Chapter 280: Dragon Quest
These two newly developed games have gained the favor of consumers shortly after their launch.
The first of these games was Tetris, which would later become popular all over the world, as the name suggests, was a popular video game console and handheld console game that took the world by storm. Pakitnov invented it, hence the name.
The basic rules of Tetris are to move, rotate, and place the various blocks that the game automatically outputs in order to arrange them into one or more complete rows and eliminate the score. Because it is easy to use and suitable for men, women and children, it has become a household name and has swept the world at a very fast speed.
The sensation that Tetris caused in later generations and the economic value it brought can be said to be a miracle in the history of world games. It's deceptively simple, endlessly varied, and addictive, and has quickly taken over the gaming market, resulting in an incredible market value.
Tetris is extremely easy to learn, but it is not easy to master the operation and placement skills of Tetris. As a popular game for all ages, its popularity can be said to be incomparable to that of any game in history, which can be seen from the copyright dispute of this game in later generations.
Few people know that this famous game once caused an uproar in the legal world in the 80s, and that was the famous Tetris title dispute. This property rights struggle can be said to be a few joys and sorrows, several game companies have collapsed, and several companies have achieved great success, and it is difficult to explain the rights and wrongs of them.
Historically, Tetris was invented in June 1985, and the inventor of the game was Alexei, who was working at the Moscow Scientific Computer Center at the time. Pakitnov, who was inspired to play a jigsaw puzzle game, made a game of Tetris based on Electronica60. Later by Wadin? Gerasimov was transplanted to the PC and quickly spread in the computer community in Moscow. before it has been rapidly expanded.
It is also because of this that there will be the famous copyright dispute later.
This game can be said to be quite simple to make, Zhao Chen just made a plan for Sega, and it didn't take much time to complete the production during the period, which has a pick-up version, a TV version and a computer version, as for the handheld version, it is due to the fact that the current Sega does not have a suitable handheld. The handheld version has not been developed for the time being.
In this era, the TV version and the pick-up version are more popular than the handheld version, while the computer version is not yet popular because the current computer price is too high. It can be said that even if there is no arcade version, the impact will naturally be there, but it is not very big, and Zhao Chen's next plan for Sega is to develop a handheld that will become popular all over the world in the future.
In addition to Tetris, another game that can be said to be an electronic role-playing series is Dragon Quest!
Dragon Quest can be said to be one of the best-selling long-lived game series in the history of gaming, and it will be known as the "national RPG" in the island nation in the future. It can be seen that it is powerful.
This game is mainly simple, there are no very gorgeous graphics, there is no complex system, and some are just easy-to-understand fairy tales. Allowing players to enjoy the game to the fullest are the unique features of Dragon Quest, and it is also the game that is believed to have established the status of a Japanese RPG.
The goal of the game is to play as the bloodline heir of the legendary brave "Lot", defeat the dragon king who tries to control the world, and rescue the princess who has been taken captive along the way. Want to beat the game. You have to constantly defeat all kinds of monsters that roam the land, so as to earn experience points and money; Experience points can increase the level. Money can be used to buy more powerful weapons, so that the protagonist's ability can be enhanced, and the scope of exploration can be extended to collect intelligence in different villages and towns, and the player can synthesize the information to obtain important items to advance the story. In short. For people in this era, playing this game is easy to indulge in.
In addition, after developing Dragon Quest, Zhao Chen also began to prepare to adapt it into anime, comics, novels and soundtrack albums to promote each other's fame and increase sales in one fell swoop. It can be said that it is counted in one fell swoop.
Since its release, Dragon Quest has quickly been recognized by fans, and thanks to Sega's strong sales channels and word of mouth, the game has taken the island nation by storm in less than a month.
In addition, due to the relationship between Sega's previous headquarters in the United States, it is natural for its status to sell Dragon Quest in the United States at the same time, and it has also achieved a lot of sales.
Of course, these are just the beginnings, and it will be a long time before these two games reach the same fame and sales as they would in later generations. However, these two games have also brought in considerable profits.
Not only that, but in order to increase the sales of Sega's various consoles, these two games are currently only available on Sega-based consoles. In this way, although the sales of the two games were more or less restricted, not only did the sales of Sega's various models of game consoles increase significantly, but also made Sega's fame in the island country suppress Nintendo for a while.
Although there are more and more game fans in this era, the number is far less than that of later generations, which means that the scale and assets of game companies are often not large, even in the island country of Nintendo, which is not much better.
Before Zhao Chen acquired Sega, although Sega was not as good as Nintendo, it was not much worse. But after being acquired by Zhao Chen, he received Zhao Chen's strong financial support and some plans and various games that will be successful in the future, and his strength can be said to be rapidly expanding.
This time, the new game console and the two games that are bound to be very popular have naturally pushed Sega to the top, even if Nintendo released the famous red and white machine a few months ago, the limelight was suppressed by Sega, and even the sales of Nintendo's red and white machines have declined significantly.
What I have to say here is that after all, the game company has some relationship with anime, after Zhao Chen acquired Sega, on the other hand, Sega got the influence of Zhao Chen and his industry, and this impact can be said to be positive, just like the BUFF in the game, not only did Sega's fame increase greatly, but also increased sales a lot.
At a time when Sega's fame was greatly increased, in order to make Sega's technology more powerful, Zhao Chen began to wave money and 'excavate' various technical talents from various game companies, including Nintendo, the biggest rival in the narrow sense.
Under the generous supply of funds, even Nintendo has a tendency to parry, it is really not a sage, and a few people can do it to the point of treating money as dung, Nintendo's employees are also human beings in the end, under the temptation of money, they will naturally do things to change jobs, especially the opponent is Sega, which is not weaker than Nintendo, of course, these are later words.
When Sega had just released its new console and two games, Zhao Chen was watching a good show in the United States, that is, the NBA draft held every year. (To be continued......)