Chapter Ninety-Two: Preparing for the Competition
"Can't you have video games if you don't have them? You're discriminating against Games of Destiny! "Chiba Yuki seems to have a tendency to cry, make trouble, and hang himself, and when girls want to be unreasonable, ordinary people really don't have a problem with this.
Lin Yan is just an ordinary person, not a second-class person or a third-class person. He didn't have much experience in dealing with this kind of scene, so he had to say, "Okay, I'll contact Haruka Kishimoto and ask her to add an exhibition area for "Game of Destiny". Also, sister, I remember that on "Game Pass", isn't it a company that openly solicits participation now, so it's better if you sign up yourself. You come and tell me, and I have to go and tell her, and it's the same in the end. ”
"I don't care, I'll leave everything to you. Lin Yan, I trust you very much, I don't have to worry about you, don't let me down. Chiba Yuki saw that Lin Yan had won, and immediately changed back to his original look. Looking at the way she looks, it seems that she doesn't take "Game of Destiny" to heart. However, if she really didn't take it to heart, why did she come to Lin Yan in a hurry.
The woman's heart was needled, Lin Yan shook his head, he didn't have the ability to find a sesame seed in the Mariana Trench.
"By the way, after you get the booth, whether you are going to prepare a simple exhibition "Game of Destiny", or hold a competition. If so, are you going to run a tournament, or are you going to run an invitational tournament? "Lin Yan is a person who really goes to do things, he is much more specific than a leader like Chiba Yuki, who pats his head and thinks about problems.
Holding a contest at an exhibition is a better way to attract popularity. Even if the audience doesn't know anything about "Game of Destiny", as long as there is a stool in the exhibition hall, someone will definitely sit down.
"Let's have a competition. Championship? Tournament? "Chiba Yuki is really not a troublesome master, and he easily decided to hold a competition. However, when it comes to the choice of tournaments and invitationals, she seems to be a little undecided.
The championship trophy originally referred to the brocade flag, and later came to refer to the prize of the winner of the competition. The tournament itself, on the other hand, refers to a series of finals between different regions and large groups of winners.
Invitational tournaments are much simpler than tournaments, which are to invite some people to play.
"Tournaments can be a bit tight, and you can have a few weeks to play in front of you. Invitational tournaments are relatively easy, Chiba Senpai, do you know players who are better at playing Game of Destiny? Lin Yan explained as he raised a question.
He seems to have only talked about the pros and cons of the two tournament systems, and did not directly decide whether to run a tournament or an invitational tournament. However, his stance is more on the invitational side. To a large extent, his argument will make actual decision-makers choose the latter. However, the decision-maker will not be disgusted, and the decision-maker will think that this is what he has decided to do.
This can be regarded as a more powerful skill for subordinates, and Lin Yan is self-taught. Also thanks to Yuki Chiba's training for him.
Sure enough, Chiba Yuki was as good as a stream, and in the tournament and invitational tournament, he chose the latter.
"Then the invitational tournament is ready." She decided, "I really don't know how many people play Destiny Games well, but it doesn't matter, I'll go and notify the game clubs of other schools and let them choose a team from each school." Our "Game of Destiny" is quite popular, so it shouldn't be cold. ”
Although this seems to be an invitational tournament on the surface, it is actually a tournament model at heart. However, the event was not organized by them, and the heavy lifting was directly thrown to the schools.
"Okay, that's it. I'll let you know when you get the venue, so don't forget to find someone to set up the venue. Lin Yan said.
"I'll rest assured that you're doing things, okay, I'll go back, and you play slowly." Yuki Chiba walked lightly, just as she came lightly.
Lin Yan looked at her back and slowly turned around. Whoever works under this eldest lady is really a hard thing. A three-second silence was observed for the future employees of the Chiba Group.
"Xiaoyan, can you talk to Game Pass?" Yuki Sakata asked with great curiosity. When Lin Yan and Chiba Yuki were talking just now, he had been listening to him, but Chiba Games had always treated him as air, and he didn't have a chance to speak.
"You can too. I'll tell you a secret. Lin Yan pretended to be mysterious and said.
"Uh-huh." Yuki Sakata nodded sideways.
"Do you remember the big sister who made you feel good and punched you?" Lin Yan said in a low voice as if he was telling a ghost story.
"Uh-huh." Yuki Sakata nodded twice quickly.
"Game Pass was the magazine she founded, and the pamphlets she sold at that time were the predecessor of Game Pass." Lin Yan continued.
"Huh!?" Yuki Sakata was shocked, and the degree of exaggeration of his expression was as exaggerated as the facial expression composed of characters that would become popular in the future.
"Xiaoyan, I told you, when that big sister punched me in the face. I thought she must be something in the pool. Just like my sister, I think she will achieve a lot in the future. Yuki Sakata said as she touched her face.
Lin Yan shook his head, it's not helped, it's not saved, this kid is not saved. I can actually say from the feeling of being punched that this person will definitely achieve something in the future. If he really has this special function, then he doesn't have to do anything, and he just has to open a "face-slapping fortune-telling" stall on the street.
Someone came to tell a fortune and punched Yuki Sakata. Then he will start from the punch with its strength, its angle, its technique. deduce what kind of profession this person who slapped him in the face is engaged in now, and what will be his fortune in the future. Maybe this can be said to be right, and maybe he will become a famous god stick.
"Do you want to play together?" Hayashi returned to the arcade and asked Yuki Sakata. Yuki Sakata just said to take a break, after such a long time, I see that he is almost resting, and I guess we can play together. Although when playing games with Yuki Sakata, Lin Yan felt a little unable to show his hands, but the fun of playing games with friends is really not something that can be experienced by playing games with his head covered alone.
It's not that playing games by yourself doesn't generate fun. Playing by yourself can also produce corresponding fun, but that kind of fun is a kind of fun that challenges oneself and breaks through the limits. Instead of sharing happiness with friends. Speaking of which, video games are such amazing things that can make different people have different kinds of fun.
"No, it's up to you to play well, and it's not hard to look good. Xiaoyan, you said that I am not hopeless, there are games that I don't play, I don't like to watch. Yuki Sakata said with some confusion.
"It's normal, maybe there will be people playing games on stage in the future, and a group of people underground will pay tickets to watch it. It's like going to the theater to see a comedian now. Lin Yan gave an example and comforted Yuki Sakata.
"Really? Can there really be such a day? Yuki Sakata said with a little surprise. He felt that there was an open space in front of him, and Lin Yan's simple words just now smashed a huge hole in his head. Let him, a brain whose imagination is a little poor, see the wider world between heaven and earth through this brain hole.
Lin Yan didn't think of his words, and he smashed Sakata Yuki into a fugue fantasy state. He stared at Yuki Sakata for a moment, and when he saw that he had no intention of regaining consciousness, he turned on the arcade machine and began to practice on his own. After all, he accepted Sadako Yamazaki's challenge, and it seems that she is not a weakling, he is an upright man, and it would be a great shame to lose to a girl. Especially this girl is still a girl from the Yamazaki family.
There are many people who have played games and will know that when the whole person is immersed in the game world, they will not feel the passage of time. The situation of reading and being obsessed with reading is similar. If you don't finish this book halfway through, you will have a strong desire to continue reading and finish it quickly. And when you really finish reading this book, you will feel a sense of emptiness in your heart, and a little melancholy lingers in your heart.
Lin Yan entered such a state, he still played "Pac-Man", and passed quickly one level after another. More than two hundred levels flowed in front of him like water, and in a blink of an eye, he reached two hundred and fifty-six levels, when he had eaten half of the beans. Half of the screen is blurred. Next, according to the memory in his mind, he dodged the four little fool ghosts and ate the rest of the beans.
However, that's all there is to it, the program is stuck, and it can't move on to the next level. Lin Yan's Pac-Man finally died at the hands of the patrolling ghost. When he entered his player's nickname into the leaderboard, he looked back and saw Yuki Sakata with an adoring look on his face.
"Xiaoyan, you are really amazing. That's how the machine makes you play. Don't be in a hurry to leave, help me fix it before I can go. Yuki Sakata admired Lin Yan's surprising, devilish technique, and said to him, you broke my machine, stop and don't run.
Lin Yan looked at his Scrooge appearance, and he also felt a little funny. This arcade machine is really important to Yukita Sakata. In fact, it's important for most people. Because, it's 1980, and there aren't many ways to entertain, and that's just a few things.
If it weren't for the lack of spiritual entertainment among the people, the video game consoles of the Video Game Alliance, and the game watches of Ren Hell would not have been so hot.
The reason why Lin Yan made the arcade machine was not only because he needed money at the time, but also because he was really bored. If only thirty years later, he would hang on the Internet all day long, and what kind of game console would he make.
However, decades later, there are still enthusiasts who miss this era, and they may buy an arcade machine for tens of thousands of dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't see how he plays, just to keep a memory.
Maybe this generous big brother will say to his son like this, "Your dad and I were good at playing arcade machines back then, as long as I stood in front of the arcade and played, the people behind me were a thick layer, and the people in the inner layer were tired of watching and wanted to go out to the toilet, it was rare to die." ”
There are many times when a person behaves in the eyes of outsiders that is very unreasonable. In fact, in his own opinion, it is very reasonable and has a very perfect internal logic.
is like this uncle who may exist decades later, he is an arcade player who bought a bunch of "broken copper and iron" for the sake of feelings.
Perhaps, in a few decades there will be competitions for classic arcade games. There will also be middle-aged players who go into the basement of their homes after work every day, and repeat a game again and again by the dim light. Just to get first place on this old game.
It's all a dream.,It looks like a paranoid dream of the game.。
"The machine isn't broken, just restart it." Lin Yan said in his mouth, and restarted the switch of the arcade machine in his hand. Let the whole machine restart.
"Is that picture just now an occasional occurrence, or will it definitely appear?" Yuki Sakata seemed to have suddenly become a little clever again, and asked a very pointy question.
"It will inevitably appear, because of the program, this game, as long as you play the 256th level and eat half of the beans, half of the screen will be blurred." Hayashi explained, and at the same time, he told Yuki Sakata where the limits of several other games were.
After hearing so many secrets about the game, Sakata's face turned red with excitement, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. He asked, "Xiaoyan, do many people know about these things?" ”
"Few people should know that if there are no accidents, the limit of "Pac-Man" is the first time in the current world." Lin Yan touched Bo's chin and said.
In fact, this kind of secret was discovered many years after the arcade was released. Arcade machines, like other electrical appliances, come with a warranty, and the industry standard is one year. If there are many such problems within one year of this warranty period, which are serious enough to affect the game, then the manufacturer of this arcade machine, no matter how much damage suffers, will initiate a recall process.
Like the arcade machine that was built on the game Pac-Man, the video game league sold five figures, to say the least, which made them recall, and they would want to cry.
However, the problem only occurred at the 256th level, and it did not reach the point where it needed to be recalled. Among all Pac-Man players, it is relatively unlikely that one out of a hundred will break through this level. The fact that this screen is a legend for most players, is just a legend passed down by word of mouth.
After Lin Yan finished speaking, he didn't forget to warn Yuki Sakata again, don't say it. Yuki Sakata swore that he would not say it.
Lin Yan saw his gesture of assurance and nodded with satisfaction. Actually, he doesn't guarantee that there is no big problem with this matter. Even if he says it, others will listen to it as a joke. Let Sakata Yuki's quasi-hand remnants play, it would be good if he could play to ten levels, and the two hundred and fifty-sixth levels would be like a dream to him. He could never have verified it himself. (To be continued.) )