Kawashima Ko packed his backpack, untied his tie and took it off, and then unbuttoned the first button of his shirt by the way, looked at his watch, and at 6:30 p.m., he had worked overtime for an hour.

Today is the weekend, and now is private time, Kawashima finished cleaning up his desk and workbench, turned off his computer, clocked in and out of work, and greeted other Sony employees who had not left with a smile, and he secretly wondered where to solve dinner today, whether to go to a convenience store near his home to solve it casually, or invite a few friends to have a drink together?

"Hey baseball bat!" Kawashima was carrying a briefcase, and when he walked not far out of the company building and towards the entrance of the subway, he heard a familiar voice, and he couldn't help laughing.

"Didn't you leave work on time an hour ago on Rotten Tomatoes?" Kawashima saw Toshio Fukuda standing in front of a black car, and trotted up to meet him: "What about rotten eggs?" ”

Fukuda Shoufu Ha Lu Ha Da smiled, let go of the back window, and a lazy and slightly depressed voice came from inside: "Kawashima-kun, it's my private time after work, can you not mention the company's affairs?" ”

These three are none other than the designer trio of the PC ported version of Sony's "Dead Dead" project department, and the three of them nickname each other and often use them to mock each other.

Several people sat in a car with a smile, Kawashima Gong and Miki Liang, nicknamed "rotten eggs", sat in the back seat, Fukuda Toshio sat in the co-pilot, the driver was a strange man, Kawashima Gong asked, "Who is this?" ”

Toshio Fukuda turned his head and introduced with a strange smile: "Takahashi Xiong is a good friend of mine, a fellow in game production, and you must know about a game made by their company." "American Pie"! ”

Kawashima's eyes widened, and his mouth couldn't close. Under the taunts of a few friends, he gave a thumbs up and exclaimed, "This game is pretty well done!" I've bought a full set of ......"

Haha......ha It turns out that each of them has treasured this set of 18 forbidden adult games!

The four of them laughed happily. Takahashi was even more proud, looked at the two people behind him from the rearview mirror, and said loudly: "Since the three of you are my customers, then I will treat you tonight!" ”

Weekends are synonymous with relaxation, and after a drink at a restaurant, the four of them didn't even drive their cars, and staggered to a nearby bar to continue drinking and chatting and watching beautiful women.

At the time of a meal, the distance between several people has been shortened a lot. The four of them are all twenty-three or four-year-old young people, living a chic life, but they don't have much money to spare, the salary given to them by Sony is not too high, they are all game designers who do programmes, and overtime is a common thing.

Takahashi Yu's eyes were worried, and he held up a beer and saluted a few people: "It's better to come to our SZone company, although there are not many people in our company." But the game is very popular! The movie "American Pie" will be released in the first half of next year, and now our new game "Tail Line" is forming a development team, would you like to join? ”

"Tail Line" is a game, just judging from the name of the game. It's a high-end atmospheric adult game, and a few men use their little remaining sober consciousness to try to exert their imagination. Gather around kinky / laugh.

Several people took a sip of wine, and Kawashima Gong was the best person in the trio. He took the lead and said, "I'm sorry, although Sony didn't treat us well. But let's jump ship to SZone, it's not too good to do that......"

Toshio Fukuda and Ryo Miki also nodded: "Although Sony has not given us much authority, at least it is also an internationally renowned large enterprise......"

Takahashi asked drunkenly, "Then have you ever thought about going it alone?" You have a good idea, why don't you give it a try? If young people don't find a chance to try the test, will you stay at Sony for the rest of your life in the future? ”

The three of them were silent, but not long after, Takahashi Xiong came over with a wine bottle again, changed to another topic, drank with everyone and didn't go home, danced and flirted with the beauties, and had a lot of fun.

Last week, after Ken Kutaragi forced them to concentrate on making the PS version, Kawashima Ko once planned to resist the order and secretly make the game himself, and was approved by Toshio Fukuda and Ryo Miki.

However, Sony has strict laboratory rules, and developers are not allowed to take the source code out of the company, so they need to rely on memory to copy the game, which is obviously impossible, and the workload is too large.

Think about it again, if the production is successful, who will distribute the game, whose future benefits will be counted, how they will apply for patents, and what role Sony will play in the middle, these questions are all very tricky, and it is easy to shatter the enthusiasm of the three people.

On Saturday night, Kawashima was woken up by a phone call from home, and it was Miki Liang who called him and asked him out for dinner to discuss things by the way.

After Kawashima Gong washed, he took a taxi to the location designated by Miki Liang, and Fukuda Toshio had arrived in advance, but the friend he just met yesterday was not there, and he was replaced by another foreigner he didn't know.

"Hello Kawashima-kun! I'm David Smith, Vice President of KTT Asia Pacific, responsible for KTTGame's sales and promotion in the Asia Pacific region! "This strong man with a high nose and blue eyes is a typical American, very enthusiastic, and comes up with a bear hug.

Kawashima looked at Miki Liang suspiciously, and the latter introduced: "I met David on the release day of Need for Speed, and we have been in touch for the past few months, and I called you here, and they asked me to ......."

When the personnel arrived, a sumptuous meal was served, and when they had eaten to their heart's content, David said meaningfully: "I heard that there is a split within Sony, and how many of them are interested in starting their own businesses?" Why don't you join us at KTT? We can guarantee to provide rich resources, as well as an excellent game publishing platform, and will definitely give you the most flexible autonomy! ”

The three of them still didn't answer this, but it could be seen that they were very excited.

David is not in a hurry, a few people are eating, while chatting, he said that the bright future of KTT is a skyrocket, and KTT is an international giant PC game giant that is overpowering EA, and even the dragon is not scared, the future is bright, welcome those who have aspirations to join, will definitely give the three of them the best treatment.

After the banquet was over, and David Smith, who had invited the guests, said goodbye drunk, the three finally couldn't help it, looked at each other, and directly found a convenient seat on the side of the street to sit down.

"Do you think something is wrong?" Toshio Fukuda recalled: "Takahashi was a classmate of mine at Waseda University, and we went our separate ways after graduation, and it was rare to see each other once a year, and he suddenly came to me, not specifically to catch up, but also to get the three of us to change jobs." ”

Ryo Miki also groaned: "David means that he wants us to join KTT, but I don't like their competition with EA and Dragon, which is also developing into PC games. ”

Kawashima sighed: "I don't know who is next?" Long Teng came over in person? In addition, I think the most puzzling thing is, is it really worth the three of us to come and dig the foot of the wall with great fanfare? ”

The three of them were silent, no one could say why, they were just the lowest level programmers, and they were low-level programmers who were not famous, why did Sony veto their ideas, and so many companies rushed to ask for them? Could it be that their ideas really have the characteristics of a best-selling game?

On Sunday, as expected, Kawashima met a person who made him feel creepy - Wang Zhe, the president of Fengyun Game Software Company, nicknamed "King of Black Hearts", everyone knows that Fengyun is Longteng's earliest branch in Japan, and Wang Zhe is the giant sword that Long Teng wielded and turned Japan upside down!

Wang Zhe directly took the other two to Kawashima Gong's house together, and the straight question was: "Are you willing to resign from Sony and join Fengyun Games?" ”

This...... The result of last night's deliberation was that if Long Teng sent someone to contact him, they would first ask about the treatment and then agree.

Kawashima asked suspiciously, "Is it appropriate to do this?" Digging directly from your competitors? ”

Wang Zhe sneered: "Your chief designer Fujiwara Tokuro turned out to be a person from Longteng Company, Sony can bring him over to do "Zombie Siege", why can't I recruit a few Sony employees to come over?" ”

The three of them were shocked, they didn't know that Fujiwara Tokuro, the serious and old-fashioned chief designer, was actually an employee of Longteng!

Wang Zhe continued: "What other companies can give you, Longteng can give you all, and we guarantee that after your group joins, you will not be affected by anyone other than the CEO of Longteng, the platform is all open to you, allowing you to play freely, just like Capcom, Konami, Bullfrog studios, you can also keep a studio brand!" ”

It's a very memorable thing to create their own studio brand, and all the games they make in the future will have their own logo, and they will do game development, isn't that what they hope to do?

Wang Zhe laid out all the benefits in one word, and soon made a big hole in the three of Kawashima Gong, and decided that starting from Monday's working day, the three of them took the initiative to go through the resignation procedures.

In just one week, on September 15, 1995, the three of them successfully resigned from Sony Entertainment Computer Company, all of which were due to the fact that the three of them did not agree with Sony's philosophy!

This made Kutaragi Ken furious, and he personally questioned the three of them, and they all received the same strong reply, which was determined to fight for the PC project to stop development!

Everyone paid a high penalty of 2 million yen, and nothing was taken with them, leaving everything to Sony.

Three days later, they also gave Sony a gift, and an interview with NHK TV made a detailed comparison between the unfair treatment they received at Sony and the ultra-high standard of treatment given by Fengyun Games.

"Who the hell is looking away?" This is the theme of this episode of the show, which puts Sony on the cusp again! (To be continued......)