CHAPTER XXVIII

Hudson's schedule for making games is very full, and this morning Shin'ichi Nakamoto just completed the final test of "Bomb Man". Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the afternoon, I took the Shinkansen back to Sapporo and discussed new games with people from the hardware department.

It is said that the game will be made in both an arcade version and a red-and-white version, so it is necessary for Shin'ichi Nakamoto to rush back.

There is no way to rush back in the flesh, although technology has advanced, and the telephone can transmit sound thousands of miles away.

However, the distance in space will still greatly hinder the communication and cooperation between people.

The telephone can only convey sound, and many of the information in communication is often not expressed.

These implications may be body movements, or an object around you.

In short, the efficiency of telephone communication is extremely low, and in such a situation, face-to-face communication is particularly necessary.

Shin Nakamoto walked one by one, and the game department here immediately came to a standstill.

In order to make everyone uncomfortable with nothing to do, the head of the game department found some dispensable jobs for the people in the department to do.

Takahashi looked at the information in the game department for a while, and felt that the atmosphere was not too good, which affected his ability to read the information. I photocopied some materials and took them away and looked at them.

In the summer, when it gets dark late, the streets are full of pedestrians. Takahashi sat on a bench on the side of the road, silently flipping through the photocopies.

Page by page, the sunset soon fell into the valley, dyeing half the sky red.

At the beginning of the neon light, Takahashi stood up and prepared to go home.

The scene at that moment just now seems to be very suitable for meeting a literary girl, if there is still wind in the air, maybe you can also say a literary and artistic sentence, "Today's wind is a little noisy."

It's a pity that there is no wind, and there are no literary girls.

Although the world is big, how can there be so many chance encounters.

"Don't fantasize, let's go, before the wind stops. ”

I bought some specials and went home, went upstairs and opened the door, only to find that my uncle was not at home.

Where did my uncle go?

Takahashi looked upstairs and downstairs and found that it was not only his uncle, but the rest of the orphans were not there.

He remembered what Han Bugou said that day, maybe they went out collectively because of this.

Takahashi waited while reading the information, and waited for a long time, but before his uncle came back, he was really hungry, so he started to eat first.

Regarding the game he talked about with Shin'ichi Nakamoto, he already had a relatively complete idea in his mind. I've already started writing a plan.

While he writes the plan, he is also trying to find solutions to the problems that may be encountered. For example, if there are too many destructible blocks, it will cause great difficulties in the design of the game.

He now has a vague idea of waiting for "Super Mario Bros.", which is called "Super Mario" by Chinese pirates, and Nintendo's first-party game is released, to refer to the programming design of this game.

The bricks in Super Mario Bros. are not very eye-catching, but they are full of them throughout the game. And these blocks are veritable destructible blocks.

If you can see the original code of Super Mario Bros., it will be especially helpful for the game you want to make.

The advantage of Hudson as one of Nintendo's first third parties is that he can get the development documentation for almost all of Nintendo's first-party red and white console games.

After all, the technical strength of each third party is different, and if you want to steadily improve the overall game quality on the red and white machine, Nintendo, as the first party, needs to pull a third party.

Of course, this one is not free, it is charged.

Although there is a fee, from the current situation, all third parties are willing to buy these technical development documents.

After all, for them, the improvement of game production technology will directly show the sales of the game, and the better the game sells, the more money will be made.

Nintendo's behavior is actually helping them make money.

Of course, Nintendo did not make any less money in the process.

Because of the royalty system created by Yamauchi, only Nintendo has the right to produce cartridges for red and white machines, and other third-party games, even if they pass Nintendo's review, cannot produce game cartridges themselves, and must be commissioned to Nintendo.

Although this system seems to be overbearing, it is a necessary means in this era.

The reason for Atari's collapse is that Atari officially took the lead in making garbage games to die. Another important reason is that anyone can produce game cartridges for Atari consoles, and Atari has no right to interfere.

Therefore, while there are many inferior games on the market, there are also many shell games.

Maybe a game doesn't sell well, and it doesn't sell out when it is produced, so it stands to reason that it can only be sold cheaply.

But some businessmen took it seriously and took the cartridges back, put them on a cover, and resold them as a new game.

In this way, American gamers are becoming more and more cautious about the games on the market. Although there are such conscientious publishers as Activision. But there are too many people fishing in troubled waters.

In the end, E.T. Alien sparked outrage, and players voted with their feet to refuse to buy any game on the Atari platform.

In the 80s, an industry with annual sales of tens of billions of dollars was destroyed by all the practitioners.

With the lessons of the past, Nintendo established a royalty system after the release of the red and white machine. Only Nintendo-certified third parties can make games for red and white consoles, and the games they produce must be reviewed by Nintendo before they can be released, and the cassette production must be done by Nintendo.

In this way, Nintendo turned the red and white machine into a highly enclosed platform.

And this highly enclosed platform has also built the myth of Nintendo's empire.

After Takahashi finished eating, he clicked the pixels for a while before his uncle returned.

Takahashi put down his pen and noticed that his uncle was covered in the smell of alcohol, and he asked, "What are you doing?"

"Have a meal together. The uncle, who was like a drunken cat, said in a strange tone.

"Eat, what to eat, drink so much wine. ”

"If you don't eat anything, you're happy!"

Takahashi looked at his uncle like this and knew that he had drunk too much, and even if he asked again, he couldn't ask anything.

He told his uncle to lie down, then took a basin of water, threw a pitching handkerchief, and wiped his uncle's face.

The uncle lying on the ground was still dishonest and kept rolling. Rolling and rolling, a note fell out of his pocket.

Takahashi picked up the note and looked at it, and found that it was a bill for eating.

In the eyes of others, eating tens of thousands of yen in one meal is not much, but for the uncle and nephew of Takahashi, who originally had a food standard of no more than five hundred, it was undoubtedly an astronomical amount.

Takahashi looked at his uncle, not knowing what to say. Forget it, let him be happy.

I will make more and more money in the future, I just hope that these are from my fellow countrymen, and I don't want to fight against me.