Game Market 1983

< EP. 35: Admiration of the Wind. (2) >

Pentagon and Phoenix Soft were known to people as rivals in Japan's gaming industry in some sense.

In fact, Kawaguchi said this in an interview with Pammy when he was producing Final Frontier 1 and it was becoming popular.

-Playing the Dragon Warrior series, I realized what I lacked about the game I created. In the next episode, I will strive to create the best game that surpasses the Dragon Warrior. -

It was like declaring Phoenix Soft as a rival, admitting in some sense that it had created the Final Frontier based on the Dragon Warrior.

Of course, while some dragon warrior enthusiasts were uncomfortable with his remarks, the final frontier actually began to grow based on the unique gameability different from the dragon warrior over and over again.

Not just to stop the Demon King from destroying the world, the Cinematic Story technique gave each character a story, gaining the probability of confronting the protagonist, and asking players questions about what is the right choice based on it, showed a smooth story line for adults to enjoy.

At present, the Dragon Warrior and the Final Frontier could not easily say that the volume of accumulated sales in the series was almost unequal, so either side must be advantageous.

At that time, Yuji's remarks were very fresh.

Industry Number One, the main directors come together to create new RPG games.

It was a great collaboration to bring a storm to the industry just for the announcement.

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The next day.

Day 2 of the public viewing, the last day of CES.

Since all the presentations were already made on day 1, Minten, the NEGA and all companies were demonstrating yesterday's content to users.

Among them, at yesterday's warlike conference, the NEGA was struggling with a painful blow. Although it was the fastest next-generation model ever released by console companies, users were also disappointed that there were no games worth demonstrating.

On the other hand, Sensoni has been eliciting tremendous reactions since yesterday due to the simultaneous 3D boxing game "Sentinel Temple".

This is because the characters in the Temple made of full polygons showed a neat level of graphics that was consistent with NEGA's ‘Real Fighter’ for the home console.

“Wow... I feel so different playing it myself. ”

“I'm sure it's brilliant in terms of graphics, but it's too light to move compared to a real fighter, so I'm a little...”

“I rather like being speedy. The command input was easy, so the skill was good, and the real fighter was too much to use. ”

I agree with that.

It wasn't easy to command a real fighter when you thought he had stiff skin on his finger when he tried to use "Destroyed Twins" on RealFighter 2 with a Saturn Pad. Suddenly, I remembered an old smile.

I slowly turned my head and looked at the Pentagon booth, and there were a lot of spectators gathered at our venue.

What they're looking at is Miyuki's 3D modeling.

Unlike the 2D illustration, 3D was not difficult to add a costume once modeled.

In the remodeled version of the street that I was not present, I gave her a ‘costume’ that was available in bonus mode as a clear game privilege, and I was able to dress her up in bonus mode as a seasonal outfit.

If you just ask me what's so special about changing costumes, I can't argue with that, but in the future, there was a gaming company that released that character costume on a quarterly basis and benefited a lot more from it than this. Rather, I'm your man...

The strategy of commoditizing this single content is not very good right now, but it is a very lucrative business in the future.

What if Miyuki sells Santa costumes for 100 yen for Christmas?

Is there anyone who wouldn't kill that thing? ’

People will be willing to pay 100 yen to buy data in less than a few bytes. But what if it's divided into dozens?

A person who curses is a fraud.

Especially in a game where you take a girl hostage.

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Day 2 PM CES Conference.

At a global event that is beginning to run toward the end, users are converging on the console booth to ease their hearts.

A mobile phone that is an intensity of communication technology that has made great progress with a large brown tube TV. Although there are many electronic devices on display, such as audio, refrigerators, and washing machines, today the Chairman was still an example of ten thousand because many gamers came to CES just by looking at the content of the game.

and between 2: 00 and 4: 00 p.m., which is the busiest. The Pentagon has announced another announcement in front of its users.

“What? The new announcement was over yesterday, wasn't it? ”

“Could there have been more hidden announcements for the day two spectators...”

Users' expectations began to rise at the sudden announcement of the new book.

Sensoni and Mintendo's eventful faction also began to twist in the sudden announcement of the Pentagon's new book.

Soon, the spotlight on the stage at the Pentagon booth turned on, and I carefully climbed back onto the stage.

Having people's expectations in one body made me a little nervous, but now I'm not shaking much because I'm used to this place.

“The reason I'm back here today is because of news about a new story that was suddenly decided last night. ”

The word 'new novel’ that came out of my mouth, people had already begun to grumble.

“Before I introduce you to the work, let me tell you that it will be an unprecedented, unprecedented collaboration. And I think it's a great honor to be able to launch such a meaningful piece into the Raon of our Pentagon. I'd like to introduce you to the main director of Phoenix Soft, Horie Yuji, who will cover the scenarios for the new RPG game. ”

Some of the spectators were appalled at his name.

“Hory Cow makes Raon's game!? ”

“Is the Dragon Warrior moving the platform to Raon? ”

“Don't tell me there's a connection between Phoenix Soft and Mintendo...”

“Since it's new, isn't it a game other than the Dragon Warrior? ”

Industry members who were watching the Pentagon conferences were puzzled by the news that the main director of a rival company was participating.

The most visible of them were the Temples of the Mintendo side.

It was also those who quickly left to report the collapse of one axis that became a great pillar for them.

I haven't introduced you to the most amazing person yet, and I'm already scared.

I swallowed a smile and put the microphone back in my mouth.

“Famous for his dragon warrior series, Yuji decided to play the scenario in this piece. And the person who will be in charge of the system for the new game will be the main director of the Final Frontier series, Kawaguchi. ”

“What!? ”

“No way!! ”

It was a shocking news for the audience that the two main directors of the gaming industry, who considered it water and oil, were working together to create a new film.

As I looked at the audience with my own ears, but I could not believe it, I saw two people holding hands and starting to scream from everywhere.

“Huff!! It's real?”

“Wow! I'm actually watching, but I can't feel it...”

“But will two main directors make the game better? ”

“Well, they say a boatload of boats are headed for the mountains...”

Some mixed voices were also heard, but the audience cheered them on to see if the combination of the two generally felt bad.

I waited a moment for their screams to stop and then calmly smiled at my mouth.

“So before I introduce you to the final character of the new game, I'd like to share with you the character that you drew for yourself. Maybe if you look at the character, you'll immediately get a sense of who's in charge of character design, but look at the screen. ”

As I raise my hand to the screen, I think of the man with the red scalpel holding the sword on the screen.

And that moment. The mouths of those who were watching the screen burst open, screaming.

“D-Dragon Ball!? ”

“Every Toriah!! ”

“Whoa!!!! ”

Today, the most popular cartoon in Japan... or the world... was indeed the Dragon Ball. A great best-seller that's been translated into almost every language in the world and is incredibly popular with kids and adults...

The sound of an unexpected scream was heard as if the booth was shaking in the character's design, reminiscent of the superSaints appearing in his work.

And as he responded to the shout, the backstage curtain opened and he walked out with the microphone.

“Hello, master dragon bowl. This is Toroyama.”

“Oooh!! ”

“Even Toriyama's character design is the perfect combination. ”

In the freezer pouring out here and there, an unfamiliar person asked a friend next to him.

“Are they that great? ”

“There are endless kings in the field of scenarios, gaming systems and character design. ”

“Ah… I see. Well, I know dragon balls. ”

The Dragon Ball, which is updating its year-round record every single time it is released, is famous for being the world's most sold comic book. Now that more than 20 million copies of official publications have been sold, if you include pirates, it's probably the most famous cartoon in the world. So why?

The game was so unknown that no one in the world knew his shadow.

We haven't even announced the game properly yet, but the three of them together have completed a page of history...

The name of the new film they were going to create was surprisingly 'Kronos Trigger’, and Yuji had been waiting for Turra Kawaguchi's approval to complete the scenario and character with Toroyama before consulting with us.

Kawaguchi enjoyed agreeing to collaborate with Yuji, who he usually admired, and Toroyama was also very excited to work with Amano, who was in charge of the won currency at the Final Frontier.

So, why am I not one of them?

It is clear that the "Chronos Trigger" they created together is a historic masterpiece of time. But I politely refused their request, which I did not want to put up with my name.

Almost done with the gift of God and the development of the Grave of the Braves, and I can't get myself into work again for a while just to catch my breath. Not even to see Yuki in labor.

Moreover, recently, there was a genre that came to mind when I was making God's gift...

We are planning a new breeding simulation for the next generation of performance.

If you ask me what I'm breeding this time...

I don't know... idol?