Chapter Ninety-Nine: A New Game for CAPCOM
The game, whose name Jester didn't even bother to remember, surprised him.
It's not that the game is good, it's that it's similar to a well-known game, and in Jester's opinion, it's basically more than sixty percent similar.
What the designers of this game did was to redo Namco's classic game Pac-Man after a makeover, and then it became their own game, and although SEGA uses a Z80 processor with more processing power than MOS6502, but they lack a dedicated PPU They are obviously much worse than FC in image processing, at most a little stronger than Atari 2600.
But that's not a problem, after all, Pac-Man is a game that doesn't rely on flashy graphics as a selling point, but on gameplay.
Jester started the game expectantly, and then he took the controller joystick that looked like the Atari 2600 and after less than five minutes of control, he couldn't help but get angry, and then threw it aside.
But just threw the controller out, Jester suddenly felt a little funny, he is the owner of a game company, how can he still be like an ordinary player, when he encounters this kind of unpleasant game, he gets angry, and sees that his opponent's company will make some junk products in the future, shouldn't he be happy? Thinking of this, Jester couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Although it was not loud, it was clearly heard by Claudia.
Claudia was just standing behind Jester's side before, not saying a word, just quietly watching Jester's every move, originally she was just like an iceberg, without showing the slightest expression, but when she saw Jester's uncontrollable expression that she had never seen since she met Jester, she also showed a surprised expression.
Then, she heard Jester's self-deprecating laughter, and the corners of her mouth curled slightly, revealing the same smile.
The Sega service staff on the side obviously noticed Jester's dissatisfaction, even if she didn't see the scene where Jester was still out of control before, but she only needed to see a player who was playing a game that was being played for less than five minutes and then threw it aside and didn't play, and knew that something was wrong.
"Smimarseille!"
She hurriedly stepped forward, bent over, and in a hurry, she directly said an apology in Japanese.
Then she asked Jester again, "Sir, is the game not to your liking, we have many games here, there will always be a ...... you like to play"
But before she could finish, Jester interrupted with a shake of his head.
"It's not a problem with the game, it's a problem with the controller, the controller of your game console is too insensitive, I just played and had to push the joystick in one direction three or four times in a row, so that my character can reach the place I want them to reach, to be honest, using such a controller to play games, that's simply a masochism of the fingers."
Then Jester paused, and in a mocking tone, he asked rhetorically, "Don't you Sega even need to test it out after you finish making the console?" β
Hearing Jester's statement, the waiter's face also showed a look of panic.
In fact, the problem of SG-1000 is also known to those who have been selling for a year, which is also the biggest problem of SG-1000, after the poor sales of SG1000, the company's designers have also found the problem, and have also developed a new model of SG-1000 game console, improving the shortcomings of the controller is not sensitive enough, but the problem is that this time the Sega designers made a big problem here, their new design of the SG-1000 model improved, The SG-1000 MARK II is equipped with a new controller that is not compatible with its predecessor, the SG-1000.
This is simply absurd.
Moreover, this new and improved game console has been on sale for more than three months, but Sega has no intention of changing it to be compatible with the SG-1000, and their UK branch has not yet received the new SG-1000MARKII, so they can only continue to sell the old SG-1000 here.
Then, the Sega service staff kept apologizing to Jester, and repeatedly said that the four Mars Entertainment games they had just released were fun, and they hoped that Jester could experience them.
However, Jester was not interested in playing games that he had already played enough, so he pointed to the SG-1000 that he had sprayed just now: "Give me a copy of this model of machine, and give me a copy of all the game cartridges of this game machine, and send it to this address." β
After finishing speaking, Jester took out his wallet and looked at it, only then did he remember that the pound he had exchanged for huΓ n was not on his body, so he looked up and asked the waiter: "Do you accept US dollars?" β
"Sir, take it!" The Sega waitress bowed sharply at Jester's words.
Jester then paid all the money under the surprised gaze of the waiter and left the Sega store.
It wasn't until she got back into the car that Claudia's face showed a strange expression, and she asked Jester a little puzzled, "Why did you buy that console when you knew it wasn't good?" β
"Actually, it's nothing." Jester replied simply, his eyes moved to the car window again, looking at the scenery outside the window, he replied in a very flat tone, "It's just a hobby of collecting, even if I don't buy it now, I will still buy it in the future, so I bought it by the way." I actually had an idea that I wanted to retire in 30 years and build a private museum of games to document the development of the games I was involved in, and to think about it, it would be very rewarding to look back on my life in it. β
As he spoke, Jester's tone became strange.
"It's not just about my company, it's about other companies, like my rivals, because I'm going to beat them, and the things from these companies will be better trophies to witness my achievements." Jester was a little arrogant, but in Claudia's ears, she didn't feel any arrogance at all, and she felt that Jester wasn't telling her what he was going to do, but what he had already done.
When she heard Jester's words, Claudia couldn't help but feel a little moved, and she wondered why the man in front of her, who was even younger than her, was so confident in her future.
"Let's go back to the hotel, let's have a drink and talk about the European branch by the way." Jester withdrew his gaze from the window.
"Okay." Claudia wasn't a talkative person either, she just nodded in agreement.
Jester and his team booked the Four Seasons Hotel this time, which was also recommended by Claudia after he consulted her before, and although the price was high, it was really worth the money.
Four Seasons Hotel London is located on Park Lane, close to the famous Apsley Tower, Buckingham Palace and St James's Park, as well as the Victoria Palace Theatre and Selfridges Department Store, which is essentially the heart of London.
Jester and Claudia went to the Four Seasons restaurant, asked for two glasses of wine, and then found a secluded place to sit down.
"I'm not actually in charge of the specific matter this time, because I don't really know much about this aspect of negotiation, and my legal team will talk to you, so it's no problem." Taking a sip of his wine, Jester was the first to speak, and then he paused again and said, "But I'd love to see if we can officially work together." β
Claudia smiled, one of her hands gently shaking the glass in her hand with a very special, aesthetic rhythm, but her eyes were fixed on Jester for a moment.
Then, in a very flat tone, she said: "I rarely take such risks in doing things, because I have known since I was a child that caution is the only way to succeed, but I also know that to achieve success beyond my family, it will not work by prudence at all, and you must take a lot of risks." β
Jester smiled when he heard this, and he said with some self-deprecation, "I'm the one you think is a big risk?" β
Claudia's beautiful eyes were full of brilliance, she smiled and didn't deny it, but she didn't admit it either, and after taking a sip of red wine very elegantly, she replied with a smile: "It used to be." β
"Ever? What does that mean? Not anymore? Jester raised his eyebrows, he didn't understand what Claudia meant, so he furrowed his eyebrows slightly, and asked in a questioning tone.
Claudia's delicate face once again showed a charming smile, and she was about to answer, but at this moment, a phone rang and rang from her Hermès autumn limited bag, and in the next moment, in Jester's somewhat surprised gaze, he actually saw that the beautiful woman in front of him actually took out a black, large, long, thick mobile phone from his delicate bag.
"There's a mobile phone at this time?" That was Jester's first thought when he saw the thing in Claudia's hand, and then it was too incongruous for a beautiful woman to hold such a thing in her hand.
"Hello?"
Claudia picked up the phone, just asked, and then handed the mobile phone in her hand to Jester: "Looking for you, the people from your company." β
Nodding his head and thanking him, Jester took Claudia's phone, and it was Adam Edgar's voice, which could be heard, but not very clearly.
"Jace, I just received a call from the headquarters, Tamahideyoshiro called back to the headquarters from Japan, and told the headquarters, the little-known company called CAPCOM that you had paid attention to before, has recently been conducting a large-scale advertising campaign in Japan, and it seems that they are promoting a new game made by them, I asked the employees in the company to see it, this is a very good long-scrolling flying shooter, just from the picture announced on the TV commercial, It caused a lot of sensation. β
As Adam Edgar finished speaking, Jester fell into deep thought.
In fact, he is also always keeping an eye on his future opponents, this is a wild period in the video game industry, in this era, even if it was only a small company before, the game producer was not even less than ten people, but once a popular game was produced, he was able to get countless money immediately, and thus rose to become a giant in the industry.
CAPCOM, for example, is a good example.
And this time, their famous work, a landmark work in the history of longitudinal scroll flight shooting, "1942", is finally coming.
But his own "Dawn" is not ready.
After thinking for a few minutes, Jester replied aloud, his tone very indifferent: "I know." Then he hung up and handed Claudia the heavy mobile phone in his hand.
But Claudia, who had been watching him, noticed that Jester had become a little different from before after answering the phone.
Although his tone, demeanor, and eyes were still the same as before, they didn't seem to have changed in the slightest.
But Claudia clearly felt a temperament from Jester's body that he didn't have before, to be precise, a kind of fighting spirit, the kind of fighting spirit that hunters reveal after seeing their prey.
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