Late at night, on a plane to Chicago, Jester couldn't sleep.

He's thinking about how to deal with Namco's legendary arcade game, Teppanyaki, and Capcom's classic flying shooter, 1942, the arcade game that ruled the era in history.

In fact, the four games he released are all casual elimination games, and the audience faced by these two games is not completely overlapping.

And what he will launch next is "Snowman Brothers", which wants to squeeze the market share of "Donkey Kong", and another is the fighting beat up game that Mark Saini is making.

These two games will not essentially compete head-to-head with Namco and Capcom, the first games of the vertical scrolling flight shooter generation, after all, they are not the same type of games.

But the point is that Jester, who understands the history of later generations, knows that the arcade market cannot be so simply divided by different types and no competition.

Because arcade players have mixed tastes, they don't play just one type of game.

But sometimes they have very specific tastes, and when they love one type of game like crazy, they will disdain other types of games.

For example, action beat 'em up is not the same genre as fighting, so why did fighting games in the mid-to-late 90s completely defeat action beat 'em up games to dominate the arcade market?

Jester was a little hesitant to make a long-winding flying shooter to fight against "Iron Plate" and "1942".

He knows the importance of word-of-mouth for a game company, especially Capcom, who built his reputation through "1942" and gained their first die-hard players, as one of the most hated game companies before Jester's rebirth, this company treats players like pigs and dogs, and he personally can't tolerate the success of Carbitch in his previous life.

These two games are the benchmark for this type of game in later generations, and almost every vertical scrolling flight shooter game in later generations pays tribute to these two games in some form.

Of course, Jester also knows that these two games are not flawless, after all, they are just the pioneers of this type of game, they are not perfect, and there are shortcomings.

For example, the graphics and levels of "Iron Plate" are single, for example, "1942" has not added the most famous 'bomb' system of this type of game, and so on.

But even despite this, it was no easy task to make a long-scrolling flight shooter that could crush 1942 and Teppanyaki.

At least Jester can't think of any game that can crush the two games, not Striker 1945, not Raiden, not even Samanro.

It's not that these games aren't good enough, it's that transcendence and crushing are two different concepts.

If you want to make a work that completely crushes these two games, you must not be limited to those games that have already existed in history, and you must make targeted arrangements according to the shortcomings of these two games...... Jester thought.

But now was clearly not the time to think about it on the plane, Jester shook his head, and put the thought down for now, he did have some thoughts on it, but it was really not the time to think about it deeply.

But as soon as the thought was suppressed, another question immediately popped into Jester's mind - something was wrong with Mark Saini's "The Avengers," which he had just received before his departure.

Mark Saini far underestimated the difficulty of making such a groundbreaking game at the beginning of the production, especially in the fluency of the action, which is very unsatisfactory, and the smoothness of the action is very powerful, coupled with his own pursuit of the picture ** to the extreme, so the progress is not very fast - at least it is like he himself said at the beginning that it is unlikely to be completed by the end of the year.

And Mark Saini also made it clear once again that now their hardware R&D team has largely completed this arcade substrate, which does not meet his requirements in terms of color processing.

But it is impossible to re-develop,The R&D team of the arcade base version has begun the project of the sixteen-bit substrate,It is impossible to draw out elite personnel to re-develop a more powerful eight-bit substrate,Moreover,This also makes the previous R&D investment equivalent to useless work。

Just after Jester's father rejected Mark Saney's excessive request, Jester put forward an idea, he suddenly thought of a later generation of game consoles to deal with the color when there is not enough processing, in fact, this game console is known as the strongest eight-bit PC-E upgraded version of the PC-FX, but at the beginning NEC Nippon Electric used two sixteen-bit PPUs for image processing, the effect is very good.

"Can we make a high-configuration version, which is equivalent to a low-configuration basic version, can we add two PPUs to this low-configuration substrate instead of one without changing the circuit architecture, and add more memory to achieve stronger image processing capabilities and make a high-configuration version?"

Jester's proposal not only made these hardware R & D personnel shine, after they discussed, they found that this plan is indeed feasible, and even Matthew Marcus, the head of the home machine R&D team that is being codenamed 'Zero', also carefully studied it, and immediately overturned part of the design that had been completed before, in the new plan, he also believes that the idea of adding two PPUs is very good, and it can indeed greatly improve the quality of the picture.

And he also came up with a very creative suggestion that they could refer to the way the arcade substrate was structured - which made it easier to wait for the arcade game to be ported.

As a result, the home machine, which was already sure to be completed by the end of the year, had to be delayed, and Matthew Marcus told Sù Jester that he could only guarantee to come up with a prototype before the end of the year.

Originally, this was bad news, but it made Jester breathe a sigh of relief, the only good news in terms of hardware development was that the progress of the miniaturized GW-class handheld he requested was very fast, because it was four years ago, according to Moore's Law, he asked for at least half the size of the handheld without any problem.

And, as Jester looked back at his plans to have done, to do, and not to do, he found that some of his previous ideas were a bit whimsical.

Originally, he planned to launch his own host plan at the end of Christmas, his plan is to build his own factory in China, but the problem is that even if he can go to China, it must be after the Los Angeles Olympics, this will be October, even if the country supports foreign investment, it will take at least a month from the approval to the leveling of the land, and the plant will take at least half a month even if it uses its own all-steel frame structure, plus commissioning equipment, trial production and the like, half a month.

This set will come down to January next year, and the pass rate at the beginning of production is bound to be not high, if you want to increase production, plus the training of new employees will also take at least two months to adapt, that is to say, you can start to explode production, at least until March next year.

I thought that there was enough time, but Jester thought about it carefully for a long time, only to realize that his time was still too short.

However, it is not bad to be able to get a prototype before the end of the year, as long as you can't miss the CES exhibition in Las Vegas in January next year, he remembers that Ren Hell's FC European and American versions of NES first appeared in front of Americans at this exhibition, with the support of Ren Hell's several boutique games, NES still caused a certain sensation at that exhibition.

The first battle of sniping Ren Hell by yourself will start with the CES exhibition.

Thinking about it, Jester didn't notice the passage of time, and when the radio in the cabin sounded, he realized that he had arrived in Chicago.

Nicknamed the Windy City, this cosmopolitan city is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States after New York and Los Angeles, and its status in the world economy and finance, its honor and prosperity do not need to be repeated.

The people at Chicago AM TV were also ready to pick up at Chicago O'Hare International Airport for a long time.

It's not the West Coast, and in Chicago, a city in the middle of the United States, Jester is still conspicuous as a muscular Asian.

Jester had just come out of the departure hall when he saw two Chicago AM TV staff members waving a sign with his name on it.

Although it was still early in the morning, both men were in good spirits.

Jester was also a little excited to meet, and one of them was a big American Cubes player, and according to his own account, he had to go to the arcade every night after work for a few hours in the evening.

"I'm skilled! I was just a little bit close to adding my own name. The Chicago AM employee, Hughes Ian, was a rambling conversation, ever since Jester had just boarded the Ford van they were driving, and he had been talking about "American Cubes."

The other older driver was not interested in this, and after Jester got off the plane, he was a little tired after not sleeping all day, but it was not easy to show impatience when he saw his fans talking about his game, so he could only patiently say something to the other party - basically the other party was talking, and Jester was listening.

It's nearly 30 kilometers from O'Hare International Airport, the world's only dual-hub airport, to downtown Chicago, and Jester asks for information about the show he's going to attend.

Jester was surprised that the host of the talk show "Chicago Morning" he was going to participate in turned out to be the future talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, of course, she has not yet established the famous Harp Entertainment, let alone the Oprah Show that made her famous all over the world.

Now she is just a host hired by Dennis Schwason, the owner of AM TV in Chicago, from Baltimore, the easternmost city in the continental United States, for an annual salary of $230,000 to host a talk show called "Chicago Morning" on AM TV in Chicago.

In order to fight against the talk show celebrity Phil Donner's same type of show.

Jester's episode was scheduled to be recorded in the morning, and the two TV station employees dropped Jester off at the hotel they had booked, agreed on a time to pick him up, and left.

Jester, who came to the hotel room, lay on the soft bed, and Jester, who could no longer resist the drowsiness brought by exhaustion, also fell asleep deeply.

Perhaps too tired, Jester was asleep and still thinking in his sleep about the game he was already a little worried about, against "Iron Plate" and "1942".

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