"Brother Gu, these two prototypes are hand-welded motherboards, because the printing board has been changed repeatedly, and several places have been rebuilt. The display input and output lines are also hand-welded, and they are not made into an all-in-one machine.

However, this does not affect the production, at least in principle, it is absolutely through. According to this drawing, it can definitely be produced by going to Mr. Han's side. ”

In an abandoned warehouse near the West Lake Electronics Factory, Gu Biao, under the guidance of Ma Feng, Gen Yang Hao and Lu Yunda tinkered with the prototype together.

On the display, which is nominally black and white, but in fact has a slightly yellowish green hue, a simple mouth-shaped ball, under the control of the joystick, up and down, left and right, sensitively eats beans that are only represented by 3 x 3 cross pixels.

There are also monsters with two horns that are as abstract as possible into Viking helmets, desperately trying to contain the bean's mouths from all roads.

If the player who controls the mouth can finally make sure to walk through every position on the maze map and eat all the beans before being chased by the monsters, they will be able to enter the next level smoothly. Otherwise, just wait and lose another 50 yen.

In addition, when you reach the follow-up levels, as the number of enemies increases and the difficulty increases, the bean path of the maze will occasionally brush out "high-energy beans".

Once the bean eats the high-energy bean, the whole body will become larger and flickering, similar to the "invincible state" in Super Mario later, at which point you can kill the little monster instead of blindly running away.

This design adds more strategic and varied elements to the simple eating of beans, and in the later stage, the pipe card can be justified and the design is more difficult, and it is doomed to not be able to kill a few enemies without being invincible.

In this way, players will be more convinced when they die, and instead of blaming the game designer, they will increase their regret, thinking that "if the time had been better to play invincible, maybe they would have won".

In order for arcades to be popular, in the final analysis, it is necessary to maximize the degree of regret that players will feel after losing, and try to reduce the proportion of players who give up healing.

It's like a game like eating chicken, after being killed, the player will only start the next game with indignation, feeling that he is a pity to die and is unlucky to be punished by the old yin. Instead of wanting to smash the keyboard and feeling that you are inferior to others like in traditional gun games, you will give up.

The core of any popular game is to reduce the frustration of hard power and promote the illusion of regret that "you can win what you want".

Gu Biao, a guy who is well versed in the psychology of entertainment products in later generations, makes something more tempting than the original version of Namco in the same period in history, which is simply a "dopamine laboratory", playing with hot-blooded players as guinea pigs.

At the same time, because Gu Biao's version of "Pac-Man" added memory batteries and score rankings at the beginning of the design, Gu Biao took the opportunity to drum up the design of "coin to continue life", so that players can choose another coin within 10 seconds of the pipe card in the back, and continue to play from the current progress.

The poisonous trick of this circle of money would not have appeared until the arcade machines in the late 80s, and the arcades in the same period of history did not even have recording batteries and writing registers, so naturally it could not be so high.

In the end, it is nothing more than dividing the leaderboard into two: the leaderboard with no life continuation score, and the total score list with life extension. At the same time, the list with life extensions should display both the score and the number of life extensions, and set the upper limit of life extensions to 5 times.

In other words, if you lose 300 yen, if you die again, you will be forced to start all over again, and you won't be able to renew it if you want to.

This is again a kind of psychological warfare that can create scarcity and make players feel that renewing money is earning, and the more you buy, the more you earn. Spend less money, but see higher and more difficult levels.

As everyone knows, if you respawn directly in a high-difficulty level, you will be able to die faster, allowing the arcade owner to save you the time to replay the low-difficulty level.

As for the design optimization of the game "Bomberman", Gu Biao doesn't have much to mention, and the general review considerations are similar to "Pac-Man".

The only change was the addition of a doubles mode in Bomberman, which made it the first arcade game to be played against each other.

With the performance of the original body in the 80s, it was impossible to make a fighting game, and the graphics were too poor. The reason why "Street Fighter" did not appear until 87 and SNK's "Samurai Shodown" was around 90 was limited by the expressiveness of the picture.

And this is destined to be absolutely immovable for the 8088 CPU, at least until the arcade of Intel's 80386 CPU in 1985.

(In 1982, Intel also launched 80286, when Intel launched an average CPU with a generation difference in 3 years, and then launched an improved version with an interval of 1 and a half years (it is understood that Apple's mobile phone launched a version with an S plus and double the capacity). For example, 8086 and 80286 are separated by 3 years, but there is an 8088 in the middle. There are also 80287 after 286 a year and a half, and then another year and a half before it reaches 386, strictly enforcing "Moore's Law". ）

If you use the current machine to do a shooting game, although the graphics can barely hold up, but the gameplay is too rough, there is no strategy and operation space, and it is also not popular.

At this time, Bomberman can find the perfect balance between visual expression and competitiveness - the competitive mode of this thing is similar to that of later players playing QQ candy in the QQ game lobby at the beginning of the 21st century, and as long as the battle mode allows several bombs to be deployed at a time, it is completely possible to trap the enemy and blow it up to death.

At the same time, these settings do not increase the difficulty of the machine's performance implementation, and can be achieved by optimizing the algorithm level.

……

"Brother Gu, you are really good at everything, and you were killed again. ”

After Ma Feng was killed by Gu Fu's bomberman for the fifth time, he dropped the rocker convincingly and admitted defeat.

Although there are still long hand-soldered wires between the monitor and the bare motherboard, it still can't stop the charm of the competitive effect.

Ma Feng has already played three arcade games and also played Taidong Electric's "Space Invaders", and now he is a well-informed old bird in the circle.

Although he is not addicted to games and has insufficient financial level because of his busy work and studies, his vision is definitely old enough.

A game that can make him sigh is destined to attract other people who have never seen the world.

Gu Biao smiled and turned around and asked Yang Hao and Lu Yunda behind him: "What about the two of you, have you had any fun during the try?"

"I've played it all, and I've been playing it all nights in the Chinese New Year's Eve." Yang said proudly and embarrassedly.

Fortunately, there are no game consoles in China now, so parents don't know what they are doing, just as a high-tech scientific research task for high-achieving students of Zhejiang University. When they were tinkering at home, their parents also made them supper, and the offerings were made clearly.

Finally, after testing the technical stability and game experience, Gu Biao made a decision to throw this thing to Han Ting's Hanle Electronics to OEM.

"Fengzi, in the last few days of the winter vacation, accompany me to the Special Economic Zone, and we will finish the negotiations with the foundry. ”

"Why do you want me to come forward in this matter? Isn't that Mr. Han your former teacher and has a very good relationship with you?"

He also had a working cooperation with Han Ting, but that was in the fourth quarter of last year, when Han Ting was a pawn of Gu Biao's layout on the side of Yueben.

Later, after Han Ting was transferred to the Hanle Electronics Factory in the Special Economic Zone, Ma Feng never dealt with Han Ting.

Regarding Ma Feng's doubts, Gu Biao knocked seriously: "Fengzi, you can have a snack, now I am still the major shareholder of Hanle Electronics, and I directly come forward to talk to Han Ting about the OEM cost in my name, isn't that the left hand to the right hand? What if the foundry fee asked by Han Ting is low?"

In the future, will the shareholders of CITIC Trust be described as 'related party transactions' and take advantage of the Chinese part of the bargain? It is impossible for us to use the method of bidding and bidding to find two more electronics factories to accompany Hanle to rig bids and prove his innocence. This kind of loophole leaves more opportunities for people to pull up the list sooner or later. ”

Ma Feng was stunned when he heard this, and with his current experience, he couldn't understand this sinister at all.

In the 80 years of China, who has heard of bidding and other means of ensuring openness and transparency in transaction decisions.

And this truth can be understood by almost all primary school students in later generations:

Because Hanle Electronics was 60% funded by CITIC, Gu Biao only accounted for 40%.

In the first few arcade machines, because the brand and intellectual property rights were still completely in the hands of Hanle, this contradiction was not prominent.

And Gu Biao's new games "Bomberman" and "Pac-Man" after starting a new stove, if the total cost is assumed to be 500 US dollars, the final sales price is 1,000 US dollars.

In this era, the labor fee is 100 US dollars, and Gu Biao's final income is 100 * 0.4 + 400 = 440 US dollars, and CITIC's income is 100 * 0.6 = 60 US dollars.

The foundry fee rose to $200, Gu Biao's income fell to $380, and CITIC's income rose to $120.

Therefore, Gu Biao must avoid falling into the pretext of "being an athlete and a referee at the same time".

The VIE structure of later Internet companies is a typical way to reduce the profit of the operator to 0, and then all the gross profit of the revenue is paid to the R&D company as a "technical service fee".

Once the operator has state-owned assets, it is easy to "make mistakes". (Of course, in the early days, Internet companies did not have state-owned assets, and the VIE structure was unanimously committed by all shareholders when it was signed)

It took Ma Feng a long time to finally understand Gu Biao's explanation, and once again refreshed the three views and improved his cognitive level.

Brother Gu knows so much.

"Then as long as I come forward to negotiate, is it enough? can completely avoid suspicion?" he humbly continued to ask for advice, in order to be safe. By the way, I also learned a little more.

Gu Biao patiently explained: "This is the most important thing, but it is not enough. To prove one's innocence, the best way is to leave a small number of orders and continue to do it for Xihu Electronics Factory - Xihu Electronics Factory has no equity interest relationship with us, and it is completely a foundry fee negotiated by a businessman. After the contract is signed and the construction is officially started, I will go to Mr. Han and give Mr. Han a slightly higher price.

When the time comes, it will be proved that 'other domestic electronics factories are also making money at this price, and others will take it if Hanle Electronics does not take orders, so it is not that I take advantage of being an athlete and a referee, I just value the large production capacity and scale of Hanle Electronics Factory to meet my needs before choosing it'. ”

After speaking, he also warned Ma Feng: In the future, when he is not there, any supply chain management contract must be negotiated according to this principle, at least to ensure that two suppliers are admitted, and both leave transaction records, and must not save trouble.

By the time of the '82 purge of economic activity and the excavation of speculators who had stolen national interests and imprisoned, more or less those who had been involved in the one-way business were arrested.

Gu Ao's security measures are completely necessary.

"Following Brother Gu is really rewarding every day, and I have learned a hand. ”

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