It's raining in Tokyo, but it's still sunny in Kyoto.

Compared with the depression brought by rainy days, except for the most irritable summer, it seems that sunny days will make people feel refreshed and clear.

Shigeru Miyamoto, who is in the headquarters of JD.com Nintendo, seems to be in such a state.

Since two years ago, Nintendo's "Radar" imitation of "Space Invaders" market has been cold, in order to save the substrate that has been made. The company openly recruited game ideas, and after the "Donkey Kong" idea he provided was activated, the trajectory of his life changed dramatically.

Because Donkey Kong stood out from the arcade machines full of shooters at the time and became a big hit, he, the person in charge of industrial design, switched to making games.

Since then, although the work content is boring and boring, the good response from the market again and again has given him a booster again and again.

This time, "Super Mario Bros.", although it was given a cold reception when it was just launched, but under the confidence of the previous series of successful casting, he waited for the news of success.

The sales of "Super Mario Bros." continued to climb, and the 500,000 mark was broken in just three weeks.

Hudson's "Gold Diggers", which was originally incomparable for a while, gradually weakened and was stolen from the limelight by "Super Mario Bros."

Shigeru Miyamoto leaned against the railing and looked at the sun hanging high in the sky.

The sun was dazzling, and he couldn't open his eyes a little. But he just loves to watch.

"A real strong man should be as hot as the sun. ”

When Shigeru Miyamoto looked at the sun, there was nothing in his mind.

"Jingle bell!"

He heard the phone ringing, and he turned to see that it was the front desk. According to Nintendo's rules, the phone must be picked up within three rings, however, the front desk lady in charge of the wiring does not know where to go.

Really!

Shigeru Miyamoto walked over to the phone and picked it up, "Hello, this is Nintendo. ”

"I know it's Nintendo. Your "Super Mario Bros.", there is a mistake, the turtle shell can be stuck for an infinite life!" Although the voice in the earpiece has the sound of electricity and is a little distorted, I can still hear that the voice on the other end of the phone is a little immature, and I know that it is a young child when I hear it.

"What? How could it be? Turtle shell can be stuck with infinite life?" Shigeru Miyamoto, who was calm and calm, repeated very impatiently, "How is this possible?"

At this time, Shuhei Kato, who happened to walk past him, heard Shigeru Miyamoto's words, and the fried noodles and bread in his hand were frightened to the ground.

Just listen to his voice, "No way! Super Mario Bros. is perfectly programmed......"

The two of them leaned together in front of the earpiece, listening to the child's description, and their heads shook like rattles.

The child on the other end of the phone, listening to the constant denial, hung up the phone angrily.

There was silence, as if the two people hung up the vocal cords at the same time as they hung up the phone.

"Or ...... Let's try it. Shuhei Kato said tentatively.

"Try ...... Let's take a look. No, the program is perfect!" Miyamoto muttered.

While the two of them were walking towards the game room, I would like to introduce Shuhei Kaga.

This member, who joined the company in April 1983, was very young, but he was good news for Nintendo at that time.

Since listening to Ricoh's words and using the unfamiliar processor of 6502, the development of the red and white machine has fallen into a quagmire.

Because it is very different from the processor instruction set used in arcades, I wanted to port arcade games such as Donkey Kong. You can only rebuild the program while measuring the time on the game's screen one by one.

The arrival of Shuhei Kato solved the problem of software development.

Because, he joined the microcomputer club when he was a student, and he is very familiar with 6502. At the thrift store in front of the school that sells antique arcade base copies, he stumbled upon a game board and turned it into a computer.

The processor on this substrate is MOS6502, and he relied on magazine articles to memorize all the programming methods of this processor.

"Super Mario Bros.", which he participated in programming, how can there be bugs?

You know, everyone at Nintendo is very interested in bugs. At the place where the red and white machine was released, because of the wrong bug found on the graphics processor, the shipment was stopped, and all were recalled, missing the Christmas business war of that year.

If it is, "Super Mario Bros. is recalled due to a bug......

According to Yamauchi's temperament......

The two of them shuddered when they thought of this, even though it was sunny outside and unusually warm inside.

"Wow, wow, wow!"

Turn on the machine and the music plays. The two of them surrounded the machine and began the test.

Level 3-2.

On the slope where the flag was raised before passing the level, two turtles walked down.

Shigeru Miyamoto followed what the child said, looked for the right time, and used a small jump to step on the turtle shell.

“100！”

“200！”

“400！”

“800！”

“1600！”

“3200！”

“6400！”

“128000！”

“……”

“1UP！”

“1UP!”

“1UP！”

Shigeru Miyamoto didn't touch the button, the turtle shell bounced back against the wall, and Mario, who jumped up, just fell, and stepped on the turtle shell back, and so on.

Shigeru Miyamoto and Shuhei Kato glanced at each other and saw despair in each other's eyes.

This is indeed a bug......

The surrounding colleagues were also curious about what these two people were doing, and they all gathered around.

“K9！”

“MX！”

Under the condition that everyone was watching and Miyamoto Shigeru was not operating, the number of lives automatically obtained had overflowed......

"Is this a bug?"

"Is Super Mario Bros. going to be recalled?"

……

There are all kinds of discussions, and panic is spreading among this group of people who create virtual happiness for children.

At this time, Masayuki Uemura, who was in charge of the hardware development of the red and white machine, was also the biggest victim of the error bug in the graphics processor last time.

He looked at the frightened crowd and sneered, "You guys, why don't you read more game magazines." Hudson, does that Takahashi know? He described the invincible bug of "Gold Digger" as a hidden easter egg, and the crisis was solved all of a sudden, and the children liked it very much. Why don't we say it's an easter egg?"

"yes, why didn't I think of it!" Shigeru Miyamoto, who suddenly brightened, now has a special effect with a light bulb on his head.

With Mario's sprinting speed, he rushed back to the phone at the front desk, trying to appease the angry child who hung up the phone just now.

Perhaps, give him the honor of discovering easter eggs?

While Shigeru Miyamoto thought of a solution, he also remembered the name Takahashi.