Chapter Ninety-Four: Drawings of the Painter's Game Console
Japan as a country, and Japan as a nation, cannot be said to be a nation that is not tenacious. They were able to rise from the ashes of the post-war era, not only with the help of the United States, but also by their own efforts.
In 1946, Japan's per capita income was $16, and 46 percent of Tokyo's residents had no place to live. By 1980, Japan's per capita income was on par with that of the United States in the same year.
Several major appliance giants in Japan, except for companies separated from the military industry, most of them began to rise from this time. Beginning in 1957, the three artifacts of household appliances and consumer goods -- refrigerators, washing machines, and black-and-white televisions -- began to spread rapidly and flew into the homes of ordinary people. With two months' salary, an ordinary worker can buy a television set. The era of mass consumption in Japan has arrived.
The economic growth of the following year will continue to climb at a rate of more than 10 percent. In the tertiary industry, cultural and entertainment consumption began to increase.
Bowling, golf, skiing, and travel have become new consumer hotspots. The Japanese people, who had suffered earlier, began to enjoy life, and Japan entered a "mass consumer society".
In the past few decades, Japan's home market has played a non-negligible role in Japan's industrialization process and economic take-off. Perhaps, this is the blessing of Seon's loss, the bombed city is only a scum, and it is a time when all kinds of products are needed to be rebuilt.
Of course, it is not without foreign manufacturers that have their eyes on the Japanese market. However, knowing that in the 80s of the 20th century, or in the next few decades, the vast majority of foreign manufacturers knew how difficult it was to enter the Japanese market. This is because the Japanese government, in order to support its own companies, has built a high wall on its import and export policies.
The new generation of Japanese youth has never experienced that era of hunger. They are living through an era of rapid development, something called national pride, which seems to be imprinted in their bone marrow.
In the 80s, when Lin Yan was reborn, it was the period when this trend of thought was rampant. The birth of video game arcades in this era can be regarded as a smooth and logical thing. Even if there is no Lin Yan, it is estimated that there will be other people who will develop similar machines.
Father Lin had a long talk with Lin Yan yesterday, and he told Lin Yan why Akihabara became an electric street. It turned out that a long, long time ago, the U.S. military stationed in Tokyo would come to Akihabara with some prohibited electronic components. Over time, Akihabara became a place that was closely related to electronics.
Lin Fuzhi's father also said that he heard his father say that at that time, the bubble gum spit out by the American GIs sitting in the car would be scrambled by countless Japanese to put in their mouths. Because at that time, even filling their stomachs was a problem, and sweetness was a luxury for them. Even a smell of the sweetness on the wrapper can make them linger for a long time.
Father Lin had a long talk about the theme of life, which was to tell Lin Yan to remember the bittersweet ones. Don't forget the time when you were bitter before, which meant the luxury of enjoyment.
Lin Yan wanted to touch his father's brain at that time to see if he was parasitic by alien creatures, or if he had a fever and changed his personality.
However, it seems that the father is refreshed and does not drink, and it is estimated that his long nagging is because the eldest aunt is here.
Lin Yan called Haruka Kishimoto and told her to add an exhibition area for "Game of Destiny", and after discussing the details of the size and location of the venue for a while. Haruka Kishimoto told him that Chiyo had a home game console, and there were many companies ready to move.
Lin Yan knew in his heart that this was the benefit of being closely related to a media in the industry, and basically most of the information that had not yet circulated could be obtained from media people.
Kishimoto saw that Lin Yan didn't react much, and he was relieved. She was originally a little afraid that Lin Yan would suddenly get excited, and maybe she would be angry. No matter how good Lin Yan is, whether he can make a video game arcade by himself or a Gundam with his bare hands. After all, he is still a child who looks like a teenager and does not have much life experience.
Of course, Lin Yan will not panic, he has long been prepared for the proliferation of video game home consoles. Maybe it won't be long before even the personal computers of this era will come in and join in the fun.
The personal computer of this era is not a set of personal computers divided into a display, keyboard and mouse, main chassis and other parts as most people imagine.
In order to reduce costs and reduce the selling price, first of all, the display is not dripping. The next thing that doesn't have is a mouse. Although the mouse has been born for a while, this thing will not be widely popularized until the Windows system developed by Lin Yan is popularized on a large scale.
Finally, computer cases are basically horizontally mounted rather than vertically. Although according to common sense, a case placed vertically is easier to dissipate heat. But in today's era of computers, the heat is really not much, and there is not a single cooling fan in the entire chassis, which is absolutely silent. It won't look like a later computer, no matter how muted it is, there will be some noise.
The keyboard is generally inherited on the upper side of the horizontal chassis, which saves both space and cost. Seeing this, will anyone begin to feel that the personal computer of this era is a little familiar, a bit like the Xiaobawang learning machine that swept the country in the nineties.
That's right, the personal computers of that era shrank and didn't even have hard drives, in fact, the actual things that could be done were not much different from the home video game consoles of the same period.
After all, the CPU is much the same, using the same model. Later home game consoles, compared with the personal computers of this era, had more chips dedicated to processing graphics, so that the game consoles showed a more "gorgeous" picture.
Lin Yan specially asked Haruka Kishimoto, what is the movement of Ren Hell. Haruka Kishimoto told Hayashi about Ren Hell winning a lawsuit against Universal Pictures in the United States, as well as the news that a new game watch was on the market.
Lin Yan specially asked if Ren Hell had launched a home game console. Haruka Kishimoto said no.
Although Kishimoto couldn't see it, Lin Yan still nodded, indicating that he knew. I don't know if Ren Hell is calm, or holding back his big moves, or their R&D capabilities are too urgent and the R&D progress is too slow.
Lin Yan had always heard in his previous life that Ren Hell's R&D strength was actually not very strong. When they develop previous generations of machines, they almost have to cooperate with foreign factories in order to successfully develop new hosts. Moreover, the speed at which they launch the host will always be slower than that of other hosts. It's like a slow child.
Ren Hell's red and white machines are able to stand out in a sea of dozens of models because they have well-made games.
Machines before the red and white machines almost all claimed that they could port arcade games well, and arcade games could be played at home. There is even a manufacturer that has put forward the slogan of 120% transplantation. The game that is supposedly ported to the home console will have more content and more graphics.
Indeed, this strategy of theirs has worked well, and the sales of home game consoles are not bad. It's just a pity that although the content has increased, the picture is still not as good as the arcade, and the lame operation also makes many players who have bought a game console feel congested.
These people who make home video game consoles have hardly thought about launching original games on home consoles. Even if there are original games, they are generally inferior imitations, with low playability and poor graphics. Basically, it's just some garbage work made by some small studio in order to survive.
Their main battlefield is still in the arcade market, because for them, the arcade is the cash cow. Home consoles are more than a small branch in a big tree, and the profit from selling a hundred or so home game consoles is not even as much as an arcade machine. Who is stupid in this case, spending a huge amount of resources to make a game for home consoles.
Lin Yan sat down, on the blank paper, and began to draw. What he drew was the design of Ren Hell's Red and White Machine, which was the final design.
He didn't know how far Ren Hell's red and white machine had been developed, but he remembered what the finished product looked like. Lin Yan doesn't like to pin his dreams on others, and Ren Hell has indeed almost achieved the great vision of making the whole world have video games.
But, it has to be mentioned, they also filled the world with Mario, Uncle Plumber.
It seems that this year, Mario's setting is not a plumber yet. Donkey Kong is set in a construction building. At this time, Mario, who holds a big hammer, seems to be a construction worker, or a carpenter or something.
In fact, after Mario became a plumber, the image of a plumber became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he also worked part-time in many professions.
For example, I was a go-kart racer and a bug catcher. However, almost no one was disgusted by the fact that Mario was not clearly a plumber and why he was doing such a messy profession.
It seems that this honest uncle is wearing suspenders and is a little funny. Whatever profession you engage in, it is acceptable. In one of the game watches, Mario also acted as a bomb-carrying creep. And once the bomb is about to explode, Uncle Mario, the little soldier of this pit teammate, will throw the bomb back into the hands of his teammates.
Home game consoles, whether they need a CPU or a dedicated graphics processor, also need to use a special graphics processor. According to the current trend, the 6502 of Mouth Technology is the most cost-effective among all CPU products.
Perhaps, some models of Intel's processors have slightly better performance, but the price has more than doubled.
Home video game consoles, in fact, are similar to game watches or electronic pet machines, and they are particularly sensitive to price. So, of course, it is necessary to use cheap and easy to use.
Lin Yan drew the CPU chipset, then drew the graphics processor, and then noted what performance was required on the side.
He wants to launch a home console that can really have a good gaming experience before Ren Hell does. He wants to entrust the Chiba Group to produce the hardware on his behalf, and the brand on it will be the logo of Hayashi's own company.
He didn't dare to use the brand of the Chiba Group, because he didn't know how long his honeymoon period with the Chiba Group would be. Even if he and Chiba Yuki have a good friendship, Chiba Yuki will not live up to the friendship between the two.
Within the Chiba Group, there will definitely be people who see money. The size of the group seems to be a glorious one, but at the same time, it also means that there are many internal factions and constant fighting.
And the company founded by Lin Yan himself, he is currently the only one, he took out a leather bag and put his company's documents in it. Wherever he walked with his purse, the company followed him. That's right, his company is a leather bag company.
There are many such leather bag companies in Japan in this era, and it is estimated that they have begun to rise in China today. Reform and opening up is like a Pandora's box, or a cage with monsters. Opening it can be beneficial, but it also comes at a very high cost.
After China's reform and opening up, the best path is basically to repeat the path that Japan has done. The production of small household appliances to meet domestic demand, improve the quality of people's life at the same time, but also to give birth to a truly dynamic enterprise.
However, the entrepreneurs who have risen from the great wave of reform and opening up seem to have something called original sin. It's just that who said this thing is good.
After Lin Yan finished drawing the design drawing, it was not one, but a large stack. He copied this drawing on his "rebirth notebook". Soon, a new notebook that only used twenty or thirty pages was used up by Lin Yan. Fortunately, at the same time as the light is used, the entire design drawings are also drawn, and there is no need to draw the drawings of a game console on two notebooks.
Lin Yan only remembered at this time that all the machine types he had written before the "Rebirth Notebook" did not seem to be accompanied by the corresponding design drawings.
Do you want to make it up? He thought and thought about it in his head, and finally gave up on the plan to complete the drawings. Because, it doesn't just take a lot of effort. There is also not enough space on the notebook. Each book is full of writing, how can there be blank design drawings for the machine.
But take out a notebook and draw drawings. There was no need for that, because he had made several copies of the drawings he had drawn and kept them at home, and the originals were there. There is no need to redraw a new one, and it is a waste of time.
"Senior Sister Chiba, the venue of the "Game of Destiny" exhibition is no longer a problem, I have a drawing here, is it convenient for you, I'll send it to you." Lin Yan said it very politely, there are not too many honorifics commonly used in daily life in one sentence, and even when you say it, it sounds weird, like a foreigner who learns Japanese, according to the formula in the textbook, speaks Japanese.
Even if it is an everyday language, the Japanese language that foreigners learn is actually more written. As soon as a Japanese person hears it, they know that this person is a foreigner. (To be continued.) )