Lin Yan once said a long time ago that any profession, in fact, is very interesting. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, he has always wanted to write novels about various professions, but unfortunately, he doesn't have the time and energy to investigate and collect evidence.

For example, if you were asked to write a book, he would probably be able to write millions of words. Although the history of the video game industry may not be so long, the video game industry is definitely not as interesting as other traditional industries.

This is due to the characteristics of the video game industry, not to mention the video game industry, which is any industry related to new technologies with strong practicality, which is developing extremely fast.

For example, the automobile industry a hundred years ago, such as the mobile phone industry and the computer industry now. Not to mention that it is changing with each passing day, it is not too much worse.

Of course, he did write about video games.

Instead of writing that serious, memoir-like book, though, he wrote a novel. Use a fictional character to connect all the big events in the video game industry.

Of course, he not only has novels, comics and other derivative works, but he also began to look for people to draw when the first tens of thousands of words of the novel were written.

Because his novels are not badly written, he is also a person who has won science fiction writing awards. Therefore, he didn't use too much of his influence, so he let this comic that he privately funded find a serialized magazine.

However, it's not Shueisha, the manga giant that is in the limelight now, but the Shogakukan, which hasn't been in the limelight for a long time.

In fact, the company Shogakukan, like his name, most of their works are of the kind of young age. However, because they can't find a good author now, they can't make children want to read it like many manga in the past, and take care of adults at the same time. You must know that in real life, the people who have the right to speak are not children, but those adults.

Therefore, if you want a work to be influential, you must influence these adults.

Of course, it is precisely because of this characteristic that the kind of children's projects that obviously make a lot of money do not have much influence in the world most of the time.

The novel written by Lin Yan is called "Game Monsters", and the name roughly means that the story of a stunned-looking protagonist who is rampage in the video game industry, and the following is the first chapter he wrote.

"How is Japan?

Not good.

This is Takahashi's answer.

Japan, Tokyo, Akihabara, five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is like fire.

Takahashi, who was doing his fourth job today, was sweating profusely carrying a suitcase. He squinted his eyes and raised his head slightly, his gaze passed through the skirt of the high school girl in the sailor suit and landed on the crowd in front of him.

It is now 1985, and the entertainment method called video games with arcades as the carrier is in full swing in Japan.

But all this has nothing to do with Takahashi.

Not to mention making money with video games, even playing them is pure luxury.

He was poor, very poor. It's like the days when he traveled through the past north drift. However, unlike the current "East Drift", the experience of North Drift has long been drowned in memory with the passage of time.

"Get out of the way!" Push and pull Takahashi back to reality. The sound of talking, cheering, car horns, all kinds of noises permeate the ears.

Takahashi looked at the elementary and junior high school students gathered in front of the arcade, and then glanced at the office workers next to the arcade machine, wearing suits and holding small notebooks to record something. Finally, I used my peripheral vision to make sure that my uncle was not around.

His hand holding the box left the box, reached into his trouser pocket, and rubbed it back and forth against his only hundred-dollar coin.

Opportunity! This is a chance to change your fate!

As long as you use technology to conquer the onlookers, get their cheers, and attract the attention of the game company's recorders, you may be able to change your fate.

What porters, what slums, get out of the way!

Make money, make a lot of money!

With money, is Japan good?

Good!

As long as there is money, the earth is heaven everywhere.

Takahashi put the box on his shoulder back into the van and spread his arms and sped towards the crowd not far away.

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", loser!" The winner of the game in his twenties, shirtless and tattooed, with his head held high, pointed his nostrils at the operator of another machine, who was sitting beside him, said proudly.

The loser shrugged his shoulders, bowed his head, and walked away without saying a word.

"Walk in front of me, you are also worthy?" The tattoo winner stretches out his leg and blocks the way in front of him.

The loser silently turns.

The victor ostentatiously twisted his ankle and kicked the loser in the ass, kicking him staggering.

"Who else?" The ruffled victor stood on the arcade chair and looked down at the crowd of onlookers.

"Shimada! Shimada! Shimada! Although the voices of elementary and middle school students were immature, they were like chicken blood, pulling their throats, blushing, and setting off wave after wave of sound.

"And, yes, who?" Shimada asked word by word.

"Me! I'm going to challenge you! Stopped, a little gasping for breath, Takahashi's voice was loud, and one person overwhelmed the sound of dozens of people.

"Oh? You? Yes, come on, don't cry if you lose. Shimada in the chair squatted down and teased Takahashi in a strange voice.

"No, I'm willing to lose, I won't cry if I lose, but don't cry if you lose." Takahashi replied with a sunny smile, revealing a row of small white teeth, harmlessly.

"Yes, yes. Your mouth is very hard, I see how long you can be hard. Hurry up and don't delay me. Shimada scolded with a sharp voice.

Takahashi shook his head when he saw him, didn't answer again, sat directly in front of the arcade, and put the 100 yuan stained with his sweat into the arcade with a sense of ceremony.

Shimada, who was squatting in an arcade chair, glanced at Takahashi with disdain, and threw a coin into the machine.

Game on!

The English title of Star Force, "Star-Force", flashes by with a short eight-bit style opening music.

Takahashi's left hand is palmed upwards, and his middle and forefinger are holding the joystick, as if he were holding a wine glass. The thumb of the right hand rests on the round key, and it keeps tapping.

The small plane on the arcade screen flickered and moved with the movement of his hand, constantly shooting bullets and destroying enemy planes.

It stands to reason that this game is not very difficult, but Takahashi is extremely serious, especially when the fortress is blown up and a big "b" and a small "b" are scattered, his eyes are almost about to glow.

Take it for granted that these uppercase and lowercase Bs are "boom! "Bombs?

Immature!

This thing is used for calculating points, and it has to be exploded. And the calculation method is not a positive plus point, but an inverted algorithm. At the end of each level, blow up all the letters B to count 10,000 points, miss one and deduct half, and then decrease 1,000 in turn, as long as you miss five, there will be no points.

Is this crazy?

Young!

The scores for the big and small letters b are not counted together, but separately.

The consequences of this are obvious, and the gap between the high and low hands will be widened all at once.

This is also the reason why the gangster boy Shimada has been winning, and he can blow all the letters B without a bad beat.

Takahashi, who was highly concentrated, was not as relaxed as Shimada next to him, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

Compared to Shimada, he has a big disadvantage. This disadvantage comes not from the operation, but from the familiarity of the game.

Early video games lacked variety, and game masters generally had the ability to memorize the flow of the game - the "backboard".

Takahashi hadn't played Star Force once before, and Shimada had already played it hundreds of times.

So, when Shimada even had the leisure to raise his hand to stir up the atmosphere, Takahashi was still engrossed in staring at the arcade display.

In this game, he not only has to achieve a high score over Shimada, but also memorize the position where each small plane appears, optimize the entire offensive route, maximize output, and try to miss as few small planes as possible. Because, in the duel of masters, 10 points can determine the winner!

There are more than 20 levels in "Interstellar Force", each level is represented by Greek letters, and if the score of each level reaches a certain standard, a boss will appear, and if you defeat it, you will pass the level.

Shimada's score reached a critical point, and the boss of the first level appeared!

Because Takahashi was not familiar with the game, he missed a few small planes and was a few seconds behind before refreshing the boss.

The boss is not difficult to fight, and the two of Takahashi Shimada are easy to solve.

The first level "Alpha Alpha" level ends.

The second level "Beta Beta" level is cleared.

Level 3 and Level 4......

The last level, the "Omega Omega" level......

The content of each level is similar, and the scenes, enemies, and bosses do not change much.

This is a common feature of early jerking games, which is generally weak in replayability, but even so, it is still highly demanding.

Getting a high score and leaving your name on the scoreboard is the honor of every player.

"Boy, you can follow to the last level, you're not weak! But to that extent, you're still far from it. You missed so many small planes, you missed me by 100,000 points, and you want to win me? Dream! Hurry up and throw in the towel, I'll give you decency. Shimada said very leisurely.

"I don't admit defeat, let's talk about victory or defeat now, it's still early!" Takahashi answered Shimada's provocation for the first time, and after answering, he returned all his energy to the arcade.

The reason why Takahashi dared to leave his job and come here to play games was desperate, he really thought he was carried away by blood?

He has a magic weapon to win, and after the last fortress of the final level of "Interstellar Force" is destroyed, a hidden element will appear, the head of Cleopatra VII. Blow up this human head and you will get 1 million points.

This million points is Takahashi's magic weapon to win!

Shimada, who already had a total score of three million, already thought he had won, and he squinted at Takahashi, who was about to challenge Cleopatra, and almost fell off his chair with a smile.

"Are you crazy? Actually going to challenge Cleopatra? Even I've never succeeded, just you? "Shimada decided that Takahashi was overwhelmed.

The arcade machine of 1985 has no burst buttons, and the attack speed is completely related to the speed of the hand rub.

Cleopatra's million-point score is precisely because it is difficult, requiring the player to click the attack button at least forty times in three seconds. Otherwise, the machine will be destroyed and people will die, and all the previous efforts will be wasted!

In order to pursue stability, Shimada directly gave up Cleopatra's hidden point reward and cleared the customs directly.

“3480000！”

The arcade machine flashes with the last score, which is sixth on the leaderboard!

The first five scores are also crowned with the English abbreviation of Shimada's name.

His achievements can make him say that he is the ruler of Akihabara's "Interstellar Power", the king of Akihabara's "Interstellar Power"!

Takahashi didn't pay attention to Shimada's strange appearance after clearing the customs.

His elbow rested on the arcade console, and as the force increased, the muscles in his arm were pulled a lot, and the thumb of his right hand shook extremely fast!

The small planes on the screen are pouring fire frantically.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Cleopatra's head exploded! The words "a million points" burst out!

Takahashi's points reached 3.9 million points at once!

Takahashi clearance!

“4380000！”

No. 1 on the leaderboard!

Shimada, who was cheering, saw the words flashing at the top of the leaderboard, and his mouth grew and he said in disbelief, "This can't be!" ”

Takahashi moved his sore fingers, stood up and said to Shimada, who was half a head shorter than him, "I'm sorry, I won." ”

There was an eerie silence.

The elementary and middle school students who were watching, although they did not know Takahashi's name, had already begun to cheer on the leaderboard, the pinyin abbreviation of the name left by Takahashi.

They shouted in English, "GQ! gq！ gq！ ”

The whole style probably continues the previous bloody style. Because it has a strong sense of graphics, it is not weak to see even after it is converted into a comic.

And, because the whole theme is very close to the nostalgia of many adults, this comic and novel is still liked by many adult readers.

In addition, Lin Yan didn't use his stage name, but directly used his own real name, so after someone found out that this Lin Yan was really the Lin Yan in the game industry, not to mention their excitement.

So, this novel, this comic became popular.

Although it is said that the original audience of the Shogakukan, children, did not know about that period of history. However, because of the writing technique used by Lin Yan, they actually like this comic very much.

Coupled with Lin Yan's intentional promotion, this novel and comic book were not serialized much, and it was determined to be animated. Over the years, Lin Yan has also saved a lot of money, so he didn't do anything like the production committee to share the risk. Instead, one person invested in this anime.

In addition, the animation production company hired by the company is also a well-known company in the industry, and it is also a company that has a cooperative relationship with Chiba Games and Chiba Games Global Entertainment.

In this way, this novel quickly became popular in Japan and spread to the world.

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Although it is said that "Game Monster" has passed the two-dimensional internal signing, but because I am more worried about the audience, it will be posted on Yuebai's official account! It can be regarded as a celebration of the opening of the reward function on the official account. (To be continued.) )