As long as you get rid of the trouble of patents, making a video game arcade machine is definitely not as difficult as you think. Except for the CPU, everything else can be easily bought in the market. For manufacturers with a little strength, although it is difficult to obtain a central processing unit, it is by no means as unruly as Lin Yan.

For example, Lin Yan's more familiar boss Kagawa, through Ke Mingxiong, they revitalized the entire Taiwanese video game market. The child in Taiwan can now be regarded as a phenomenon. He was featured in many televisions, newspapers, and magazines. When it was reported that a video gamer conference might be held in Japan, the crowd called for children to participate in the competition, win the championship, and win a great honor for Taiwan.

"What are you doing?" Lin Yan, who was in the arcade hall, asked the people around him.

The person next to him, with long hair, put his hands on the console of the arcade machine, and looked at the picture of "Pac-Man" on the screen intently, as if he was in good spirits, and it seemed that this was the case, as if he didn't hear Lin Yan's greeting at a glance.

There are a lot of people in the arcade who can concentrate on playing games, but there are very few people like him who have a notebook at hand. It was this notebook that attracted Lin Yan, he glanced at it just now, and it seemed that there was a map of "Pac-Man" drawn on it, and there were many connections in it, according to speculation, it should be the route that "Pac-Man" should take.

Is this man poor? If you don't have money to play games, you'll take a book like this, and study the game seriously. Lin Yan saw him as if he was recalling his youth, when his family was not wealthy, just an ordinary working family. At that time, the computer room was just beginning to rise, and five yuan an hour, and being able to save money for an hour a week was already a thing worth celebrating.

At that time, although he had no money, he had time, so he went to the computer room and watched others play games in front of the computer. At that time, there were many popular games, "Delta", "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "Red Alert", and Lin Yan's favorite game was "StarCraft".

StarCraft is a game that is different from Red Alert in that all resources are tight and mines are fair for every player. Unlike "Red Alert", the mine is far away, and the distance traveled by the minecart may not be the same.

He was not very old at the time, but he was quickly attracted to this kind of game where he had to build and fight against the enemy at the same time. But he didn't have any money at the time. Therefore, every day, I stand behind others, take a small notebook, write down all the shortcut keys of all the buildings in the small notebook, and then go home every day, and contact the keys with the keyboard poster that I bought for ten yuan.

However, this kind of paper-based game contact is obviously useless, and in the hour he can get on the computer every week, he will still be rubbed on the ground by the local tyrants in the computer room who can play StarCraft every day. It's a frustrating thing, but he's not the only one facing setbacks.

At that time, there were not too many machines in the computer room, about 30 of them. And every day, there can be at least 40 or so onlookers. Plus thirty people on board. A small computer room is more crowded than a classroom.

In the smelly environment of sweat, the old fan overhead "creaked". At that time, Lin Yan always had an inexplicable fear of this kind of old fan, he was always afraid that this dangling thing would fall from the roof of the shed and cut his head open like a watermelon, revealing the red flesh inside.

Therefore, he always doesn't like to stay under the fan, and even doesn't go to school because of this. When the teacher knew the reason, he also felt that it was inexplicable, was this child sick? Other kids like to sit directly under the fan, where it's not cool. Why is this child not willing to sit under the fan at all, and when he sits underneath, he makes it feel like going to the slaughterhouse, and sometimes he can even cry.

Fortunately, the teacher is also a good teacher who is more responsible, and he explained to Lin Yan in a good voice that the electric fan on the top of his head is very safe and will not fall off and cut people's heads like watermelons. However, Lin Yan still didn't do it. In the end, the teacher who had no choice but to transfer Lin Yan to something else.

Having said that, there was no entertainment at that time, so the children had more free time. And rich children go to the computer to play arcades, and children like Lin Yan, who have no money, are naturally strong onlookers. These people who can't play with the computer naturally discuss tactics, fingering, these seemingly ethereal things.

There were even friends who watched the legion at that time, and said in a very certain tone that at the beginning of each game, the peasants could be quickly dispersed through the operation, so as to get a little more money and gain an advantage in the subsequent games.

Lin Yan didn't believe it, he thought that the automatic program designed by the computer program was already perfect, and it was impossible for a person to operate it faster than the computer. So, the two of them made a bet that whoever lost would give the winner an hour's net.

Of course, it was Lin Yan who won, and the process of his victory can be said to be very easy. Because, after all, the onlooker corps is the onlooker corps, although the theoretical rhetoric is conclusive, but the actual operation is like the whole person playing a game in the water, and the body movements are lagging behind for a long time.

Lin Yan easily won the victory in what he said was a busy operation. At that time, the friends who were watching the legion laughed at him and regarded Lin Yan's words as the truth.

A long, long time later, when Lin Yan saw the Koreans playing "StarCraft", he realized that he was wrong, and that little friend was right. It is true that farmers can be allowed to mine as soon as possible through this way of operation. But this kind of operation, generally speaking, only works for masters, because masters are not only fast, but also accurate positioning, and there will be no rush, messing up all the farmers.

However, the usefulness of this is not as powerful as the little friend said at the time, to the extent that it can determine the outcome of a game. Because of the advantages of this operation, it can reach dozens of crystals in about ten minutes. And dozens of crystals, at most, the price of a spearman, cannot determine the outcome of the game.

From this, Lin Yan understood that the gap between the master and the low hand is not necessarily ideological, but operational. At that time, he also understood that it seemed that games need to spend a lot of time and practice non-stop in order to achieve a high level of game, and this kind of thing is not very reliable on paper.

Therefore, although Lin Yan was attracted by this long hair with a small book, he didn't think that his level of "Pac-Man" would be very high.

However, people's insight will affect people's judgment, and after Lin Yan looked at it for a while, he found that the young man in front of him was actually playing well. All the little beans were eaten, and they also ate the beans and several ghosts, and one life passed more than thirty levels.

By the time he died at the thirty-third level, there were already a lot of people around him. Because his gameplay is smooth and enjoyable, it is much easier to play than those who wish to die once a second.

Despite the crowd watching, he was not satisfied, but shook his head and sighed, as if complaining that he had not played well.

He raised his head after being disappointed, only to find that there were so many people around him, he scratched his long hair and touched his face and said, "Is there anything dirty on my face?" So many of you are looking at me. ”

"Nope! No! Your face is not dirty, it is clean! The crowd of onlookers said babblingly.

If it was true that there was anything dirty on the young man's face, there would still be. It's just some pimples, and young people of this age rarely have pimples on their faces. So, it's not a dirty thing.

"And what are you doing here?" He asked again.

"Watch you play!"

"I'm playing badly, let you watch like this. I also don't think I'm playing very well......"

Players who can play for more than ten minutes on a single machine are already considered masters. So his words were quickly drowned out by the angry crowd of onlookers.

This kind of noisy scene didn't come to an end until Lin Yan spoke out. Because, these onlookers are basically regulars in this arcade hall, and they all know that Lin Yan's game level is very good, so they all give him this face.

"What are you doing with this book?" Lin Yan asked again.

The young man in front of him is not a complete stupid, he seems to know that his game level is not bad, and even good. He took the notebook in his hand and said, "This is the note I took to play Pac-Man." ”

"Can you lend me a look?"

"Yes." This young man with long hair fluttering is definitely not handsome and handsome, but with the appearance of his notebook, he still can't open the eyes of the onlookers around him.

Of course, it was not the long-haired youth who glowed, but the notebook in his hand. Because, for these guys with average game level, this thing can be regarded as a holy scripture.

Once you have this game tome, won't the game level improve rapidly. Easily reach the level of the Four Heavenly Kings.

These people are also self-aware, knowing that it is a little difficult to reach Lin Yan's level with a holy scripture, but they also delusionally expect that they can reach the level of the Four Heavenly Kings if they get it.

Their judging criteria are actually very subjective, because the level of the Four Heavenly Kings is to reach the level of clearing thirty levels with one life. As for the Eight Dharma Protectors, the worst can play Pac-Man for fifteen levels, and the best ones are only about twenty levels.

Once you get this game scripture, wouldn't you be able to step on the eight protectors of the bullish spirit directly. Many players at the minion level have begun to fantasize about this scene, and the satisfaction in their hearts is instantly bursting. If they are lucky enough to have seen Dream of Red Mansions, they will know that this is called obscenity by the police fantasy fairy girl, and it is one of the major components of the online novels that became popular in a certain country later.

Lin Yan didn't see how important this game book was, he had also been a crowd of onlookers, and he also had such a small book, so he knew that although this thing was useful. But it is useful on a certain basis. It's not the level that you can sit on the ground and soar after watching it.

Lin Yan roughly flipped a few pages, and these pages were all about the roadmap of "Pac-Man", which seemed complicated. There are even a lot of messy calculation formulas written next to it. Lin Yan looked a little puzzled at a glance.

"You're really careful!" Lin Yan exclaimed.

"No, I'm just where I go. What I admire more is the people who designed the game, who were able to take advantage of a three-megahertz CPU, plus nine 4,000-byte read-only memory stacks in rows. With such sparse information, but permuted and defined, except for a complex world in a box, I want to try to see the whole picture. ”

The long-haired answer was a little lengthy and a little literary, but the onlookers around him were fascinated by it. They like people like long hair who like to delve into games. Because, this kind of person plays well, they take it for granted, and Lin Yan plays well, which is taken for granted in their eyes. How do they know that Lin Yan, as the designer of electronic arcade games, also has a deep understanding of the game itself.

However, although Hayashi is the designer of the game. But he was still amazed by the long-haired research heart in front of him. Because, he saw a lot of more profound problems, and he didn't just play games for the sake of playing games, which is really valuable.

"You're really good, don't you often come to the arcade to play games?" Lin Yan continued to ask.

"I don't come often, so I just came to Akihabara and worked in that building." The long-haired young man pointed at him from afar, and the crowd spontaneously dodged away, which was spectacular, as if Moses had parted half of the sea.

"I've only been researching for a long time, there are many places that are still very unfamiliar, who of you is the best at playing games here, I want to ask him a few questions." Long Hair turned his head and continued.

Before Lin Yan could say that he was contemptible, he was the most powerful player here. The surrounding onlookers all stretched out their fingers and pointed at Lin Yan. This kind of feeling that Qianfu refers to is absolutely uncomfortable.

Lin Yan said with a sneer, "I'm the best person to play here." ”

"Can you give me a cover up how you played?" The long-haired young man said, opening his small notebook as if he wanted to record his studies. He looks like a secretary next to the leader, and he looks very eye-catching, although I don't know what he's recording.

Since you have sincerely asked for advice, then I will show you a merciful demonstration.

At the bottom of Lin Yan's heart, a string of lines from Team Rocket flowed inexplicably, and he was inspired by the long-haired youth and felt that he could play "Pac-Man" in a very cool way. (To be continued.) )