In the memory of Zhu Youxing's previous life, the publicity campaign for StarCraft 1 was not particularly fierce, because the birth of StarCraft 1 was full of twists and turns. At that time, Blizzard no longer had much money to promote a game.
But even so, StarCraft has achieved unprecedented success and has become the e-sports enlightenment game in the hearts of countless people.
In this life, Zhuyouxing has sufficient resources.
From Morgan Group, to Zhuyouxing’s own channels.
Major department stores, as well as Facebook, the current leader in social networking on the Internet in the United States.
Using these channels to carry out indiscriminate publicity, StarCraft can be said to be at its peak when it debuts.
Zhu Youxing could not remember the exact number of StarCraft 1 sales in the previous life in the first week. He only remembered that thirteen years later, the sales data of StarCraft 1 was 11 million.
This is just a video game logged on to the PC.
StarCraft 1 has naturally become one of the highest-selling games on the PC.
In addition to these genuine sales, the number of real StarCraft players will only be more than five times higher than this figure. This was truly an absolutely successful video game at the time.
On the day of release, Li Mingzhe and many others went to the core StarCraft sales stores in different major cities in the United States.
The entire store was decorated today to look like a starry sky, with boxes of exquisitely packaged StarCraft cartons stacked in the center.
Li Mingzhe was sitting directly in front of a huge screen.
In front of him was a high-end computer that had been debugged.
The graphics performance of StarCraft 1 has also been improved to the extreme with such computer performance.
At this time, Li Mingzhe was very excited and was ready for an exhibition match at any time.
Now he is practicing with the robot. With his skillful operation, he can calmly deal with even one-to-many situations, and he can also take the opportunity to create some very cool stunt effects.
Finally, the release time officially arrived, and many players quickly poured into the store.
They immediately rushed to the area filled with StarCraft packaging boxes, quickly took away the games, and then quickly rushed to the checkout area to pay.
The most enthusiastic among them are naturally some players who play traditional chess and board games.
Ever since they saw the promotional video for StarCraft, they wanted to buy the game and play it immediately.
It is their dream to command soldiers and control them to fight fierce battles. Video games can realize their dreams, so they all seem a little impatient.
Soon the checkout line formed outside the store.
These players have long been accustomed to this.
Because there is no time when the first launch queue of games released by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is small.
Even for the puzzle backgammon game, people queued up to buy it when it first launched, which is simply outrageous.
During this process, some players would take out the GBA handheld console they carried with them in their pockets and queue up while playing. This was a good pastime in the past.
But at this moment, several large screens inside and outside the store lit up, and what appeared on them was a scene of Li Mingzhe playing a game.
"Hey, hey! Lift your head and look at those screens!"
Some players shouted excitedly.
Those players who had lowered their heads and patiently played GBA were also shocked. They raised their heads in confusion, not understanding what was happening.
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But when they saw the picture on the screen, they gradually became unable to take their eyes away.
Real-time strategy games are not too difficult to understand in terms of performance.
At forty-five degrees obliquely, which is the so-called axial perspective, the images of each military unit are depicted as carefully as possible.
At the same time, buildings for building and upgrading soldiers were quickly built.
This is a game that has just begun.
Inside, Li Mingzhe controls human soldiers.
Under his operation, a small team of soldiers was assembled in just five or six minutes.
Then he quickly maneuvered this team to go to the nearest enemy headquarters that he had just detected, and quickly disintegrated the enemy's army before the opponent's economy was fully formed, ending the opponent's game.
This smooth and fast operation immediately attracted the exclamation of many players.
"Wow, is this StarCraft? It looks so cool! Several soldiers launched a collective charge and defeated an enemy."
"This game is good. It seems that my choice of queuing up today was indeed the right one. In order to queue up today, I even skipped school."
"Hey, the guy in front of you, are you the leader of **class, right? I'm your math teacher. You're just waiting to have your credits deducted today. How dare you skip class in front of me?"
"Teacher, I was wrong!"
The student immediately ran away, feeling a little unwilling and helpless.
But he doesn't plan to go back to school right away. He plans to wait until the teacher buys StarCraft before he comes back.
Hey, wait... No, the teacher is here too, doesn't that count as skipping class?
He remembered that the next class was mathematics, would he have time to go back?
Looking at the math teacher's expectant look, he knew that the teacher was definitely a loyal gamer.
"Um, teacher..."
"Hey, StarCraft should be fun... huh? Why are you still here? You really don't want the credits!"
The math teacher stared at his students.
"Teacher, it's your class later, right? You don't plan to go to class, right? It doesn't matter if I lose some credits, I can make them up, but if you miss class because of games, it should be more serious than me."
math teacher:"……"
"This student, I actually think that you usually have a hard time in class. It's normal to skip class occasionally. I'm just going to turn a blind eye this time. I won't let it happen again!"
The student immediately happily returned to the team, and then watched the wonderful operations on the screen with the others.
Under Li Mingzhe's operation, it has reached the middle of the game.
Of the four hostile camps he faced this time, he eliminated one of them through his first-mover advantage, but he still had to deal with three hostile soldiers at the same time.
Under such circumstances, he could still calmly control the soldiers to deal with the battle.
Whenever he can use his skillful operation to hit more with less, he will immediately attract a burst of exclamation from the players.
This kind of game is more attractive than the previous speedrunning games.
Because most speedrunning games can only be enjoyed by real players, but even a novice like StarCraft can enjoy watching the game just by watching it. This level is obviously different.