Game Market 1983

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“So have you decided which department you want to go to? ”

“Yes, I want to go to the next generation of console development parts. ”

Then Kamauchi tilted his head and asked Gunpei.

“Was there such a department in my company? ”

“Oh, I'm currently in charge of portable gambling, but you want to come under me? ”

“No, I'm talking about the next generation of family development. ”

Kamauchi asked me with a strange expression in my answer.

“Hmm!? Family heirloom? I hadn't thought of that. You can't build a follower already, can you? ”

“Of course, I don't mean right now. But there was a competitor called NEGA, and when they launched the NEGA disk, it was going to be a powerful piece of hardware. That's why I think you should start thinking about it. As time goes on, computers will move faster, and families will be a moment of glory in Mintendo. ”

“Hmm... the sequel. But the Gang is right. You have to build powerful hardware in time to get the game going.”

“That's right, boss. That's why I've asked you to appoint a new department. where we're going to build the next generation of consoles, and we're going to develop games with them. ”

“What do you think? Gunpei.”

“I feel the same way. Now, we're number one in industrial bankruptcy, but companies that have come to know that the gaming industry is making money are starting to flourish. I don't think it's a bad idea to think about making the next generation to differentiate ourselves from them. ”

“Good. Let's get on with it. ”

“Yes, thank you. ”

Huh? That was easier than I thought. That salty camouflage immediately said yes? Apparently, a successful attack on the U.S. market set me up quite well within the company.

Thanks to this, I started a new job in Japan as the head of a new development department. I was 23 years old in 1985.

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“Seige, have you ever tried the Dragon Warrior? ”

Shigei is nicknamed after Shigeru Kumamoto. He's been working on the development of a game lately.

“I don't know, man. ”

His voice sounded bitter, which meant he was nervous, so the temple asked him a question, and he backed away. I kept my hands in my pockets, drinking coffee, watching him. Of course, no one would blame me for being so rude, but no one would blame me for pioneering a downhill in the U.S. market and being the director of the next generation development part.

“What? Get your hands out of his pockets? You drank a lot of American water, and your posture changed? Mister River?”

“Oh, Ms. Grant. Hello."

“I can't say hello. You bastard.”

“Haha, what are you doing in the development room? ”

“I came to see him. ”

However, Shigeru was not even aware that Kamachi was coming, but was only staring at the monitor screen. Towards Shigeru, Kamachi asked with a four-year-old face.

“Hey, Sige, have you ever played the Dragon Warrior or something? ”

Then Shigeru's eyebrows twitched, and he jumped on his desk.

“I don't know, man!! Why do you keep asking me what the Dragon Warrior is? ”

“... ”

Kamauchi's face was frowning around his mouth like a goldfish.

“I put a very, very young man in charge, and the company is going crazy.”

“Ah, boss!? ”

“No matter how free-minded I am, I've been so comfortable lately, right? ”

“Oh, I've been thinking about something else for a while.”

Shigeru apologized to the boss several times with a embarrassed look on his face. Jealousy drives people crazy, and a game called Dragon Warrior drives Shigeru crazy. I looked out the window, sipping coffee.

Recently, I've come to realize one interesting fact.

It's because I realized that the gaming industry's history had been subtly twisted. If I had known better, Shigeru's legend of Karin would have appeared three months earlier than the Dragon Warrior, but I didn't think the Dragon Warrior would have appeared so soon...

The Super Maridge Transverse Scrolling System came into the world a year earlier, greatly expanding the game genre's variance. The Dragon Warrior ended production in just five months and launched the first round of the series.

The day the Dragon Warrior was launched. I went to Akihabara, Tokyo, to spend the whole day. The success of the family and the action of the disc made Akihabara a place where electronics and gaming machines were becoming a thing of the past.

The Dragon Warrior, launched by a Japanese gaming company called Phoenix for the Mintendo family, has been exploding since the launch, as it has gained gamers' attention since its inception.

Even so, the game has been in the form of a Danta-oriented arcade, which has also expanded the low profile of the game genre in a unique way called transverse scrolling, but technically Super Marige, which was part of the axis of arcade action, was not a completely new genre.

At the same time as the launch, however, the Dragon Warrior was popular with Japan's first RPG game. In fact, Shigeru was also making a game with a theme of an elf who was wearing a green hat for Japan's first RPG at the same time, but his greed aroused anger.

I put too much stuff into the story to make it longer. At first, it was a simple matter for a fairy boy to save the princess, but he created a bizarre emblem, where three triangles formed, and he began to squeeze a worldview of it.

So naturally, the production period went from three months to six months... from six months to nine months, and in the middle of that, Phoenix created a game with a simple fairytale story called "The Princess Saving Warrior," which was the Dragon Warrior.

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“Knng... Ah, this sucks.”

I asked Shigeru in the break room for a can of coffee.

“Are you all right, Mr. Seege? Why are you so stressed out? You can make it as comfortable as ever. ”

“Oh, thank you. Yeah, I'd love to, but the more attention the Dragon Warrior receives, the more it bothers me. The first RPG genre!! I was coveted.”

“Greedy, too. Thanks to the Dragon Warrior, other game companies are not in a frenzy right now. There are a lot of companies that are not arcades these days, that specialize only in family games and games for NEGA discs. ”

“With the Dragon Warrior in play, there's going to be a lot of similar RPGs out there, right? Ah! Then the legend of the Karin I make will be buried inside!!! ”

"The Legend of Karin" was the title of a game currently being produced by Shigei. The protagonist's name is Elk, and the name of the kidnapped princess is named after the game title. There was something about the downward nature that liked to puzzle users in the title of the game.

I laughed and said a few words to his cry.

“Then let's make a fresh start in there. ”

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