lexing, but this time the first scene was changed to indoor and placed in the event venue of Fengyun Game Club. The rearranged game appreciation area is divided into two parts, one is made up of 20 computers assembled with ASUS KN97 motherboards and Pentium MMX to give players a live trial of "Adventure King", and on the other side is a high-end computer connected to a projector playing a live demo of "Adventure King", and of course, the game sales station near the wall.

However, there are many people who watch the game demo and trial on the whole scene, and there are not many people who really pay for the game, because the situation of "Adventure King" is more special, and in the previous development process, it was found that if you want to ensure the effect of the game, you must have a 3D acceleration card, in this case, Zhang Lexing simply asked the developer to make this game optimized for EC6500 series chipsets, and only in the case of using Pentium MMX processor + EC6500 series chipset motherboard + 32M memory The game can achieve better results, You can enable most special effects, and if you want to turn on the special effects, you will even need to use the AN128 graphics card that has not yet been released, and the memory needs to be increased to 64M.

In this way, for many mainland players, this game has become a bit out of reach, except for a few fanatical players who are willing to change the computer motherboard for this game, there are only a very small number of people who plan to collect it first and wait for the conditions to play it later. In the end, Fengyun Interactive can only use the word bleak in the market retail of "Adventure King", including mail order, a total of 500 sets were sold, but the loss of the East Corner Harvest Sangyu, although the retail failed, but Fengyun Interactive received orders from Lenovo computers 32,000 sets, they plan to use EC6500 series chipset motherboards to push their home computers, and "Adventure King", which can fully demonstrate the performance of EC6500, has become the best choice for random software.

For many players who come to Fengyun Game Club, it doesn't matter if they can't play "Adventure King" on their own computers, anyway, there are 20 computers on the scene that can be played for free, even if they can't be ranked for a while, they can also go to the side to see the latest 3D game display - "Adventure King" game live demo. Zhao Wei is one of the lucky ones, with the advantage of arriving early, he got the first batch of numbers on the machine, and he couldn't wait to sit down in front of the computer immediately after getting 1 hour of free trial time, and started the "Adventure King" that has never had the opportunity to witness the real face, and started his own adventure career.

As introduced in the magazine, the first is a plot explained at the beginning of the film: "...... Upon receiving a mission from a mysterious person to find a missing ancient jade slip, the Adventure King and his assistant launched an investigation and found that the jade slip was likely to fall into the hands of a Japanese named Jiro Tanaka, who had a villa in the Japanese concession in Shanghai, and suspected that the jade slip was hidden in that villa. On this day, the assistant brought back a message that Jiro Tanaka was going to attend a party at the Japanese headquarters in the evening, and when the guards in the villa were the least, the opportunity for the adventure king came......"

After the opening, the adventure king appeared on the outer wall of the villa, Zhao Wei remembered the game operation guide he had seen before, moved the mouse to look at the wall, and then pressed the Q button, threw out a flying claw to grab the wall, and "poof" flipped up along the wall, and then turned over from the wall and fell lightly into the yard, the whole process was natural and smooth, if it weren't for the defective 3D processing ability at this time, the spectators almost thought they were watching a movie.

Walking lightly along the path in the courtyard, dodging two night guards in between, the Adventure King came to a place not far from the villa. The lights were on on the first floor of the villa, and there were several guards with guns standing, obviously it was impossible to go in directly, so the adventure king threw out the flying grab again, climbed a big tree next to the villa, and then grabbed the guardrail on the third floor with the flying grab, and climbed up to the balcony on the third floor along the rope......

Many players who didn't get their numbers or didn't have time to go had to stand on the sidelines and watch the game, or simply watch the live demo of the King of Adventure game on the projection screen. Wu Yufei belonged to the group of people who came late and didn't get the number, he stood behind Zhao Wei and looked at it for a while, this game that claimed to surpass "Tomb Raider" really didn't disappoint him, although for the time being, he definitely didn't have the opportunity to play on his own computer, but it was worth it to see such a beautiful 3D action-adventure game.

But I don't know if Zhao Wei's luck is too good or the game process is like this, the adventure king tossed on the third floor for a while, and didn't see a guard come up, so he didn't let Wu Yufei see the legendary martial arts duel, so he simply left, walked to the side of the projection screen, and watched the live demonstration of the game. Here are the best parts of the game, such as the secret infiltration of the Japanese headquarters, the duel between the adventure king and the karate master who stands in the way on the roof of the headquarters, etc.

The climax of the whole demo comes from a part that I don't know which scene in the game, under the reflection of the silver-white full moon, at the huge platform at the top of the mountain, the adventure king will take turns to use the classic moves in the Baji boxing, such as the Hades three-point hand, the tiger hard climbing, the three disregard of the door, and the wind and the sun, and has faced Western boxing, Japanese sumo wrestling and Aikido masters.

The high requirements for the specs of "Adventure King" have determined the weak performance in the mainland market, but fortunately, from the beginning the game was intended to go the path of export, and it was mainly sold as a motherboard with the EC6500 series chipset or a computer using such a motherboard. The Chinese kung fu + tomb raider-like adventure decryption, this very gimmicky combination has successfully attracted the attention of many overseas players, and even many people have changed their motherboards to ASUS KN97 because of this game, or simply changed to a Pentium MMX computer using an EC6500 chipset motherboard.

Many game magazines are also optimistic about the quality of this game, believing that this is not a follow-up to Tomb Raider, but a game with many innovations, its natural and smooth movements, the appropriate depth of the puzzle process, and the fast-paced CG cutscenes have been well received, and the author believes that the game contains many Chinese elements to cater to everyone's interest in China because of Hong Kong's return to China. However, even though most of them were well received, "Adventure King" was still named a "hardware killer" game by famous game magazines such as "PCGamer" because of its high configuration requirements, and was fortunate to be the most popular game among computer hardware manufacturers in 1997 along with "Quake II".

Don't look at "The King of Adventure" was rated as a "hardware killer" game, it is Zhang Lexing is still not very satisfied, due to the current computer performance, the game can not show the feeling of punching to the flesh in the movie, although the moves are already decent, but when it comes to fighting, there is often a punch into the opponent's body. However, Zhang Lexing also knows that the current technical level can only make such an effect, and if you want to make great improvements, I am afraid that you can only wait for the graphics card to evolve again. At present, the only thing that can be done is to put more effort into the engine, so that the follow-up development is simpler, the character movements are more natural and smooth, and the scenes are more exquisite and expansive.

Flying to the UK to negotiate the rights to develop Harry Potter-related goods has reached preliminary results, and there is no big obstacle to signing the contract, all that needs to be done now is to negotiate the details of the contract between the two parties. Unexpectedly, the details of the British side have not been discussed, and there is good news from the Kunpeng Group, after a long period of negotiation and negotiation, the American Marvel Comics, which are on the verge of bankruptcy, have been acquired by the Kunpeng Group at a cost of 675 million US dollars, in addition to the additional debt of about 332 million US dollars. After the completion of this merger, Kunpeng Group has successfully established a large mobile comic group integrating animation production and distribution in three continents, including Asia, Europe and the United States. This news is also of great significance to Zhang Lexing, because it means that a large number of anime characters such as "Fantastic Four", "Spider-Man", "Hulk", "Iron Man" and "X-Men" have been brought under his command, which not only makes it much easier to make movies and develop games in the future, but also brings a huge gold mine for himself.

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