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In 1982, TECMO produced only two games, both of which became famous in history. One of them is the Legend of Ninja Dragon Sword, and the other is our protagonist today.

On December 26, 1980, the Asian qualifier for the World Cup in Spain was held in Hong Kong. At the end of the match, the Japanese team lost to China 0-1, losing the qualification for the World Cup. When the news came back to Japan, the whole football circle was at a low ebb, which was called the winter of Japanese football by later generations.

In the same year, a new cartoonist named Yoichi Takahashi sent his debut to Junior Jump. No one expected that this comic book would become a turning point in Japanese football.

Like most Japanese boys, Yoichi Takahashi has liked it since childhood. Baseball.

After graduating from high school, he decided to become a cartoonist, specializing in sports. But there were so many baseball comics at that time that we had to find another way to stand out. Yoichi Takahashi turned his eyes to the World Cup in Argentina two years ago, which gave birth to the short cartoon "Captain Tsubasa", which also has other more familiar names-"Football Young player" or "Angel Wings".

The editors of Ji Yingshe are also interested in this novel. Although the painter always mastered the head-to-body ratio of bad characters, the content was quite desirable and he chose it as the excellent work of the month. A year later, a long cartoon of the same name began to be serialized, and Yitaro in the short story was split into a big air wing and a headland Taro, and the animated version two years later set off a craze for youth football in Japan.

After the popularity of "young footballers", the football clubs in primary and secondary schools in Japan were packed with people, and the football in the shops was snapped up, and the football fields were full of pupils imitating big empty wings. If you don't put up a five-second pose, you will be embarrassed to say hello to people.

And the craze has also spread to the gaming world. However, ACG linkage, the latest is usually always the game, until 1988, the game of the same name on the red and white machine arrived late, when the animation has been over for nearly two years. The company that won the big IP was Tecmo, a company that was not well known at the time.

Tecmo released only two games this year, but they are definitely masterpieces that can make a name for themselves in the history of red and white machines. In addition to Angel Wings, the other is the Legend of Ninja Dragon Sword.

The two games not only have the same developers, but also share the same characteristics-surpassing the magnificent performances of the games at that time.

Because of the limited hardware performance of FC, other manufacturers always want to play tricks on the game, but find a different way to get around the performance effect. Only Tecmo is fond of this, they put forward a new concept-"Tekumo Theatre", in the red and white machine games to add a large number of high-quality animation show. Angel Wings is the first work of the Tekumo Theatre series, and the ultimate goal of the game design is to restore animation.

This sentence sounds like a matter of course, but it is difficult to achieve.

Although Tecmo hired Masato Kato, who used to work in the animation company GAINAX, how to use the code to "calculate" the painting has become a difficult problem. This task falls to the senior programmer Takeshi Takeshi.

In order to facilitate art and planners to better adjust the picture and the content of the game, Hetian Daoxiao did three small things.

First, Hetian Daoxiao wrote a set of development tools called "Animation split Mirror system". As long as the art adjusts the position and number of frames of the animation, it can show the heroic posture of the cartoon characters running in the arena. The trajectory of the ball flying in the game is actually calculated. In order to accurately restore the curve shot of the big empty wing, Hetian Daoxiao adjusted the algorithm many times in the face of the animation.

Second, Hetian Daoxiao has made a set of numerical adjustment system to facilitate planning and adjustment of the difficulty of the game. Now it seems that this can only be done by dragging the form, don't forget that it was 1987.

Third, Hetian Daoxiao suggested that he might as well tilt the court when tackling the ball, so that the picture looks more bold and nervous, and restore the original work. This change has become a series of features.

At that time, what was shocking about Angel Wings was not only the performance, but also the different way of playing the game. No one ever thought that sports games could be opened in the way of RPG. Passing, passing, shooting, and even the must-kill skills of comic signs are all done with instructions, and the characters are as hierarchical, experienced, and even as experienced as RPG. Blue stripes.

Each character in the game has a number similar to MP, which will be deducted as long as the action is done, and it is even more expensive to use the must-kill skill. Sick boys like Sanshanchun were completely pulled out in the second half.

And this number has a strange name called Guts, which is the value of courage.

It turns out that the project team always finds it strange to put the RPG term MP in sports games. It just so happens that a programmer in the company has a mantra. When he misses a game, he likes to shout, "Ah! there is not enough Guts!" (thank you! Thank you very much! ).

So someone suggested that it would be better to call it Guts. The appearance of the colleague playing the game immediately appeared in everyone's mind. Everyone smiled and decided so happily. The programmer was furious when he heard this and finally had to accept the result obediently.

In the game, whenever the character's courage is used up, the original commentator of the game will shout "Ah! there is not enough Guts!" This mantra unexpectedly became a series of propaganda slogans, which lasted until the five dynasties.

In the game, the commentators of Japan and World are actually two people (although they look the same), one is Takahashi and the other is Juli, who spoofed the cartoon author Yoichi Takahashi and Hiroyuki Hirohiro. The two later got married-- and then divorced).

After the release of "Angel Wings", players who bought the game back to the anime IP found that the money was well spent. The game is not only fun, but also restore animation, especially the must-kill performance, hanging all the football games at that time, even some small details are full. For example, when it comes to the final of the Japanese high school football match, if it is a draw after overtime, there will be a special picture of Nange and Dongbang tied for the championship in the cartoon.

Soon players found that Tecmo not only satisfied the players, but also sandwiched some contraband goods. There is an AVG paragraph to find Capetaro in the game, and you can get a series of phone numbers from French player Pierre. According to him, it's a private hotline, but this is actually the customer service number of Tecmo.

Although it came late, the excellent quality made Angel Wings famous and rich. Two years later, Tecmo released an even better sequel, Angel Wings 2. This work has a greater influence in China, and many people want to come up with all kinds of dirty tricks to kill their opponents.

Takeshisa Takeshisa upgraded his Tekumo theater tools again, and there were more bold shots in the game, and the field, which could only be tilted to one side, had more lens angles.

What is even more enjoyable for players is that the "Young Football player World Youth Chapter" is being serialized in the game. The game began to try to use a multi-angle narrative, from Brazil to Japan, and then from the Asian qualifier to the World Youth Championships, there are more players and more must-kill skills, and the process is so full that it is touching.

In the game, you can even meet a super opponent who has not yet appeared in the comic book, Carlos Santana, the son of the Brazilian god. This super opponent, who first appeared in the theater version, made people feel the pressure from the football kingdom from the very beginning of the game.

Because the cartoon is still being serialized, from this beginning, "Angel Wings" embarked on the road of the original plot, and gradually drifted away from the original. Of course, more bizarre contraband goods have also been brought in. Enter the password Vegeta, for example, and you can jump directly to the game against Iran.

In 1992, Tecmo suddenly remembered that Angel Wings had not yet crossed the sea, and had traveled thousands of miles to send this RPG football game to the American people who like action games and rugby.

However, Tecmo does not have the overseas authorization of the "young footballer", so it has to change the face of the game into the American version of "Angel Wings"-Tecmo Cup Soccer Game, which is also widely spread in China.

When it comes to the American version of Japanese games, friends who are familiar with red and white machines will certainly expect what will happen next. It's just routine to replace the big empty wing with Robinfield and then blonde. Another popular character, Ishizaki, has been changed to laugh and cry, which is a decade ahead of Beckham.

On the other hand, the protagonist and wife regiment, which was originally as beautiful as flowers, suddenly matured at the age of 20 in the United States.

Of course, the biggest change is the signature skill of "Angel Wings". Karate goalkeeper Ruoshima Jinjian's unique goalkeeping method triangle bounce, to the American version, has become a wolf wind fist; the beautiful twins Lihua brothers, to the American version as if eating McDonald's for ten years-the original Zhonglihua brothers' stunt high-altitude hurricane, in which one person pedals the other in mid-air and shoots at high altitude.

But in the American version, it was directly changed to throw people out, and there was a forward somersault of 720 degrees, which could not be done without arm strength.

This is not amazing. When it comes to the world, the Lihua brothers and defender Shito Yang will learn the advanced version of the high-altitude hurricane. Shito will kick the two brothers into the air together and shoot at the same time.

So when it comes to the American version, needless to say, you will probably rush to answer-this arm is no longer the strongest middle school student on the surface, but simply a Titan BT-7274.

3 fortunately, Tecmo stopped in time, and then stopped making the weird American special version. It wasn't until the copyright changed hands that the series of "Angel Wings" games familiar to Chinese players came to an end.

For decades, both the animation "Football Young player" and the game "Angel Wings" have deeply influenced football-loving children all over the world, including young readers in Japan and China, as well as big stars like Alessandro Del Piero and Alessandro Eniesta.

When the cartoons began to be serialized in 1981, the Japanese Football Association surveyed about 110000 primary school players, and by the time the game went on sale in 1988, the number had grown to 240000. Japan entered the World Cup finals for the first time in 1998, and the players in the team were the young readers who grew up with the "footballer".

On the back cover of the simplified version of the cartoon, the editor of the publishing house affectionately wrote this message: "footballer" those young football players who are full of heroism and fraternity have aroused a craze of imitation among young Japanese readers. Today, when we are worrying about how Chinese football can rush out of Asia and into the world, can we get some inspiration from their growth?

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: long Bei Jun

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