A caravan of bread people...... A cart of vegetable man...... A cart of ham man...... Is it possible to cut everything and make it into a bunch of sandwiches for people to eat......

Chiba Yuki's brain hole was unconsciously knocked open by that child. She suddenly felt that if there was really such a bunch of humanoid ingredients, it would be strange and cute to walk down from the car in line.

While she was fantasizing about the sandwich man set, a few children came over. If Lin Yan saw these children, he would feel that they were very familiar. That's right, they are the few people who play arcade machines at Lin Yan's house every day.

After Lin Yan showed off the home game that day, their interest in arcade machines did not decrease to zero. But enthusiasm for it has also definitely dropped by an order of magnitude. They went to the Lin family's repair shop every day, looking for it, and more often looking for the home game console. Compared to the game on the machine, which controls the villain to jump, it seems that all the games on the arcade machine are no longer fun.

Yes, compared to that complex game, the arcade games are almost simple. Even the popular "Iron Plate Array" during this time is not too powerful in their eyes. Because, the little gray spaceships are not as friendly as those cute mushrooms in the world of the Hopping Man.

They don't know how many times they have asked Daddy Lin about home game consoles these days. Daddy Lin smiled, and he couldn't be peaceful, I don't know. He really didn't know, even if it was torture, he couldn't say anything. Because, when there was something about home game consoles, he didn't ask Lin Yan at all.

And it is also more difficult for these children to find Lin Yan. The door to the upper floors was closed tightly, and it was no longer something that could be walked up casually. And Lin Yan checked out in depth, basically before the release of the home game console, he never went out of the house.

Of course, there is a reason why he is so stable. He's writing the playbook for Super Mario. This manual comes with every cassette and is basically a part of the game. There's also tricks, hidden elements, and a backstory.

Of course, trust most players. I won't read this sincere game instruction manual. It's like a game instruction posted on the side of an arcade machine, and again, most people don't go back to it.

However, it is not without exception, there will be a small number of people who will take a look at these things.

As a matter of fact. It's really hard to make a game. Take the first level of "Super Mario" as an example, although it didn't seem to take much time in Lin Yan's hands, but in the hands of Shigeru Miyamoto in another time and space, this first level was made last.

Because, this first level has a lot of knowledge in it. When Super Mario was nearing completion, there wasn't a walking mushroom yet. At that time, the monster placed in the place of the mushroom monster was the small turtle with an emerald green shell.

But. After testing it, Shigeru Miyamoto felt that it was not a good thing to put this turtle at the very beginning of the game, as the first monster the player faced.

Because, the method of handling this turtle is more cumbersome, you need to jump on its body first, step on it into an upside-down turtle shell, and then step on it to make it spin and roll away. Shigeru Miyamoto thinks that such a monster, put at the very beginning, is still too expensive for players to learn. Best. Design a monster that can be solved in one click.

So, he designed the one called Chestnut Kid, but it was actually a mushroom monster that could walk on his feet. Why is it called a chestnut boy, it seems that this comes from the fun of Shigeru Miyamoto. It's like a dog. It's called Mimi. Don't look at him as a chestnut, it's actually a shiitake mushroom.

Due to the relatively high price of memory at that time, in order to save memory, self-propelled shiitake mushrooms, like other modules, were all tricks. You see shiitake mushrooms look like they can walk, it's an animation. But in fact. There is only one picture of shiitake mushrooms, and this picture of shiitake mushrooms is big on one foot and small on the other. To achieve the walking effect, it is to make the mushroom constantly reverse left and right when it is displaced, so that it becomes the way it walks, one will step out of this foot, and the other will step out of that foot.

In addition to this place saving memory, there are other places that are also memory saving. If you are careful, you will find that in fact, the mountains and clouds in "Super Mario" have the same pattern. The difference between them is just that they use different color palettes. One in white and one in green.

In addition to these, there are many more, such as the game where the player adds mushrooms that can become larger, and mushrooms that can increase one life. Eat flowers that can add points, as well as bullets, and little stars that can make Mario invincible. Even the cannibal flowers that crawled out from who managed them, they were only half-drawn on the drawing. Then, mirror the left and right to get a complete pattern.

Perhaps, these behaviors, when you don't care about memory later, seem to be invisible. But it is precisely because of these "cutting corners" that we can make such a content-rich game with a capacity of less than 40,000 bytes.

Having said that, at the beginning of the first level, there are many wonderful places to design. When the player comes out for the first time and is killed by a walking mushroom, they will try something. After they found out that as long as they jumped up, they could trample on this evil shiitake mushroom, and of course they began to jump with joy.

And those shiny question mark bricks can easily attract their attention. When they put a question mark brick on it, they noticed a mushroom emerging from it. This mushroom has no legs, but it slides. And, the speed of sliding is not slow.

For the player, this is the time when he has to think about what to do. Because, for the player who was killed by the mushroom just now, and then stepped on the mushroom, this mushroom also seems to represent danger.

The player wants to jump to avoid the mushroom or trample on it. At this point, the normal red bricks lined up with the question mark bricks work, and when the red mushroom bounces off the water pipe, the player wants to jump and dodge. The red brick wall blocked his jumping, and he fell, either stepping on the mushroom or hitting it.

At this time, the player will be surprised to cash back that he did not die. It's getting bigger.

At this time, they will know that this red mushroom will make people bigger. And what's the use of getting bigger, they're going to start exploring again. At this time, the jumping habits that they have cultivated before should work, and they will try to jump.

And after they jump, they find Mario, who has grown bigger. can smash the red brick that just hit the head, this is the effect of getting bigger.

And so far, in a scenario like this where you don't need to move the screen. No need for a single text. Just by trying, players have mastered almost all the basic operations of Super Mario.

Isn't it amazing? Very thoughtful.

So, as you can see from here, video games are really not a simple thing. It takes a lot of thought. How to guide a player and learn how to operate the game is definitely a very difficult knowledge. And it is not easy to do such an ingenious idea. At the same time, its charm will be able to be experienced by players.

Boss Amano is personally in charge today, just to see the sales of home game consoles. However, the outlook does not look too rosy, and it is 9 o'clock in the morning. One was not sold, and then he heard the voice of a child.

"Boss, we want to buy a game console!" Several children said in unison.

Boss Amano, who was pondering, immediately put on a smile, he raised his head and said, "Which of you buys?" ”

"Let's buy them all!" The children said in unison.

Boss Amano paused, he didn't know how to speak. Buy both? A machine plus a game, but it costs 30,000 yuan. Are children so rich now?

"The machine is twenty-five thousand, and if you buy a game card together, it will be twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine. Are you sure you want to buy it? ”

"Sure. I want a home console. There is also a "Super Mario". After the child finished speaking, he took out three new 10,000 yuan banknotes that had just been released this year and handed them to Boss Amano.

Boss Amano sighed as he took out the machine and cassette to the child. The country is indeed developing and progressing. Of course, when I was a child, I couldn't even eat a piece of candy. Nowadays, children can come up with so much money to play games.

It's different, it's different......

"I'll have a machine too. And Super Mario! Another child said.

"Me ...... too"

"Me ...... too"

……

In almost less than two minutes, five machines were sold, and five game cartridges were sold. Among them, "Super Mario" accounted for four, and the last child did not buy "Super Mario", it seems that it is because everyone buys a game and it is not easy to exchange for fun. Otherwise, he would have bought Super Mario.

This game, the shock it gives them, is unparalleled. Other games, compared to it, are one section behind. In fact, after they finished watching the home game console at Lin Yan's that day, they went home and began to beg their parents, saying that they saw a new thing, which was very fun, and they wanted to buy it.

Some parents, of course, will not agree. If, every time the bear child wants to buy something, he will buy it. Generally, a well-off family will be bought bankrupt. And children are generally hot-blooded for three minutes, usually a few hours, and forget about it in a few days.

However, it seems that this time is different, it's been a week, and these children still say that they want a machine like that.

Parents have a headache this time, since the child is so persistent, then ask what it is. This question made parents even more headaches. Because, the child didn't know what this machine was called, how much it was sold for, and where it was sold, but he only said that the thing was very good, and he wanted to be good, so big in the sky.

However, if you don't have to sell it, you can't buy it even if you like it.

The parents of the children looked at their children with joy and distress, showing their love for such a nameless machine every day.

I'm happy because I don't know what my name is or where to sell it, so I can save money. And the trouble is because I am nagged in my ears by children every day, even if I don't grind out the cocoon, it's not much worse.

Fortunately, such a nightmare is finally over. One day, the child came home in a hurry and said to his mom and dad that I knew what it was, it was called a "home computer", and how much it cost.

When the parents saw that the child liked it so much, the price was 30,000 yuan, which was not too expensive, so they satisfied the child's wish and gave him the money so that he could buy it on the first day of sale.

Unlike the aspirations of these five children, the other children basically did not know about the "home computer", the red and white family game console.

However, they don't know that their parents know about the existence of this thing through some channels. Because, during this time, there are some not so good rumors in the arcade hall from time to time. Therefore, parents also hope that their children will not stay in that messy place. Since this home game console can play video games at home, buy it back and let your child play it at home. One is that the machine is not expensive, not to mention playing at home, and it is always at ease under your nose.

After these children have bought it, the rest of the buyers are basically adults. Of course, there are many adults among them, and they also play video games. Being able to go home and play with your family seems to be a joy that you can't feel in an arcade hall.

After all, it's rare for a family of all ages to play games in an arcade with their families. It is also a very happy thing to be able to sit on your own tatami mat and play games peacefully, and the family can enjoy themselves.

Chiba games see the first day, and in the absence of big publicity, the sales situation is not bad. So, they planned to make a big news, make a few video ads, and put them on TV stations. The concept of playing games was quickly accepted and transformed into advertising scripts.

And the main audience of the TV commercial, housewives, was almost killed by this advertisement. Because, for them, staying at home every day, it seems that they lack a common language with their husbands and children, and they can't find anything to do together, and this "family computer" family game console seems to be able to accomplish this.

"As long as 29,999, less than 30,000 yuan, take the home computer home, don't hesitate, hurry up and pick up the phone to order!"

"As long as 29,999, less than 30,000 yuan, take the home computer home, don't hesitate, hurry up and pick up the phone to order!"

"As long as 29,999, less than 30,000 yuan, take the home computer home, don't hesitate, hurry up and pick up the phone to order!"

……

The sound of the TV repeating over and over again seemed to fill the ears, and the mothers picked up the phone and began to order...... (To be continued.) )