Game Market 1983

Before going onstage, I swallowed a dry saliva in the form of people filled with event halls who had glimpsed the curtain of the stage next to the loud noise of the audience coming from the audience.

"I'm a little nervous, but this is more than I imagined." ’

Of course, it's only a fag hemostasis compared to 'Anyo Namie’ or X-JAPAN, which is currently the most popular in Japan, but more viewers are gathering for the live game characters than they think.

Moreover, the potential for Idol was considerable, given that the content had only been officially started for about a full month.

How did you end up with so many fans in such a short period of time?

But when I think about it for a moment, there was a certain degree of acceptance of what they had gathered like this.

The correct answer was' content ’.

The tension of so-called survival matches over a formal debut of your favorite idol.

But what led the gamers even more was the downloadable content from the concert hall here.

Visitors may be the first to hear the latest songs from Erica and Azsa, but most importantly, they have the ability to dress new characters and new songs on their devices first.

If you ask why you use the word "seaweed," in fact, the songs and illustrations used in the second LIVE were already data stored on the CD.

This data is also referred to as unlock content. It is a special function designed to dissociate large amounts of data contained in CDs using very small capacity key data, forcing the contents of Virtual Idol to last for a long time.

This was mainly used by other gaming companies, typically using the term lockout method in Nanko's ‘Iron Fist 2’.

I borrowed from Idol a similar way of giving up the hidden characters that were open when I played the 100 games in the arcade version, or the memory of users being excited about the sudden and emerging performance of the characters depending on the number of times I cleared the final boss.

However, it was not just relying on unlocked data to rely on all content.

As Kanna created the song for Tsubaki, Complex Raon included a hard device of approximately 128 mega to allow sufficient custom data to be accepted.

Thanks to this free space, Complex Raon did not need to use the memory card like Sensoni's gear station, so it did not cost any extra money.

Though Sensoni's gear stations did not feel particularly expensive just thinking about machines, there was a disadvantage that game play could only be stored using memory cards, resulting in additional costs.

Moreover, the data storage itself was blocked, accounting for close to 2-3 data according to the data figures occupied per game, but it was not a bit uncomfortable because it was necessary to erase past data when using all memory cards later.

In that sense, hitting the hard drive inside the home console was a very strange and disruptive service at this time.

Of course, it was the position of competitors like Sensoni and NEGA, and the striking thing was the position of a two-armed welcoming user…

However, injecting the hard drive into the new console was not just due to download content and data storage.

‘Complicated Raon contains the OS. ’

The age of CDs began, and the biggest problem was the copy CDs.

Complete Raon contained version up data to update the internal OS whenever a new game was released.

When using a mode (MOD) chip that recognizes genuine CDs within the console, it forced over the CPU clock to include the ability to physically break the CPU inside the console.

We have also informed the seals on the back of the body, including the manual, of these effects, so far no movement has been seen to use the replicating CD.

If the cartridge used in the previous generation itself was too expensive to produce a counterfeit product and sell it for a deceptive price to consumers, this CD was so cheap and mass producible that it could only receive 500 yen to 1000 yen per page.

The current gaming industry has suffered considerable headaches as Taiwan has developed modechips for gear stations and NEGA Saturn to force consoles to be converted more frequently.

In that sense, 128 mega of hard was passed unanimously inside the company because a significant merit acted on the fact that the manufacturing unit price could be raised, but could be countered by replicating CDs.

After a while, the speakers in the event hall hear a ringtone announcing the beginning of the live event, and the voices of the people are gradually becoming more frequent.

While waiting by the stage, I slowly walked to the center of the stage and organized the chandelier.

“Sh... I guess they're starting. ”

Did you hear the sound of my footsteps walking onstage?

The moment I heard someone trembling in the crowd.

The curtain across from me flew up and faced the audience in front of me.

“Wow!!! ”

I glanced at the people who were filling the audience once and for all.

“Welcome to Miss Katagiri Erica's New Songs Presentation. ”

After greeting the audience with open arms, I held the microphone in my hand at the center of the stage in applause from the pouring audience.

“This is a year I've had many encounters with you. ”

Then I heard a small laugh on the side of the audience who understood the meaning of my words.

We usually have conferences about once a year, but this year we suddenly launch Complete Raon, and in a month and a half we get back in front of the users.

“Before we begin Miss Erica's LIVE, I'd like to make a quick announcement to each of our current heroes. First of all, idols have shipped 200,000 chapters in the last month and a half, and each hero has been issued 50,000 cards. Among them are two heroes who are currently recording the end game. ”

The audience sitting in the audience at my words began to stare at me, swallowing dry saliva.

Apparently, the people gathered here were fans of Katagiri Erica and wanted her name to be called, but unfortunately, the script I was holding didn't have her name.

“Cheryl and Tsuba. ”

“Ah…”

When I looked at the long sighing users as if the sky had collapsed, I also felt like a lump. However, the true stage of Virtue Idol began now, so the final result could be reversed any time.

“One interesting thing is that Complex Raon is out, and the sales section is just over 100,000 now. Virtual Idol's sales have already surpassed the console. Here we can infer that the idol must have more than one title per user who enjoys Complete Raon. This is one of the hardest to find results in the console market to date. which means that that's how many people are interested in idol heroes. ”

“Wow... that's amazing.”

“A game machine sold 100,000 copies, and Soft exceeds that. ”

“I bought all four of them myself. I kind of get it...”

There were also quite a few users who responded naturally to my presentation.

At that time, a woman running from the inside of the stage forwarded me a note and left the stage in a hurry.

After a brief review of her note, I raised my lip slightly and held the microphone in my hand.

“Looks like you've just completed the guest count on the live stage in Osaka. ”

“Oh… what happened? ”

“No wonder Erica won. ”

“Well, I heard from a friend that Osaka's side is massive.”

I looked at the anxious stage for a moment and put the microphone to my mouth.

“Currently attending Kono Azza's live event...”

“Ugh... Please...”

“Dear God...”

Those eyes that want to know the results as soon as possible with anxious expressions...

Inside, some people held their hands together and raised their prayers.

With a small note in my hand, I sighed and shook my head.

“Oh, you can't be...”

“Did Miss Erica lose? ”

“No way!! ”

For those who express anxiety with their whole body, I shoved a note in my pocket and opened my mouth.

“Check it out for yourself. ”

Pa!!

At the same time, the giant screen behind my back was illuminated with the Osaka Live Hall.

“Wow…!!! ”

“Wahhhh!! What's all this!! ”

“Dammit... were there so many Aziza fans!? ”

There was a strange tension in the faces of the users in the audience in the Osaka Live Hall, which filled the live hall with almost the same number as them.

- Dual live from Virtual Idol Live -

I waved my hand at Kawaguchi, standing in the center of the stage on the screen. After a while, he also waved his hands at me.

“As you can see, live is happening at the same time. However, there are also users who support live today from afar using handsets installed in gaming shops across the country, so we will let you know the results when LIVE is over. Now, let's get this live. ”

“Oooh!!! ”

Looking at the audience full of opposing camps, they start screaming with both fists burning.

“Great, but first I'm going to show you a few simple rules for enjoying LIVE. ”

“Rules?”

“The next live event will check your response. After the LIVE ends, your screams will be measured in decibels and added to Hiroin's debut points. So as much as you enjoy LIVE, I would like to offer you a lot of support for Miss Erica. Oh, and one more thing. You don't have to think that the tone of the song will be low. because we have a sequence of songs that we're prepared to do today, which is to change each other's songs. ”

“Oh!!! Awesome.

It's not polite to have users come all the way to Kobe for a new song...

Erica appeared on a huge screen as she clapped her microphone onstage in the same applause as the users.

The first time I imagined her pure-looking cheerleader calling for you, the users began to react to Erica's cute green tick skirt.

“Cough!! ”

“Ears... cute. ”

“This is my taste!! It's my favorite!! ”

At that moment, a perceptive gamer shouts, wrapped around his head.

“No way!! Is the singing meteor the same outfit today? ”

“Oooh!!!! ”

At that moment, the live hall began to burn in a slightly different sense.

Standing on the stage, I slowly shook my head to the left and to the right as if I were looking at a live hall reminiscent of a military air show.

“This is why I don't like quick gamers...”