Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

The game itself doesn't actually require a lot of console performance.

Because they lack exciting special effects and don't offer the high-quality visuals that require pushing performance to its limits.

From a top-down perspective, baseball characters are usually small, so there's no need for particularly detailed visuals to depict those smaller athletes.

However, this time Zhu Youxing decided to make a change.

Bamboo Star does not have any team authorization.

He had previously considered applying for authorization to become a Koshien baseball team.

But he didn't have any money at that time; the starting price for other people's licenses was tens of millions to hundreds of millions of yen.

With so much money, you might as well use it for more publicity. Baseball is ultimately just a transitional sport, and you shouldn't invest too much money in it.

Without any license, the immersive experience of the Super Baseball League is significantly reduced. Players will still enjoy the Super Baseball League, but it will definitely not be as popular as a licensed Koshien Baseball League game.

If the overall sales of the PN game console hadn't been too low, the Koshien baseball league game would probably have quickly surpassed its own Super Series.

Then, a newly modified Super Baseball Tournament game was born.

This time, Zhuyouxing isn't going to do any team collaborations; they're going straight for a global collaboration.

The teams in the Super Baseball Tournament became national teams.

Since Japan is so confident in its own baseball, let's have the Japanese team face off against national teams from all over the world in the game.

In the game, they will face tall and strong teams from the United States and other European and American countries, and each team has its own area of ​​expertise.

Furthermore, Zhuyouxing has added entirely new game development strategies to the game.

He gave each baseball team in the game their own unique super move.

It's like the ultimate move in a fighting game.

Go as magical as possible.

Actually, this is quite similar to a series of games that Takeyusei once played.

That's the action-packed series.

Coincidentally, there was actually a baseball game in the Kunio-kun series on the Super Famicom in my previous life.

The one made by Zhuyouxing has many similarities to that one.

In the game, you can also taunt opposing players, affect their serves, and influence the fighting power of other teams after the game through various strategies, such as hiring paparazzi to follow baseball players' private lives and disrupting their training schedules.

In short, the game content is as absurd as possible.

This game naturally attracted a lot of attention from players as soon as it was released.

They never expected the Super Baseball Game to turn out like this.

But you know what, it's actually pretty cool.

Before you've actually played this game, you might find these gameplay details absurd when you hear about them.

Is this kind of baseball game still considered a proper baseball game?

This seems to be the feedback in reality.

boom!

In one of the authorized stores of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, a young man in his twenties stood angrily in front of a demo game console.

He played Super Baseball for about half an hour on the SFC game console.

Then, in a fit of rage, he picked up the game console without hesitation and smashed it to the ground.

"This isn't baseball at all! You're insulting baseball!"

Many players around were stunned by what they saw.

Click, click.

An excited tabloid reporter in the crowd quickly snapped a picture of the scene.

This could be great news material.

The shop assistants inside the store also quickly ran out.

"Sir, what are you doing?"

"What kind of lousy baseball game have you made? You're insulting baseball!"

The young man is 1.8 meters tall, which makes him appear particularly large in an environment where the average height in Japan is not high.

In particular, he is not only very tall, but also quite strong.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to easily smash the game console with just a single drop.

At this moment, some people around began to whisper among themselves.

They were all guessing what had happened.

At this moment, the young man turned his head to look at the onlookers around him.

"The emergence of this kind of baseball game is an insult to the sacred sport of baseball! Poaching players, mocking opponents during the game to affect their judgment, and secretly filming opponents' private lives after the game to disrupt their rhythm—this is an insult to this sacred sport!"

The onlookers seemed somewhat bewildered, but in the face of the young man's angry roar, they all nodded slightly, seemingly agreeing with his words.

Baseball holds a high status in Japan, but in the game, you need to use some underhanded tactics and some amazing moves that are simply impossible in reality.

Something like making a baseball disappear, or instantly multiplying a baseball into countless ones, causing the opponent to panic.

If we really take this too seriously, it's definitely not right.

"Wait, I think I know this person. He seems to be a substitute for a team in Koshien."

At that moment, a slightly louder voice rang out from the crowd.

"What? He's actually a baseball player? Then his words seem more credible, since he is a baseball player after all."

The young man angrily exclaimed, "Do you think this kind of baseball game is an insult to baseball?!"

"Well... I think so?"

Faced with the young man's outburst, some people were somewhat frightened and subconsciously agreed with his question.

Chapter 144 Backstab

The shop assistants had clearly never seen anything like this before and didn't know what to do for a moment. However, they did remember to keep the man around, at least to make him pay for the game console.

For a baseball player, this amount of money is nothing.

He threw the money on the ground with disdain, then seemed about to rush to the next test machine to smash it again.

The shop assistants couldn't stand idly by anymore, so they rushed over.

He was 1.8 meters tall and looked very strong; one or two shop assistants couldn't hold him back at all.

The situation quickly became somewhat chaotic.

However, the two sides only pulled at each other and did not take any extreme actions, which disappointed many tabloid reporters.

They thought another fight might break out at a game store.

But such reports quickly appeared in the newspapers.

Professional athletes question the professionalism of baseball video games.

'The Super Baseball Tournament is a publicity stunt, prioritizing profit over the professionalism of baseball.'

Various eye-catching headlines appeared one after another, and discussions about video games resurfaced online.

Several television stations, as if injected with adrenaline, seemed poised to engage in another battle with video games.

Since the last collective scandal involving television stations, they have kept a low profile for a while, but they can't stop the spread of various news on the Internet. They simply can't control what happens on the Internet. Those Internet upstarts are a group of emerging industrial groups, and they can't wait for some of Japan's old-established industries to go bankrupt so that they can integrate into Japanese society more quickly and get the biggest slice of the pie.

They later tried to divert people's attention by occasionally mentioning that video games are a bad thing, but it still had little effect.

In the end, they could only choose to settle things quietly, dismissing some unimportant executives, having key management personnel bow 90 degrees to apologize to the public on the spot, and then letting the matter drop.

Gradually, people began to forget about it and shifted their attention elsewhere.

Netizens generally have a weak ability to maintain attention. Even though various TV scandals still frequently appear online, they are far less shocking than the initial revelations.

Gradually, these TV stations stopped causing trouble, and the scandals about TV stations on the internet slowly disappeared.

This time, video games seem to have angered baseball players, and four television stations immediately called on baseball players to join forces to discredit video games.

At the same time, they also condemned TV Tokyo for colluding with trash like video games and abandoning all principles for ratings.

Online, many game-related forums are also discussing this matter.

"I mean, isn't it a bit of an exaggeration to discuss professionalism in video games? Don't movies and anime have a lot of outrageous plots too?"

"Upstairs, you're wrong about that. If a movie, TV series, or anime dared to film it like that, they would definitely be criticized terribly."

"But isn't the primary purpose of playing games entertainment? If we abandon entertainment and only focus on professional skills, can it still be called a game?"

……

Zhu Youxing scratched his head slightly as he looked at the news.

Baseball is considered a national sport in Japan, despite the many bizarre sports games and sports comics that have emerged since.

Things like "murder tennis"—basically, anything as outrageous as possible.

Actually, they should be quite accepting of it.

However, the Japanese people in this era do not seem to be so open-minded. They are relatively conservative about ball sports and pay more attention to professionalism.

I was careless.

This parallel world seems to be quite different from the previous life, and cannot be completely regarded as the same world.

The baseball game I made was originally intended as a spin-off, an experiment, but I didn't expect such a strong backlash.

Come to think of it, the fact that that athlete could be provoked by content in a video game seems more like a case of being angry out of embarrassment.

The more guilty they are, the angrier and more panicked they will become if anything exposes their gray areas.

Hmm... there might be something worth exploring here.

Zhu Youxing stroked his chin, as if he had already figured something out.