In another time and space, perhaps "The King of Fighters" is not the most popular fighting game, after all, there are many similar games such as "Street Fighter" and "Legend of the Hungry Wolf" before it.
But now it is different. The slightly decent competitors around the world are just the first generation of "Street Fighters". The first generation of "Street Fighters" has great flaws, and some well-received game characters such as Chun Li have not been born, but "The King of Fighters" directly released a relatively perfect version, which is simply the rhythm of Dugu Qiubai in the fighting game genre.
In addition to the game content, there is another advantage in hardware. "King of Fighters" uses the newly developed 16-bit arcade motherboard from Sega. This is the only one in the world. Not to mention that Capcom, the "Street Fighter", cannot match it. Even the 16-bit computer of Nintendo, the leader of the game industry, is still slowly developing.
The application of 16-bit arcade motherboards has made Sega's "King of Fighters" qualitative leap compared to Capcom's "Street Fighter".
what does that mean?
It is not just that "King of Fighters" is a game that is popular, but the full replacement of arcade game motherboards has begun. After the 16-bit arcade, the original 8-bit motherboard arcade is like a piece of shit. Game halls around the world have replaced Sega's new motherboards, while arcade works from other companies have been squeezed out of the market at once.
Although Sega is not as good as Nintendo in home gaming consoles, it has always had an advantage in arcades. It is now the first to develop a 16-bit arcade motherboard, which instantly seized more than 80% of the world's arcade market share.
Not only that, Sega's 16 home game consoles were also released after New Year's Day, fighting with the best-selling Nintendo game consoles on the market, snatching a few pieces of fat from Nintendo's mouth.
Just in terms of today's market share, Sega is already the world's second largest game company, and judging by this momentum, it seems that it is not impossible to surpass Nintendo.
But things are not that simple. The 16-bit game console developed by Sega is just the first generation of works, and it will take at least two or three years to become truly mature and popularized. In these two or three years, Nintendo can catch up with the technical gap, or even surpass Sega. After all, Nintendo's 16-bit game console has already started to be developed, but it was first introduced by Sega.
Nowadays, several production lines are fully started. The 16-person home game consoles produced by Sega are sold worldwide.
Sega's profits have doubled in just two months. The proud Hayao Nakayama is planning to list Sega and use the money collected after listing to open Sega's stalls around the world.
As a Japanese game magazine commented: Sega changed the game market structure. The emergence of 16-bit game consoles is a major innovation in the history of electronic games.
In the original time and space. If Shirooka Nakayama hadn't committed suicide by himself, Sega might have really surpassed Nintendo. The company used the money earned from making games to repair Sega's theme parks, playgrounds, and involved messy businesses such as real estate, which eventually broke the company's capital chain and had to package and sell the company.
Although Shiroo Nakayama finally used the golden cicada to escape the shell, Sega was reborn again, since then, Sega has been no longer glorious.
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Queen's Theatre.
In the first scene of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" officially released, Liu Zhenwei brought his good friend Wong Kar-wai closer to the cinema. Liu Zhenwei himself made comedy. And his style was almost nonsensical. He must watch the movie directed by Kang Jianfei and starring Stephen Chow.
In fact, if you study Hong Kong movies carefully, you will know that some classic movies, all the plots in them have been borrowed from later works, and even mainland films are still in use twenty or thirty years later.
The King of Sunglasses has been wearing sunglasses all day long. The sunglasses were given by his wife Chen Yijin (part-time TVB program, director). The initial reason was that Wong Kar-wai often stayed up late to write scripts, and his wife gave him sunglasses to cover his dark circles. Over time, he has become a habit. Now he has to wear sunglasses even after afternoon tea.
Only when watching a movie will Wong Kar-wai take off his sunglasses.
"Guess Kang Jianfei will shoot "Tang Bohu's Flag of Autumn" this time?" After Liu Zhenwei sat down in the screening hall, the movie had not started to be screened, so he started chatting with Wong Kar-wai.
Wong Kar-wai looked at the full screening hall, and even the bad spots in the first row were filled. Not only did he envy Kang Jianfei's box office. Wong Kar-wai has been in the Hong Kong film and television industry for almost 10 years, and has basically written scripts for others before. Last year, he finally made a proud film "Carmen, Mong Kok". Not only did he sell more than 10 million in the box office during the ordinary period, but he also won 7 nominations for the Academy Awards.
Some people compare Wong Kar-wai, who made a big splash last year, with Gau Chi-sen, but compared with Kang Jianfei, Wong Kar-wai feels the difference at all times.
Hearing his old partner's question, Wong Kar-wai said: "Kang Jianfei made the old film "A Chinese Ghost Story" difficult to surpass. "Tang Bohu's Love in Autumn" is also a classic old film and folk legend. If he didn't let Stephen Chow be the male lead, it would definitely be another love classic. But since it is Stephen Chow, it must be a crazy style."
"Maybe Stephen Chow will act in a serious drama." Liu Zhenwei said with a smile.
"The Lost Fragrance of Tang Bohu" was previewed a few days ago, but neither of them went to watch it, and they didn't want to watch the movie review in advance. Today I'm here to try something fresh.
"If it's a serious drama, why should the male lead choose Stephen Chow? Alas, Hong Kong has always been a market for comedy films. Kang Jianfei made "Tang Bohu" into a comedy film, which is the most correct choice from the perspective of commercial interests." Wong Kar-wai said with emotion. Although this guy never wants scripts as a director, he has written countless scripts for people, some of which are comedy films. Everyone is for making money, and it doesn't matter whether art or not. Kang Jianfei's "Fang Fang" won a grand prize in Cannes, and "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also considered a classic of a generation. No one doubts Kang Jianfei's level of filming movies.
After the opening of DreamWorks, a group of people snatched waste paper from the garbage basket outside the Tang Mansion. They used exaggerated techniques to show Tang Bohu's awesomeness. Then Tang Bohu carried a brush with his expression focused on painting...
"puff!"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
It only took more than 10 seconds before the film started, and the audience burst into laughter.
Even Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai couldn't help laughing. Although they knew this was a comedy, they were still amused when they saw Tang Bohu, played by Stephen Chow, dipped in soy sauce, dipped in soy sauce to apply roasted chicken wings.
From now on, the laughter in the screening hall almost never stopped, and a burst of laughter would sound about 5 minutes on average.
As a nonsensical comedy, it doesn’t require any connotation or logic. If you can make people laugh, you are already qualified and will not make people think that the movie ticket is in vain.
"Chen Baixiang's acting is so cheap."
"Yuan Danqiong is really willing to go out. She used to be very young and beautiful when she was acting in TV series. She actually put on makeup and played an ugly girl."
"The part of Stephen Chow selling himself made me laugh to death."
"The heroine is pretty, why haven't you heard of it before?"
"The actress is from mainland China, and she is called Gong Li."
"When I arrive in Hong Kong, I will be a 'flying girl'. Does Gong Li have any background?"
"Who knows. Maybe he has an affair with Kang Jianfei."
"I think it's possible. Brother Fei is really a romantic talent. Last year, Reis Ka-shun, Kwan and Joey Wong compete for favor. It seems that there will be more jealous women in the future."
"Fragile man!"
"Jealousy means that if you can't eat grapes, you say that grapes are sour."
“…”
Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai walked out of the screening hall and listened to the discussions of the audience around him, and were speechless. As a director, gossip was actually talked about by others, which can be regarded as reaching a certain level.
The two of them did not go home directly after watching the movie. Instead, they drove to the food stall.
Wong Kar-wai's new film "The Legend of Ah Fei" has been completed, and he officially started filming after participating in the Academy Awards. Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai talked about "The Legend of Ah Fei" for a while and began to discuss some things about "The Legend of Ah Fei". No one of them would have expected that the box office of this movie would make Deng Guangrong so angry next year.
Just when they had almost had a midnight snack, a few young boys came to the food stall, sat down next to them to order food, and then started talking.
"Brother Ji's Magong Athena is so powerful. After a combo, the kid's Clark was in a low health and he directly beaten three times to win."
"That's right, that kid actually dared to play "Kof" with Brother Ji. He was so much money that he had nowhere to spend it. Who wouldn't know that Brother Ji's Magu Athena is the first in the Central?"
"I mean, let that kid beat him with one hand."
"I heard that there is a guy from Xihuan, Li Qinglong is very powerful. He is the number one in Hong Kong. Why don't Brother Ji use Ma Gong Athena to teach him how to be a human being?"
"Which bastard is so jumping that he even said that Hong Kong is the number one? I'm just the number one in Central."
“…”
After listening for a long time, Wong Kar-wai didn't understand and asked, "What are they talking about?"
Liu Zhenwei said: "A arcade game called "kof", Hong Kong's name is also called "King of Fighters" and "King of Fighters". Li Qinglong and Magong Athena are both characters in the game."
When Wong Kar-wai heard that it was an arcade game, he lost interest. He was about to pay the bill and leave, but Liu Zhenwei spoke: "The King of Fighters is not only very popular in Hong Kong, but it was said that it was popular throughout East Asia. How about you tell me we made it into a movie?"
"If this game is really so popular, it would be a good idea to make a movie," said Wong Kar-wai.
Liu Zhenwei frowned and said, "It's a pity that this game belongs to Kang Jianfei Company, so it's probably not easy to get the movie copyright."
"Why is it related to Kang Jianfei?" Wong Kar-wai said in surprise. If it is a game from any foreign company, then the Hong Kong director will most likely not pay copyright fees for making a movie. If it is not in a country, who cares about you. But if it is a company under Kang Jianfei, then the flowers that are filmed without permission must be prepared for a lawsuit.
Liu Zhenwei smiled bitterly and said, "Not only is it related to Kang Jianfei, but this game was planned by him. The comic of the same name was so popular in Hong Kong that he almost caught up with "Dragon and Tiger Gate". I don't know where he got so much energy. He made movies and drew comics, and now he even had arcade games." (To be continued...)
ps: The notebook was in trouble in the first two weeks, and Lao Wang took it apart and somehow returned to normal. As a result, it was completely scrapped yesterday and sent to the repair shop downstairs. Damn it has not been repaired yet, so he is going to get a desktop tomorrow.
Chapter completed!