"The world's first portable console gambler to employ a cartridge exchange method. "
"Whoa!!!!!! "
"This is a prototype of a new portable console model that's still under development. Only portable gaming bases allow you to place game cartridges in the back, so you can exchange tons of games with one machine. You can also use both speakers and earphones to plug in your earphones, play music and play games in public places. "
"Wow!!!!! "
"This machine is a black and white display, but it can display multiple graphics organically. Let's play with this cartridge that was actually created. "
Gunpei showed a boy in front of a single stage with a pre-made demo cartridge inserted into the device.
"Super Marijida!!! Super Maridge!! "
The boy was amazed at the organic Super Maridge in a small black and white screen, and the people around him were also resilient when they saw the screen in the game.
"Th-that's real. Super Maridge is really spinning!! "
Although the people behind him did not see it properly, he wanted to see the reaction of the people in front of him. Gunpei glanced at those users with a happy smile and put the Gamboy back in his pocket.
"This Gameboy, who is working on a goal for the end of next year, will also see more information in Pharmy Communications next month. And that concludes our surprise presentation to Mintendo. "
"Whoa!!!!!!! "
The presentation was a success. People were leaving the presentation and muttering as if shocked or puzzled. And one of the people who had not yet come out of shock was running to the back of the event chairman shouting.
"Wow! This Gunpei is so cute!! Where is it!!"
Perhaps the most impressed person was the owner of Kamauchi.
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The legend of Karin has caused tremendous excitement, as I expected. The landscape of the venue appeared on the news and featured documentaries were broadcast on the topic of social phenomena in game media.
Of course, there was mintendo in the center, and the family sold since July 15, 1983 sold around 70 million units worldwide in just three years, and Mintendo has laid the foundation for a remarkable gaming kingdom.
But is that so? With nearly every gaming company producing games for the Mintendo family, Camouche increased its workforce in particular in February 1986, because the development room personnel could not even check the quality of the games. I set up a quality inspection unit.
I also traveled back and forth between the United States and Japan for three years, sometimes as a game developer and sometimes as a sales rep representing Mintendo. The department that saw practical work was the next-generation console development department, but nowadays I've been working more often than that.
"Director Kang, where are you going again? "
"Oh, I'm going to go to work for a while."
I was quite popular within the company, other than my department, which always speaks for the employees below. It was a completely different look from what I used to look like when I was stuck in the development room in 2015.
Did I realize the importance of relationships with people? I was demoted to the Customer Satisfaction team in 2015, but I still couldn't forget the awkward atmosphere of that time.
'It must never happen again. To do that, I need to have one person on my side and a presence in and out of the company. Although I work for the president of Kamachi now, I must be prepared to fight on his terms one day. '
I started running along the road with a recently selected Toyota car. A moment later, I arrived in front of a game company building in Osaka. It was a fairly large company, FOX SOFT, making mainly arcade games.
In fact, one of the shooters released here last month was getting a tremendous reaction. The name of the game was' Twindie 'and I used to play with my childhood friend.. Twindie was very unique from the atmosphere of the original shooting game.
Since the emergence of Super Maridge in the world, the cross-scrolling system has started spreading rapidly in other games. One of the most privileged genres is shooting. The shooting game, which mainly controlled airplanes, was using long-scrolling with slight modifications to the cross-scrolling. Using the background from top to bottom, not from side to side, it was providing a refreshing feeling that flew away from the shell shot by the enemy.
That's why the shooting game often reminds me a lot of 1945, of which Twindie has captivated users with a unique worldview, which is about fantasy worlds, not battlefields where one another dies and kills. In addition, by supporting two players, they were able to merge and defeat their enemies, but the problem was that the game was also equipped with elements that allowed them to fight each other like balloon fights.
Items powering up missiles are also 1P and 2P. I had to collect different items, but I was able to intercept the opponent by firing a missile when they ate the items to eat each other's desired items.
I'm busy fighting the enemy, but a few times I get hit and I get into a lot of fights because my friends get in the way. Then, is that when reality PK begins?
"I've had a lot of fights with my friends over this game."
I shake my head with a bitter smile and head toward Fox Soft Lobby. Fox Soft was a company that had been specializing in arcade games since before Twindie, so it was quite large for companies in the '80s.
The reason I came here today was because I wanted to send a developer to get technical advice from Foxsoft's development office, and I came here at Shigere's request, which was not something I do at the moment within Mintendo.
"Hello, I'm Kang Jun-hyuk, a Mintendo employee. I'm here today for a meeting with the family game development department. "
"Oh, I've heard stories. Your name and company on the visitors list here. Can I have your contact information, please? "
In a more difficult call process than I expected, I made a guest book with a slight tilt of my head. The desk lady had to copy the business card I gave her and put it in the file before she could guide me. Someone must have visited the Chungcheongwae... You said you heard the story already, do you need to be this thorough with security?
It was a huge building, but I couldn't find an ant in the company corridor. Perhaps everyone is stuck in the development room, Fox Soft had CCTV installed on ceilings everywhere to determine the route of employees' movements.
"Hmm, Fox Soft is quite secure. "
"Right? That's why we call our employees Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The boss is so secure that when he comes home from work, there's a flop of diskettes in the staff's belongings. "
"Haha... I see. "
After a while, I was briefed by the lobby staff on the Family Game Development Department. It was a fairly small corner compared to the arcade game development room that we had seen so far. When I entered the development room, four developers who were working turned their heads and looked at me.
"Hello, I am Kang Jun-hyuk, director of the next generation of console planning and visiting at the request of technical advice. "
However, I smiled and greeted to create a bright atmosphere, but the expression on the employees' faces was still shivering.
"Kang Joon-Hyuk? Who is that? Was there a Korean employee in Mintendo? "
"Even if you're not Khumamoto Shigeru, I thought you'd at least send me Kawata Satoshi from Balloon Fight. So much for Mintendo... Sending me people to get technical advice, console designers and people. "
Am I being totally ignored?
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Ugh... Am I being totally ignored? Four employees stared at me coldly and then went back to their work.
"Goodbye, then. "
The staff escorted me from the lobby bowed to me and returned to their seats.
What's with the mood? Thrown into the awkward atmosphere of the development room, I first looked around the staff at work.
In 2015, there were hundreds of people involved in several large projects, but in the 1980s game development environments, there was enough for one coding programmer, a graphic designer to shoot dots, and a director and team leader responsible for him.
The other person is the investigator who shoots the dot on the background or item. You know, like this?
"Hmm..."
I took a moment to look at the programmer's coding screen with a vacuous cough.
'The coding is so messy... I can't even tell how Flag and Judge work. '
Next, I looked at the designer's screen, which was taking a character illustration dot.
Inside the monitor was a figure with a grey uniform and a strappy black hairband.
'War water? Well, since Rambo II opened last year, military personnel have become increasingly popular...'
At that time, the person who appeared to be the team leader who was watching my actions carefully called me.
"Hey, hey. Can I call you Kang Joon-Hyuk? I call it the cooking motto. "
"Oh, please, just call me Gang-gun. "
"Really? After all, you're strong. Have you ever tried developing soft? A masterpiece... something we should know about? "
"You've heard of Duck Hunt, right? "
My answer was that the staff at the office all rolled their heads together and opened their eyes. Well, no one doesn't know about the first home shooter game. At that time, a young man who appeared to be an assistant in a corner of the office opened his mouth.
"That's the famous Gun Gun Gun that Gun Fei made. In fact, duck flying implementations can even be novice programmers. "
What are you talking about? Young people make fun of you. Then the team leader nodded, nodding his head to the young man's opinion.
"That's not true. Apparently Gun Gun Gun Gun from Gunpei was great. "
Gosh... I made that idea, too. People are so cunning... I had no choice but to add to the introduction that I was the Assistant Director of Super Maridge.
"Super Maridge's unique idea of cross-scrolling and jumping was a masterpiece. "
Dammit! I even taught him the basics of transverse scrolling!! But I've made up my mind. It's actually a transverse scroll or an electric gun, which they actually invented. I was okay with almost nothing I did, except that I acted as a facilitator to know the future.
Ha. G. That's it, by the way. How long is the backup guy in that corner that tackles every word I say? I barely kept poker face and asked the staff.
"I'm not wrong. I don't have a game with my name on it yet, just as an assistant director. But I can answer your technical advice, so I'm here on behalf of Mr. Shigeru, so I appreciate your patience. If it is truly impossible for me, I will send Mr. Shigeru back to headquarters. "
"Hmmm... I see what you mean. "
The team leader clears his throat and summons programmer Masaki, 28 years old, who is a belly button in a stretchy, loose T-shirt. I didn't like it when I lifted my glasses to me, but I decided to be patient.
"Hey, Masaki, let me tell you a little bit about this game we're building, and give you some advice. "
"Let's take a seat over here. "
I looked at the game plan that was on the office table. On top of a bunch of thick paper, there was a rather childish title - -Never Die Soldier.
'Clearly you're being influenced by Rambo. I can feel exactly what the title says... "
When I showed interest in the draft, a programmer named Masaki said to me, sweeping his glasses with a somewhat serious look.
"Let me give you a quick introduction to the game we're making. "
You don't have to tell me. '
As I predicted, the game they were making, Neverdie Soldier, was a military genre of mercenaries from special forces infiltrating enemy camps on their own.
There were a few more things I learned from talking to him, and the first draft of this game, NeverDie Soldier, was surprisingly the idea of an assistant worker in the corner of the office. I'm afraid this is a rustic title that Massaki wrote himself...
At this time of year, programmers often collaborate with game planning because they set limits on whether or not they can create games based on their coding capabilities.
Of course, if a programmer knows his or her abilities and creates a game, he or she will be able to get rid of the unprecedented scheme and create the game quickly, but it is difficult to come up with a unique gameability.
After a while, the basic game plan also looked like it was just changing the game of flying shooter to a person or not much different. You are not particularly interested in its simple game method if you can defeat your enemies with a powerful firepower while avoiding the bullets they fire.
"I'm actually a military maniac. That's why I wanted Neverdae Soldier to make users feel lively in the battlefield, but it was hard to implement technology. "
Masaki's technical advisory was a very simple question of how to put numerous objects on the screen. I want to paint a mercenary who survives fiercely in a place surrounded by numerous enemy troops...
Then I'll give you a simple answer.
"I can't."
"Yes?"
Masaki looked at me with a confused expression when the answer came out too simply from my mouth, a Mintendo employee.
"Masaki's game cannot be run by his family at this time. Masaki, if you're a programmer, you know the family boundaries. Our family was built to respond broadly in any type of game using custom CPUs, but unfortunately, it's a CPU that plays even sound recordings, so it's hard to put all the power into graphics computations. because, of course, they're using VRAM to help with the computation, but it's only two kilobytes. "
"Isn't that why you asked Mintendo for technical advice? At the end of last year, Shigeru's legend, Karin, also floated various objects on one map, didn't he hide his readership skills in Mintendo? "
"No. We've had a lot of knowledge since the beginning of the family. There are no limitations on device performance or anything like that when you create our games. "
"Then what was the movement of all those objects in Karin's legend? "
"I see..."
I paused for a moment, then smiled and replied.
"It's a trick. You can check out Karin's legendary battle map, but if you keep counting the number of enemies that appear, there's actually a limit to the number of enemies that fight the protagonist." The rest of the enemy is intended to create tension by pre-arranging a scene to squeeze the space out.
And when the protagonist eliminates an enemy, he immediately creates a series of illusions by using a way to swap out an enemy in the act. "
But Masaki was only expressing that he didn't understand me. Oh, my God, is this guy really a programmer? My mind is not flexible... I can't help but shake my head and give you another hint.
"A lot of enemies don't necessarily make you feel the tension of the battlefield. "
"Well, how do you...? "
"We need to change our minds. Isn't it the director's job to find ways to use limited objects to give players fun and tension? For example..."
"For example..? "
"Sneak in?"
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"Sneak in?"
At that moment, the assistant staff, who had been quietly stuck in a corner of the office, looked at me in surprise. The young man who looked at me with the eyes of a surprised rabbit, like a child in his heart, began to listen to our conversation from then on. Who the hell is this guy? While I was consulting with Masaki, I turned around and asked the assistant staff.
"What's your name, by the way? "
"Oh, my name is Hideki Houjima. "
What!! You're Hideki!? As expected, you were already working for Fox Soft. By the way, Kawata, Houhima-san, the assistant worker, did the genius directors start out like this? I looked at him for a moment and asked Masaki.
"Have you ever heard of Brain Storm? "
"Brain Storm? What is that? Character Skill Name? "
What the hell does this guy know... When I looked at Massaki with that pathetic look, the answer came out of Houjima's mouth.
"A variety of opinions about one topic and how to put it together to lead the best course of action. "
"Bingo, that's right. When creating a game, it's good to have a variety of opinions. My minten is also doing a lot in the development room with Shigeru. Karin's legend also comes from numerous ideas using Brain Storm. Mr. Houjima, what do you think of the element of infiltration that I told you about? "
Then I began to feel lively in his hollow eyes. In 2015, where I lived, Houjima Hideki was already one of the world's top gaming directors.
During the Cold War, the character Snake, who quickly infiltrated the nuclear weapons development agency and completed a number of security missions, was launched under the title Full Metal Gear and was going to be a huge hit in Japan as well as the United States.
"You're not going to take out an enemy, you're going to hide and reach your destination without being spotted? "
"That's it. Rather, getting to your destination without killing an enemy is the beauty of the game. I was on my way here earlier when I saw surveillance cameras installed in every hallway, how about sneaking into enemy bases and relaying tension to players, avoiding soldiers and surveillance cameras? "
"It's a very unique way. This game is being cleared without being seen by the enemy! In fact, I was planning a game with a similar feeling. So I was surprised by Joon-Hyuk's talk of infiltration. I can't believe someone was thinking the same thing."
But Massaki thought differently.
"Rin! You're being ridiculous. That kind of game can't be fun. Of course, a man should fight his opponent. If you avoid him like a faggot, the protagonist is less handsome."
Oh, is that so? If you see an injustice, you'll be the first to run away with it.
Eventually, we talked until evening about this military game, and we divided the way that we created the two games.
At this time, there were 4-5 people who used 2D graphics, so they were able to work simultaneously because their production method was forged so that one game would be completed after about three months.
Well, I hope there's an event-cut god, one for texturing 3D graphics.
I just need to take a dot and activate the object.
Moreover, Houjima has been working on a basic design of grass metal in the corner by himself, so once the opportunity opened, various designs poured out just like the dam burst.
For example, the construction of a model is like an assembly manual, which he had already presented that had completed all of the basic valleys of full metal.
Ultimately, the team leader, Cooking Moto, nodded to my advice and Houjima's passion and allowed me to create a demonstration of a new genre of infiltration action game pool metal.
Then the position of Masaki, the main programmer, became embarrassed.
He seemed quite unhappy as his career in the military game had completely changed. It's a bit of a dot job, but it's a shame to let it go on like this...
"Masaki's game is not such a bad plan. Now that Rambo 2 is open, it's likely that there will be plenty of masculine military games. "
"Th... right? "
Masaki looks at me with trembling eyes as I take his side. In fact, looking at his plans, I thought of a game I played as a child, and I made him an offer.
"Masaki's game is large-scale, so let's go after the arcade market first. If you accept one condition, I will be here to help you create Hojima and Masaki's early games. "
"On what... terms? "
"Let's change the title a little. Neverdae Soldier. It's too intuitive. "
"So what do you want? "
"Masaki is very fond of hot men's souls. Hmmm, what about Hondura? Let's start with a large scale with unlimited performance arcade plates, and then we'll do a family transplant. "
"Pounding... Pounding... Huh? That's good."
2015. A masterpiece that everyone in their 30s has remembered since they were little kids. This is how Hondura, one of the legendary games we used to call Lambo and Comando when we were kids, began.
After the meeting, let's pack our bags to go back to our dormitory after it's late at night. All of the staff in the development room stood up with me.
"I'll be going, then. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. There are a lot of technical advisors these days, but there's Shigeru in the development room, and Kawata has recently joined Minten, so I can answer any questions you might have on the phone. "
"Thank you very much. Thanks to Joon-Hyuk, it feels like we've captured two bunnies, including a new genre of games and an existing one. "
The team leader, Cooking Moto, repeatedly thanked me. Shortly after, I was escorted out of Fox Soft by employees to the front door as opposed to being initially ignored in the development room.
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By the fall of 1986, I was living a very busy life. That same day, I was running scared, with a toast in my mouth, just stamped into the office.
"Hey!! Where are you going today? Fox Soft again? Is that where you're going? "
My work in Fox Soft has been done for the past month. Once to Hojima, Shigeru delivered the top-view know-how used by Karin's legend to suit the framework of the infiltration action genre, and even to Masaki, who insisted on the scale, the transverse scrolling stage and the bell scrolling stage. We've made various actions available, including shooting stages, but Massaki's hair seemed to have a longer build period.
"Today I'm going to Phoenix Soft!! "
"Oh Phoenix!! He was the Dragon Warrior's maker. "
"Yes, that's right. Since next month, I've been requesting an inspection for the second cartridge. Seeing as it's a major company with console traction, Mr. Sege suggested that I go check it out myself. "
"That's right, that's right! I'll give you three of them to my family, so there won't be any harm in stamping their faces. Goodbye, then!"
Kamauchi was smiling in the studio at the royalty of gaming producers pouring in every month. Mintendo Co., Ltd. has recently completely changed its industry. No longer the toy company that makes the toys, he turned all production lines into a family and headed to the game company.
Three years after the family was already launched, Mintendo's family had a 30% stake in Japan. In other words, one of the three kids who are leaping into the neighborhood has a family.
There were also some things that could not be laughed at because they were so popular, and the entire family sold out a week after they went out to demand was one of the rare items in the local cities.
What the kids wanted was a family, but the adults who didn't know it often gave them relatively easy to get a NEGA disc, which had an adverse effect that would only provoke the child's anger. So now the NEGA disc was hugging its head with increasingly thin inventory of returns.
My parents did the same thing when I was a kid. They both looked like the same game machine to adults. At that time, when I received a gift from the NEGA disk, I remember holding the game machine in front of my eyes in embarrassment and grief and tears. So I asked her to buy a family of mintendos, and her parents bought it on a domestic version of the NEGA disk that was officially imported by a domestic large corporation. It was a gamble boy.
He must have paid me a lot of money to expect me to be happy, but all I showed him was annoyance and tears, so now that I think about it, I was really sorry. It's been three years since I came here. I miss my parents all of a sudden... How are you?
"I'll be back then. "
I left the headquarters after I finished greeting President Kamauchi. Phoenix had a company in Tokyo and had to move to Shinkansen. I was tired from driving my car and used to spend a lot of time in Shinkansen for long business trips.
Recently, most of the new gaming companies have had enemies in Tokyo since the economy was active. Thanks to my headquarters in Kyoto, I often travel to Tokyo almost once every two days.
Though it would be convenient to relocate the mintendo headquarters to Tokyo, it was founded in 1889 and was soon to be celebrated for 100 years.
Moving such a company's prison was impossible from the beginning... I went to Shinkansen and forgot my lunch box as usual, then went to the train rest room to digest. I don't enjoy smoking, but sometimes I used to burn one at the beginning of the meal, and for some reason, if I go up to Shinkansen, do I really want to burn a cigarette?
It was not yet time for the mobile phone to come out, and there was nothing to do sitting still, but it was not fun because I also knew the contents of the dragon ball that was the most talked about recently. For me, trends and events from the 1980s were not particularly interesting.
'You look very well dressed. '
One day, I spoke like a female head office. Yeah, well, Ellis used to say the same thing in America.
In my standards, I only wore it the way I liked to wear it in 2015, but I used to hear that it felt good. I always wore an angled black suit and tie when I was in my 80s, and I liked to wear a slightly brighter tone of semi-formal, so I was noticeable everywhere.
Kamauchi also initially instructed me to suit up with other employees, but recently my outdoor work became more frequent and, above all, Kamauchi no longer tackled my outfit. Well, I don't usually dress like that, so other employees tend to think of it as a special case when they come from the U.S. office.
Chug. I sat at the rec room table and lit a cigarette. I looked around and saw that they were all engaged in the game with games & watches in their hands, without having to be an adult. The game they are currently enjoying is a legendary game & watch edition of Karin released a month ago.
If the portable gambling boy project is successfully completed, perhaps Karin's legend will decorate the last of the Games & Watches.. Then I suddenly remembered the game & watches I received from the senior gaming store in my head. I always carry it around just in case, but rarely play it
Even if I didn't play 'Company game', I had enough money in my account to spend until I was already dead, and I had relatives with executives in my company, so I had no reason to play games & watches as a Navigator.
"I'm bored. Let's play for a while." '
The color is different from the legendary game of Karin & '92; s Watch, so you won &' 92; t notice much. Even if you get caught doing something, you can only surround yourself with mintendo testing equipment. After a while, I had more time and games & watches than money. I stared at the game screen and froze with a blank expression.
The game has... changed.
Before crossing over to Japan, the phrase "Sponsored Games" came to mind on the game & watch that changed to the latest trends such as touchscreens and 3D screens.
-Start button to start the game. -
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-Start button to start the game. -
Sponsor game? It's a completely different form of company game from the one I used to play. After pressing the start button in a strange expectation, a simple prologue began. And after a while, I found out that I was the main character in this game.
The prologue was a plot to support the management of a game company in crisis with the rich funding of time-slipping in the future. What's interesting is that all the gaming companies that appear here actually exist, and when you click on them, they have management status and capital. And the title of the game is currently being developed.
When I clicked on the Phoenix company I was heading to as a test, I was reminded that I was in the final review for the launch of Dragon Warrior 2. The company's finances are very stable and employees' morale is high. You're a major game developer, too? It would be a diplomatic issue, given the fact that the staff are loyal and the message that it's almost impossible to make a transfer.
The development progress of Fox Soft's Pool Metals is at 52%, so we're on a moderate voyage... Mr. Hojima has definitely accelerated his development since he became the main director... Next, I looked at the triangle soft that I'm interested in recently.
-Kings Quests from Kawaguchi Director. 5200 Sold. No games currently under development. -
5200 is a total shortfall... even before I created the Finel Frontier, a great piece of Triangle, but the sequel of the games I launched was hard to finance.
But when I looked at the company's financial condition, I understood the desperate feeling of putting FINAL, which means FINAL, on the upcoming finale frontier. In the future, I knew that the final frontier was a leader in the luxurious graphics of the times. The moment I saw the final frontier 7 tag demo, which was launched at the gear station in Sensoni. I thought my heart was going to freeze...
"Aid" is truly a great effect on everything. The 'Dragon Warrior', who created the first family RPG game, has already won the title of the national game and is currently on the verge of producing two cartridges.
On the first side, if the warrior had saved the princess alone, the party system would have been introduced in the second round, leaving with his colleagues on a journey to defeat the Demon King. Also, since the previous episode and the scenario followed, the protagonist is the granddaughter of the warrior who defeated the Demon King in the episode... Many users were joyfully playing the first episode and were counting the two releases.
If we stay this way, we'll be swept away by the impact of Dragon Warrior 2 when it's released.
Actually, I could go help them right now, but not yet. Let's wait a little longer. Anyone who hits the ground gets a chance to jump again? kneeling down for momentum like someone's cartoon. By the way, a sponsor game... I can see industry information at a glance... This is fun! I don't need money anymore. I need people.
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When I arrived at Phoenix that afternoon, I was guided by an employee to find the Dragon Warrior 2 development part.
"Hello, I'm Kang Jun-hyuk, a Mintendo employee. "
"Joon-Hyuk! Nice to meet you!"
Unlike Fox Korea, Phoenix's development room was very favorable. The cartridge was already fully developed, so the office atmosphere was very idle.
"Thank you for coming here in person for this inspection. You saved me the trouble. "
"No, in the case of the Dragon Warrior, Mr. Kamauchi has enjoyed allowing us to inspect business trips, as well as driving sales for our family. "
"I can see you care about our company in Mintendo. "
"Of course. We are also looking forward to winning this Dragon Warrior 2. Will users be lining up at the national gaming store again? "
"By the way, it was a true spectacle in Karin's legend. I heard that limited edition marketing is Kang Jun-hyuk's idea, but you're really great at your young age. "
"A compliment. Haha."
How long are we going to do this? After 10 minutes of conversation with the development team, the inspection started. When the Dragon Warrior's logo came to mind with the title song I missed, I had a smile that I was unaware of.
"I've seen it in my books, but the Dragon Warrior seems to care a lot about the sound. It's a monotonous beat, but it feels magnificent. "
"That's because the orchestra director is doing a vocational sound screening. "
"By the way, isn't the illustration of the cartridge case Toriyama now playing the Dragon Ball? "
"Yes, I've been giving Toriyama character illustrations since we launched chapter one. It is still difficult to express gorgeous graphics on the game screen, so I've asked the popular Toriyama to illustrate it so as to evoke the imagination of the users. "
At this point, the Dragon Warrior's game graphics were very monotonous in color. Especially since the first warrior was a warrior painted blue all over the field... it was no different when he came to 2. The magic expression was just flashing red and yellow on the combat screen, and the combat scene was also a dark screen with only monsters in it.
'When I first encountered Dragon Warrior 4 as a child, I felt like I was on a real fairy tale adventure, but I guess my memories were a bit distorted. '
I quickly started the game after clicking 'Aaaah' in the initial character's name.
"Joon-Hyuk doesn't worry much about naming warriors. "
There's a sad legend you don't know about when the warrior's name became 'aaaaah'... even in the 80s when the Internet didn't exist, there were users who enjoyed the Dragon Warrior in the country. It's because the business owners, commonly called pouch merchants, bought a few families and games in Japan and returned to Korea to make a big profit and sell them.
when there was so little information about the game at the time. The only analogy we had to the content of the game was the painting on the game pack. Was it 91 years? One day, when the Dragon Ball was becoming popular in the country because of pirate piracy. As I was walking by the game store in the neighborhood, I had a completely captivating memory of a familiar illustration drawn on the game pack.
At first glance, in the shadow of a dragon's ball, I could not help but feel the excitement and expectations of that night. I was so excited about what type of game the Dragon Ball character was drawn in.
After a few days, the Dragon Warrior, who had barely bought my mother for a few days, gave me great disappointment. I had never played RPG until then because I didn't know how to play anything but action games.
In those days, the action genre was all that was left of the game. Whether it's a person, an airplane, or a car, you have to move around and crush your enemies, but the game was all about going back and forth to the village and fighting monsters when you came out. It was also so dirty that as soon as I stepped out of the field, I was soon over-gamed by a powerful monster.
"What kind of game is this!! "
I was so angry at that time that I never looked back at Dragon Warrior 4 again. It was because I felt betrayed by a great illustration and irritated. A few days later, I picked up the Dragon Warrior and went back to the game store.
"I'd like to trade this for another game."
The local PC assembler frowned at my Dragon Warrior 4 and replied.
"Wait a moment. "
After a while, he started printing something using a black and white printer. I remember a loud printer in a quiet game store that had been ringing for a long time.
"If you get this much printer, you'll get paid, and I'll just give it to you for free. The game. It's the most fun you've ever played in a family game. But there must have been a lot of difficulties for you to play as a child. Most of all, I don't know Japanese. But do you want to try again slowly, looking at this tackle house? Then you'll see that it was a really fun game you've never experienced so far. "
After receiving a block of Dragon Warrior 4's Raid House from him, I returned home and plugged the Dragon Warrior into the family and powered it up. After a very big and cool title song came out, I slowly started playing the game in contrast to the attacking house he gave me.
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A very big and cool title song came out, and I slowly started playing the game in contrast to the attacking house he gave me.
First of all, there was a level to this game.
So we don't just go into caves near the town. You had to level up by catching the weaker monsters around town.
Once I got used to catching monsters around me, I was able to survive like I did in the cave for the first time.
Characters that get stronger as you level up. And I quickly fell in love with the story of the warrior heading to the tower to find the missing children in town.
The story of Dragon Warrior 4 was a very unusual Omnibusian story at the time as an RPG. Chapter 1 was the story of the warrior Ryan. Chapter 2 was the story of the princess who dreamed of fighting in the realm of San Maria. Chapter 3 was the story of the arms dealer Tolneco. Chapter 4 was the story of the daughter. And it was only until the final chapter, chapter 5, that the protagonist came out.
In early chapter 5, when my girlfriend transformed herself into a warrior using magic to save a warrior, I saw a story that led to her death instead, and I mourned in my room alone.
Since then, BGM in the protagonist village has been so sad that he sometimes stops by the ruined protagonist's village while playing the game, and he can imagine what the protagonist and his colleagues talked about in the ruined space.
In the era of poor graphics, there was little fun to cover with imagination.
Oh, wait a minute. The story's gone somewhere else...
Anyway, in the time of the blindness of Japanese, the main character's name was unified as "Aaaah."
because the beginning of the first line of language starts with "Ah."
I can't even read what he wrote anyway, but what did he care what his name was... When the door to the development room opened, a man in his early 30s came in.
"Aigoo, hello!"
"Ahhh!! Toroyama!! There you are."
"I stopped by here to inspect Dragon Warrior 2. "
Hmm! Toriyama, the writer of the Dragon Ball, is here? I quickly put the pad down on the table and stood up.
Toroyama, who met me in the eye, asked me to shake his hand knowing that I was an employee from Mintendo.
"Ah, you're the employee from Mintendo. What's your name?"
"I'm Kang Jun-hyuk. Within Mintendo, he is responsible for the department regarding the new console. "
"You look very young, and you're already the manager of a department. "
"I'm enjoying reading your dragon bowl. "
In fact, I prefer Slamdungk, but I don't have to tell you that in 1986, Toroyama was just over 30 years old.
He will be responsible for the illustrations of all the Dragon Warrior series, and will continue to connect with Phoenix as a character designer in the future.
Wouldn't it be bad to know someone like this? After shaking hands with Toroyama, I went back to the inspection with the other developers.
In fact, the yard was already hit by the first one, so the inspection of the second one didn't matter.
Mintendo's inspection isn't about digging through the bugs in this game. This was because it was about knowing if the game had a framework to play or not.
"You got all the bugs, right? "
Then Yuji, the main director, nodded his head in my question.
Any company would pay a lot of attention to bugs because there were bugs that could not progress after cartridge production.
"The main character was alone in the book, but you can start partying this time. I thought the battle would be easier, but I'm secretly nervous because my enemies are tuned up. "
"We've added stories to each of our colleagues to build rapport. I think users will like it. "
As a game developer, you have to think of the user first. In that regard, Yuji, the main director of the Dragon Warrior, was a very thorough planner.
"You're close to a perfect score in the palm tree review, so you're left with a big bang after the launch. "
"I'm looking forward to it, but do you think you'll be able to create the quintessential Carine landscape? I was in the field at the time, and they were really reacting. Did you know that the 500 gold cartridges we gave you are trading for 20-30,000 yen in Amri? "
"Some unconscious store owners didn't sell their stuff on time, so they left it out. That kind of store is where we cut off all our deliveries at the same time. In any case, it is unacceptable to bully users. "
Toroyama and Yuji nodded as they agreed with me. After checking the system for about 2 hours, when I got up, Yoo Ji asked me with excited eyes.
"I'm sorry Joon-Hyuk came to examine me personally, but can I ask you a simple question? "
You said he wasn't looking forward to it either, so what if he looks at me like that after the inspection? I'll be a moment.
"Hmm, can I be honest? "
"Oh, yes. Absolutely."
"I don't know what's so interesting about it. "
"Yes?"
"Well, of course, my colleagues have a great system, a new way to sail, but it's not as productive as it's been for a year. "
"Oh, I see."
"Don't tell me there aren't two protagonists coming out of the third act, too? The main story of the Dragon Warrior is all about the story of the warrior who defeats the Demon King, so you might want to be careful, as the series continues to get less interesting. I'm just saying, as a gamer who enjoyed playing the Dragon Warrior... Well, I think it would be fun to make the story omnibus. "
"Omnibus format..? "
"For example, three stories that everyone's been waiting for are actually much older than one, feeling like the beginning of a warrior legend? "
"Ah!! That's fine!! Similar worldviews, but with the last ending, the story of 1 again!! Brilliant!! Very good!! You have a unique sense, as I've heard from Shigeru. This has been a reference."
What? Shigeru and Yuji knew each other... In fact, Shigeru's initial opinion on the inspection of this business trip was also his suggestion. Everyone's busy these days, so when I said I was going, I had a weird look on my face, and it just meant...
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In Shinkansen, returning to Kyoto, I opened the game & watch where the man next to me fell asleep. Pressing the play button on the sponsored game started to remind me of messages.
- An acquaintance with Toroyama has been created. -
- An acquaintance with the milkmaid has been created. -
-Youji's appeal has increased by 3 points. When you reach 10 points, the relationship will rank up. -
It's a mindless game!
I get chicken fat just thinking about how much I like men. Suddenly, I was trembling all of a sudden and looked at the people I had met one by one.
As expected, Mr. Gunpei and Mr. Shigei were maintaining the highest rank of friendship.
"All the fucking men."
In the '80s, however, how many female producers... I stopped the page in Camouflage's face as I turned the page, returning my taste.
It was because unlike other people, there was a speech bubble next to their face.
'It's like seeing the status message of Kato's favorite phone in 2015..'
I clicked on Kamauchi's speech bubble with a bleeding smile.
- Kang Jun-hyuk is a very capable but dangerous person who doesn't know what he's doing. We shouldn't raise him too much. -
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- Kang Jun-hyuk is a very capable but dangerous person who doesn't know what he's doing. We shouldn't raise him too much. -
So... did this speech bubble comment on how the other person feels about me? Interesting.By the way, you smiled at me in the morning.I can't believe you kept this thought a secret from me. I'm a Japanese.
I put it in my Game&Watch bag and leaned deeply into the chair. No matter how much I flew and crawled for them, I was just one of the foreigners... I was not that surprised when I read Kamachi's comments because I always had them in my heart. But we can't reveal the claws yet. Let's just hold on a little longer...
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How long have we known about the media called CDs? In fact, in 1986, where I'm living now, there was a CD. It's just not universalized yet...
An electronics store in Osaka called Denden Town.
After visiting an open CD-quality listening session at a record store, Gunpei and I looked at the round disc shining in a rainbow light under a bright light.
"Ugh! This is what's called a compact disc. The color is so nice!"
Suddenly, Gunpei turned into a middle-aged man and looked at the CD with curious eyes. Compact disc... It's definitely compact compared to LP, but I was just sighing, familiar with micro SD cards and USB.
In fact, I was not interested in it, but I was standing here now because Gunpei was forced to bring it in the sooner it became a new medium.
"Oh, yeah, that's amazing. "
"Are you not impressed by this miraculous object? It's because these young people are so emotionally drained. Hmm... I guess I'll have to fill you in. "
Oh no! Gondol's product description has begun!! I felt that I was hurrying to get somewhere else, but it was too late.
"This CD stuff. Also known as an optical disc, it's a new medium that allows you to record your original sound digitally rather than using analog methods such as cassette tape or LP. Thanks to you, it's a new audio specification that allows you to listen to music in clear, noisy sound anytime, anywhere. Life expectancy is 100 years... Isn't it amazing? "
'A hundred years of frozen deaths will put you at risk for less than 20 years on the advent of portable storage, but as a music CD, you have a long life ahead of you.'
But Gunpei's explanation did not end there.
"This product was co-developed by Sensoni in Japan and Philips in the Netherlands. We're pushing out an existing analog product, and it's emerging as a new medium. You can record 74 minutes at a time. "
"Well, that's a bit ambiguous. Why 74 minutes, less than 60 minutes? "
Then Gunpei lifted his glasses and smiled in repentance. What...? I just asked you once, but I feel like I'm asking you for no reason.
"That's a very good question. The CD is currently 12 centimeters in diameter. But for the first time, Philips suggested the size of the CD was 11.5cm. It could have been more compact. It was also a little over 60 minutes. It was the right time. "
"Then why did you increase the time? "
"It's the Beethoven 9th Symphony Choir. "
"The capacity of the CD is because of classical music? "
"Of course, in the traditional 60-minute period, I was able to capture all the music from the LP, but the Vice President of Sensoni suggested that he wanted to put Beethoven's 9th symphony on one disc -- the longest Beethoven 9th symphony being recorded by the famous Karajan. "
"So the CD's playback time is fixed based on Karajan's playing time? "
"Yes!! "
Hmm... I didn't know that either. Unfortunately, the information is irrelevant... But that's why all the music from Beethoven's ninth symphony... Gunpei had his earphones in his ears, and he seemed very happy to hear the music for a moment.
"The world is getting better. It's like going from an analog era to a digital age. It's an audio medium now, but it's also said to be able to be used as a device to recognize data by converting the way it's stored. 650MB, isn't it great? "
"Haha, yes. 650mega capacity. That's incredible."
"I thought a strong force would be surprised, but they don't react well. I'm disappointed.
That's the revolution for a puppet like you... I shook my head to the left and to the right to ask Gunpei to eat in 2015. At that time, Gunpei, who was looking carefully at the CD, muttered.
"How about replacing the game cartridge with this medium? "
You may have said something thoughtlessly, but I was so heartbroken by Gunpei's words. Using a CD will only become universal after at least two generations, but as soon as I saw the disc for the first time... But Gunpei shakes his head.
"But that's a waste of capacity. Plus, the unit price will go up."
"Yeah, I see. Haha."
Family games were only 4 MB long... and the performance of the console was not enough to create a larger game. If... if Gunpei's idea had remained like this until the early '90s, Mintendo would have become a monstrous company that could never be defeated...
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Dragon Warrior 2 launches after a few hours of cartridge production. I found the speaker chairman with Seagee on behalf of Mintendo. There were already a lot of people camped at the Tokyo venue, and the view was quite similar to when Karin's legend was published.
"I feel new coming back to Tokyo like this. "
He was recently taking a break from his development work and was wet to excellence looking at the long line of matrices. I think it reminds me of when Karin's legend was released. After a while, Yoo Ji, who was interviewing with Shigei, ran out with a happy face.
"Thank you for coming with Joon-Hyuk and Shigeru. "
"From the long lines at the fair, you can see that the Dragon Warrior is a national RPG game. "
"Not compared to Shigeru's Karin legend... haha."
Here it comes again!! His endless greetings!! If I didn't move, I had to listen to that greeting for another 10 minutes, so I hit the right line first and went in.
"How many candles have you caught? "
"Well, we sold about 1.5 million pieces, so we picked about 500,000. I'm going to watch the reactions for a week and make more cartridges. The soft price was 5,500 yen, just like the original. "
The Third Party's work, which required paying royalties to Mintendo, was often priced higher than the game from Mintendo. Kamauchi recently raised the royalty of the mintendo cartridge, slightly higher the soft price of other companies, and Phoenix has remained the same.
"I thought the Dragon Warrior would do 5,900 yen, but I was surprised it didn't raise the price. "
"Honestly, I was told to raise the price a little inside the company, but I was also thankful to users who enjoyed my side and I had a hard time deciding. "
"Hmm, I see. I think it's a good decision. "
Shortly after the event, as the Dragon Warrior's majestic title music opens, the crowds of people outside begin to gather at the counter.
"Keep your order!!! Please line up at four counters!!! "
Those who exchanged the waiting tables and game titles and finished the calculations did not look back and started running out of the venue even though they wanted to play fast.
"I understand that heart."
Behind the counter, I grinned and picked up a Dragon Warrior cartridge. A paper case with Toriyama's illustrations contained a simple manual and a soft black cartridge inside a plastic fixture.
"Count me one, too. "
"Oh, are you buying Joon-Hyuk, too? "
"I'm a big fan of this game. I can't afford to play games, but I want to buy them anyway. "
"Thanks!! "
While looking around the venue, I turned my head and saw a man outside the venue looking inside the store.
The thin man who was impressed with his moustache stared straight through the Dragon Warrior event and turned straight away as soon as his eyes met.
"Tsk."
"Hmm..? "
He looks a little familiar... No way!? Kawaguchi Hironobu, Director of Final Frontier!? I ran as fast as I could to catch a man away from the venue.
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