Time is like flowing water, and it is the end of September in a blink of an eye. During this time, Nintendo's publicity can be said to be unprecedentedly active, in addition to touting the advent of the era of FC game megagames (in fact, FC games using enhanced MMC3 or similar chips are about to be released), but also shimmering and mysterious revealing some legendary technical details of Nintendo's next-generation console.

An interview with an F game magazine in the industry: "...... Mr. Uemura, the second development department of Nintendo, revealed that the company's new console will adopt a multi-processor collaboration model, but it will be completely different from the dual-processor structure of Sega's upcoming new console, and the number of processors will be larger, and the performance of the console will be more powerful......"

The grapevine circulating among the players: "...... Nintendo's new console uses 65C818 as the main processor, with backward compatibility with FC consoles, and the new console will be able to play these FC games now, and you don't have to lose the old card when you buy a new console......"

A starry sky in the E game media industry: "...... A staff member of Nintendo's development department revealed that the new console of the company will support up to 512×448 points of resolution, which can display 32768 colors, and the same screen supports a maximum of 2048 colors, which can display high-definition, gorgeous and colorful game screens......"

Official news and gossip are flying all over the sky, and the public's expectations for Nintendo's new console are gradually rising, but Sega's president Hayao Nakayama is extremely depressed to find that the light of his new console seems to have been robbed of Nintendo's yet-in-the-dark console, if it weren't for the research and development of the new console to invest a lot of money, Hayato Nakayama would be eager to cancel it immediately. It all started to reach its climax with the arrival of October.

October 23rd, the day of the dawn......

After a long period of warm-up, the much-anticipated masterpiece "Super Mario 3" began to be officially sold in retail stores, and in order to attract attention, Nintendo also held a grand live signing ceremony.

As a header to counterbalance Sega, Super Mario 3 is quite well-made. The game's capacity reached a new peak in the FC era, with a full 3Mb (about 384K bytes), which is almost 16 times the capacity of the earlier titles. What's more attractive is the use of MMC3 function enhancement chip, for the majority of players, in the past two years, you can often see text introductions about FC game function enhancement chips in newspapers and magazines, knowing that it can greatly enhance the performance of FC games, but has not had the opportunity to see the real face, and today the opportunity has finally come.

The signing site was crowded, and several TVs were constantly playing Super Mario 3 gameplay. The display mainly includes the introduction of new systems such as the first large map screen, a variety of props, a variety of mini-games, innovative diagonal scrolls, Mario's innovative gameplay through different obstacles through various transformations, and even some exquisite music in the game.

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Soon a new Mario craze came back and became popular. Although the game only sold 920,000 copies in its first week, the Super Mario series has a long-term selling tradition, and sure enough, Super Mario 3 has been firmly in the top 10 of the game sales charts for several weeks, and surprisingly this position has been held for more than 32 weeks, of course, this is a story for another time.

With the release of "Super Mario 3", Nintendo's game sales list in the second half of the year began to show its grandeur. In order to stop Sega's new console, Nintendo has released more than a dozen titles that use MMC3 or similar chips, including "Ghana Fighter" and "Red Shadow Warrior" brought by KF-Panda. In addition, there are more than 30 ordinary FC games, which are mainly excellent works that work connotation and gameplay, among which Square Enix's "Final Fantasy 2" and Tiannoyuan's "FC Cube" are quite eye-catching.

After enduring the intensive bombardment of Nintendo, Sega's new console was finally put on the shelves on October 29 and began to go on sale with the slogan "Game consoles of the next era". Sega's new console is called MegaDrive, with a pure black body, and the most striking thing is the glittering gold "16BIT" on the front.

In order to show the strong strength of its console, and of course, to rush to the siege of Nintendo, Sega also put up several arcade machines running the popular game "Beastmaster" at the sales site, and on the other side is the MD console that also runs "Beastmaster", under the gaze of many reporters and players, the MD console shows the game quality comparable to the arcade machine. Sega, having learned the lessons of its previous failures, did not stick to the tradition of using only the company's game software on its own consoles, and began to accept third-party game developers to develop its own games.

The first games prepared by Sega this time are "Project Thunder" and "Space Harry 2", which are both transplanted works from arcades, and under the powerful performance of MD, the game graphics basically reach the arcade effect. It's a pity that the game pays too much attention to the graphics and ignores the actual playability of the game, although it attracts many players to try it out, but after a long time, most people return to the FC console.

The biggest blow to Sega during this period was a game display that circulated at an internal meeting of Nintendo, which is a realistic mecha action shooter. In the process of display, there are many realistic mecha action elements such as sprint sliding, jetpack assisted jumping, live ammunition shooting, hand-to-hand combat, thick armored shield grid, etc., and also show the combat scenes such as the battleship breaking into the enemy base microgravity combat, high-speed flight shooting when the high-thrust jetpack is equipped, the operation in weightlessness, and the atmospheric breakthrough battle. The graphics are stunning, the soundtrack is heart-stirring, and it brings out the power of the next-generation console.

Sega saw the game display through some connections, and through its analysis, President Hayabusa Nakayama ambitiously emerged a very bad conjecture, "Could it be that Nintendo's new console is really much better than ours?" ”。 I was a little depressed in my heart, and the president of Nakayama couldn't wait to catch his researchers, give them a left, up, and down, 360-degree big ear scraper, and then ask them if they used the company's research funds to pick up girls, why are they engaged in research and development, and the things that Nintendo took out were stronger, of course, these ideas could only go around in his own head, and he couldn't really say it, so he was even more depressed.

The sales of the MD console, which was pinned on by Sega, have been sluggish in the Japanese market, and it has not been able to exceed 1 million units for a long time, and it is not far from a collapse, and Nintendo's goal has been perfectly achieved. But Lao Yamauchi didn't expect that the launch of the MD American version (Genesis) soon after would bring a heavy blow to his Nintendo.

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While Nintendo was busy putting obstacles on Sega, the preparations for the Shanghai Research Institute of Tianzhien on the other side finally began. Li Haisheng, the Hong Kong man whom Zhang Lexing asked before, was actually a Shanghainese before, but only after graduating from university, he came to Hong Kong to settle down by chance, and he had a good life in Hong Kong in recent years, and planned to return to his hometown in fine clothes, go back and invest tens of thousands of dollars to set up a factory for the production of black-and-white televisions and plush toys, and the place was chosen, which was a street factory near Yu Garden. Although Li Haisheng's trip was delayed due to an unexpected outbreak of hepatitis A, he eventually went to Shanghai.

I haven't been back to Shanghai for a long time, and Li Haisheng feels that this city is a little unfamiliar, but fortunately, the streets have not changed much, and he can still find where to go with his memory. This time, Li Haisheng came back to arrange a lot, in addition to investing in setting up a factory, the old school reunion was also one of them. As one of the most promising among these classmates, Li Haisheng decided to do a good job, and heard that there was a new Jin Jiang Hotel that had just been completed and opened for business, so he set the place for the class reunion there.

On the day of the class reunion, there were still a lot of people coming, and it turned out that the classmates were almost fifty or sixty percent. Among the classmates who came, Li Haisheng also found a female classmate who used to have a good relationship, this female classmate he remembered as Cao Xinyu, but now he looks haggard, and it is estimated that he has not had a good time in the past few years.

Li Haisheng confessed to the classmates at the table with him, and walked over to say a few words to Cao Xinyu, after all, they were all former classmates. After graduation, he worked in a pharmaceutical factory in Qinghai for a few years, and then he was lucky enough to be admitted to graduate school, and he studied for a doctorate in a research institute in Fujian. Unfortunately, soon after the child was born, he was sent to live with his grandparents in Shanghai, and the family could only get together for a short time during the Spring Festival. This year, when the child reached the age of high school, Cao Xinyu was unwilling to be separated like this, so she took a leave of absence without pay and came to Shanghai with her husband.

What Cao Xinyu didn't expect was that without an official hukou in Shanghai, he couldn't find a formal job at all, and the two suddenly became unemployed. Finally, Cao Xinyu mustered up the courage to go to the sea to fight, but she was conspired again, and the hard-earned money was swallowed by the affiliated unit, and as a result, Cao Xinyu and her husband can only barely make ends meet by doing some odd jobs.

Li Haisheng didn't expect that an intellectual like her would live in such an embarrassment after returning to Shanghai, and he couldn't help but feel pity. At this time, he thought of what Zhang Lexing had asked him to set up a research institute in Shanghai to study some computer-related things (mainly because Li Haisheng didn't figure out what a learning machine was). Li Haisheng couldn't help but think in his heart, anyway, the institute wants to invite people, and it is better to take care of his classmates than cheap outsiders, and Cao Xinyu seems to know something about computers, so he may be able to recommend it.

Thinking of this, Li Haisheng said the situation: "Cao Xinyu, there is a big boss in Hong Kong who wants to set up a research institute in Shanghai, and asked me to look for a place here to find someone by the way. If you know more about computers, you can try it, and if you can do it, at least your family's livelihood will not have to worry. ”

"As for the salary, at least that's the amount." Li Haisheng said as he stretched out four fingers and gestured.

"Forty?" Cao Xinyu asked cautiously.

"Not really, at least four hundred." Li Haisheng stretched out four fingers and gestured again.

"Four hundred!" Cao Xinyu was immediately overjoyed when she heard that there was such a good thing, and immediately nodded and agreed to go to the interview.

Not long after, after receiving the news of Li Haisheng's report, Zhang Lexing immediately arranged for someone to go over to verify the situation. Unexpectedly, Cao Xinyu's professional skills are really solid, especially those who are proficient in computer software and hardware, which is exactly the kind of talent that Zhang Lexing needs. Soon, a small research institute was established on the old street of Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, and the name of the institute was Tianzhiyuan (Shanghai) Technology Research Institute. Immediately after a batch of materials and equipment related to the learning machine arrived, the second research institute of the learning machine began to officially operate, and the time slowly came to 1989.

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