Super Game Empire

It's mid-December in a flash, and all walks of life across the United States are busy with the final finishing work before the Christmas holiday. Longteng Toy Company also selects a site and registers it as quickly as possible, and begins entrusting the Parker Brothers factory to produce "Bang!" game cards.

Card.

Yang Yun handed over the rules of the basic package version to George Parker and designed a card shape, which won the approval of George Parker.

Then, Yang Yun entrusted Alexey to help take care of his business in the United States, and then hurried back to China.

There is no way! The trip to the United States has yielded so much. Longteng Toy Company sent people to do management, EA Labs sent people to make PC games, Parker Brothers Global Marketing Network sent people to promote the Three Kingdoms Killing Cards, and Sega sent people to jointly develop the arcade Contra.

The first thing Yang Yun did after returning to China was to convene a management meeting to urgently solve the problem of shortage of manpower!

First, I listened to the progress reports from domestic subordinates.

The factory that Zhao Yongping is responsible for has been built. The best construction team in Beijing was invited to the Zhaozhuang land in the Fourth Ring Road to quickly build the factory building and R&D center at a pace no less than "Shenzhen City Speed". It has now been put into use.

Zhang Guotai and Zhu Shiqiang are sitting in the R&D center of the Longteng factory, responsible for the production of Longteng learning machines and game cards.

The marketing department in charge of Jiang Shaoyun has expanded its team, and its cooperation with Jiang Yang is limited. Sooner or later, they will build an independent sales network and firmly grasp the market.

In the FC side-scrolling game project team, Zhang Guoqiang and his people are working day and night. Dragon Warrior has entered the final testing stage, and Suicide Squad is 40% complete, and is expected to be officially released at the end of December.

The SLG Three Kingdoms project team is led by Inoue Yanxiong and Matsumoto Yoshino. The research and development speed is very fast. It has only been a month since the project was established, and 30% has been completed. The project team adopted a parallel development model, although a lot of manpower was wasted.

There is a lot of repetitive work content, and dealing with compatibility issues is time-consuming, but in order to fight for progress, this is the best way to do it.

The script team has expanded its staff size, and there is only the last 20% of the Three Kingdoms game script left, which has passed Yi Zhongtian's historical data screening, but there is still some content that needs to be checked by Yang Yun personally.

The development of these things was within the plan. During the three weeks when Yang Yun went abroad, Zhao Yongping was in charge, and Longteng Company ran smoothly without any problems.

Seeing that the base camp was impregnable, Yang Yun was very satisfied: "Let me announce two things. First, the company needs to recruit a large number of software engineers and sales staff, Huimin, Yongping, and Near East. I hope the three of you will take charge of the recruitment.

Pick it up and recruit 50 R&D personnel and 50 sales personnel as quickly as possible, which will be finalized within a week. I have already arranged the work locations of these people, except for leaving 10 software engineers to supplement the Longteng experiment.

Outdoors, the remaining 90 people were all sent to the United States and Japan!"

Wow...

The conference room is buzzing with excitement!

The large-scale recruitment of 100 people has never happened since Longteng Company was founded.

Moreover, the work places are in the United States and Japan, which is the style of overseas labor. In addition to Longteng's own high wages, there are usually labor dispatch subsidies, which are calculated in US dollars, including food and accommodation, and one day's reimbursement.

The 5 US dollar subsidy is 150 US dollars a month, which is equivalent to one month’s salary in China. This is still a net change in your pocket!

The most important thing is that when these 100 people are sent to Japan and the United States, they will inevitably receive the most advanced software development technology and the most advanced sales concepts in the world. What young people in China lack is advanced experience.

What an opportunity you couldn’t ask for!

Zhao Yongping was the calmest and asked: "Are there any special requirements?"

Yang Yun nodded: "The sales side must be young and able to endure hardships. Those who understand English, German, Italian, French, Russian and other small languages ​​​​and are willing to work abroad are preferred. For engineers, technology is of course the most important indicator, and the best

They are those who have overseas study experience, or are senior technicians engaged in game development in China, and understand Japanese or English. I will arrange for these people to work at the headquarters of Sega and Electronic Arts respectively!"

Wow……

There was another burst of exclamation. Ma Liang, who was promoted to Zhang Guoqiang's deputy, was not afraid of Yang Yun. He was the first to say: "Mr. Yang, I sign up! I know a little Japanese, and I want to study at Shijia headquarters!"

Zhang Guoqiang pushed him and said angrily: "You are fooling around! The Suicide Squad has not been finished yet, and you still expect to go abroad? Mr. Yang, please don't let this kid go out! I am much better than him, why not

Let me go to America..."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Yang Yun was also amused. Looking at this pair of treasures, he knew that nothing good would happen if they were paired together. I heard that the two of them had a gentleman's agreement to fight for the heart of the artist Su Xiuyun...

The scene was a bit chaotic, and Zhao Yong said with a straight face: "Don't make a fool of yourself! Mr. Yang must have his own arrangements!"

The laughter subsided a lot for a while, which shows that Zhao Yongping is quite prestigious in the company. Everyone respects him. He also positioned himself as a bad guy. During the days when Yang Yun was abroad, he managed the company in an orderly manner.

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Glancing at Zhao Yongping approvingly, Yang Yun smiled and said: "There will be opportunities to go abroad in the future. Yongping is right, I will make arrangements. Now let me talk about the second thing, New Year's Day, which is the Japanese New Year, I

I will go to Japan to participate in the Sega Carnival. Matsumoto will come back with me, and Inoue, please work hard, the Three Kingdoms game cannot do without you."

Inoue Yanxiong nodded, he had already gone back once, while Matsumoto Yoshino was very excited.

"Also, Yongping, you come with me to Japan. Then ask Lao Duan. If he wants to see whether the moon in foreign countries is rounder than in China, then take him with you!"

Ma Liang was anxious: "Mr. Yang, Section Chief Yang, Brother Yang, if Director Duan doesn't want to go, can you go instead for me?"

Yang Yun chuckled: "You... Guoqiang, how about I bring this kid with me to give you a chance to date alone?"

Everyone burst into laughter, but Zhang Guoqiang was not ashamed. He patted Ma Liang on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, just go in peace, Xiuyun will be left to me..."

Ma Liang opened his mouth wide. He didn't want to give up on both sides. He wanted both sides. He said with a sad face: "You can't play like this..."

Yang Yun waved his hand and continued: "Besides, Shaoyun, you quickly improve your English for a few days. When you recruit 50 salespeople in the past few days, you can take your people and go abroad immediately. I will arrange for a company to accept you. When the time comes,

The global sales network depends on you people!"

Jiang Shaoyun thought he had no chance. Jiang Shaoyun was still a little depressed. Now that he heard such a heavy burden on himself, he immediately aroused pride: "Okay, Mr. Yang! I am very good at English. You can rest assured and leave it to me. If you can do it,

If not, I’ll come back immediately!”

Yang Yun was very satisfied: "If you do well, I will promote you to the president of the North American branch. If you do not do well, I will do as you say and come back and help me. How about that?"

"No problem!" This completely ignited Jiang Shaoyun's lofty ambitions, and not only him, but everyone was excited. In the rapidly expanding Longteng Company, anything is possible! As long as you do well, you can win any position.

It’s not a dream!

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After Yang Yun finished handling a lot of things in the company, he came to Sega China.

Nagano couldn't wait any longer and took Yang Yun to a conference room, which had been converted into a research and development center. Several unscrupulous software engineers were discussing something in a low voice.

"Yang, these are some of the best software engineers and professional artists selected from the headquarters at your request."

Yang Yun nodded. After the United States signed the Contra development agreement with Sega, he asked Japan to send a team to China to wait for him. He had a way to develop two more exciting Contra games for Sega within ten days.

come out.

Sega could only believe Yang Yun. Time was tight. In order to get a piece of the pie during the Christmas holiday, they had to complete the development and testing of the Contra game within ten days, and then airlift it to North America and Europe for distribution.

What Yang Yun presented was the two future Contra games to be developed on the SFC 16-bit machine, Contra Spirit and Contra Power, which correspond to Sega's arcade and Genesis hardware and are very consistent.

The artist followed Yang Yun and recorded the two games through simple sketches. After getting Yang Yun's approval, they were handed over to Nagano for storage. It took half a day to draw all the levels and key scenes of the two games.

The programmers are even busier. Yang Yun not only used the explosive homing bombs and flamethrowers in the original spirit, but also added special grenades, and allowed the flamethrower to charge up and explode, and the character can switch between primary and secondary weapons through buttons.

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The arcade version of Contra Spirit is extremely difficult, with a total of 6 levels, which are also divided into horizontal scrolling and vertical scrolling levels. Compared with the FC version, the picture quality is clearer and the special effects are more exquisite, especially the flamethrower and

The special grenade makes full use of the high performance of Sega's KMT base board. It is quite enjoyable and meets the professional requirements of Sega's arcade machines. It is explosive, exciting, difficult and exquisite.

The Genesis version chooses Contra Power, which is an independent video game software. There are 4 characters to choose from. Each one has his or her own best weapon. Because of the use of a 16-bit CPU, the special effects produced are better than

FC8-bit CPU is much more powerful.

Yang Yun didn't need to say too much. As long as he tapped a few positions, the Japanese developers drew inferences. Not only did they perfectly implement Yang Yun's requirements, but they also put forward their own ideas to enrich the content of the game. This kind of professional and dedicated

Yang Yun was in awe of his spirit.

In the past ten days, Yang Yun and Ma Liang spent time in the Sega laboratory, eating, living and sleeping with this group of Japanese software engineers. Not only did they experience the pure Japanese game development culture, but most importantly, they were familiar with the Genesis development tools.

package as well as the KMT substrate development kit.

Everyone is rushing to meet the schedule and their hands and feet are busy non-stop.

Sega China worked hard for Contra and finally released the final beta version within ten days. Those who tried it, such as Nagano and Yang Yun, were full of praise. Sega's powerful arcade baseboard and Genesis 16-bit showed the hot scenes vividly. This game

In the hands of Konami, ordinary shooting games that can only be sold on the Nintendo FC platform have been reborn under the changes of Yang Yun and Sega, detonating the audience and providing excellent visual and auditory enjoyment!

Zhao Yongping and the others were busy recruiting people. They published recruitment advertisements in several national newspapers such as China Youth Daily. After preliminary conversations on the phone, they reimbursed the tickets for those who participated in the interview to come to Beijing. They successfully recruited 50 people in three days.

salesperson.

The vice president who came over from Parker Brothers Hong Kong Branch trained new sales staff at Longteng Company for three days. He talked about Parker Brothers culture and the specific situation of branches in various places, and assigned Chinese sales personnel corresponding to each branch.

Parker Brothers headquarters sends business invitation letter.

On Christmas Eve, Longteng Company received business invitations from Parker Brothers from more than 20 countries and regions around the world. With so many people going abroad at the same time and applying for visas in large quantities, the matter alarmed the Zhongguancun Police Station and the Entry and Exit Administration Bureau.

, it was Duan Haisheng and Zhao Yongping who came forward to find someone to settle the matter, and before Christmas, the 51-person sales team flew to various parts of the world, like dandelion seeds, taking root with the sacred mission of Longteng Company.

At Christmas of 1989, when European and American countries were having a shopping spree to celebrate the New Year, there was a group of people from Dragon, Sega, Nintendo, Parker Brothers, and EA who were always busy. They provided consumers with the richest products. This was the hardest and most laborious process.

Busy days are also their happiest harvest days.

The day before New Year's Day, Yang Yun, Zhao Yongping, Duan Haisheng, Ma Liang, and Matsumoto Yoshino boarded a plane to Tokyo with 20 of the best game software engineers in the country.

Longteng Company advertised its recruitment of the best software engineers across the country, and then sent a team of more than 70 people abroad in just a few days. In the eyes of interested people, these actions were a big deal, and rumors were inevitable.

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But Yang Yun couldn't care anymore, Sega's carnival was about to be held, and this was the most important thing.

Judging from Yang Yun's habit of never leaving his sword behind, never failing, and never taking advantage of the bastard, this time she comes to Japan to participate in the carnival, she will definitely make waves again!