Chapter 116: Fiery Sheriff Balotelli

The two nodded to each other and came together, chatting a few words at first, not directly talking about the game "Sheriff Balotelli", but returning to this Christmas sale.

"This Christmas sale, listen to what the BOSS said, we just release those small games?" After all, Syver Darberwater is a newcomer to Mars Entertainment, and now the distribution rights of Mars Entertainment are not in his own hands, so his understanding of some news is far less detailed than that of Sean Darbilly, a veteran who was there when Mars Entertainment was first created.

Hearing Seifer Darberwater's inquiry, Darbilee nodded, he raised the Christmas gift special book in his hand, which was a bonus publication from a large shopping mall nearby, and then he flipped through it, turned to one of the pages, and then pointed to the other party: "It's these two PC games, both of which are designed by bosses, although they are both under the name of our Mars Entertainment, but they are not made by us." ”

The two games that are going to be released at Christmas are the two Sudoku puzzle games that Jester set up the game before and asked Carmack to do, both of which are small-scale games running on IBM-compatible machines.

Hearing this, Syver Darberwater glanced at the Christmas gift book in Dabilee's hand.

There are two floppy disks for PC on the place pointed by the other party, and the floppy disks have colorful stickers on them, and the names of the games are very strange, one is called "Three" and the other is called "2046", just looking at the names, Seifer Darberwater doesn't see what these two games are like.

In fact, these two games were Jester received a reply from Carmack half a month ago, and he did a small-scale test in the company after programmatically programming the code that Carmack wrote on the stationery, but at that time, Seifer Darberwater was making the final corrections to "Sheriff Balotelli", and he was busy in the dark, so he didn't participate, but he later heard from colleagues who participated in it, these are two very interesting games.

"Very good game, BOSS personally designed, although it is smaller than "Cube", but it is very interesting to play, very addictive, not inferior to the previous BOSS designed "Minesweeper", it just so happens that this Christmas our company has no new games on sale except for your "Sheriff Balotelli", so BOSS will use these two to fill up." Dabilee explained with a smile.

The price of these two sketch puzzle PC games is really not high, the price of the two games is only twenty-five dollars each, which is much lower than the price of the average PC game of thirty to forty dollars, and if the two games are purchased at the same time, then you can also discount five dollars, if you buy it in several flagship stores that are popular or chain stores distributed throughout the country, then you can also discount another five dollars on the basis of forty-five dollars.

Basically, buying at the same time can be discounted up to 20% off, which is a very cheap price for a new game.

Previously, "GAME" magazine wrote a long article to introduce these two games, after all, it is Jester's magazine, Adrian blows it with extra care, and the playability of these two games is indeed worth bragging about, this blow is also a big blow, but also makes many gamers on the computer have a lot of interest in the two Sudoku puzzle games that Mars Entertainment will release at Christmas.

After all, the GAME magazine reviews these two games as games that only smart people can play.

And those who like to play with computers in this era are not self-proclaimed smart people.

In fact, if you think about it, you know, who would admit that they are stupid?

However, there are still a large number of Mars Entertainment fans who are a little dissatisfied with Mars Entertainment's delay in the release date of "Guild Wars City", and there are many readers who write to the magazine hoping that the magazine can forward their letters to Mars Entertainment, telling the designers of Mars Entertainment not to do those messy things that they don't know what to do, and the most important thing they need to do is what they promised players - release "Guild Wars City" at Christmas.

But they lost their words, they are liars and deceived the feelings of the players.

Jester doesn't care about this statement, he knows this situation too well in later generations, these players are a bit of a shake M, even if the game company they like jumps, they will only complain a few words in their mouths, and when their games are really released, they will still buy and buy.

In fact, the official version of Guild Wars City is indeed ready, and if it is really going to be released at Christmas, there is no problem, and Jester, who just started making this game a few months ago, is also planning to do so.

But because next month is CES, Jester thought that he couldn't come up with any other heavyweight PC games other than "Guild Wars", so he postponed the official release of this game by more than a month, and prepared to officially announce this game at CES, which is already very different from the demo version.

Jester has also recently put down everything at hand, and worked with Mark Saini and his team to make a demo level on an ATI-based 16-bit graphics card that far surpasses that of an eight-bit computer, and this level is designed with "Prince of Persia" as a reference, wanting to fully represent what kind of gorgeous graphics a game can achieve under the processing of ATI's new 16-bit graphics card.

The Jedi House had only been open for less than an hour, and there was a queue in front of its door, and after seeing this scene from a distance, Darbili and Darberwater, who had been watching this direction from a distance, also showed joy on their faces, among which Darkwater's smile was the most obvious, after all, it was a game designed by him that was officially released to players today.

"Congratulations." Dabilee congratulated him.

Although Darkwater's face was happy, he was still embarrassed to say, "Maybe they won't be satisfied after playing." ”

"It's simple, let's go in and see if these players like your game, right?" Dabilee smiled.

Jedi's house is the arcade hall that Jester first came to Los Angeles to sell, after making a fortune by relying on Mars Entertainment's games, the boss Jedi also moved the store to a more prosperous area, and the area has expanded a lot, in addition to a large number of Mars Entertainment games, there are many other arcades of game companies, but Mars Entertainment's games are placed in the most conspicuous position of the arcade hall, which is also one of the obligations of Mars Entertainment Arcade Game franchise stores.

After the two of them walked into the interior of Jede's house, they were also taken aback by the scene in front of them, and in the most conspicuous position, a whole row of thirty machines were all "Sheriff Balotelli", but even so, behind each machine, there was a long queue, and the queue of the one closest to the door was lined up outside the arcade hall - the one that Dabili and Darberwater saw outside.

And almost every player who is playing the game "Sheriff Balotelli" is all concerned, staring at the screen tightly, as if completely immersed in the game, and the people in the queue behind them are constantly looking at the arcade screen, with a look of longing in their eyes, wishing that they were playing with themselves.

"This arcade hall has thirty machines at a time? This was okay at first, but after a while, there were more shipments, and there weren't so many people playing this game at all, right? Darkwater also showed a hint of joy when he saw this hot scene, but immediately he was puzzled again, he said, while pointing to the other arcade machines next to him, Mars Entertainment games are all here, except for "American Cubes" and "Snowman Brothers" There are about ten at most, and the other games are seven or eight, even so, these arcade machines are not all occupied, only about 80% of the machines are used.

Hearing Darberwater's words, Darbilee smiled, he knew about this, so he opened his mouth to explain.

"The owners of these arcade halls are not stupid, don't you see the bulletin board in the place where you just entered the door and exchanged huàn game currency, the game currency of playing "Sheriff Balotelli" is the most expensive, three dollars per game currency, and when the game was first released, it was the time when the most people played, and only the franchised arcade hall could take the lead in getting the goods, because of this disguised monopoly, so his business would definitely be very good during this time, and after a while, after the market was gradually saturated, He will sell part of the excess machine he has here at a discount, anyway, during this time, he has already made a lot of money. ”

Hearing Darbilly's explanation, Seifer Darberwater nodded with some realization.

And the two of them don't need to continue watching, judging by the reaction of this arcade hall, the popularity of this game has become a foregone conclusion.

Over the next month or so, as the number of arcade boards for "Sheriff Balotelli" increased, a Balotley fever gradually formed throughout the United States. And Sheriff Balotelli's amiable and courageous image has unexpectedly become popular throughout the United States, especially in the western United States, where the cowboy atmosphere is the strongest.

Countless children are talking about the levels in "Sheriff Balotelli" when they go to school, and in the end, whether the sheriff and his partner have rescued their daughters, whether they have killed those bad guys, whether there are miraculous alien hidden levels, it is said that there are fifty-one districts and Martians in it, and some of those who can play to the end of the level are also boasting about how fun the final level is, how exciting it is, and every time they talk about it, there will always be a large group of listeners around.

Of course, there are countless people who learn the sheriff's lines in the game, and even many real police officers who have become fans of Sheriff Balotelli. Even the sales of the Western-style hat that Sheriff Balotelli wore in the game showed signs of a massive increase in sales in a short period of time.

Especially when Christmas is approaching, there are countless children pestering their parents to ask for Sheriff Balotelli's figure for their gift this year, but unfortunately, Jester has not authorized this, so Sheriff Balotelli's figure is not easy to buy.

Tomorrow Jester will fly to Las Vegas with his team to attend the 1985 CES show, which will open in a few days, and he has already received specific information that Nintendo has scheduled its new product launch on the morning after the opening of CES, and Nintendo has not hidden it, this time they are going to announce their new game console that will be officially released in the United States.

However, Nintendo's previous rhetoric was not the game console, they called it a home entertainment dispute, not a game console.

Jester sneered at this.

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