Chapter 154: Comparing Goods and Throwing Them (One More Asking for a Monthly Pass)
In 1991, the Japanese New Year's Carnival was filled with joy from top to bottom.
In the past year, although Sega has changed owners, but business is getting better and better, according to the data of DownHill, an authoritative statistical agency in the United States, in the global market, the market share of home TV game consoles Sega accounts for 32%, and Nintendo has dropped to 68%!
You know, this year Nintendo launched their SFC console, and the "amazing" data of selling a full 1.98 million units in the first month really made the Sega people laugh!
The TV game market has risen and fallen, and in the handheld market, although it was 9 months late to go public, it only took half a year for Sega to sell 4.5 million GameGear consoles, 4.2 million Pokemon game cards, and 3.1 million Flappy-Bird game cards, sweeping the global handheld market, stepping on the GameBoy, which has not many new game launches, and firmly holding 70% of the global market share!
The position of the eldest and second is reversed!
For the first time in the history of Sega, it occupies such a big advantage, which makes the eyes of its peers in the game industry fall to the ground, who would have thought that Sega, the second oldest in 10,000 years, will gradually encroach on the market share of video games, and the handheld market will occupy an absolute advantage?
Who would have thought that Sega, which had been silent for half a year, would break such a big story in the carnival annual report!
Not only was it a great success in home games and handhelds, but it also performed well in arcades!
In the much-anticipated fighting game Battle for Valentine's Day bet, Capcom, one side of the duel, is still in full swing for Street Fighter 2, and the other side is already in the Sega Carnival. Introducing their fighting game, The-King-Of-Fighters!
"It cost $40 million! It took 10 months! There are 124 designers participating! The planning team has traveled to 24 countries and regions around the world! The King of Fighters 91, a game software company that has been anticipated by tens of thousands of people, is officially launched! β
Hayao Nakayama suppressed his excitement. Following the example of Japanese promotional TV, he rather exaggerated the drape that covered several large arcade machines behind him. Three brand new machines on display!
Click......
The flashing lights in the audience flashed wildly, and the reporters, after receiving permission, jumped on the rostrum in high spirits and took pictures in all directions around the machines.
Three machines, all in running condition.
In the case of no coins, there is a demonstration of animated CG on the screen.
The soaring dragon pattern, the big Long word Logo, and the all-English interface are very friendly, and everyone can understand it.
Loud and noisy cheers. An envelope with a red R on it keeps spinning in the center of the screen, and this is exactly the mysterious letter, the fight tournament invitation from R!
The rhythmic beat of the drums entered, the sound of light and bloody music sounded, and suddenly, a hand reached out, grabbed the R envelope in his hand, and suddenly the flames in the air burned it clean. Immediately after that, a handsome and immature face appeared, who is this person, not Cao Pheasant?
The group photo of the 8 teams flashed quickly, converging into a large photo of the 8 teams. Immediately afterwards, Cao Pheasant's handsome and dashing figure came out, smashing the big photo, and a series of dazzling actions. In the end, he was stereotyped by an arrogant POSS, who followed him left and right. It is Lin Zhihong, the successor of Tai Chi in white, and Hong Jinbao, a famous Hong boxer!
The name of The-King-of-Fighters1991 appears in the middle of the screen, flashing with a coin-to-put prompt in English. At the same time, this intense and shocking music finally came to an end.
Next, the reporters did not rush to ask the organizer for coins, but continued to watch the game demonstration CG, 8 teams selected two, the left team is Hong Kong, Bruce Lee, Ye, Jackie Chen, the right team is the United States team, boxing champion Tai Song, Master Hui Ming, Milk.
There was an exclamation from the crowd: "Bruce Lee! Cheng Long! Tyson! And the famous people! β
Of course, this CG is deliberately selected by these two teams, as long as they like to play arcades, I am afraid that the three members of the American team are particularly familiar, and Bruce Lee and Cheng Long are kung fu superstars among the yellow race, only Ip Man is not so famous, so CG appeared at first glance and was quickly remembered by everyone.
The two teams entered the character setting stage, and the reporters' eyes lit up, and it turned out to be a 3V3 wheel battle!
The Hong Kong team led the way with Bruce Lee, Cheng Long second, Ip Man Zuihou, and the U.S. team led by Tai Song in the front, Master Hui Ming in the middle, and Milk pressed the lineup.
Continuing the background CG shows that in a gloomy and rainy day, with lightning in the sky, on the dilapidated dockside, Bruce Lee touched his nose, and Taisong hit the boxing gloves in his hands with both hands, and then entered the fight.
Not much different from Street Fighter, the health bar shows small avatars, and teammates will appear in the background image to cheer on the fighters, everything seems so real and so ...... Plausible.
Yes, very reasonable, more reasonable than Street Fighter I don't know countless times.
The two are already fighting together.
One is a Jeet Kune Do master, and the other is a boxing champion who has dominated the American professional boxing competition for many years, quickly fighting, the speed of the moves is extremely fast, and the character sensitivity is super high, almost like acting in an action movie, so precise that you can't see the bug if you don't look closely, and the action is extremely beautiful!
Everyone unconsciously took out Street Fighter and compared it, and found that Street Fighter's slow rhythm made people look anxious!
And Street Fighter had a dragon fist, and the enemy was still far away, so he was inexplicably beaten, dropping two-fifths of his health bar, and then another dragon fist, crippled......
Look at the King of Fighters again, Bruce Lee played a beautiful set of combos!
After getting closer, he quickly threw his left fist straight out, followed by a sharp right fist that stabbed straight through Taesong's defense, and then took advantage of the opponent's stiff state to use a horizontal whirlwind kick, and the beautiful roundhouse kick knocked Taesong to the ground, flying out of the two of them, and hit 5 times in a row!
βNiceοΌβ The reporters exclaimed together, and then looked at the blood bar, about one-eighth, which shows that it is not a too powerful trick to kill, looking at this speed, someone thought that this is a rapid move with light legs!
After Tai Song fell to the ground, Bruce Lee did not pursue, but jumped two steps back, bent his body, and a large amount of yellow smoke came out of his body, and the yellow energy bar at the bottom left of the screen increased rapidly, and it turned out to be ...... Gas!
Bruce Lee, who got Max's energy, was full of light, and after blocking Taisong's turning and charging punches, he rushed forward and fell over the shoulder, beautiful! Taisong flew out, and the attentive reporter found that the damage caused by Bruce Lee, who was full of gas, had become higher to the enemy!
Wonderful! Genius Creation, Charge System! The crowd was amazed.
Then it was Taisong's performance time, pressing Bruce Lee's fight and couldn't fight back, and when everyone was a virtual blood bar, both of them entered Zuihou's life-and-death struggle, only to see Bruce Lee block Taisong's fist again after being full of gas, and suddenly, the whole person underwent a lightning change, and the screen changed color for 0.1 seconds, and then only heard "Ahh............h
Journalists see the game leaderboard!
"What's going on?"
"What's wrong with Bruce Leezuihou?"
"Weishenme suddenly changed color? Am I dazzled? β
There was a lot of discussion, but only the smartest person reacted, snatched a handful of game coins from the Sega staff who were smiling outside the crowd, opened the crowd, and operated it himself!
Reporters who can grab the game can still play, and those who can't grab it can only look at it on the side, and there are photographers holding up their interview arms in the outermost circle, which is very hard.
Yang Yun sat behind the rostrum and watched all this with a smile.
After half a year of hard work, he finally succeeded, and it was more than he expected!
First of all, this substrate problem, Sega's 32-bit substrate, in the work of senior experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, finally broke through the bottleneck, research day by day, in the middle of December before the New Year, Sega's first 32-bit substrate was developed!
This is a 32-bit substrate in the complete sense, and NEOGEO's 16+16 pseudo-32-bit is not at the same level at all, you know, the research and development of this substrate, Hayabusa Nakayama is ready to use it as a 3D game platform!
The main CPU is a 32-bit chip provided by NEC, and the co-processor is Fujifilm 32-bit FPU, YAMAHA sound effect chip, 65,536 colors, 540,000 vectors/second, 180,000 polygons/second graphics processing speed, 1.2 million pixels/second rendering effect, running The King of Fighters 91, that's just cool!
If it weren't for Yang Yunqiang who endured the excitement in his heart, after seeing the successful development of this motherboard, he would be willing to take out all the classic King of Fighters 95 and 97 versions in one go!
Because of the powerful performance of this motherboard, it can even crush the NEOGEO substrate in 10 years!
This is the reason why Weishenme Yang Yun favors Sega so much, and would rather risk being shot to death by Nintendo than befriend Sega, and desperately want to buy Sega.
What is a profession? It's called professionalism!
Who in Nima dares to call Lao Tzu the king of hardware in the industry?
Also NEOGEO, also SFC, it's all bullshit! It's all a piece of!
With Sega here, all the host hardware is on the back burner!
In real history, Nintendo and Sony could stand at the bottom of a mountain and watch Sega tremble and climb up the mountain, freezing to death miserably on the top of the mountain.
Not anymore! With Yang Yun, Sega stood on the top of the mountain, then the sea water was introduced, flooding the foot of the mountain, and those manufacturers who ran slowly all gave up to me obediently from the market, and all of them had to die! (To be continued......)