Chapter 34: Trial Meeting

Because of the tight schedule, Jester only had one day to promote, so this time the player trial was only held around Costa Mesa, which also made Jester a little disappointed, he originally wanted to make his company's first trial and press conference a little grander.

But that can only wait for next time.

However, to Jester's surprise, in addition to Costa Mesa players, there were also enthusiastic fans of American Cubes from other Orange areas, who drove to participate.

They also wanted to see what the next game would be from the company that made such a good American Cube. This is extremely valuable in the United States, which has lost confidence in the video game industry.

The time was originally set for half past eight in the morning, but it was not yet eight o'clock, and hundreds of enthusiastic players gathered in front of the Mars Entertainment Company building.

They kept shouting the name of Mars Entertainment, and some held up display boards with the words "American Cubes" written on them in colored pens.

Seeing such a scene, Jester knew that this was far more than the capacity of the fifteen new arcade machines, so he immediately decided to open it early.

Then he made a decision in his heart that when the next press conference came, he would have to make a few more arcade machines, otherwise he would not be able to receive these enthusiastic players at all.

The trial is free, and each player will receive a number card, and according to the order of the numbers, each player will be allowed to enter fifteen players at a time, and can play one of the three games at any time, or for a maximum of ten minutes.

And the staff who maintain order are recognizable but not recognizable.

There are cards in, no cards out.

If you want to continue to enter the trial game, then the player has to figure out how to do it himself, and Jester is not undisciplined enough to let people sell number plates, but the player's private transaction can't be stopped.

"Fifty dollars!! Give me your number plate! I'll give fifty dollars! "A fat white man who had just been forcibly taken out of the demo hall by security struggled to squeeze through the crowd and yelled at the next group of players who were about to enter the demo hall.

The man's expression was excited, his face was flushed, his clothes were neatly clean, and he didn't look like he was sick, and his actions also made the people around him cast their eyes on him.

You must know that although fifty dollars is not much, it is not too little, especially in eighty-four years, when the salary of an ordinary TV host is only less than two thousand dollars a month.

Besides, it's just a short, a few minutes, a chance to try out a game, even though this is the latest development from the company that developed "American Cubes", and although I love playing "American Cubes", the devil knows if the new game they developed is fun or not, you must know that before Atari made "ET", there were countless classic games made by zuò!

So, there were really two players who hesitated and traded their number cards to this man who was a little obese, and then the man did not hesitate to take out a hundred dollars, handed them to each other, and then snatched the two license plates from the opponent's hand with a vicious dog snatching food-like action.

It seems that he is afraid that the other party will regret it.

After that, the man walked in the direction of the trial hall again, and when he reached the gate, he raised the number plate in his hand to the security guard who had just told him about it, and stepped into the gate with this group of players.

One number plate corresponds to a chance to play, and this man's two number plates certainly correspond to two opportunities to play, which is also what Jester has already instructed the employees of Mars Entertainment here.

This time, the man chose Bejeweled, which he hadn't tried for the first time - an arcade machine with a strange shape, no joysticks and buttons, and only a beautiful-looking curved mouse.

This strange-looking machine caught his attention when he first came in, and he wanted to get closer to find out, but he was not the only one who had the same idea, because the appearance of this machine was so attractive, but there were only five Bejeweled machines out of fifteen people.

As a result, he was left to play a game he didn't like just by looking at the name, Puzzle-Bobble.

"Mobile puzzles? What a bad name......" At that time, the somewhat fat Bayern man complained while reluctantly starting his own trial with the help of the staff.

He wasn't very optimistic about a game with such a weird name.

"Puzzle-Bobble" is the English name of "Bubble Bobble", which is a puzzle marble puzzle game originally released in 1994, the original production company is the famous TAITO, Chinese translation is different, generally speaking, it is customary to call it Taito.

Maybe it's a name that isn't well known now, young new gamers have heard very little, and even the company was acquired by Square Enix just after the new millennium, but TAITO has a very important place in the entire history of video games.

The company was the world's first organization to engage in video games and was one of the founders of the Japan Arcade Industry Association (NAMA).

In February 1967, Namco, Nakamura, and Sega, three companies that accounted for 40% of the arcade machine market in Japan at the time, initiated the establishment of NAMA, an association that was so influential that it included almost all the giants of the Japanese game industry except Ren Jigoku.

Like Sega, and like most video game companies of that era, Teto started with pachinko, and if it weren't for the appearance of a single person, perhaps Teto would have ended up with the same ending as most video game companies, and disappeared into the torrent of history, just like the more than 100 game companies in Japan at that time that now don't even have their names left.

One day, a young man named Tomohiro Nishikaku joined Teto, a fierce man who taught himself TTL substrate technology in college. After that, his passion for game creation was ignited, and he based on Pong! Several sports games were so popular that they were even sold back to the United States, making a lot of money for Teto.

If that's the case, maybe there's nothing to write about, but one day in 1978, based on the inspiration of one of Teto's previous games, Tomohiro Nishikaku designed a video game that will go down in history, Space Invaders.

Maybe you will be more familiar with the name of this game, which is affectionately called by the players who love it - Little Bee.

There is an interesting fact about this game, because at that time, the game currency used in this game was a 100 yuan coin in the yen, which caused an extreme shortage of 100 yuan coins in Japan, and there were even cases where someone bought 100 yuan coins at twice the price, and some arcade halls even used this machine all together, because players only played "Space Invaders" and disdained other games.

It was a great game that directly ushered in the arcade era, and Space Invaders was later selected by IGN as one of the fifty milestones in video game history.

And Tomohiro Nishikaku has also permanently engraved his name on history.

"What! Game over? And that's the end of it? Two minutes later, the white man, who had just started and was attracted by the exhilaration, suddenly saw the words GAME-OVER suddenly appear on the screen, and his face instantly showed an angry look, and he completely forgot about his previous disdain for the game.

Originally, the white man wanted to try again, but the staff had already discovered that his trial had ended, and seeing that he was still struggling and didn't want to leave, he was finally put out by the strong security personnel who were called by the staff.

This time, the somewhat obese white man who came in for the second time immediately rushed to the arcade machine that he had been so interested in the first time he had entered, operated with a curved mouse, which made the other fourteen people look a little puzzled.

"Bejeweled, this name sounds like a good game, although the previous game was fun, but the name is too bad......" The white man began the trial with the help of the staff, and he grabbed the mouse that was very pleasing to his eyes with one hand, and at the same time showed an incredible expression on his face.

"It's unbeatable!"

When the white man sighed, his movements were also moving rapidly, constantly clicking on the two adjacent gems in the screen matrix, and then first saw the three gems connected together on the screen that were operated by himself disappear, and then the gems on it fell, reforming into three connected gems, which also disappeared immediately, and then new gems continued to fall from the top of the matrix, like a spreading avalanche, and a large number of gems were eliminated at the same time.

Listening to the melodious sound of the gem disappearing, and watching the special effect when the gem disappears, the white man's face was full of excitement.

The thrill of this game seems to be much stronger in the white man's sense than "American Cubes" and "Bubble Bobble", especially the smoothness of this mouse control, which is even more unforgettable to him, he was still a little eager to play it again, but it seemed that he thought of something, and then he waved the second number plate in his hand to the staff, and walked towards the only game "Zuma" he had not touched on the side.

Players outside the trial hall were even more excited after hearing the stories of the people who came out after the trial.

Especially when those players who are still playing are still interested in buying the license plate for the trial with US dollars, at the beginning of the price of 50 US dollars, the price of 50 US dollars can still be accepted by everyone, but as more people go to the trial to play, more and more people begin to spend US dollars to buy the license plate that can enter the trial hall again to try the game.

The price of these license plates has also risen for a short time, and at the peak they even rose to nearly 100 dollars.

And the three film crews sent by ABC were also a little dumbfounded, and then used their own lenses to faithfully record this scene, which was really incredible in their eyes, just for a few minutes of game time, they did not hesitate to spend a hundred dollars.

If that was converted into money, the time the three of them spent in it yesterday afternoon would add up to enough time for them to buy a nice mansion in Los Angeles.

The white man's face turned red after playing all three games, and he looked at the three game consoles in front of him with some excitement, as if he were looking at three mountains of gold.

"I want to meet your boss, my name is Adam Edgar, I'm a businessman, I have a big business I want to talk to your boss about these three game consoles!" The man walked directly in front of a staff member, took out a delicate business card from his pocket, and handed it to the other party.

The Mars Entertainment staff member gave the man who called himself Adam Edgar a serious look, confirmed that the other person did not seem to be playing a prank, took his business card, and said, "Please wait. After speaking, he muttered a few words to his colleagues, turned around and walked towards the second floor.

And the white man was not in a hurry and stood aside and waited for the results.

But even now that Jester had been informed by the staff, he probably wouldn't have had time to meet the self-proclaimed businessman Adam Edgar, who was meeting with a guest he had expected to come.

It is also a guest who can help him temporarily solve his lack of production capacity.

After Ren Hell met him, he expected that the people from this company would definitely come to the door, but he didn't expect that the other party would drag on for so long.

"I met President Lee, who was in Shimosuzuki Yu, and was the representative of Sega this time. Originally, President Hayao Nakayama had been going to send someone to contact us, but as you know, last year, Sega's arcade business collapsed in the U.S., and we had to sell the U.S. branch as a last resort to reduce losses. ”

In front of Jester was a young Asian, with yellow skin and black eyes like him, and the first time he saw Jester, he directly came to a ninety-degree bend, looking extremely frightened.

"Yuzu Suzuki?" Jester couldn't help but show a curious look on his face when he heard the young man's name, and he carefully looked at the young man in his twenties in front of him.

Is this the future one who is as famous as Shigeru Miyamoto, the soul of Sega, Yu Suzuki?

PS: I can only write so much today.,The number of words is not enough and I don't ask for votes.,Watching the live broadcast of Betta Sister Bei 2 at night delayed time.,And then consider the shortcomings of your own writing style and celebrity collecting habits.,That's why I wrote 4,000 words.,Try to make it up tomorrow.,Then,From tomorrow onwards, try to divide chapters.,Generally, I won't send that kind of 7000,8000 big chapters.。