Chapter 15: Making Friendships Through Play
"Switch to a 12 mm keyway cutter, rotate a little higher, and change the material to hardwood." Master Zhang said as he touched the rough edge of the wood block that had just been milled.
The milling machine in the workshop was originally used to process metal parts. The material of the hydraulic game machine is wood, and if you want the milling machine to be able to produce wooden hydraulic game machine, you need to adjust and transform it appropriately.
Yu Sheng once mentioned that Yì used plastic as the shell material of the water-powered game machine, and used the injection molding process to make the water-powered game machine. Master Zhang and Master Li studied for a while but did not adopt this plan.
It's not that the injection molding scheme is not good, but that there is a lack of plastic in China. It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and there is no plastic to inject into what plastic.
In the end, the two masters decided to use the existing machine qì and the relatively easy to obtain wooden materials to mass-produce the hydro-powered game machine.
For the rest of his life, he didn't watch Master Zhang in the workshop to guide his apprentice in modifying the machine, and at this time, he was by Nick's side, helping him tidy up his room.
Nick took the items out of the suitcase one by one and placed them in their proper places. Clothes, as well as some bits and pieces of daily necessities, were taken out. Revealing an orange-black rectangular machine with knobs and card slots pressed against the bottom of the box.
Yu Sheng didn't feel anything when he first saw it, until he saw the small square box attached to the rectangular box, and looked at the black joystick sticking out of it, and a red button in the upper left corner. I almost screamed in excitement.
Video game consoles!
It's a video game console!
The appearance of this small square box was almost identical to the description of the early video game console controller he had seen in his video game notebook.
Play! Play how to say.
Yu Sheng hurriedly opened the dictionary and spelled out the pronunciation according to the English letters on it. Then, like a mentally handicapped child, he pointed to the rectangular machine and shouted, "Play! Play! ”
Nick placed it on the table, then placed a dozen game cartridges aside. Watch the rest of your life dancing and write a paragraph on paper with a pen.
The rest of his life flipped through the dictionary, looked up word by word, and spent three minutes figuring out the meaning of all the words.
"You need a TV to play."
TV? Yes!
Yu Sheng thought of the old black and white TV at home, a light bulb popped out of his head, he said what he had just learned, wait a minute, and ran out of the smoke.
Nick shook his head as he looked at Yu Sheng, who had run away in a hurry, and he was now a little skeptical that Yu Sheng was the kind of mentally retarded genius who had been very popular recently. Otherwise, how can the talents who make the water power game machine be like this.
Yu Sheng first ran to his father to explain the situation, and he lied a little, saying that it was a foreign businessman who said that he needed a TV.
Yu Tiecheng can now be regarded as a request for Nick, not to mention a TV, even if it is a meteorite falling from the sky, if Nick wants it, he will find a way to get it.
Yu Sheng moved the black and white TV at home to Nick's room, and under Nick's stunned look, he put the TV on the table, grinned, showed a row of small white teeth, and patted the head of the black and white TV.
"You really want to play?" Nick wrote on the note.
Yu Sheng nodded vigorously.
Nick nodded his head to indicate that he understood, and then, taking out a few cables, began to connect them to the TV.
Seeing that the rest of his life was so interested in video games, Nick decided to insert Atari's master game "Pong" to let the rest of his life feel the charm of video games.
This machine is the second-generation home video game console that Atari began to produce in 1977, the Atari 2600.
The reason why he took it out on a business trip was because he liked to play video games so much, and secondly, because he thought that when he came to Japan, he would be able to find a game maker who made video games and cooperate with them.
Although the company he worked for was mainly engaged in the sale of toys, his company also stepped into the field of video game cassette manufacturing in the context of the extremely hot video games in the United States and almost everyone plays them.
Atari does not have a monopoly on the manufacture of game cartridges, and anyone who wants to be able to make games for Atari consoles and make game cartridges.
Atari also doesn't review the quality of games, and even if the game is very poor, or an old game, it is common to change the packaging and continue to sell it.
Players in the United States buy games with their own eyes, and they will not return or exchange them after they are sold in the store.
A new game is $50 in the first week of launch, $30 in the second week, and $10 in the third week.
The market is chaotic and the demons are dancing.
The more than a dozen cassettes left by Nick are all high-quality cassettes that he has left over the years.
Why does the picture feel a little slow......
Nick looked at the black-and-white TV and felt that the picture was a little slow.
I haven't seen the game in its original form for the rest of my life, and there is no comparison, so naturally I don't know how slow it is.
One confused, one excited, two people, one with a handle in their hands, played the classic Atari game "Pong".
The gameplay of this game is almost indistinguishable from that of real-world ping-pong.
In the middle of the TV screen is a white breakpoint line, which means boundary. On the left and right sides of the top of the line, there are two large Arabic numeral zeros, representing the scores of both sides.
Yu Sheng and Nick can manipulate the handle on the left and right sides of the screen, there is a white dot in the middle of the screen, which represents the ball, it keeps moving, and whoever misses it will add one point to the opponent.
The two young people who were playing the game, of course, did not know at this time that the reason why the game seemed a little slow was because the signal output by Atari was based on the TV broadcast transmission and reception standards developed by the (USA) National Television Standards Board.
China's TV, on the other hand, adopts the European line-by-line inversion standard.
The U.S. standard refresh rate is 60 frames per second, while the European standard adopted by China plays 50 frames per second.
In other words, the American standard plays more frames per second, and the European standard plays slightly less.
The Atari 2600 uses the American standard, and when the picture is output to a TV using the European standard, the picture frame is postponed and the picture display becomes slightly slower.
If this TV is not a black and white TV, but a color TV, the game will not only have white color blocks and a black background "Pong". Nick will find that the output is not in color, but in black and white.
It's a video game!
For the rest of his life, he didn't get used to the operation of the Atari controller, and lost the game 7-11 to Nick.
He put down the handle and tilted his head to look at Nick beside him, two young people who didn't understand the language and had just known each other for a short time, looked at each other and smiled, and formed a friendship through guò video games.
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