Chapter 107: Some Memories of the Old Four

Before he knew it, Jester had filled a dozen sheets of manuscript paper, which were scattered all over the table, first frowning, then carefully sorting them out, and then putting them away in different categories.

Although he has written a lot, he still has a lot to prepare for the next month's plans.

Especially "The Saloman".

Jester has a lot of respect for this game, and Jester believes that anyone who has played this game will have a lot of respect for this game.

Although his "Dawn" is far larger and more complex than "Saloman Snake" in terms of setting and game system, in Jester's eyes, it would be great if his game could be ported to his home console.

But the reality is that this game is too large because of the huge content is that it is impossible to port the console version without ensuring the quality, if you want to port, you have to castrate the game like "1942", if the castration is too strong, can not ensure the quality of the game, then in Jester's eyes, it is better not to port.

He didn't want to be like Capcom, who finally released a well-received work on the arcade only to lose his reputation because the quality of the transplant was too poor.

Not all game manufacturers are as strong as Konami and can not only port the masterpiece of the arcade without castration, but also make the console version even better than the arcade version. At least as Jester knew, his employees weren't as tough as the future Konami.

Anyway, in Jester's mind, the Konami in the late 80s and the early 90s Capcom were full of the prefix of invincible in the world, especially Konami's three-in-a-year masterpiece, which made many game lovers talk about it, and at that time, Konami was in the limelight in the United States, almost unparalleled, quite a bit Later, Hideo Kojima came out with his MGS2, and the eight major manufacturers avoided the momentum.

And Jester is also very curious about this, according to the reason, because of the large space of the arcade machine, developers can use a more powerful substrate, because the space is large, the substrate is large, and the substrate is larger and can naturally integrate more circuits, and the performance is naturally powerful.

However, Konami games have always been able to make their FC portings not inferior to arcade machines, such as the famous Old Four, in the eyes of many people, the FC version of the Old Four is not inferior to the arcade version released at the same time, and even in the eyes of some players, the home version is even better than the arcade version.

Speaking of the game "Saloman", Jester's memories are very fond, the famous FC Old Four Champion, Jester can still remember the first time he played this game.

Regarding the origin of the old top four, it can be regarded as an early ridicule of domestic players, and these four games, in a certain way, can also be said to have cultivated the first batch of non-Nintendo game fans in China.

At that time, the domestic pirates made a combination of the four most popular games on FC in addition to Lao Ren, because the games on it are classic and have a large audience, so over time, these four games are also affectionately called FC Old Four by domestic players, which means the most fun game on FC.

Actually, it's a bit one-sided.,After all, there's a superhorse.,Superhorse3 and even a green hat.,FF3These super gods are in.,It's possible for other games to evaluate one of the best.,But it's the best.,It's a bit of a good thing to watch.,But this also shows that these four games are really good.。

Jester first played at his neighbor's house.

It was winter, and Jester remembers very well that he had just had a winter vacation, and he was playing Super Mario at home with a blue and white machine that his uncle had brought back from his trip to eastern Guangdong.

It's almost a lot of fun.

At that time, Jester's neighbor was his classmate, before his classmate had time, as long as the adults in both families were not at home, he would always sneak to Jester's house to play games together, Jester liked to play Superhorse the most, and his neighbor classmate liked to play "Dirt Motorcycle" the most, but then he was accidentally discovered by the adults in his family, and this classmate was also beaten hard, and Jester's classmate was also hard, just didn't admit that he was wrong.

His parents had no choice but to agree to buy him one as long as Jester's classmate was in the top three in the final exam.

As a result, Jester's classmate really got into the top three under the encouragement of a game console, and his parents also bought him a game console according to the previous agreement, just like their own, it was also a blue and white machine brought by someone from Yuedong.

Speaking of blue and white machines, many people may not know, some players who are late in contact with cassette game consoles may know that the red and white machines refer to Nintendo's FC, and know that black card game consoles generally refer to the fifth generation of Sega, that is, Sega MD, and know that Xiaobawang is a game console disguised as a learning machine after copycat FC.

In fact, at the beginning, especially before Xiaobawang became popular, the first popular FC compatible machine in China, or one of the FC compatible machines was the blue and white machine.

However, the blue and white machine is not a copycat production, but has been authorized by Nintendo, produced and sold by the bent Shengtian Electronics, but Shengtian Electronics basically copied Nintendo's FC red and white machine in terms of appearance design, and even the appearance of the accessories, the machine surface print is completely consistent, the only difference is that Nintendo is red, and the blue and white machine is blue.

Compared with the little genius of Jingji Electronics, another company authorized by Nintendo, at least in terms of appearance design, Shengtian's blue and white machine is to be completely exploded by the appearance of the little genius's improvement, especially the handle designed by the little genius himself, which is even much stronger than the handle of Nintendo FC in terms of feel.

Of course, the Nintendo FC controller itself doesn't feel very good.

Later, Shengtian's blue and white machine and the little genius of Jingji Electronics entered the domestic market, each occupying half of the country.

But on the whole, in terms of market share, Shengtian's blue and white machine is far inferior to that of a small genius, and it is also after these two are popular in China that a large number of copycat FC game console manufacturers have appeared in China.

Before Xiaobawang, the most famous may be the copycat machine of Boning Tianma, the color is green and white or off-white, and the others are no different from Nintendo's red and white machines in appearance, but if you take it apart and look at the circuit board inside, you will find that there is a big difference.

Let's not talk about that, let's get down to business.

Jester was playing Super Mario when he heard a knock on the door, and he paused the game to open the door, which was his neighbor's classmate.

Originally, Jester was a little strange, didn't he buy a game console?

Unexpectedly, his classmate said to him excitedly: "Come to my house, I just got a new game card, and the games in it are much more fun than yours!" "To be honest, Jester was a little dissatisfied after listening to the other party's words at the time, and wanted to refuse, and continue to go back to play his own superhorse, but he really couldn't stand the new cassette in his classmate's mouth**, after thinking about it for a second, Jester also decided to go to his house to see, if it's not fun, come back.

I didn't expect that this was a day, and I played until dinner, and then my parents pulled me out of my neighbor's house.

I didn't even feel hungry for lunch and dinner, and when I left my fellow student, Jester was extremely reluctant, looking back at the TV that was still playing the electronic music that I had been listening to all afternoon but still couldn't get tired of listening to, and even the sound of BIUBIUBIU's gunfire was in his head.

That day, Jester played this combo card, and he was not playing "Saloman Snake", but "Contra", and this combo card was also the four-in-one old top four card that many people talked about. To be honest, Jester later recalled that the person who was able to pick out these four games as combos back then was indeed a genius.

Because these four games are all brilliant and never tired of playing, and the gameplay is different, they can well meet the needs of different people. In fact, the top four were recognized as the best game level in FC in China at that time, but the evaluation of these four games in Japan was average, so the selection at that time did not look at fame, but had to rely on level and vision to choose.

But then again, these four games are very popular in the United States, especially "Contra" and "Crimson Fortress", according to the video that Jester watched that year, there are basically no two games in school that have not been played, in fact, if you carefully analyze these four games, you will find the essence of the problem.

The weapon of the protagonist of "Contra" is a gun, the weapon of the protagonist of "Red Fortress" is a car, the weapon of the protagonist of "Saloman Snake" is a ball, and the main weapon of the protagonist of "Green Army" is a knife, a car gun ball knife, is it very familiar? That's right, this is what later generations said about the three major cancers of cars, guns and balls, in fact, it is because both Americans and domestic people are very different from Japan in terms of game choice, and the two are very similar, and they are not very interested in those very fine Japanese RPG games, but they are very fascinated by this simple and rough game.

For example, the sales volume of the DQ series in Europe and the United States is similar to that of Xiang.

Of course, it can't be generalized, for example, green hats and FF are very high in the minds of European and American players, especially green hats, in the hearts of European and American players, they are almost the representatives of perfect RPGs, and whether it is the media in Europe and the United States, or the media in Japan, they all give green hats undoubtedly super high scores.

Games that can kill Europe, the United States and Japan are very, very rare, as long as there is one, it is undoubtedly a masterpiece.

However, in Jester's heart, even if it also belongs to the top four, these four games are also graded, "Green Army" must be the most inferior among these four games, and the remaining three are not good to compare the advantages and disadvantages, if you have to choose one, then Jester feels that "Saloman Snake" can be slightly better with the grandeur of the setting and the perfection of the soundtrack, and "Red Fortress" and "Contra" are the two games on par.

When Jester woke up the next morning, the first thing he did was to knock on his neighbor's door again, and then he and his neighbor classmate threw themselves into the fight of "Contra" without sleep or food, but for a novice like Jester at that time, "Contra" was relatively difficult.

And his neighbor's level is good, there may be some people who have not played "Contra" who are not familiar with this game, some games are more difficult than two people by one person, which is not wrong in nature, but the game "Contra" is not like this when the level of the two is different, because the slow pace will always be dragged to death by the fast-paced people.

So Jester is always dragged to death by his neighbors, and his neighbors always spray him with vegetables, which makes Jester very angry, after all, he can also surpass the horse with one life, and his neighbor's level is okay, and he can't even pass the third level, and this time playing "Contra", it is his turn to be ridiculed by the other party, which makes Jester intolerable.

However, when the two finally stumbled through "Contra", and when they started to play the second game on this game card, "Saloman Snake", Jester completely found his feel when playing "Super Mario".

It's a very subtle feeling, it seems that you can dodge all the bullets and attacks on the plane in the TV, you can easily eat the capsule synthetic weapon, and then you can easily eliminate the bosses that are extremely difficult in the eyes of your neighbors.

Jester still remembers the look of shock in his neighbor's eyes when he saw how easily he had defeated the fire dragon in the Fire Dragon Pass.

That feeling was very superior to Jester, who was still young at the time, and it was also very good.

PS: There is something going on in the past few days, and it will be resumed tomorrow.