“…… It would be nice if Mars Entertainment didn't release that game later. ”

When recalling this old history, Minoru Arakawa ended with this sigh, and everyone present knew what he was referring to in that game, for Nintendo at the time, "The Legend of Zelda" was the closest they came to seeing the dawn of a turnaround, although in the days that followed, they also had more than one confrontation with Martian Entertainment, but never once like this time, so that they could completely defeat their opponents.

Jester was a little depressed now holding the survey numbers of The Legend of Zelda for almost a month since its release, he knew that the game was excellent, but he didn't expect it to be so good.

He doesn't care about the high sales momentum of this game, for him, the game sells well can only be said to make money, and if you want to have the right to speak, it is useless to sell the game well, it must be the game platform, that is, the home game console sells well.

Because the games are all cassettes, he must be served on a specific home game console to be able to use, and this company's cassette can only be used on this company's game console, not on other companies' game consoles, so as a platform for games, the share of home game consoles should be the most valued.

Previously, Mars Entertainment had a market share of 85% in the North American market, while Nintendo's full market was only 15%, but in the month of the release of "The Legend of Zelda", the sales of the NES have been rising like rockets, and even the speed has been incredibly fast.

Although they still have an absolute advantage in market share, if they don't do something to save them, they may be quickly caught up by the other party.

When Jester told everyone in the Fire Emblem development team about this number, he could see it with the naked eye, and the expressions on almost everyone's faces became solemn.

There are more than one cassette of "The Legend of Zelda" in Mars Entertainment, and there are two copies of the development team of Fire Emblem alone, and they have experienced this game when it was first launched, and almost everyone praises this game, but that's all, because in their eyes, they are making this "Fire Emblem" of Zuò, which surpasses "The Legend of Zelda" in any aspect.

And the most important thing is that the cartridge of "The Legend of Zelda" is not equipped with a battery, which means that it cannot be saved when playing this game, so if you want to play the level, you must complete it at once, and what they are doing this time is indeed a game that can be saved at any time.

This is the part that they feel is the most winning part of their game compared to The Legend of Zelda.

At that time, the people in the R&D team played it, although the game was really good, but because the share of NES was too low, they didn't think that the game could really sell well, and in their speculation, they probably thought that it would be a popular game.

Even though Jester expected the game to boost NES sales, what he didn't expect was that it would be so drastic.

Now, in the face of the latest survey, everyone, including Jester, is feeling the heavy pressure of the game, and this pressure is really uncomfortable for those who are used to it.

"Right now our fans are still waiting for our game, so we have to speed it up, and if we can't get it out before they get into the game before they get interested in our game, then the consequences are catastrophic for us."

Jester first had an unfamiliar feeling about the future that had been changed beyond recognition, he didn't know what The Legend of Zelda would do in a world that had now been changed by him and had no resemblance to the history of video game development that he was familiar with, but he couldn't help but be a little worried when he saw the number of times he had been in the past month.

After a thorough discussion with the development team about the fire emblem, the development team decided to cut some systems that were ready to be added in the later stage in order to speed up the completion of the game, so as to increase the speed, and the cut systems did not affect the game experience much, so it was recognized by most people.

After the heavy pressure of "The Legend of Zelda", the speed of the fire emblem development team suddenly accelerated, and even the overtime hours made Yushi Suzuki's Japanese team from Sega a little disgusted.

And Jester also devoted almost all of his energy to the development of "Fire Emblem", and he delegated other trivial matters to others to deal with, such as setting up a film and television company, developing new cards, and other things were left behind by him, in his eyes, there is nothing more important than completing "Fire Emblem".

Even if Claudia comes at least once a month, he can shorten the time, and Claudia is also very critical of this.

Two months after the official release of The Legend of Zelda, and the total sales of the game exceeded the 1.2 million mark, Nintendo celebrated the celebration, and "Fire Emblem" was finally developed in a room of Martian Entertainment.

When the development team finished typing the last code, the program can run normally, everyone was excited to tears, and then everyone hugged together, in this month, they almost unless it is really something that can not get out of the body, otherwise, overtime every day, and even some people work overtime for several days in a row, sleepy and tired will not go to sleep, directly in the company's lounge to support a bed upside down to sleep, such days have lasted for a month, Instead, they were able to complete a development task that would have taken more than two months to complete.

In order to cooperate with the promotion of "Fire Emblem" this time, Jester interfered in the internal affairs of "GAME" for the first time, and it cannot be said that he interfered, he just asked if the magazine could publish a supplement, with RPG games as the theme, because the current popularity of "The Legend of Zelda" has also caused a certain consumption boom in the United States, so the magazine quickly agreed to this construction.

The so-called supplement refers to the magazine that is on sale at an abnormal sale time, that is, in the time period when the previous issue has been issued and the next issue is not issued, similar to the newspaper number, it will only be published when some very heavy news occurs, and the usage of the number is very strict, and the general thing is not qualified to use the number, and it may not be accurate enough to use the word very heavy, and it is more accurate to say that it is a very, very important news, that is, the outside number will be used, that is, This news is so important that it must be released immediately, not tomorrow.

For example, the atomic bombing, the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the death of Taizu, the successful bid for the Olympic Games, and so on.

Of course, an entertainment magazine is not so strict.

Fire Emblem's testing activities Jester didn't send regular employees to monitor the outflow of cartridges like Nintendo, after all, the United States is not Japan, and Mars Entertainment has testers all over the United States, so it's not realistic for them to come to California for a game, and it's even more unrealistic to send people, but despite this, a certain amount of secrecy still needs to be done.

Referring to the way Blizzard tested the game in the later generations, Jester asked Mars Entertainment to sign a confidentiality agreement with everyone involved in the test, and they could not leak it to the outside world without their permission.

Although there will still be some news coming out, in Jester's opinion, what is needed now is the outflow of all kinds of gossip.

Fire Emblem appeared in this era, in the era when the three major Japanese RPGs were not yet born, and the impact on the entire game industry is unparalleled, Jester knows this deeply, although Fire Emblem is niche in later generations, but this is only because there are too many excellent RPGs in front of it.

Moreover, in order to make Fire Emblem as popular as possible, Jester has weakened the SLG elements of this game as much as possible, and more highlighted the characteristics of RPG.

The rules and regulations of this game are almost like a textbook to interpret what is called real role-playing, not a beautiful and innocent story like Nintendo, nor a complex number of judgments like DND, the real RPG is "Fire Emblem".

This is the words of GAME magazine in the supplement, after playing the beta version of the fire emblem, they wrote the article. Even when it came to rating the game, the editors of GAME couldn't even give an exact number, because in their opinion, Fire Emporum was perfect in every aspect, but giving him a perfect score seemed like a blasphemy against him.

Because they have just rated "Dawn" with perfect marks before, but "Fire Emblem" is better than "Dawn" in every aspect, and his definition of RPG games, for Europe and the United States who love this kind of game, the attraction of this game to them is unparalleled.

But this time "GAME" also learned the lesson of the last "FAMI Pass", they didn't really compare "The Legend of Zelda", and they didn't make any too disparaging comments on "The Legend of Zelda", because this game is a really good game, and they just gave a high score of 39 points, if you are talking about him too badly, isn't this just a slap in the face?

As for the final rating of "Fire Emblem", it has caused a very heated debate within "GAME" magazine. R1152