Chapter 633: Give Computer Games a Try
"Computer games, play like Nintendo?"
Wan He looked at Liu Lang and asked.
"That's right, it's like a Nintendo game!"
Nintendo is an island country of video game manufacturers, which was established in the last century, and of course there were no video games in that era, they mainly made purely mechanical games and some toy models.
For quite some time Nintendo was just a small workshop, but during the Olympics in Tokyo in the sixties, Nintendo seized the opportunity to vigorously promote its card products, which caught the attention of the Disney Company, and the two companies established a partnership to produce playing cards with Disney cartoon characters for global sales. This partnership led to such success that at least 600,000 cards were sold in a year.
In the seventies, Nintendo began to work on devices that could be connected to a television to play simple games, and that was video games.
By the eighties, Nintendo had developed a gaming watch that combined LCD video games with digital watch faces. This is an important achievement for Nintendo, taking it to a new level.
Since then, there have been many classic games such as "Super Mario", and in the first three decades of the twenty-first century, Nintendo has set a record of 150 million video game consoles sold, and no one can break it.
The same chips are used in video games connected to TVs, but in this era, game chips are mostly transistors, and the processors of game consoles are specialized in computing game instructions, which can be simplified, while computers need to add a lot of instructions, of course, the efficiency is much lower.
There are also games on the computer, but these games are all games with instructions similar to input commands under the DOS system, unless they are professionals, ordinary teenagers are not interested in it at all.
"Brother Wanga, we can consider designing some Nintendo-like game software, once successful, it will cause a heavy blow to our opponents!"
"This ...... Liu Lang, there is still a huge difference between Nintendo's games and computer software, and with the current software conditions, I'm afraid there is still a big gap, it's difficult!"
Wan He shook his head.
"No, no, Brother Wanhe, we don't imitate their games to do it, but rely on the programs we already have, not too big, just a few minutes, we can call it Flash, this is a small program that can produce a two-dimensional vector, it can be an animation of the sun rising, it can also be an animation of a small plane flying, we just need to add some artificial systems, such as the control of the plane to avoid obstacles during the flight, this kind of program I believe can be processed with photoshop image processing software, of course, the premise is to upgrade!”
“Flash?”
Wan He is very interested in this name, and listen to Liu Lang said, it seems that this small form of animation is really not too difficult, after all, in the computer, animation is also composed of pictures frame by frame, if it is too natural to have high requirements for the chip, but only make it for a few minutes, maybe the chip at this stage can still bear it, even if it can't bear it, it only needs to be improved.
"This is a good proposal, we can give it a try, anyway, now our group of software engineers are full of enthusiasm every day, trying to make something new every day, and Liu Lang, we think that there are still many defects in the C language at this stage, we want to make improvements on this basis, but we have to ask for your opinion first!"
"Haha, Brother Wanhe, you are the experts, I'm just a layman, I just suddenly had some illusions, it was you who turned my illusion into reality, with the continuous strength of computer chips, of course, this C language will continue to upgrade, ten years later, the software must be much more than now, I wish you would quickly abolish the C language, and then create new software!"
In the future of Silicon Valley, many software engineers are like crazy demons, researching new software every day, once they design a new product, they immediately throw it aside and then challenge new things, but those products they throw at the back of their heads are taken away by others and become rich, such as the QQ program and WeChat in the later generations, as well as Ma's father's mobile payment program, these programs are all from Silicon Valley, they just take the application to the extreme.
In the eyes of those top engineers, only innovation can give them a sense of achievement, and they are like philosophers in the scientific community, who "sneer" at the behavior of those "ordinary people", and Liu Lang feels that Wanhe's engineers have some such signs.
Wan He and the others don't study the practical value, Liu Lang has to do it! If we want to sell computers in the shortest possible time, especially to win the support of young people, the best way is to play computer games.
In this computerless era when the human brain has not yet been "civilized", the attraction of any game to people is unimaginable.
Liu Lang still remembers the feeling he felt when he first saw a big game when he was in elementary school, it was a fighting game called "Street Fighter", the two sides controlled the game characters, he couldn't resist this kind of game at all, just played it once and couldn't extricate himself, from elementary school to high school, a full five years, fortunately, he knew his way back, otherwise he would have almost delayed going to college.
And when it came to the university, the online game that swept the whole of China appeared, and tens of millions of students across the country, even adults, were deeply fascinated by it, many students skipped classes, stayed up late in Internet cafes, and even delayed their studies, and this online game became the object of scolding by all students' parents.
In the 80s, there was no game software in the computer, in addition to the limitations of hardware and software, the main thing is that no one wants to get it, the basic functions are not perfect, where will you think about the entertainment function?
But Liu Lang doesn't think so, it's human nature to relax and enjoy, it's more attractive than work, besides, the flssh animation game he said doesn't have high requirements for hardware and software, as for what type of game to make, just ask Liu Lang.
For example, the snake eating bean game, such as the Tetris game, such as the Lianliankan game, these games are the most popular games in later generations, the operation is very simple, as long as the top and bottom, front and back, left and right, but it is obsessed with countless people.
Once these games are installed on the computer, there is no doubt that they will cause a sensation, and then the software alone will make the computer a big hit.
Wan He listened very carefully, and took a pen to write it down from time to time, and he believed in Liu Lang's words, because the facts had proved that his words were good words, and even if he thought it was wrong, he had to forcibly correct it.
"Liu Lang, I'll write them down...... It's interesting to hear, and I'm sure it won't take a year to design these games, but the chips may need to be improved a lot!"
Wanhe is now most concerned about SMIC's technological improvement.