Chapter 125: Minoru Arakawa's Wrath
Then, they saw Jester controlling the character, flashing and moving on the screen, and the character in it, like an ape, jumped all kinds of guò to dodge attacks, dodged the level, and then fell from the sky, slashing several enemy soldiers into several sections, red blood scattered in all directions, with the realistic sound of cutting flesh coming from the computer, coupled with the Arabic-style rich background music that sounded from time to time, it was like watching a movie.
And with Jester's control, the characters in it are all the way through the level, and the whole screen actually rolls up with the movement of the characters as they have seen it in the arcade.
Ordinary gamers are still accustomed to it, after all, they have seen this kind of scrolling special effect in arcade games such as Atari's "Defender" or Mars Entertainment's "Sheriff Balotelli", and they are all used to it, but people who know a lot about computer games once again can't help but grow their mouths, and this time their open mouths are even much larger than the last time, big enough to fit a duck egg.
"It can't be!" Even, there were people who exclaimed in disbelief.
Yes, in the eyes of these players who are familiar with PC games, it is almost impossible to complete the smooth scrolling of the scrolls on the PC, since the designers of Atari first completed "Defender" on the arcade four years ago, I don't know how many PC game designers also want to transplant this scumbag effect to the PC, because the picture effect that can be scrolled and cannot be scrolled is really far away when it comes to giving people an experience.
Between the two is not at all the same era technology.
But neither the well-known PC game manufacturers such as Xuele Mountain, Weizhen, and EA, nor Activision, which was formed by the technical elites who became independent from Atari not long ago, have never done this on the PC, and all of them have failed.
And now, right in front of their eyes, Mars Entertainment, which has been committed to the development of arcade games and has just been preparing to release its own home game console, has quietly completed these things that PC games as the main business direction want to complete but can't? And I hadn't heard them say that they had overcome the difficulty of this technology before, which is incredible, right?
These people are also itchy, basically those who like to play PC games now know a little about computers, otherwise they can't even get into the DOS system, not to mention that many computer games are game codes that come with game magazines, and if you want to play, you need to program the code yourself, such as a floppy disk, it's not just a little designer who can do what he wants to do, so these people are also extremely curious about this technology of Mars Entertainment.
Of course, Jester will definitely not talk about their reel technology at the press conference, and this is not the point, the point is to let the players at the scene see what kind of amazing Cheng Dù can be achieved with the original extremely blurry mosaic image under the processing of this image display card, and he saw the reaction of the audience at the scene, and he knew that his goal was achieved.
This was originally a temporary demo level, not the game itself, just a little bit of flow, and soon Jester ended the game.
After the presentation, he looked back at the surprised audience below, then clapped his hands vigorously, returning his attention to himself once more, clearing his throat, Jester continued.
"It's almost time, our press conference is coming to an end, wait a while is the question session, we will randomly point a few media or audiences to ask us questions, as long as it is about anything about this conference, I will know everything as long as I can answer, now I just want to say, what you saw just now, is what I want to show you, I can say unceremoniously, this is the picture of the next era, I am the same as all of you, When I first saw the graphics in this way, I had only one thought in my mind, and that was that I had a responsibility and an obligation to bring this kind of game to all players. ”
Jester said impassionedly, and the audience under the stage also listened to the blood boiling, but they have experienced the rough eight-bit graphics, when they see the sixteen-bit graphics card processing picture, the excitement is indescribable, in this era, no one who loves video games, will not cheer for such a delicate picture, no one will naturally like to play rough mosaics.
Looking at the players who were excited when they heard his words, Jester smiled a little ill-willedly, he is not a philanthropist, of course it is impossible to do charity, originally he was going to design a game for this graphics card in order to promote ATI's graphics card, but then he thought about it again, while promoting ATI's graphics card, why not make a high-end gaming computer brand?
It's like Apple.
So, Jester continued to say to the audience, his tone became a little regretful: "However, our attempt was not very successful, the staff of the hardware department told me that it is difficult for them to put this very large graphics card into our home game console under the current conditions, and to complete this delicate picture operation, it is not possible to use only this sixteen-bit graphics card, it must be matched with a sixteen-bit CPU, but about how to build a sixteen-bit game console, to be honest, We don't have the slightest experience yet. ”
Sure enough, after hearing Jester's statement, even though the players who had been teased by Jester in the same way several times before, they still let out a collective sigh without a long lesson, and the expressions of disappointment were all over the faces of these people.
However, as he had done a few times before, Jester's voice immediately changed, and his voice increased, as if he had made a very difficult decision.
"But I still had a long discussion with our hardware engineers, and discussed countless methods, and came to the conclusion that we can't come up with a reliable method in a short period of time, but one of them, which seems a bit ridiculous, gave me an inspiration, since there is no way to immediately make a home game console that can give full play to this sixteen-bit image display card, then why don't we directly make a computer that can give full play to its performance like we did before?"
Then, Jester patted the slightly ugly computer next to him, and continued with a smile: "That's it, this computer that can perfectly play the performance of this sixteen-bit graphics card was born, and then, in order to reflect the powerful ability of this graphics card, I remade this demonstration level, and it is also the first game I am going to make on a sixteen-bit CPU and a sixteen-bit image processor, as you can see, a game that belongs to the next era, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. ”
By the time Jester finished, cheers were basically all left under the table, and they had seen how powerful the game called Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was.
"And I can assure you that even though our first generation of eight-bit consoles hasn't been officially released yet, or even launched in front of you for the first time today, our sixteen-bit home console development program has already been established, because I can't wait for everyone to play games that truly belong to the next era, after all, the price of building a PC that can run Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is too expensive, and I believe it is not a price that everyone can afford. This is contrary to my philosophy of the game, which is to make our games accessible to all players who love us! That's what I've always been. ”
"Finally, this press conference is officially over, thank you!"
With his eyes open and saying these nonsense, Jester also bowed to the audience for the third time in this press conference, and everyone present also stood up and applauded him, especially those of Mars Entertainment or Jester fans, and even kept whistling and shouting all kinds of words to express their excitement.
They were really excited.
Just as Jester ended the press conference and was questioning and answering questions with the audience, Minoru Arakawa, who had returned to the hotel, got the exact news of the Mars Entertainment press conference.
Especially after hearing his employees report that Jester actually took out an emulator to simulate the game of FC on their new game console, and at the same time compared it with FC on the spot to prove that the function of their game console was completely explosive, and also carried out a lot of sarcastic provocations, Arakawa almost blackened his eyes and fell directly to the ground, he really didn't expect that he had just said that their game console was the best of its kind, but he was slapped in the face just a few hours later.
And the more Arakawa thinks about it, the more wrong it becomes, especially since he had dealt with Jester before, and the impression left by the other party on him, although extremely bad, was obviously very shrewd.
At the last meeting, because of the inaccuracy of his intelligence collection, he was teased and slipped into a big circle, and the humiliation made him feel a little shameless, how could a person like this just come to Las Vegas with an "unintentional" "coincidence" with a simulator that was not useful at all for their press conference this time?
It's really like he said,It's just a counterattack after hearing his own words demeaning their game console.,It doesn't make sense at all.,And using the same eight-bit machine to decipher the coding method of their machine.,It's not just a matter of interest.,Although Arakawa Minoru is not a hardware research and development person.,But under the ears and eyes,,He still has some basic ability to distinguish.。
This qiē, starting from the reporter who took the initiative to ask his own questions, this qiē is a set given to him by the other party!
A complete conspiracy.
Thinking of this, the expression on Minoru Arakawa's face became more and more angry, thinking of the humiliation brought about by being played by the same person with such a despicable trick again, and thinking that the headlines of many media tomorrow must be the news that he made a fool of, he was angry, he grabbed a glass on the table and smashed it to the ground, shattering.
Then his mouth also roared out a Japanese-style national curse at the same time.
"Yaga!" RS