Chapter 7 A Long Dragon of Dozens of Meters!

Jester impressed Mark Seni with his most earnest and impassioned words, and he explained his plan to the other party.

"Let's go to tell them, there is only one reason why the game can't be sold, and that is that the game is not good enough, if the game is done well, it will naturally make everyone rush to it, and what we want to do is to make the best game!"

To make the best game, that's what Mark Saini believes.

As for what kind of game is a good game? Jester didn't have the slightest modest point to his "American Cubes" and said to Mark Saini that this is a good game.

American Cubes will make a lot of money, and Jester has never doubted that.

In a very short period of time when Atari owned Tetris's patent license, they sold more than 20,000 arcade machines in total, and it is impossible to count how many cartridges there are, but they know that after losing the lawsuit with Nintendo over Tetris licensing, they were only banned from sale, and there were hundreds of thousands of cartridges of Tetris in the ZĂ i warehouse.

AS FOR THE FACT THAT TETRIS SOLD MORE THAN 30 MILLION COPIES ON GAME-BOY AFTER IT WAS ACQUIRED BY NINTENDO, THERE IS NO NEED TO ELABORATE ON THIS KIND OF ROTTEN STREET.

The charm of Tetris is inexplicable in this day and age.

Jester didn't tell Mark Saini about starting a game company together, not because he didn't want to, but because it wasn't time yet.

Now his "American Cubes" has not been successful enough, and if they were to form a company together, he would not be able to suppress Mark Seni in terms of shares in the company.

Mark Seni was of course the helper Jester wanted so much, otherwise, he wouldn't have said so much bitterly to dispel Dyjia's thoughts.

His talent is clear to Jester from the future, not only proficient in game making, but also good at hardware development, more able to train and promote new talents, and even in the pure theoretical research of how to make a good game, he also has a high attainment, and the Saini theory he proposed is the bible in the eyes of countless game developers, and this is the one he needs.

Making games is definitely not a one-person thing, and maybe one person can do these pixel block games from start to finish, but in the future, it will be a huge team of dozens or hundreds, and it will take a long time.

For example, the famous "World of Warcraft", Blizzard set up a research and development team of hundreds of people for this purpose, and it took three years to complete the original version, and when it was released, it took a full eleven months of testing and modification.

Another example is "GTA5", which swept major awards in 13 years, and the team formed by R Star has more than 200 people and lasted five years.

Even if you have the help of a system that you don't know how it works, and you know what kind of game will be successful, then you are only one person after all, and it is impossible to support a huge game company.

If Nintendo just had Shigeru Miyamoto, they would be a well-known game studio at best, and they would never have become the most dominant giant in gaming history.

A great enterprise must be made up of countless elites from various industries, each of whom is pouring their own strength, and the power of one person is really very small in this.

Jester, who came from later generations, knew this very well, and he clearly knew that it was impossible to achieve the success of his dreams on his own.

With the help of his father, he applied for the patent for "American Cubes", and then he made an arcade motherboard that could carry this game, and there was no need to worry about the arcade frame, not to mention Jester's father's experience in this area, that is, Jester's mind had countless information about the classic arcade frames of later generations.

Originally, Jester wanted to continue to use the 8088 CPU used on IBM5150 to design as the core, because the program of his "American Cube" was based on Intel's 8088 and could be ported directly without modification, but his plan was ruthlessly rejected by his father as soon as it was proposed.

His father looked at him as if he was looking at him like a fool, and reprimanded him mercilessly: "You use the best 16-bit CPU just to run your extremely simple game?" Do you know how much this will cost us? Don't you know that one piece of 8088 is enough to buy ten eight-bit CPUs? ”

His father told him that if you can do something good with $10, don't spend $11, because the extra $1 is a waste.

Eventually, under his father, he opted for an extremely inexpensive, but decently performable 8-bit CPU, the MOS6502. According to his father, the CPU is enough to run a game ten times more complex than Tetris, and it costs only one-ninth of the Intel 8088 cores.

And after his father's reminder, Jester also remembered that this is a CPU used by Ren Tian's FC and Sega's MS, judging from the fact that FC has been selling well for ten years, this chip that seems to have been unable to keep up with the trend will not be outdated in a short period of time, at least in the game industry.

However, because of the change of CPU, Jester also had to rewrite the program of "American Cubes" in 6502 assembly language, because the one he wrote before could not run on the substrate equipped with MOS6502.

Jester's father's job was much simpler, he worked in the Arcade Factory at Atari for ten years, and he had designed many arcade machines, which was a simple 8-bit motherboard.

In just five days, two arcade machines that could run American Cubes, built entirely by Jester's father, were newly baked.

Looking at the two arcade machines in front of him that were framed by himself and built by his father by hand, this kind of design that is very similar to the arcade frame of the later martial arts giant SNK is very post-modern science fiction style now, and this is also to make these two arcade machines stand out from the crowd when placed near a row of old arcade machines and pachinko machines like Atari.

Let everyone see these two machines equipped with "American Cubes" from those arcade machines at first glance.

In this way, everything is ready, and only the east wind is owed.

Jester's mother is a white man, and Jester's father was a classmate when he was young, when the girl was ignorant and attracted by the talent of Jester's father, who was still a top student, the two did that kind of reluctant, after Jester's father fell out with the family, he followed Jester's father to Los Angeles without hesitation, time passed like a white horse, and it was almost twenty years.

She loves Jester very much, and when she knows about Jester's plan, especially after she is late to Jester's "American Cubes", she raises her hands in favor.

Because this game is just so much fun.

June 7, 1984 seemed like an ordinary day at the time, but in the eyes of later generations of game lovers, it is considered the greatest game company in the history of games

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Because Mars is not only the meaning of Mars, but also the name of Ares, the god of war, and Mars Entertainment was almost invincible in the game industry like the god of war later, creating countless classics, so Mars Entertainment is often called 'God of War' by fans.

Later, when the media reviewed the history of video games, they once interviewed players who participated in the public debut of Mars Entertainment's first game at that time.

Here's what this player said.

"It's very simple, you can't imagine now that you can make your own carnival so lavish and the first appearance of 'God of War Entertainment' would be so shabby, they didn't even have their own name back then. I still remember that there were only two American Cubes consoles, and you know, the gaming industry was sluggish and there weren't many people playing arcades, and although I was a fan of Atari's Canal Wars (a classic Atari aerial combat game), I had enough of the Atari arcade games that never changed. ”

"I went to the supermarket to buy something to eat, hot dogs, bread and stuff, it was a little after nine o'clock in the morning, I remember very well, when I walked to the supermarket I frequented, I was stunned by the scene in front of me! I can't believe I've got eyes! ”

"You know what? The small open space next to the supermarket where more than a dozen arcade machines and pachinko machines were placed was crowded with people, and it was difficult to even turn around, and there was no one next to the Atari arcade machines that I had played badly, and all the people seemed to be looking at something around two brand-new machines that were completely different from the old Atari style, and there was a long queue of people behind the two beautiful new machines, dozens of meters! From the supermarket to the outside of the supermarket, there were at least a few hundred people queuing there, there were children and adults, men and women, it was incredible! ”

"I went in and asked, it turned out to be two newly added game arcade machines, the games on them are so fun that they burst, I asked to know what it seems to be called "American Cubes", it seems to be a game with blocks, I was a little unimpressed at the time, a game with blocks is so fun?"

"But I saw that the scene was really hot, you know that people have a herd mentality, I really couldn't help it, so I went to buy a few game coins and wanted to try it."

"By the way, I still remember that the game currency of American Cubes was dedicated, a little smaller than those used by Ata, and most importantly it was twice as expensive as Atari's, when Atari's game currency could buy two for a dollar, while American Cubes could only buy one dollar a dollar."

"Even though a lot of people were complaining about being too expensive or something, almost no one didn't buy it because it was so popular, even people who never played games stopped to buy one or two and try it."

"How long did I wait to play? It wasn't too long, as every American Cube arcade machine was guarded by people at the time, and each person could only play up to three coins in a row, and if you wanted to continue playing, you had to wait in line - I guess I waited about three hours. ”

"Yes, yes, the first time I played God of War was American Cubes, and I felt ...... How so? It's so dreamy, it's like something that doesn't belong to a human being! Especially when I eliminated the four rows of squares at one time and rose by 800 points at one time, I directly scared the black guy who was fighting against me out of Xiang, and he looked at me like he was looking at a monster! It was as if everything in the world was in my hands. ”

"I played until 10 p.m. that day, and the supermarket closed! There were still hundreds of people in line, and many of them were very dissatisfied, shouting that they hadn't played yet, and finally the staff at the supermarket promised to add three American Cubes arcade machines from tomorrow...... Actually, I think those people are basically queuing for the Nth time......"

In the midst of the crowd, Jester stood next to Chassi, a salesman at his mother's supermarket, who was selling game currency, looking at the long queue of people behind the two "American Cube" machines, and seeing those who had played the game with smiles on their faces, and still did not hesitate to come over to buy game currency, and to queue up for tens of meters without getting bored, he knew that half of the first step of his plan had been a great success.

The popularity of "American Cubes" is a foregone conclusion.

But it's still unknown whether anyone will come and order his American Cubes arcade machine.

After all, the current gaming market is too bleak.

But Jester is still full of confidence, and he believes that success is not far from him, and it can even be said that it is within reach.