Chinese culture is broad and profound, although today's cultural export is not very good, but before the Qing Dynasty, China has always been a big country of cultural export, Japan's Warring States period Takeda Shingen, he loved to read "Sun Tzu's Art of War", but also the book 's disease is like the wind, its Xu Is like a forest, aggression is like fire, I don't move like a mountain, it is difficult to know like a yin, and it is as moving as a thunderclap" abbreviated to "Wind Forest Volcano", as the combat method of his own army, written on the military flag.
In the Edo period, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel became popular in Japan again, and the Japanese who loved the culture of the Three Kingdoms even compiled an anecdote that Oda Nobunaga praised Honda Tadatsukatsu as "Japan's Zhang Fei".
The prevalence of the Three Kingdoms culture has influenced generations of Japanese people, and indirectly spawned game works such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "True Three Kingdoms Matchless", which in turn have even influenced us Chinese players.
Chinese no one is unaware of the Three Kingdoms, but the most successful Three Kingdoms games were developed by Japanese manufacturers, which has to be said to be a pity. However, as a gamer, Yun Youji also likes the glorious "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series, and today, Yun Youji will talk to you about the origin and development of this game series.
It should be noted that the reason why the game is called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" but the content is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is because when the novel was transmitted to Japan, the full name was "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", referred to as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which had nothing to do with the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Chen Shou.
The Birth of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
In 1978, the 28-year-old Yoichi Kakegawa founded the Honor Company in Ashikaga City, Japan, when the company's main business was fuel trading, and it had nothing to do with video games, and only two people could really be called employees.
However, after the establishment of the company, the glorious business has not been very prosperous, helplessly, Xiangchuan Yangichi can only consider the problem of transformation, it just so happened that the wife of Yuichi Xiangchuan gave him a computer MZ80C as a birthday gift, because this computer Yuichi Kawaichi liked programming, so he decided to adjust the main business of Glory to computer software and hardware development and sales, and the first game after the transformation was "Kawanaka Island Battle" designed by Yoshiichi Shogawa.
After the game was finished, Yoshikawa felt that it was quite interesting, so he sold it for 3500 yen. However, he did not have too high expectations for sales, in his opinion, like history, like games, home and computers, such people should be very few.
However, the sales of "Battle of Kawanakajima" greatly exceeded his expectations, and eventually the game sold nearly 10,000 copies, earning Yoshiichi Kawakawa the first pot of gold.
With this money, The Glory Corporation was expanded, and in 1983, Glory developed Nobunaga's Wild Hope.
Needless to say how famous this game is, now it is also one of the glorious housekeeper IP, and it is also with this work that Glory has gained a firm foothold in the industry.
At about the same time, Yoshiichi Shogawa participated in the Japan-China Youth Student Exchange Conference, and after seeing China's Forbidden City and the Great Wall, Yoshiichi Shogawa became obsessed with Chinese history and decided to develop a game set against the backdrop of the history of the Three Kingdoms.
In 1985, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1 was born.
In order to make this game, Glory has made great efforts, especially in order to design details such as character heads, the production team has collected and sorted out a large number of chinese Ming and Qing Dynasty Characters White Painting Embroidery Statues, Republic of China Period Cigarette Brands and other documents, so the character image is very in line with the public's cognition of these historical figures.
At that time, the performance of the home computer system was still relatively weak, and the system and gameplay of the original "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" were far from the present.
The game can start with five eras, spanning the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Three Kingdoms, and after choosing the dynasty, you can choose the monarch you want to play.
However, although the game is running on the PC platform, it is operated by entering the game instructions, entering the number according to the prompt, after selecting the monarch, the system will let the player randomly own monarch attributes, and after the randomization is completed, the game will officially start.
After entering the game, you will find that the entire area map is all identified by numbers, what instructions the player wants to do, but also need to enter the sequence number of the specified command, but there are not many options, the gameplay is more biased towards MUD, more hardcore, but there is already a general framework for the later "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Once listed, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1 was a huge success. Dungeons & Dragons creator Dave Aneson spoke highly of the game, believing it to be a great historical simulation that all serious gamers should try.
In December 1989, in Computer Game World, readers gave the game an average rating of 8.96 out of 10, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms became the magazine's thirteenth most rated game.
Naturally, four years later, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 was released. Compared with the first generation, the picture of the second generation is more exquisite, the colors are more vivid, the UI has been greatly optimized, and the monarch can be customized, but there is no obvious progress in the gameplay compared to the first generation, and the city is still simple and rude to use digital identification.
Due to the small changes, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2" did not achieve the expected success, and the same period namco also released its own Three Kingdoms SLG, and was so successful that the Three Kingdoms game market was about to fall.
Ps: By the way, because Glory has previously developed butter, the old habits in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2" have not changed, although it is a more serious historical theme game, the production team still added an Easter egg to it: no matter which monarch the player chooses, they can arrange for the mink cicada to sleep, and the lower right corner of the screen will also show the glory of the elaborate cutscenes, each time the plot is triggered, the clothes on the mink cicada can be reduced, but the mink cicada will commit suicide if it is excessive.
What really made "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a classic was the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3" released in 1992. After experiencing the failure of the second generation, Glorious thought bitterly and made a major overhaul of the game system.
The first two cities are all digital signs, adjacent cities can attack and interact, while the three generations have optimized the map, referring to a large number of ancient Chinese historical and geographical data, not only canceling the digital identification, but also adding terrain such as passes and mountains, and the city and pool can only be interacted by road connection.
The game system has also been greatly enhanced, a large number of internal affairs-related instructions have been added, the types and quantities of military instructions that originally exist have also been greatly increased, and the operation has also been optimized to become more straightforward and understandable.
Due to the upgrade of the computer system, the picture level of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3" has also taken a qualitative leap, the character standing painting is more exquisite, and the battle scenes are more abundant.
Overall, the three generations are an all-round upgrade and the first peak of the series.
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From the first generation of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to the three generations, the development of the series system is a gradual process, and it is precisely because of the foundation of these excellent works that there is a vigorous development of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" later.
Due to the length of the issue, this issue only introduces the first three generations of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Because these three games are really a bit long ago, the operation is not very in line with the habits of modern players, many players have not played, so Yun You Ji did not detail in detail, and then the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" work Yun You Ji will spend more ink to introduce, interested partners welcome to pay attention to the follow-up content update.