Entering the 1990s, Japan's arcade market became increasingly sinister.

You should know that although the initial technical accumulation of Japanese arcade manufacturers was different, they were all derived from Atari.

Taidong Company is an arcade repairman. He has learned the technology of repairing Atari arcades and has produced in addition to "Space Invaders".

Namco bought out the technology obtained by Atari's Japanese branch.

In this way, Japanese electronic game companies are actually not good at technology.

Therefore, compared with American video games, Japanese electronic games, have one characteristic, that is, fun takes precedence over technology.

The hardware of arcade masterpieces like "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" is actually no different from the arcades produced by Atari before.

But the fun is very different. For example, "Space Invaders" and its copycat arcades, conservatively, have millions of units in the world.

You know, an arcade game can be sold for millions, which is even more surprising than a home game console game selling for ten millions.

In the late 1970s, "Space Invaders" can basically be said to be the god of arcades, and the glory of Taidong Company also began here.

However, creativity is generally not as reliable and stable as technology.

Although Taidong Company's glory began here, it almost ended up because there is no follow-up game.

Later, the Japanese arcade game company's technology became stronger and stronger. When "Iron Plate" opened the mark of vertical shooting games, various shooting games became popular. After "Super Mario Bros." opened the door to horizontal jumping games, horizontal jumping also became the most popular game type.

Later, for various reasons, arcade games fell into decline. Knowing the emergence of fighting games, they brought arcades to the top again.

It is now early 1994, and the concept of three-dimensional games has been very popular.

Sega's "VR Warrior" has also made great achievements on the market.

This game is produced by Sega's well-known game producer Yu Suzuki, but its hardware does not come from Sega's internal development department, but from a military manufacturer who designed missile systems in the United States.

Why is this happening?

Because the performance of home game consoles has been extremely rising in recent years, the difference between the picture and arcade is getting smaller and smaller, and a large number of arcade players have been diverted to home fuselages.

After all, it is cheaper to play with a home computer. If you buy a game, you can buy it. Play it as long as you want. No one will collect money based on time or life.

Therefore, in order to protect its own market, arcades must have better pictures.

The technology required for better pictures is not something that Japanese game manufacturers can achieve by themselves.

Therefore, game manufacturers like Sega are seeking technical support from American companies, not only this missile and arms dealer, but also ibm.

Even the latest operating system of Shijia hosts is produced by Microsoft.

In this way, one of the problems faced is how to solve such high costs.

The solution to arcade machines is to increase the price of a single time.

For example, some arcades are now expensive to 500 yen per day.

Home games have also begun to increase their prices.

However, this price increase causes the number of players to play and the number of games sold.

Under the general trend of economic downturn, game manufacturers and console manufacturers are actually not having a good time.

The reason why Wanhu in Takahashi is not bad now is that Wanhu has more profit points. It is no longer relying on the single market of Japan.

However, after leaving the arcade game for a long time, Takahashi made the decision to make an arcade game.

Although fighting games are still at its peak at this time.

Manufacturers such as Wanhu, Sega, and Snk basically monopolize the arcade game market.

However, any game type will be abandoned by players for a day.

Takahashi plans to create a brand new type of game this time, that is, music games.

Speaking of music games, the first manufacturer to enter this field is Konami, which infuriates both the people and the gods in the industry.

The company Conami has many excellent games, such as the Contra series, and extremely excellent infiltrating games like the Metal Gear series.

However, the company Konanmi has a very bad habit, which is that they like to register some general designs as patents.

For example, a music game, the first game called "Tetris" is Konami imitating "Tetris", which is the strongest game of Wanhu. When the tetris falls, press the correct button at the right time.

Now it seems that the style of painting is still normal, right?

However, something abnormal happened next.

Konanmi actually registered this pattern of block fall as a patent, and the Japanese Patent Office also approved it.

This...this is a bit incredible.

This is ridiculous to the point where after Wanhu launched the game "Tetris", all puzzle elimination games cannot adopt the whereabouts elimination mode.

Japanese game manufacturers are not very good-tempered, and few people will really give Konanmi such patents.

Be crazy, give this one.

Why can you make money by lying down and making money with your own hard work?

Therefore, most audio games now fall from bottom to top, or from left to right, from right to left.

The reason why Takahashi wanted to make audio games was because he saw a karaoke machine in the Wanhu Cultural Center two days ago.

Karaok's way of popping up subtitles made him suddenly think of a music game that became popular in Japan. The name of this game is "Taigu Master".

That's right, what Takahashi wants to produce is "Taigu Master".

With the gradual decline of arcade halls and the gradual decline of traditional arcade games, the latest and most popular arcade machines are basically the kind that can be placed at the door of any store.

It can be said that arcades were originally born in bars and are a way for people to spend time when drinking.

Later, more and more arcade machines appeared, and a special arcade hall appeared.

Now, we are back to the first days of distributing in bars and other places.

It can be said that the changes in the market are really wonderful.

It's like a fashion trend.

It seems that plaid shirts were popular ten years ago, but after a year, plaid shirts were out of date, but they became popular again this year.
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