Rob Pardo, a fourteen-year-old high school student, has been fascinated by the simple game since he first played American Cubes in an arcade near the high school he attended a little over a month ago.

His technique is very good, and Rob Pardo has been practicing every day since the gossip that he could change the game to his name if he only needs to reach 45 million points, but he is still close to achieving this feat, with a best score of more than 40 million points.

He was the one with the highest score in the arcade he frequented, and although he wasn't satisfied with his progress, he was still a little proud.

This time, after school, Rob Pardo still came to the arcade hall he frequented, because he was a frequent visitor, and the boss was also familiar with him, and when he saw him come in, he also smiled and said hello, and threw him a game currency directly.

"Count me as what I sent you, work hard today, and strive to reach 45 million!"

Rob Pardo also smiled a little embarrassedly, he broke through to more than 43 million points for the first time last night, and he had a good chance to reach 45 million points to see if the gossip was true, but he lost his efforts because of a mistake.

At that time, the owner of the shop also stood beside him and kept cheering him on, and he still clearly remembers that when he failed, it seemed that this boss was more disappointed than him.

Throwing the game currency into the machine from the coin slot, the familiar game music sounded in his ears, and looking at the pages that he had seen countless times flashing in front of his eyes, Rob Pardo, who had been a little impatient, started the game.

The initial level was too easy for him, and it was not difficult to operate with one hand, and the boss in his thirties also came to his side to watch him play games.

"Rob, did you know that the makers of 'American Cubes' participated in a talk show?" The arcade shop owner saw that Rob Pardo didn't need to pay full attention to the difficulty in front of him, so he took the initiative to talk to him.

"Well, I've heard that Jester seems to have been racially discriminated against, and there's been a lot of hype about this matter lately, and there's some naked-run bet or something." Rob Pardo, as a fan of American Cubes, is naturally very concerned about this news, not only does he know that the company that made the game is called Mars Entertainment, and the maker is called Jester Lee.

Even before Jester, he advertised in TV newspapers and issued a call for people from all over the United States who still have aspirations for the video game industry to come to California to join his company and work together to make the best games and revive the glory of the dying video game industry.

Rob Pardo was very enthusiastic at the time, he loved the game very much, and he also made an adventure game based on DND rules on Apple II, and several of his friends also had a lot of fun.

So, he wrote a letter of self-introduction, attached his work and sent it to the address of Mars Entertainment.

However, after the passion, he had some regrets, how could his letter written by a fourteen-year-old high school student be taken seriously, but what he didn't expect was that he actually received a reply from Jester Lee, the maker of "American Cubes", and it was in this letter that he learned that Jester was actually just a college student who had just turned nineteen.

In the letter, Jester first encouraged him, surprised that he could make such a great game at such a young age, and then said that he was still young, and if he could still be interested in video games after graduating from college, and the industry had not completely disappeared at that time, and Mars Entertainment was still active, he was welcome to work at Mars Entertainment.

Rob Pardo, who received the reply at the time, read the letter dozens of times in a row, and according to his mother, he had never seen him so devout even in the Bible.

Then, the flattered Rob Pardo became a fan of Jester without hesitation, and he was a die-hard one.

"The talk show he was on was called Chicago Morning, and it was on ABC tonight on his TV network, and I heard him answer a lot of things about games." The owner of the arcade said with some interest.

"Chicago Morning is going to be broadcast in the evening?" Rob Pardo nimbly controlled a four-piece connected block with both hands and fell vertically, eliminating the four rows of squares at once, he knew that Jester was on the talk show he was on before, but he was still a little surprised to hear the news from the arcade owner, the name of the show should not have been broadcast at night anyway.

"I don't know about this, but I heard that this show is going to be revised recently and moved to prime time, and it just so happens that this episode has been stirred up because of racial discrimination, so it may have been moved to prime time in the evening for the sake of ratings." Now, the owner of this arcade shop is not very clear, and can only speculate and say his own inference.

Rob Pardo had been thinking about tonight's show, and the thought of seeing his idol on TV in the evening made me feel a little excited.

However, it may be that his mind is not focused enough, this time Rob Pardo made a mistake when he had less than 37 million points, which led to the failure of the game, and the arcade shop owner who watched him play the game also felt a little sorry.

He also wanted Rob Pardo to confirm the rumor that he could change his name for 45 million points, and then let him leave his name on one of the machines here, so that his arcade hall would become famous, and whether it would be good to come and see their first machine with his name written on it, or to challenge him to change his name, it would definitely attract a large number of new customers.

Because he was still thinking about going home to watch his idol's show at night, after the end of this game, Rob Pardo didn't continue to play, but went home directly.

After dinner, Rob Pardo chose the channel and stayed in front of the television, his eyes not moving.

He's looking forward to the broadcast of "Chicago Morning."

It also made his mother wonder how his child was different today, not only came back much earlier than before, but also became interested in the TV show that he never disdained.

Finally, when it was almost eight o'clock, ABC's "Chicago Morning" broadcast on the whole network finally began.

The first time I saw Jester's image, he was as young as he thought, as if he was a tall and sturdy nineteen-year-old boy.

Rob Pardo couldn't help but be a little excited, he clenched his fists tightly, looked at his idol, and waited for the host of the show to ask some questions.

The previous chat started with some guiding questions to give the audience some preliminary understanding of Jester, such as his age, his educational qualifications, and so on.

When Jester himself said that his company was working on a home game console, Rob Pardo jumped for joy at first, since he was obsessed with American Cubes, he had dreamed of playing this incredible game at home, and then he thought about the fate of the Atari consoles in the mall now, and he couldn't help but sweat for his idol.

Then when Jester says that he won't drop out of school, he laughs and jokingly mocks many people at his remarks that he wants to revive the video game industry and that video games are not dead, saying that he is extremely arrogant, and many people even curse that he had better fail right away.

Describe how you will apply for a job and write a resume if you fail, and answer Oprah's reply that I am not the ordinary one......

Seeing this, Rob Pardo couldn't help but laugh out loud at Jester's humor.

At this time, his mother happened to pass by the living room, and saw that her son, who had always been strict, would watch TV this time and laugh, she thought it was a drama program, she also glanced at the TV with some doubts, and to her surprise, the TV program did not seem to be a comedy TV, but a talk show.

"Can a talk show be so good?" Rob Pardo's mother, who was a little curious, also sat down next to her son and watched with him.

Then, she couldn't help but be attracted to the show.

Next up is the ** of this episode.

First of all, the video tape that triggered this conflict appeared, when Rob Pardo saw the pomp and circumstance of the demo in the videotape, and saw the three new games released by Mars Entertainment and Jester Lee, he even flushed with excitement, and kept waving his arms slightly to vent his feelings.

He really wanted to play those three new games.

He's a die-hard Jester fan, and he believes that everything in the tape is real, because he's seen the arcade where they first bought American Cubes, and what it was like that day, it was exactly like the one filmed in the tape, and people kept playing the game again and again, as if they couldn't get enough of it no matter how many times they played it.

It was that day when he stood in line for most of the day to play American Cubes, which was the best game in the world's eyes in Rob Pardo's eyes at the time, and Atari's stuff that should have been outdated was not even rubbish in the face of this game.

Landfilling in the desert is a matter of course.

Even though he played Atari's epoch-making "Defender" back then, he also shouted that it was the best game in the world.

You know, Rob Pardo was a fan of Atari before, and he also believed the advertisement at Christmas to buy the "ET" that was destined to go down in history.

After that, the audience questioned the authenticity of the videotape, and some were excited to scold the liar, and finally pushed the whole incident to ** with the yellow-skinned monkey named Henry Stuart.

Just after Henry Stuart shouted the yellow-skinned monkey, the scene quickly cut a close-up to Jester.

Rob Pardoton Guò can clearly see that after hearing the loud yellow-skinned monkey, Jester's face instantly became gloomy, and he glanced at Henry Stuart coldly, but in a very short time, the expression on Jester's face returned to normal.

There was even a hint of a smile that looked very weird to Rob Pardo, like a smiling flesh that didn't smile.

"You dare to make a bet with me?" Jester said to Henry Stuart on the show.

Finally, Jester announced the content of the bet, he will hold a player demo in Chicago at the end of July to see if his game is popular, the tape is not fake, if he loses, the demo will be crowded, he strips naked and runs around the Art Institute of Chicago three times, and if he wins, then ......

Rob Pardo didn't pay much attention to these things, he didn't even think his idol would lose, and he didn't need to worry at all, he only focused on the new game demo in Chicago at the end of the month!

After hearing Jester say the news, his eyes immediately showed a longing light.

After the show ended, it was the commercial time, and Rob Pardo wanted to go straight back to the room, but after he glanced at the commercial, he couldn't take his eyes off it.

The advertisement is the national tour trial planned by Jester, which will select 20 major cities in different parts of the United States for half a year, and in this tour trial, there will be continuous announcement of several 'cross-era' games in development, and if possible, there will even be a trial version for players to experience.

Seeing this news, Rob Pardo felt a blood in his heart constantly stirring, and this blood was constantly stimulating him, I must go to this trial!

A must go!

Then he turned his head and saw his mother, who had sat next to him at some point.

Zhizi Mo Ruomu, her mother saw Rob Pardo's appearance and immediately guessed his thoughts, but his mother just showed a smile, did not say yes or no, just said lightly: "This show is good." ”

Rob Pardo, who knew his mother best, heard his mother's words, and his arms involuntarily waved excitedly, and at the same time, a smile appeared on his face for a moment.

He knew that his mother had agreed.

The next day.

Yesterday's show on ABC's whole network still caused a big sensation, after all, it was only rumored that Jester, who was in the limelight recently, was racially discriminated against, but in yesterday's program, the scene where he was racially discriminated against was really broadcast.

Racial discrimination in the United States is prohibited, at least on the surface, in other words, it can only be done, not spoken.

As soon as the show aired, it immediately aroused protests from yellow groups, especially Chinese groups, and even the black groups that are usually the most racist, and almost overnight, Henry Stuart, who was only a small TV director, immediately became a national celebrity, but the notorious kind.

For this kind of rat crossing the street, no matter whether it is sanctimonious or truly righteous and awe-inspiring, he will not let go of the opportunity to fall into the well.

Although he held a press conference the day after the incident, apologizing for what happened before.

But the problem is that the unscrupulous media will not let go of the opportunity of such a hot topic, and they have begun to criticize him.

Of course, by the way, it also pushed Jester's fame even higher.

Moreover, although the previous tape was real, it was so real that many people who had not seen the pomp and circumstance of "American Cubes" were extremely suspicious, and in the eyes of these people, although Henry Stuart's racist behavior was very inappropriate, Jester's fake and deceptive behavior was also immoral.

As a result, some media outlets, especially Jester, mocked the investors who said that the video game industry was completely finished and that they were going to withdraw from the historical state in the interview.

So, the counterattack of these people came the next day.

The Wall Street Journal was the first to publish an article that pushed the Mars Entertainment video fraud incident to the peak of public opinion.

PS1: Ask for a referral ticket!!

PS2: Rob-Pardo, Blizzard's ace designer, known as the soul of Blizzard, StarCraft: The Brood War, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne Chief Designer, World of Warcraft Old World and Burning Expedition Chief Designer, Diablo 3 Zuò people, Hearthstone is derived from his idea. In 2006, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine because of the huge success of World of Warcraft.

PS3: ALL-THE-BEST is Rob Pardo's nickname at Blizzard.

PS4: This year, Rob Pardo, who has been with Blizzard for 17 years, left Blizzard and previously served as Blizzard's vice president and chief technology officer.

PS5: When I saw the news at the time, I sighed, it was emotionally difficult to accept as a ten-year confession.