In the Sega Corporation building in Shinagawa District, Tokyo, Japan, Kang Jianfei finally met Hayao Nakayama who said these words.
He is short, only as high as Kang Jianfei's chin. He has a hairstyle similar to that of a certain head of state, and wears a crisp suit. He looks very energetic and fighting spirit.
Today, Kang Jianfei holds 80% of the entire Sega Corporation of Japan, while Hayao Nakayama, the company president, only has the remaining 20%.
After knowing that Kang Jianfei was coming today, in addition to being unable to leave his post, Zhongshan Shunxiong took all the company's employees to the lobby on the ground floor of the headquarters building to greet the big boss.
"Kang Sang, I have long admired you! This is the first time we meet, please give me some advice." Nakayama Hayao bowed straight to Kang Jianfei at 90 degrees, as if he were holding a memorial service to pay tribute to the dead.
"Hello, President Nakayama, I have admired your name for a long time. Sega has developed very rapidly under your leadership." Kang Jianfei smiled and shook hands with Nakayama Hayao.
Before Kang Jianfei traveled through time, his childhood experience gave him a pair of vicious eyes. Just by looking at the look in Zhongshan Shunxiong's eyes, he knew that this was not a guy who was willing to be inferior to others.
In another time and space, Hayao Nakayama was initially just a senior executive of Sega. Taking advantage of the collapse of the U.S. gaming industry, he united with several Japanese businesses to acquire Sega's industry in Japan. In the following years, he joined forces with the CSK consortium.
, took away the company shares from several previous partners, and finally took full control of Sega.
Such a person, because of the butterfly effect, has only acquired 20% of David Rosen's shares. Is he willing to work for Kang Jianfei for the rest of his life?
Before Kang Jianfei even met Nakayama Hayao, he had already done two things to express his goodwill to the other party: First, the company's internal management would remain unchanged and Nakayama Hayao would still run and manage the company; second, additional investment would be used for the company's research and development of 16-bit games.
opportunity, and will not dilute the shares held by Nakayama Hayao after additional investment.
For people like Nakayama Hayao, sometimes it no longer matters how many shares he holds in the company. What matters is whether he can control the company and let the company run and develop according to his ideas and ideas.
In another time and space, after Nakayama Hayao cooperated with the csk consortium, his shares were not as large as csk. But because he was able to fully control the company, his cooperation with csk was very harmonious and pleasant.
Like Alibaba later, Mr. Ma personally holds less than 10% of the shares. But he is the real controller of the company.
It was precisely because of Kang Jianfei's two gestures of goodwill that Zhongshan Junxiong reciprocated the favor and led the entire company's employees to greet Kang Jianfei. This was an expression of goodwill to Kang Jianfei.
Kang Jianfei glanced at the Sega employees behind Hayao Nakayama. They were all in high spirits. The confidence in their bodies was very contagious. This was the unique spirit of the Japanese in the 1980s and was completely different from the Japanese after 2000.
Kang Jianfei also had contact with some Japanese people before he traveled through time. It is sheer nonsense to say that Japanese people are workaholics. They stay in the company one by one and work hard. What can be done in half a day can be put off until night to work overtime, and even if
After the work is completed, even if the leader does not leave, the employees will stay with him.
As for the Japanese who came to China for business, they were all very diligent when their boss was there, busy as if they were grandchildren. As soon as their boss returned to Japan, they became uncles, they were all carefree and did not care much at all.
Whether the national economy is prosperous or not can definitely affect the mental outlook of a country's people. In the future, Chinese people will become more and more confident. At this moment, the Japanese people in front of Kang Jianfei are at their most energetic, and they are all full of energy.
With great enthusiasm, businessmen clamored to "buy the entire United States" and politicians clamored "Japan can say no".
All this will disappear at some point in the future, and the confident Japanese will be thrown from heaven to hell.
After welcoming Kang Jianfei, most of the employees returned to their respective posts. Only a small number followed Zhongshan Shunxiong and accompanied Kang Jianfei to inspect the entire company.
Kang Jianfei first walked around the company with Hayao Nakayama, and then came to a showroom filled with Sega's representative products over the years.
Sega is an old company, dating back to the days of David Rosen, and has a history of nearly 50 years. In the showroom, from old coin-operated jukeboxes, slot machines, pinball machines, to quick photo booths (the first generation of photo booths),
In recent years, new arcade machines, 8-bit home game consoles, laser disc game consoles, and more than a dozen electronic games developed by Sega are completely a condensed history of the development of electronic games.
After visiting the showroom, Nakayama Hayao took Kang Jianfei to the company's R&D department. This is the focus of today.
Nakayama Hayao picked up a game console and said: "This is a trial version of the 16-bit home console developed by our company. The sound problem has been solved, but there are still some flaws in the image color."
The game console that appeared in front of Kang Jianfei was no different from the popular home consoles of later generations. After plugging in the game cartridge and connecting it to the TV, the game screen was a little dim and the color tone looked uncomfortable. It seemed that there were indeed some imaging problems.
Need to be solved.
Nowadays, all home game consoles around the world are 8-bit. If a 16-bit game console is successfully launched, it will definitely cause a huge sensation and seize a large piece of the red and white console market share from Nintendo.
In another time and space, Nintendo's 8-bit red and white consoles occupied a huge market for home game consoles around the world. This favorable situation prevented Nintendo from rushing to develop 16-bit consoles. As a result, Sega took advantage of Nintendo's carelessness and launched
After 16-bit consoles, they aggressively seized the market and became the world's second largest game console manufacturer after Nintendo in a very short period of time.
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "Although I don't understand the technology, I believe that President Zhongshan will be able to overcome the technical difficulties."
"I will do my best!" Zhongshan Shunxiong suddenly bowed to Kang Jianfei very solemnly.
"I brought a gift for President Zhongshan today." Kang Jianfei waved to Liu Fei, who immediately opened the suitcase and took out various document bags and handed them to Yang Liqing, who then handed the manuscripts to Kang Jianfei's hands.
Since several of Kang Jianfei's personal secretaries and assistants did not come to Japan, Yang Liqing also played a guest role as a personal secretary this time.
Zhongshan Shunxiong's eyes only stayed on Yang Liqing for less than a second. Then his attention turned to the document bag in Kang Jianfei's hand and said: "I am looking forward to Mr. Kang's gift."
Kang Jianfei opened the document bag, took out a pile of manuscripts, handed them to Zhongshan Shunxiong and said, "President Zhongshan, please take a look."
"The_king_of_fighters"," Hayao Nakayama opened the manuscript. The first thing he saw was a title, followed by a summary of the content. "In 19xx, martial artists from all over the world received an invitation card from the author R at the same time.
The purpose is to invite fighters from all over the world to participate in the fighting competition organized by him. Among them is Kusanagi Kyo, a young successor of Kusanagi-ryu ancient martial arts who has been able to control fire since he was a child. With years of understanding, he can even defeat his father, Kusanagi Shibune.
Becoming the most powerful heir in the family. The competitive Kyo. After receiving the invitation, he formed a team with his friends, including the pushy Nikaidou Benimaru, and Judo Olympic gold medalist Daimon Goro, to compete in the tournament..."
Nakayama Hayao didn't understand what was going on at first. Even when he saw the character designs of the game characters, he thought they were comics created by Kang Jianfei. However, when the game character's move settings appeared, Nakayama Hayao understood it instantly.
"Mr. Kang is going to develop a fighting game?" Nakayama Hayao asked.
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: "I have this idea. These are the game planning and some character settings I made."
Although Hayao Nakayama is extremely capable, he is not a time traveler after all. He said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Kang, although kung fu games have become popular in a small area after "Street Fighter" was launched last year, I am afraid that this type of game will not be fully marketed in the market.
Not big."
At this time, even the concept of fighting games had not yet been formed. Many people regarded them as a branch of sports games. Even because Nintendo transplanted "Kung Fu" to home consoles, they directly called fighting games Kung Fu games.
The so-called basic elements of future fighting games, such as combos, energy storage, and team formation, have not yet appeared or are immature. There are also some problems with the balance of the game. Therefore, although the appearance of "Street Fighter" last year was disappointing,
It's refreshing, but it doesn't bring much profit. For small companies, "Street Fighter" has made a lot of money, but for Sega, which aims to surpass Nintendo, developing fighting games is a waste of time.
When Kang Jianfei wrote the game plan, he also had a basic understanding of current fighting games, so he wrote all the elements that any future player who has been exposed to fighting games will know into the planning book.
"President Zhongshan, I call this type of fist or sword fighting game a fighting game," Kang Jianfei said. "I think fighting games have broad prospects for development. Action movies have always been one of the main types of movies around the world.
Both men and women have the desire to be heroes and save the world, or to become strong. The most important factor currently restricting the development of fighting games is the extreme imbalance between characters and moves in fighting games, which reduces the playability of the game.
Sex. Look at the settings I added..."
Nakayama Hayao's attitude towards Kang Jianfei has always been limited respect. After all, Kang Jianfei is the company's major shareholder, and has stated that he will not interfere in the company's operation and management, and has also made additional investments free of charge. No matter who runs the company, he will respect such a sponsor.
But it was just respect. Nakayama Hayao didn't think Kang Jianfei had any talent or vision for the development of the game company, so he didn't take Kang Jianfei's opinion seriously.
However, out of courtesy, Hayao Nakayama carefully read Kang Jianfei's game plan. He immediately realized the development prospects of fighting games, and then bowed straight at 90 degrees: "Mr. Kang, your idea is very exciting and promising.
Regarding operability, I retract my previous wrong views on fighting games."
"I just put forward some immature ideas. How to make the game specifically requires your help, President Zhongshan." Kang Jianfei smiled politely, but he was cursing in his heart: Damn you, you Japanese devil, today has already happened
I bowed three times. You really worship me as your ancestor.
After Nakayama Hayao read the game settings, he ran to look at the character designs. Each character has three shapes: front, side and back. There are even color pictures of their moves, and the character's name and age are also attached.
, origin, personality, etc.
Among Kang Jianfei's characters, some basic characters are the same as the original "King of Fighters", but many Chinese fighters have been added. Among these Chinese fighters, there are secret masters from mainland China, boxing gym apprentices from Europe and the United States, and some from
One of Hong Kong’s kung fu stars was modeled after Bruce Lee. When the game is finished, a licensing agreement must be reached with Bruce Lee’s family.
There are additions and subtractions. Some characters in the original "King of Fighters" came from "Street Fighter". Kang Jianfei deleted all the fighters from "Street Fighter 1" or changed their appearance names to avoid copyright disputes in the future.
Nakayama Hayao watched for more than half an hour before carefully reading the character information of "The King of Fighters" and exclaimed: "Mr. Kang, you are simply a game planning and design genius. Compared with your planning plan,
Capcom's "The King of Fighters" is simply a kindergarten game. You have already completed the entire story and characters. Such a rich and perfect character and story setting would require a game team at least half a year to complete.
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Kang Jianfei added: "I hope that the game graphics will be as gorgeous and exciting as possible. It would be better if it could be 3D. If 3D is not possible, cartoon images will also work."
"Although there are some difficulties, I will try my best to overcome it," Nakayama Hayao said with admiration. "With your game information, Mr. Kang, the development of this fighting game only requires technology and data."
Once completed, I think we can see the prototype in half a year at most, and after a period of adjustments and improvements, it may be available by the end of the year.”
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "When the time comes, I will publish a set of comics in Japan and Hong Kong called "The King of Fighters", and there will also be a live-action movie of this game later."
Nakayama Hayao's eyes lit up after hearing this. If Kang Jianfei could make a movie himself, it would be a great help to promote the "King of Fighters" game in Asia. He flattered: "Mr. Kang, you can take over Sega. This is Sega."
It is an honor for me, and I believe that Sega will develop more smoothly with your help."
Kang Jianfei smiled and accepted Nakayama Hayao's compliments with peace of mind. Yang Liqing, who was standing behind him, saw that Kang Jianfei had spent half the morning to convince Nakayama Hayao, a Japanese, and she immediately admired and respected Kang Jianfei even more. (
