Kutaragi, a very long surname.

Kokuta Ragi, who is only five years old this year, has been a video game player since he owned his first red and white machine.

Less than a meter tall, he began to mingle in the arcade. Although he was not even tall enough to reach the console of an arcade machine, because of his father and the arcade owner's acquaintance, the staff and players inside looked at the boss and his cute face, and carried him to the chair because he was not tall enough.

On March 14th, spring blossomed.

Kokutaragi had just returned from the arcade, and his mind was full of "If You Are Brave, You Will Go Down a Hundred Floors", which was just released today.

When he got home, he saw that his mother was still cooking, and habitually opened the magic box that he could play with since he could remember.

How is Baseball?

Kokuda Ragi doesn't have much love for baseball, so I guess my dad played it......

He forgot to turn it off, so he roughly pulled out the cassette and pulled out his favorite Super Mario Bros. from the box and plugged it in.

Looking at the chaotic pattern on the machine, Kokutara Kiken pressed the reset button like an old driver.

The screen flashed, blue sky, white clouds, green grass, red bricks, everything familiar was re-displayed on the screen.

Kokutaragi looked at the screen, bit his lip and started the game.

As much as he likes to play Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. doesn't seem to like him. Although this game has just come out, he has this game. However, now he can only pass the ground level of the first major level and the first small level, as well as the sewer level of the first major level and the second small level.

Although compared to the arcade machine that can't even pass the first level, he can clear at least two levels, at least he can experience a lot of fun in the game. But no matter adults or children, the mentality is never satisfied.

Kokutaragi had already made up his mind that he must clear the first level of "Super Mario" this week, so that he could show off with Nini and kiss.

However, just as the five-year-old little brain melon was holding the handle and the fantasy appeared in his head, he subconsciously operated according to the first level map, but let his Mario die.

What's going on......

Kokutaragi looked at "Super Mario Bros. Brothers" with the wrong color on the screen, and his mind couldn't turn for a while.

"I'm back!" Kutara Kidoken, who is his father, rarely didn't socialize or work overtime, and as soon as the sun set sounded, he pushed open the door and returned home.

For the first time since Christmas last year, I saw a red and white machine in Akihabara for the first time. Kutaragi became interested in this machine.

At that time, the game demonstrated in the store was "Donkey Kong", and countless children watched attentively, babbling excitedly, and the pleasant atmosphere infected the whole store. Once the player rescued the princess after many challenges, the applause of the entire store rang out.

Not to mention children, even an adult like Kuda Raki was moved by such a scene.

As a researcher engaged in the research of LCD televisions, Kutaragi is not an amateur, although he has never designed circuits.

Looking at the excellent picture, he studied the performance parameters of the red and white machine.

After a little research, he quickly changed from being interested in the game of the red and white machine to loving the red and white machine itself.

The hardware configuration of the red and white machine is very simple, and all accessories can be bought in the market. But such a pair of ready-made parts, through a magical architecture, can achieve as many effects as possible with the least performance.

Why not buy such a machine full of industrial beauty!

Of course I want to buy it!

The red and white machine, which was originally intended to be given to his son as a Christmas gift, was taken over by Kutaragi Ken who returned home alone.

He listened to the introduction of the shopkeeper and bought two games, one is "Donkey Kong" released by Nintendo, and the other is "Gold Digger" ported by Hudson.

Donkey Kong is a game that Kutaragi played on an arcade machine. He also knew that the game was not popular in China at first, but it was the United States that became popular, which led to the domestic market becoming popular.

What surprised him was that the red and white machine, a game console whose cost was far from reaching the class level, could retain almost 100% of the picture of the arcade "Donkey Kong", which was amazing.

If "Donkey Kong" is okay, the game "Gold Digger" is even less calm. Video games are so popular that Sony itself has a related department for video games. even got the adaptation rights of "Gold Diggers".

However, the gold diggers he has seen are the kind of "Gold Diggers" with a single-screen display. The characters are simple, just a few pixels. People who don't have good eyesight have to get close to the arcade screen to see where they are.

But this "Gold Digger" on the red and white machine is very different, not to mention the perspective moving closer, the delicate character drawings, and the smooth scrolling effect surprised him.

As an engineering student, he even drew the circuit diagram of the red and white machine himself. As a result, his understanding of video game consoles goes even further.

After understanding the technical level, and looking back at the rich entertainment of the two games, he suddenly felt that the games he had played on the Atari 2600 that might not have played for five minutes could be thrown into the trash.

"What are you playing?" asked Kutaragi Ken as he walked into the living room from the entrance and saw his son sitting in front of the TV looking at the screen.

"Playing Mario!" replied in a milky voice.

"Then you play, I'll go see Mom. "Kutara Kiken, who was already planning to make his own game console, has recently become less enthusiastic about red and white consoles.

"Daddy, Daddy!" shouted Kokutaragi when he saw that his father was leaving.

"What's wrong?" asked Kutaragi, turning around.

This year is 1986, and Kutara Mujian, who was born in 1950, has a son who is only five years old. It is not appropriate to say that he is old enough to have children, but late marriage and late childbearing make him very doting on his son.

"Daddy, look, Mario is getting weird...... "Kokutaragi handed the handle to his father, which was much larger than his hand.

Kutara Kiken noticed that the color of the game's face change was indeed a little wrong, as an engineering practitioner, his first thought was, is the line not in good contact?

But as a father, as a hero who can move forward in any game in the eyes of his son, Kutaragi Ken didn't check the line, but played this weird version of Mario.

How is the first level swimming?

How are piranha flowers white?

How do clouds soak in water and join together?

The more Kutaragi Ken played this Super Mario Bros., the more sweat on his head became.

Looking at the strange level display in the upper right corner, he asked, "Good son, do you remember what you did before playing Mario?"

"Remember!"

"Would you like to show it to Dad?"

"Good!"

Kokutaragi tilted his head and thought for a while, then plugged "Baseball" back into the red and white machine......