Chapter 769 of the text Capcom Game Software Inc

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Lin Qiangsheng and Xue Shenghong and others flew to Osaka, and they came to the company.

The Chinese name of this company is Capcom, a famous Japanese video game software company, which is quite famous in China, Japan and the world, and ranks in the top ten in the Japanese game industry, ranking fifth and sixth.

Many games are familiar to players, such as "Resident Evil", "Dinosaur Crisis", "Monster Hunter", "Devil May Cry", "Street Fighter", "Ghost Warrior" and so on.

Lin Qiangsheng led Xue Shenghong and Xia Rui to meet with Kenzo Tsujimoto, the chairman who is definitely a business talent although he is not good at designing games. After breaking with the shareholders of IREM, especially with Yoshihiko Takado, a wealthy businessman who founded the New Japan Project (SNK), he decided to resign from the chairmanship of IREM, which he had worked so hard to establish, and formed his own sole proprietorship in June '83.

At that time, the U.S. game industry was collapsing, affected by the decline of the North American game industry, and the industry orders were greatly reduced. Many of Japan's leading game makers have begun to make mass layoffs and pay cuts to survive the long "harsh winter".

In '83, Kobe's Kona fan (Konomi) alone cut more than a quarter of its staff that year. But Kenzo Tsujimoto is convinced that the video game industry is far from the end, and that as long as enough engaging games are developed, they can still see the light of day.

Large-scale hiring during the decline of the overall recession of the Japanese game industry was undoubtedly a relief in the snow, and it had a heavy impact on the game industry. It was during that period that Capcom recruited a large number of talents in the game industry, quickly accumulated a large number of technical forces, and laid the foundation for its rise!

Kenzo Tsujimoto led Lin Johnson and others to visit the painting room and game test room. Lin Qiangsheng and others saw that Capcom's employees were not only young people in their early 20s, but even middle-aged people in their forties and fifties. But they all have one thing in common, that is, each of them is very focused on their own creations.

Xue Shenghong This is the first time she has seen the scene in a game company, and she feels extremely novel, the first time she has seen someone actually treat painting as an industry, and games can support such a large company.

"Johnson & Johnson, they draw so much fun and have so much fun!" Xue Shenghong looked at the employees, and for the first time found that someone was working like this, isn't this just playing!

Lin Qiangsheng sighed and said: "This is not as simple as drawing and playing, getting an animated character into the computer, and then making it move, and it is popular with players, but it is a university question!" With Japan's development process, the entertainment consumption of the Japanese people must be huge! ”

Xue Shenghong nodded and said with a smile: "I remember, I understand this aspect when I look back, it's quite interesting!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded, when he and Xue Shenghong said that they wanted to invest in Japan's animation and game industry, she still didn't understand, she didn't know what this industry was for, and now seeing such a work scene undoubtedly broadened people's eyes.

Kenzo Tsujimoto invited Lin Qiangsheng into the office, and what caught his eye was the Chinese character painting scroll hanging on the wall in the center, and the four brush words "Creative Kung Fu"!

Lin Qiangsheng praised: "Chairman Tsujimoto's calligraphy is good, and the meaning is also very good, and creativity is indeed the first in the game industry!" ”

In fact, Kenzo Tsujimoto was still a little confused about Lin Qiangsheng's visit, and he didn't know what the young man was about: "Mr. Lin, we are very welcome if you want to cooperate with you, and I can guarantee that the substrate can be provided to you at a preferential price!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded and said further: "President Tsujimoto, I have bought a store of more than 1,000 square meters in Shibuya, Tokyo, and plan to open a large game store. In the future, I also plan to establish a game chain store in Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, and other places. If I can reach a preferential agreement with your company, it will be more beneficial to my development plan!

Also, like Chairman Tsujimoto, I believe that there is still a lot of room for the game industry to grow, and I also think that the current game industry is far from reaching the height it should be, and is only just developing!

I plan to have 50 arcade stores within two years. Mr. Tsujimoto, I have a lot of confidence in the game industry! ”

Kenzo Tsujimoto looked at the young man in front of him in surprise and said, "Mr. Hayashi, you have such confidence in the game industry, even I was a little caught off guard!" ”

He was silent for a while, nodded and said, "If your company really reaches this scale, no, as long as you can have 20 stores, then you will continue to cooperate for a long time!" ”

Unlike many established game companies, it does not have its own store system and does not have its own flagship store. As a result, Capcom had to use the stores of other game manufacturers to distribute the game, and the profits from this alone made Tsujimoto a little unbearable.

He thought to himself that if this young man's store, as long as there were two stores and the location was no problem, then he could cooperate with him.

There are many benefits to signing an exclusive partnership between the game developer and the store owner, so Kenzo Tsujimoto simply took out a game that was about to be released and introduced to Lin Johnson: "We will release "1942" in October, which is a flying game set in World War II and can be distributed by your company, in addition to the already released "Demon Village" can also be distributed to you!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng took over the copywriting of "1942", flipped through it, and sure enough, it was the game he was familiar with. The player controls the P-38 Lightning fighter of the U.S. military, and the enemy aircraft is a Japanese-style fictional aircraft, with a total of 32 levels, which is simple and fun.

Kenzo Tsujimoto said, "This flying game is simple and smooth, and it is very replayable, and I would love to cooperate with your company!" ”

"Very well, I guess this game will be very popular in the market, and I wish 1942 success in advance!" Lin Qiangsheng nodded and said.

Kenzo Tsujimoto said, "Thank you very much, I hope so!" Next, we can talk about how to work together! ”

He also has some ideas to communicate with Lin Qiangsheng, and it is very beneficial for game software providers to achieve good cooperation with a store company.

Lin Qiangsheng said: "Chairman Tsujimoto, in fact, I have another idea this time, that is, I want to cooperate with your company to design a game, I appreciate your 'creative kung fu' idea very much, and I myself have a creative idea I want to talk to you about!" ”

"Oh? What Mr. Lin's creativity looks like. Tsujimoto said with a smile.

Lin Qiangsheng saw that Tsujimoto Kenzo's expression was not sincere, and guessed that the other party might feel that he just thought of an idea at random and didn't take it seriously.

So he politely said, "My idea is a fighting game, and I gave it a name, Street Fighter!" ”

Kenzo Tsujimoto was stunned when he heard this name: "What a domineering name!" ”

Lin continued: "The plot of Street Fighter revolves around the street fighters from all over the world who participated in the World Fighting Championship, with a total of 12 fighters. The first protagonist, Takashi, is a lone high seeker, Japanese nationality, and the genre is fluctuating and empty-handed. The second protagonist, the American Ken, is also a fluctuating flow empty-handed"

In order to be more vivid, Lin Qiangsheng said to Kenzo Tsujimoto: "Do you have paper, I can draw the main form of martial arts." ”

"Oh, good!" Kenzo Tsujimoto was already serious, and hurriedly handed over the pen and paper.

He felt that Lin Qiangsheng's idea was very interesting, fighting games were the most popular, if they were full of creativity and shrewd design, they would definitely be very popular in the market, and Tsujimoto now really wanted to see what the other party wanted to express.

Lin Qiangsheng took the pen and paper, first drew two blood grooves on both sides of the paper, and the middle one VS: "This is the character's blood groove, the game I designed is 12 characters, players can choose, each duel is divided into three rounds, the background changes with the home field, of course, 8-bit color Nintendo and 16-bit color game consoles can be played." ”

Kenzo Tsujimoto watched Lin Qiangsheng talk to himself and drew stick figures of two characters, "Takashi" and "Ken".

The two characters use the same moves, obviously like a pair of twins of fate, who regard each other as their biggest opponents in life, and the posture of the two of them emitting qigong waves at the same time jumps on the paper!

"Among the twelve characters, there are two Americans, one is a soldier with a plane head, the others have a South American mutant with a lion's head, a wrestler from the Soviet Union, a practitioner from the Indian Brahmins, and Chun-Li from China!"

Kenzo Tsujimoto looked at the stick figure in surprise, although it was only a stick figure, but the scene of the duel could already be imagined, and the tragic aura of the competition between the two sides erupted, automatically sketching a picture in his mind!

He was very excited, and at the same time, his tone was much more polite: "Lin Jun, please take a closer look at me!" ”

Kenzo Tsujimoto carefully picked up the piece of paper and observed it for more than ten minutes, when suddenly he laughed out loud and said, "This idea is very good, if you enrich the story a little more, it is already a completely feasible plan!" ”

"Fighting games. Long, Ken! He looked up at Lin Qiangsheng, and said politely: "Lin Jun, you are really a genius, this idea will definitely succeed!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded with a smile and said, "Then, if you cooperate, I still have a reluctant request!" ”

Kenzo Tsujimoto's attitude is much more sincere now, and he said, "Please say, I will do my best to satisfy you!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng said: "Chairman Tsujimoto, I would like to send some Chinese interns to your company for internships and participate in the entire production process of Street Fighter, we can bear a qiē fee, I sincerely ask the company to help us cultivate some animation and game talents!" ”

Kenzo Tsujimoto was a little surprised, the Japanese company has a large number of foreign trainees, in fact, they are cheap part-time workers, he just thought about it a little and agreed: "I can accept some interns, but it can't affect the work of my company, and we should discuss the details of this matter carefully, and I think it's better to have no more than 4 people a year!" ”

"Deal!" Lin Qiangsheng said happily and simply, sending people to Japan to learn about the game industry is an important development plan, so that China's game industry is earlier than Taiwan. b, South Korea, synchronized with the world! (To be continued.) )