Chapter 334: The Coming of the "Age of Terror".

"May 15, 1996, I am afraid that this is a day that will be remembered by all Shijie horror game lovers in later generations, because the release of "Resident Evil" on this day not only laid a solid foundation for GameStation to become a first-class game production company in Japan, as well as huge profits, but also announced the arrival of the "horror era" in the history of games! This is a passage from the most famous game magazine in Japan later.

Until more than ten years later, those old people of Sega still can't forget that "terrifying" day!

At half past eight in the morning on May 15, 1996, Resident Evil was officially released, but in front of many game stores in Tokyo, the queue was hundreds of meters long. According to the later unification of those who had a heart, the most exaggerated team was more than 400 meters long and more than 1,300 people! And those who can be at the top of the queue are all those who have been waiting in front of the "door" with bedding as early as the night before. One of the first was actually in front of one of Tokyo's largest game stores two days before the official release.

Such an exaggerated crowd made many biochemical "fans" who did not plan to wait in line worry that they would come back to buy after work or school, and they were afraid that they would only face empty shops and tired clerks. In that case, they'll only have to listen to their friends show off at night! As a result, more and more people took leave to join the queue.

Therefore, after the release of "Resident Evil", the queue in front of these game stores has not only not been shortened, but has generally tended to lengthen!

At the Ishinomaru game store in Akihabara, Tokyo, the eleven clerks led by the store manager Ryunosuke were already sweating profusely at this time. Although it is said that everyone who enters the "door" is simply "paying" money to get the goods, the only difference is that when buying "Resident Evil", will they buy a Saturn console by the way, but the long queue at the entrance of the store "door" still does not appear to have been shortened at all.

In just an hour, Ryunosuke San was shocked to find that nearly one-third of the 1,700 copies of "Resident Evil" in the store had been sold, and there were at least six or seven hundred people outside the store!

"Ishihara-kun! Be sure to send me another thousand copies of Resident Evil right away! Please! Ryunosuke supplied on the phone.

"Dragon Monarch, you bought 1,700 copies of Resident Evil in your store yesterday, and this is sold out?" An extremely startled voice came from the phone.

"That's not true, but there are less than 1,000 sets of surplus goods now, and it has only been an hour since the 'door' was opened, and there are at least six or seven hundred people queuing up at the entrance of the 'door', I am worried...... Ishihara-kun, be sure to send me another thousand sets. No! Fifteen hundred sets! Please! "Ryunosuke three ways.

"Dragon King, well, I'll do my best to meet your request! But now all stores are asking for goods, and we are also very short of manpower. I'll get it to you as soon as possible, and let them deliver it to you! Fifteen hundred sets, right? An embarrassed voice came over the phone.

"No, no, no, if that's the case, then two thousand sets!" Ryunosuke San looked at the long queue outside the store that seemed to have been extended again, and decided to add more. 3,700 sets, I believe it should be able to withstand today.

At this time, Fang Mingyuan, accompanied by Shinji Mikami and Nakashi Uda, was strolling through the streets of Akihabara to experience the release of "Resident Evil" firsthand.

Uda Zhong was already full of joy at this time, and along the way, he had seen no less than ten game stores, and in front of each "door", there was a long queue, according to his estimates, the total number of people had reached nearly 10,000! If this is extended to the whole of Tokyo, and even to the whole of Japan, the first day of release of "Resident Evil" has far exceeded Sega's most optimistic estimates!

You know, Sega Co., Ltd. took advantage of the release of "Resident Evil" this time to launch a bundled version of the Saturn console and "Resident Evil", and these gamers can add a set of "Resident Evil" as long as they buy the Saturn console that is 2,500 yen higher than the market price. And the market price of "Resident Evil" is 8,888 yen! The discount is still not small.

Sega Co., Ltd. hopes to take the opportunity of the release of "Resident Evil" to once again expand the market share of the Saturn console!

Shinji Mikami was already "excited" at this time, and his face was crimson, and he spoke with a bit of a trill. Although Fang Mingyuan had already congratulated him when he met at the airport, it was not until this moment that he really believed that he had succeeded!

As a newcomer to the GameStation company, although he was born in a first-class game manufacturer like CAP, today's CAP, due to the recession of the arcade market, coupled with the unprecedented heavy blow in the European and American markets, millions of cassette games are backlogged and unsalable, and the company is in a precarious situation, and it has long lost its former glory.

Although he was specially recruited by Fang Mingyuan to enter the company, as soon as he entered the company, he took on the important task of producing "Resident Evil", which made many people in the company not recognize his work ability. It's just that Fang Mingyuan's prestige in the company caused no one to dare to question it in person.

No one dares to question it in person, it doesn't mean that there is no one in "private", and Shinji Mikami was still under great pressure during his first days at GameStation. Fortunately, with the production process of "Resident Evil", his ability has gradually been sincerely recognized by most of his colleagues. But in the heart of Shinji Mikami, he still believes that only by showing real and powerful sales performance can he be worthy of Fang Mingyuan's trust in him!

"Mikami-kun, in my opinion, you can start preparing for Resident Evil 2!" Fang Mingyuan said with a smile, "Of course, Sanshang-kun, you can rest first, the company will arrange for you to go out for a period of time, but I don't know where you want to go." United States? Europe? Or Africa? Or go around the North or South Pole? Well, I'd love to send you to Kauai, Hawaii. ”

Shinji Mikami looked at Fang Mingyuan in surprise and said, "Kauai in Hawaii? "Place sounds nice, but weishenme is going there? He didn't think that Fang Mingyuan was talking nonsense at will.

"I'm afraid you don't know, Jurassic Park is the location of the choice, I hope you can get some inspiration while you play there!" Fang Mingyuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "Does this sound like an over-squeeze on your creative ability?" ”

What kind of person is Shinji Mikami, who is called the "father of biochemistry" in later generations, maybe he lacks so much in human sophistication, but when it comes to game creation, he can also be called a top-level figure of the contemporary era, and as soon as his head turned, his face was already "revealed" with a clear "look" and said: "Fang Jun, what do you mean...... Putting dinosaurs into the game? ”

Fang Mingyuan smiled, pointed to a store not far away and said with a smile: "After walking for so long, Director Yutian is also a little tired, let's go there and take a rest." ”

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, Chen Zhong and Lin Rong were slightly surprised, but Uda Zhong and Mikami Shinji and others were "revealed" with smiles on their faces.

It was a small shop that looked a little weird in Chen Zhong and Lin Rong, the area was not very large, and it could accommodate fifty or sixty people at the same time, and the waiters in the shop were all young young "women", but the clothes they wore were not common clothes, but a costume composed of a black "color" clothing and a white "color" apron. The apron was quite short, revealing long and slender round stockings, a lace-trimmed headdress on his head, and an accessory with cat ears.

As soon as the group entered the store, two young "women" immediately greeted them and said in a coquettish voice: "Master, welcome you back!" ”

"Master?" Chen Zhong's Japanese can only be said to be so-so, but Lin Rong heard it clearly, and she was even more confused!

Fang Mingyuan found a table on the adjacent street and sat down, from here, he could clearly see the pedestrians coming and going in Akihabara, as well as the long queue of people not far away. Although he had known that there was a café in Japan where waiter cosplay was open, it was the first time he had visited the café in person.

"I didn't expect Fang Jun to like this kind of mood too!" Uda Naka said with a smile, "Many young people in Japan have a soft spot for this!" ”

Fang Mingyuan shrugged his shoulders slightly and said: "I think that men will have similar longings, and occasionally everyone enjoys it together, which is also a kind of relaxation!" Mikami-kun, don't you say? ”

Shinji Mikami smiled knowingly, Japanese people who like anime still like this kind of cosplay-style service, otherwise, there wouldn't be so many cosplay performances in Japan.

In fact, in the previous life of China, two thousand years later, similar restaurants or cafes also appeared, but the people of the Celestial Empire were more critical of this, and many experts and professors were very unimpressed. Think that the "maid" café sells gimmicks or services? Go to the "maid" café, drink coffee or entertainment? When the two words "maid" and "master" are "intertwined" together, the mixed "color" is ambiguous and full of flavor.

Some people even bluntly said that the titles of "'maid'" and "master" undoubtedly divided the originally equal people into three, six, nine and so on, which is the restoration of feudal remnants. It is believed that this will have a very bad impact on the young people of China.

Some people believe that this kind of behavior violates human nature, sacrifices personality, artificially creates inequality between people, and is even suspected of discriminating against employees in the service industry. In the final analysis, what he advocates is still the idea of personal dependence in feudal society, which is incompatible with the concept of modern society in which everyone is the master of his own destiny and everyone is the master of the country.

In this regard, Fang Mingyuan felt that it was nonsense! As long as there is nothing illegal in this form of service, there is no problem.

To put it bluntly, this is just a kind of immersive game for customers, and customers and waiters come together to put on a show to meet people's psychological needs. Just like the TV screen of the Celestial Empire, where the slave is long and the master is short all day long, you kneel to me, I kneel to him, I can't find a modern drama if you want to watch it, isn't that even more artificially instilling feudal remnants of the idea to young people? On the wine table, at work, in life, and even in disasters, the leader gives priority to care, doesn't it reflect the people's three, six, nine, etc.?

What's more, everyone is the master of their own destiny and everyone is the master of the country, but it is just a concept, a yearning for the future, in today's Celestial Empire, it is far from the day when it is truly realized, and those officials are more enslaved than these cosplay waiters when facing their superiors! And in the face of the people, they are even more brutal than these "masters"!

The real-life version of the master and servant has seen too much, so why should a little "game" in life be taken so seriously. What's more, most of the people who come here to consume are adults and have sound sanity, and no one will be dizzy to think that they are superior because the waiter calls the host a few words. On the contrary, it is not uncommon for officials to regard themselves as the parents of the people, and to dictate the lives of the people.

Shinji Mikami shook the bell on the table, and immediately two young "women" came to the front and said with a smile: "Master, is there anything I can serve you?" ”

Shinji Mikami was about to come with the menu, and respectfully handed it to Fang Mingyuan, who handed it to Uda Zhongdao again: "Director Uda, it's my first time in this kind of place, so please come and choose it for me." ”

Uda Zhong was not polite, took the menu and quickly ordered a few drinks and desserts, and the young "women" left with a smile. It didn't take long for it to be delivered. Then, in Lin Rong's surprised gaze, she knelt down at the table, put these drinks and desserts on the table one by one and said, "Master, please use it slowly!" ”

"Fang Jun, this time, the hot sale of "Resident Evil", even in the history of Japanese games, only a few works such as "Dragon Quest" and "Final Fantasy" can be compared. These games have long been part of a series, with millions of players in Japan. "Resident Evil" is an original novel, and being able to achieve such results really makes Uda Zhong feel that being in the same camp with Fang Jun is the wisest decision for my Sega Co., Ltd.! Uda Zhong said sincerely.

Fang Mingyuan smiled, it was not surprising that "Resident Evil" could achieve such results on the first day of release, "Resident Evil" originally had extremely haode quality, in the previous life, this game that had never been taken seriously from the decision to make to the release was able to achieve impressive results, in this life, a powerful console, and a long-term publicity and guidance and sufficient financial and human support, if you can't get a satisfactory result, it would be too unreasonable.

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