Chapter Ninety-Eight: Wandering in London
London Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest airports in Europe and the world.
Jester's charter flight arrived in London in the morning, and Claudia personally came to the airport to greet him, and for Jester to bring such a large team this time, obviously, this Englishwoman also knew that Jester came with great sincerity.
Claudia's love of cars is different from that of a girl her age, and while Jester could tell from her love of playing with Pokemon pet machines that she was eager to find innocence that she hadn't felt, Jester was taken aback when she saw that her car was a handmade Mulsanne that had just been put into production in the '80s, the classic Mulsanne of Bentley's history.
Originally, he thought that a girl like Claudia would like feminine cars like the Beetle, or supercars like Maserati and Lotus that can show their personality, but he still didn't expect the other party to drive such a solemn car.
When buying any car is not a problem, you can see the personality of the driver from the car driven by the other party.
In Jester's eyes, Bentley's car is like a sturdy armor, tightly wrapping the driver's body, if a man drives this kind of car, it is like a man wearing armor, which represents strength, but a woman driving this kind of car, like a woman wearing armor, this does not make people feel power, but only makes people feel, this woman, is using a seemingly solid thing to protect herself, in fact, she is afraid of the outside world.
However, Jester is not a master of psychology, and he doesn't know if his analysis is correct or not, he only makes judgments based on his own feelings, but his judgments are always accurate.
Naturally, the others had a special car to pick them up, all of which were arranged by Claudia, and Jester was directly invited to Claudia's Bentley Mulsanne, and there were only the two of them in this car.
London has the nickname of the fog capital, and the United Kingdom has a temperate maritime climate, and it rains all year round, and it happened to rain when Jester came, so the sky was overcast and the sky was not visible.
Claudia wore a pale yellow professional attire, a slip-on skirt, and her long hair was coiled back her head, and although she didn't wear much makeup, she still looked radiant under her delicate face.
She didn't use a driver, but drove the car herself, except for a faint smell of perfume, there was hardly any feminine decoration in the car, if it wasn't for Jester's previous knowledge, then he would never think that this was a car that a young woman would drive, whether it was the shape of the car, or the decoration, it was too strict.
"Straight to the hotel?" Claudia started the car without looking back, and asked Jester directly.
Jester recovered from his previous contemplation, he stretched out his arm, stretched his arm, and then shook his head: "I slept all the way in the plane, and now the jet lag has not reversed, and I can't sleep, you can see where to go, in fact, it is not bad to visit London, I have not visited this cosmopolitan city." ”
Claudia hesitated for a moment before nodding, "Okay." Then she paused, and added in her characteristic mocking tone: "Actually, there is nothing to visit in London, there is a rotten atmosphere everywhere, and you don't feel a little upward vitality, and the people here still live in history, and they think they are in the Victorian era!" ”
Jester is not familiar with London, and the only thing he knows about London is when he was a fan in later generations, and he knew that London was the city with the most top clubs in the five major leagues at the same time, but for Jester, a pseudo-fan, he may know more about Manchester United, and he knows nothing about other English teams in this era, except for the news that Liverpool won the Champions League in 84 years this year from the newspapers some time ago.
However, this is not Manchester and Jester has no interest in these teams, so he didn't say he wanted to see them.
The black Bentley was driving through the streets of London, and Jester was looking out the window at the street, but he didn't really pay attention to it, he was thinking about the formation of a European distribution company.
"In front of it is Sega's directly managed store." After turning to a new path, Claudia spoke.
Turning his head to look at the road sign on the side of the road, Jester saw a string of English letters written on the road sign, but because he was in the car, he couldn't read it clearly.
Sega officially released the arcade games he licensed to the other party in the UK a week ago, and it was also the first in Europe, and because of the success of the first in the US and Japan, it also caused a bit of a stir before the release.
Just before the official release, Sega sold more than 10,000 units through various channels, which is a very good sales for the UK.
Sega's direct store model is also modeled after the direct sales of Jester's flagship store under construction in the United States, which has a special experience area, and the experience area has a variety of Sega products and games for customers to experience.
The flagship stores that Jester is working on are still relatively small, after all, he only has a few arcade games and one PC game that has not yet been officially released, and in terms of the number of games, it is far from being comparable to Sega, which has already released its own home console.
But it's just that the number of games can't be compared.
Tell Claudia to stop her car on the side of the road, and Jester wants to check it out of Decant's flagship store.
Jester asked Claudia about one of London's busiest and most densely populated neighbourhoods, not far from the famous Richmond Royal Park, the World Heritage Royal Botanic Gardens, and of course, the prestigious Wimbledon tennis courts.
Jester was surprised by the number of customers he had just stepped into Sega's directly managed store.
There were more than two dozen customers in this not too big shop, and several Sega waiters were hurriedly greeting them, and they didn't even have time to pay attention to Jester when he came in.
In this store, there is a lot of space for Sega's merchandise, including their own arcade games, home consoles, and the agent's own four games.
But other Sega games are basically unpopular, and the vast majority of people are lining up around Mars Entertainment's games to experience them.
The arcade version in the experience store is different from the official sale, and what Mars Entertainment provides in the experience store is only the content of the first few levels of this game, after all, the experience is enough to make you feel that this game is worth spending money to play, if players are allowed to experience the whole game directly, then how can the bosses of those arcade halls still rush to buy goods.
"Sir, are you here to experience the four games that have just been released?"
A young black-haired woman wearing a lilac suit with Sega's English inscription on her chest saw Jester who was looking around, and she hurriedly walked up to Jester, bowed slightly, and said in a very respectful tone.
Even though the other party spoke English, Jester could still make out her Japanese English tongue curl in her accent, even though she was already speaking it very indistinctly.
The waitress was Japanese.
Jester smiled and shook his head, "No, I'm just taking a look." ”
Although Jester doesn't pay much attention to his usual clothes, this time he came to the UK to represent the company's image after all, so he also asked Armani to customize a suit before, coupled with the temperament of Claudia who has always been by his side, it also let this Sega employee who often observes words and looks know that these two are not small people.
Therefore, she introduced it with extra care.
"Sir, these games are the latest games of Mars Entertainment, a well-known American game company represented by Sega, and these games have caused a sensation when they were released in the United States and Japan, and according to our partner Mars Entertainment, the cumulative pre-sale sales of their four arcade games have exceeded ......," the Sega waiter enthusiastically introduced to Jester.
However, Jester's eyes only slightly lingered on the arcade machines of his company's four games, which required numbering to take turns, and then moved elsewhere.
The rest of the place was deserted, of course, relative to the situation of the four games he was playing, and there were several other Sega's own arcade games with players in front of them, but the queue was obviously not needed.
However, in front of the SEGA-1000, a console that has only been on sale for a year, there is no player.
This is the first home game console independently developed by Sega, and the shadow of the Atari 2600 can be clearly seen from the entire design style of the game console, especially the design scheme of the classic single-stick controller that is obviously completely copied from the Atari 2600. If it weren't for the fact that the Atari 2600 is black and the SG-1000 is white, Jester might have mistaken it.
To be honest, Jester has only seen such a cold name in the history of video game development in later generations, and he has not really come into contact with it, after all, thirty years later, in China, there are not many people who may have heard of the SG-1000 game console, let alone seen it, or even owned it.
Jester walked up to an SG-1000 game console, which was connected to a Panasonic color TV, but not with a cassette plugged in.
When the Sega waitress saw that Jester was interested in her company's poorly sold game console, she quickly took out a catalog from the shelf on one side and handed it to Jester.
"This is the game cartridge of this console, most of which we developed ourselves at Sega......"
Jester took it, then smiled at the waiter and nodded in thanks.
There are more than two dozen games on the list, all of them are in English, Jester glanced at them roughly, he has not heard of these games, but this is also normal, although he knows a lot about the history of game development, but such a niche game console as the Sega SG-1000, it is impossible for him to search for this information in his previous life. So, Jester just clicked a game on the catalog, and then smiled and said to the waiter, "Can I try this game?" ”
The waitress from Sega also glanced at the game Jester was pointing at and nodded, "Sir, no problem, please wait a minute, I'll go get you the game cartridge." With that, she walked towards the counter on the side.
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