Chapter 217: The All-American Rally
What if you make a shooting game?
In fact, in Jester's hardware research and development department, the technology of the light gun has been relatively mature, although it will take a little time to make a home machine, but if you make a large arcade machine, it may not be a problem.
After considering shooting games as an alternative, Jester turned to racing games.
This should be the type that this team is best at, because they just worked on the game that made the motorcycle frame of Sega, so they should be the best at developing this kind of game, and they can do their best, but it's like a shooting game, if you really want to do it, you may need to develop your own technology and maybe a little more.
However, when Jester sent this learning team, the agreement signed with Sega had clear restrictions on the team's return, which was the result of Jester's hard work, and the original condition of Sega was to prohibit the development of somatosensory arcade projects for one year, but Jester scoffed at this, if it was banned from participating in development within a year, then what else would I send someone to do?
In the end, Sega made a concession and said that it could not develop racing games, but Jester was not happy with this, and after several negotiations, it finally became a ban on the development of motorcycle racing games, so that the team was able to carry out this discussion about racing games.
In fact, although they are all racing games, the frame development of racing is better than that of motorcycles; The M.WC+ class is much more difficult, and the cost is much higher.
After thinking about it for a long time, Jester still didn't make a final decision.
He looked up at the group of people who were waiting for his decision, and he suddenly felt that since he couldn't make a decision, why not let these people choose, after all, this was the first time he had made a somatosensory box game, and it was also very necessary to ask these people for their opinions before making a decision.
And Jade after listening to Jester's words. Just thought about it for a while, and discussed it quietly with his team members for a while, and came to a conclusion, the development of racing games.
The simple reason is that they are better at this.
For Jester, these two types of games actually have a number in his mind, and they both have specific games to learn from, so after hearing the suggestions of these developers, he also typeset and decided to develop his own somatosensory arcade frame game. It's a racing game.
Let's not talk about the game and hardware matching, these will be discussed later.
After determining the type of game, what is immediately necessary to determine is the discussion of the specific game content, in fact, in the eyes of these people, it is enough to refer to Sega's motorcycle frame to make zuò, a racing game, how much content is needed.
Jester was noncommittal, and he didn't plan on adding too much of what he knew about the racing games of the future, as he knew most of them. It's all played on a home machine or a PC.,The ecological environment of the games on these is not the same thing as an arcade.,Needless to say, the biggest arcade machine.。 I just can't save it.
This means that arcade games can't make games that have too many plot branches.
This is especially true for sports games.
However, the sense of substitution is something that needs to be considered in any type of game. Competitive games are no exception, and Jester has a very classic game in mind here, which was released in MD a few years later. The maker is Hiroshi Suzuki, the father of somatosensory arcades, I don't know if it was transplanted from the arcade, and the name Jester can't remember clearly, but he vaguely remembers that it should be a name like the All-American Rally.
According to Jester's understanding, this game should have been developed by Yuli Suzuki against public opinion, and in the end, it really made Sega's MD soar in the American market.
Therefore, in Jester's eyes, this game is very suitable for reference now, because it can save a lot of unnecessary trouble, for example, worrying about adding too many other elements and guiding the failure of this game.
Moreover, playing on different maps in different states across the United States can also greatly enhance the sense of substitution of Americans.
When Jester got the idea out there, he got the support of the entire staff.
In fact, according to Jester's original idea of wanting to make a racing game, he even wanted to add the system in Need for Speed, the role-playing mode.
But soon Jester dispelled this idea, not that this setting is bad, but it doesn't make sense, there is actually no living environment for RPG games in the arcade, not because RPGs can't be made in line with the high-intensity rhythm of arcade games, but because the arcade is a public entertainment facility, everyone can play.
And the most important thing in RPG is the sense of substitution that belongs to the individual.
These two are contradictory contradictions that cannot be reconciled.
Therefore, instead of solving this contradiction, it is better to add the role-playing mode in some home console racing games in this racing game in the future, it is better to postpone this idea for the time being, and slowly think about how to solve this problem.
However, as for which terrain and roads in which state to choose as this racing game, it is not something that can be discussed in the conference room now, which needs to be investigated on the ground.
The sales of "Heavy Loader" are not as hot as when "Fire Emblem" came out, but it is also quite good, in less than five days, the sales in North America exceeded one million sets, and overseas time according to the habits of Mars Entertainment, it was delayed for about a week.
Although "Game" wrote in the magazine that "Heavy Loader" is innovative in the subject matter, and almost confined the thinking of RPGs to ancient backgrounds, and thought of using future backgrounds to open up horizons, but in terms of the quality of the game's production, there is still a gap compared to "Fire Emblem".
However, this is not the case in the eyes of many players.
In many schools, especially among middle school students, there is even a group fight over which is more fun, Heavy Gear or Fire Emblem, and if someone says that The Legend of Zelda is more fun, they may be attacked by a group.
In a large shopping mall in Los Angeles, the general game counter here is not just a game company's games, such as Mars Entertainment and Nintendo's game consoles and game consoles are placed on the same shelf.
There was a child who had just passed the age of ten looking at the dazzling game cartridges on the shelves with some reluctance, and he had a hesitant look on his face, as if he still couldn't make a decision.
His eyes kept moving from the cassette boxes of Fire Emblem, Heavy and Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda, apparently not yet decided, and one of his friends seemed to be a Nintendo fan and had been encouraging the kid to buy a copy of The Legend of Zelda.
"Jack, let me tell you, this Nintendo game is amazing!" His friend said affectionately, and then his friend drooled as he looked at the game cassette of The Legend of Zelda, "I was hooked on this game after playing it at my cousin's house last time, it's really a super fun game." ”
It should be because of his young age, and the words he praises seem to be only fun, and he has been talking about it playfully.
The kid named Jack seemed a little moved after hearing his friend's words, he had two game consoles at home, NES and Dreambox, so he couldn't delay playing anyone's games, but he remembered the "Game" magazine's evaluation of "Fire Emblem", and he wanted it very much, after all, this game was rated as a super perfect game.
Then little Jack looked at "Heavy Loader" again, he is an out-and-out science fiction fan, his favorite book is Asimov's, his favorite movie is Star Wars, and the background of this "Heavy Loader" game is a science fiction theme, which is also what he wants.
To put it bluntly, he wants all three games, but he can only buy one with his pocket money.
And little Jack's friend saw that Little Jack was still a little hesitant, so he continued to agitate: "Jack, don't think about it, let's buy "The Legend of Zelda", you see the ...... here" Saying that, Little Jack's friend stretched out his finger and pointed to a poster pasted on the side, which said, Players who have purchased "The Legend of Zelda" within this month can add ten dollars in exchange for a "Mario Bros. game cartridge".
"Mario Bros." is a game that little Jack has also seen in "Game", the magazine said that this is a good puzzle game, the gameplay is similar to "Donkey Kong" or "Gold Digger", it is a game in a still screen terrain to avoid danger and get rewards, and then find the exit to enter the next level.
Little Jack still likes this kind of game.
Just when he made up his mind to buy "The Legend of Zelda", another boy who was a few years older than him came, and the boy looked at Little Jack who was looking at "The Legend of Zelda" with some disdain, and then walked to the shelf where "The Legend of Zelda" was placed without hesitation, reached out and took one, and then walked towards the payment office without looking back.
As he walked, he said: "Children are just playing Nintendo's games, how can there be Mars Entertainment's games fun, they are all content that pleases children, it's not interesting!" ”
His voice was not small, and it happened to reach little Jack's ears.
Little Jack was also a little angry when he heard it, he never admitted that he was a child, and he was also a fan of Jester, the reason why he had the idea of buying "The Legend of Zelda" this time was completely because of the relationship between this dead fat man named Reggie next to him, this product is a diehard of Nintendo games, and he has been encouraged to buy "The Legend of Zelda" several times, and "The Legend of Zelda" is highly evaluated in "Game", so he has the idea of buying it to play.
I didn't expect this to be over, he was actually despised? (To be continued......) R1292