Chapter 1

Qin Yuanfeng looked at everything before him in disbelief.

He had merely taken a nap, and who could tell him what was going on now?

On both sides were towering skyscrapers, with English posters and advertisements everywhere. The faces of Michael Jackson and Madonna were plastered all over the streets. The people walking around were not the black-haired, yellow-skinned Chinese, but blue-eyed, blonde foreigners!

The road was filled with cars, and he himself was sitting in one. Besides him, there was the driver and a middle-aged man in his thirties, who was frowning at the traffic jam ahead.

Through the half-open car window, the sound of English chatter drifted in. From just a few scenes, Qin Yuanfeng immediately concluded that this was definitely not China!

But where was he? He suppressed the pounding of his heart and looked outside. He was a 28-year-old senior game designer, working for Beijing Paradise Game Company. The ancient and weighty city he knew had disappeared, and he had only taken a nap in the office. How did he end up in this strange place after waking up?

At this moment, a wave of dizziness washed over him, and he couldn't help but close his eyes again.

"So it's like this..." A moment later, he opened his eyes, his mind filled with shock.

Just now, a strange memory had flooded his mind, almost making him disbelieve the current reality.

Qin Yuanfeng, this was his current name, and he was 21 years old. His family was somewhat political, the son of a bureau chief in Beijing. His father's position was neither high nor low, but in a place like Beijing, where throwing a brick could hit a high-ranking official, he was nothing. The current China was in a murky and uncertain situation. To avoid trouble, he had been sent to Hong Kong to study a few years ago. He was now a senior at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, an exchange student from China and Japan. Due to his senior year internship, he had joined a company called IS for practical training.

In short, he had traveled through time, becoming one of the hundreds of lucky time travelers in China.

The first priority was to figure out where he had traveled to, which region, which country. Everything around him was definitely not China, nor Japan.

He lifted his head and looked at the rearview mirror. Fortunately, he still looked good, with clear eyes and a fair complexion, and he was a small handsome guy, standing close to 1.8 meters tall.

"Mr. Qin, you're awake?" The man in front, seemingly woken by the sudden noise, lifted his puffy eyelids and saw Qin Yuanfeng's dazed face in the rearview mirror. He said expressionlessly, "You didn't feel well since we left San Francisco. Are you feeling better now? Don't delay the company's task."

"Much better." Qin Yuanfeng's heart was pounding. San Francisco! The city before him was actually San Francisco! He had taken a nap in Beijing and somehow ended up in North America!

"Team Leader Kaga, Mr. Qin still doesn't look well. Should we let him rest a bit more?" The driver glanced at Qin Yuanfeng and said casually.

The man called Kaga nodded indifferently. "Rest well. We have about half an hour to Silicon Valley. This afternoon, we'll handle the financial settlement of TOP Software. Since they've declared bankruptcy, the development and planning projects funded by Nintendo are our own patents. The company has ordered us to retrieve them."

Nintendo?!

As a game designer, Qin Yuanfeng was extremely familiar with this name, the ruler of the game industry for over 20 years. Only Sony had once challenged them, but was quickly outpaced again. How did he end up being involved with them?!

The doubts in his heart had accumulated into a tidal wave. He finally couldn't resist asking, "Team Leader Kaga, what exactly are we here to do? What time is it now?"

Kaga's face looked somewhat unpleasant. He answered irritably, "A North American software company funded by Nintendo has gone bankrupt. Our company, Intelligent Systems, is responsible for the bankruptcy settlement. The company is short-handed, so I brought you along. We're a small company... Haven't I told you this several times? What time it is, you can check the clock in front."

Only then did Qin Yuanfeng notice the digital clock in the front of the car. But this one glance almost made his heart stop!

1987, 3:10 PM, U.S. time!

He hadn't even had time to be shocked by the sudden leap of nearly 20 years when a flash of inspiration hit him. He held his breath, his voice trembling as he tentatively asked, "Kaga... Team Leader Kaga Shousan?"

"What is it?"

Qin Yuanfeng didn't ask further. A wave of excitement surged in his heart!

He finally understood why he was involved with Nintendo.

Kaga Shousan! One of the most renowned game producers in Japan, the pioneer of SRPG games! One of the six greats of Nintendo! The right-hand man of the Nintendo empire that dominated the game world for over 20 years! IS Company, Kaga Shousan's company, was one of Nintendo's subsidiaries!

He never imagined that his rebirth would bring him to Nintendo, to Kaga Shousan's company!

He took a deep breath, and the depression of time travel vanished instantly. 1987 in Japan, only he, who had traveled back, knew what this meant!

This was a golden age, the beginning of the console era in the early 1980s, the prelude to the transformation of electronic games. The first act was about to end, and Nintendo, with its 1983 Famicom (commonly known as the NES), had risen to dominate the global game industry. Electronic games had become a golden beach.

This was the best of times, as the whole world turned its eyes to this beach where gold could be found with every step. Sony, Sega, Konami, Bandai, Atari... all the famous companies and giants were attracted by Nintendo's astonishing wealth and joined this era of easy money.

This was also the worst of times, as Nintendo's dominance left no one else well off in the industry!

He stole a glance at Kaga Shousan. In 1987, Kaga Shousan was still unknown. The game that would make him famous had not yet appeared. He was just part of Nintendo's subsidiary, IS Company, and had not yet entered Nintendo's quality lineup.

As a senior game designer, he deeply understood what his arrival meant. In the game industry, the most important thing was not technology, but creativity!

And his head was full of creativity!

At this time, the legendary Pokémon series had not yet been created, Windows 98 had not been released, and computer games had not yet taken off.

At this time, there was no Final Fantasy VII, no Chinese Paladin, no Xuanyuan Sword, no Counter-Strike, no StarCraft, no World of Warcraft, and no League of Legends.

At this time, Sega was still a major rival to Nintendo, and Bill Gates was not yet the world's richest man, nor had Microsoft extended its tentacles into the gaming industry.

This was an unparalleled opportunity!

Thinking of this, his fists clenched so hard that the veins stood out. God had given him a perfect start, in 1987, halfway through the 8-bit era, just before the second wave of the game industry's craze. If it weren't for the complex situation of recent years, he would almost consider this an impeccable opportunity!

He glanced at Kaga Shousan, who was resting with his eyes closed in the front seat.

IS Company, Kaga Shousan, Nintendo, TOP Software, 1987... All these elements combined led him to think of only one thing! A major event that would be celebrated in the game industry for decades!

The pioneer of SRPG games, the Fire Emblem series!

As a senior game designer in 2014, he had worked in Beijing for nearly a decade, often lamenting that he was born at the wrong time, missing the grand era of the game industry. Now, he could only watch as Tencent dominated the entertainment industry, overshadowing giants like Shanda and NetEase.

In those 20 years, Sega, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, the four major giants, engaged in countless rounds of dumping and anti-dumping, poaching and being poached, and intricate power struggles. Almost every step became a textbook case for the game industry, and every person involved became a towering figure in the industry.

In his previous life, he could only watch these people in the news, lamenting their unattainability.

But God had given him this chance to join the 20-year holy war. How could he not seize it?

SRPG games, strategy and adventure games, also known as tactical role-playing games, and their founder was the Japanese man sitting in front of him, Kaga Shousan!

His inspiration came from this trip to North America!

What was originally a trip to settle the bankruptcy of a failed Nintendo investment turned into a discovery. The incredibly perceptive Kaga Shousan found a dusty, forgotten planning document among the abandoned files. No one paid attention to him at the time, but no one knew that this document would become one of the pillars of the handheld game series, the pioneer of SRPG tactical games, the Fire Emblem series!

This only showed the fervor of the Japanese game industry at the time, where no planning document was overlooked, and Kaga Shousan became one of the most popular figures in the GB series, selling millions of copies worldwide, almost on par with Nintendo's legendary producer, Shigeru Miyamoto.

This event was etched in the minds of all game producers like a legend.

"Now you don't have this chance anymore..." A smile appeared on his lips. Standing at the threshold of a new era, he only needed to find the planning document of TOP Software faster than Kaga Shousan and the others. The Fire Emblem series would never appear under Kaga Shousan's name!

And he would become the founder of SRPG!

He didn't speak again, sitting quietly in the back seat, his eyes deeply observing the buildings on both sides and the slowly moving traffic.

In his time, games were no longer just games but part of a broader entertainment industry. A game could have comics, music, novels, and even movies and TV shows.

The concept of broad entertainment was first proposed by Microsoft's Bill Gates and gradually became a reality, from the birth of competitive gaming with StarCraft to the increasingly grand League of Legends tournaments in the year he traveled through time. Games were no longer just games but a grand event, truly connecting the world with a single internet connection.

However, broad entertainment was built on over 20 years of game industry development, only taking shape by 2005. Without the 20 years of fierce competition among the four major powers, there would be no broad entertainment industry today!

And now, he stood at the crossroads of fate!

"Perhaps... the broad entertainment of the future... will become a reality in my hands..." He smiled, his heart filled with boundless anticipation.

He was an exchange student and would soon leave Japan, but before he left, he would make sure that the title of SRPG founder would be erased from Nintendo and Japan forever!

This 20-year holy war might, just might, have the name of a Chinese person etched in its history!

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