Chapter 106: Sports Game "Golf"

Writing and writing, Jester suddenly thought of something, and then laughed a little abruptly, this is a not very authentic trap he prepared for Nintendo, but whether it can be done or not, he is also a little unsure.

Because the key to this matter is not him.

So, Jester picked up the phone on the side, dialed the hardware R&D department, and after a few seconds, the phone was connected.

"I'm looking for Yuji Naka." Jester said a simple word when the phone was connected.

A few minutes later, Jester hung up the phone, he didn't talk much, and he could hear it from the tone, and now Yuji's tone was very anxious, and it could be seen that he was very busy, because his home machine was also an eight-bit CPU architecture, although it was an upgraded version of the 6502, and the performance was much stronger than the castrated version of the FC 6502, but it was still an eight-bit CPU in essence, so it was still very difficult to make an emulator based on this.

To be precise, if Jester were to do it, it wouldn't be possible.

However, Jester listened to Yuji Naka's tone, as if he had found a very ingenious way to solve this hardware problem, but he was not sure whether it would succeed or not, and Yuji Naka was also verifying it.

Jester plans to use the emulator to pit Nintendo at CES, but he also knows that the real decision of the next generation of consoles depends on the quality of the game.

But Jester had to do it again, because if Nintendo was releasing at the same time as himself, then they would be able to take the lead just by relying on the number of games.

After all, Nintendo has been preparing for this for a whole year and a half.

The three armies can't win the ambition, and this time, Jester is planning to take the ambition of the Nintendo opponent.

And Jester also consulted his barrister about what he was going to do, and the answer he got was definitely infringement, and if he fought the lawsuit, his side would lose, but he could drag the lawsuit for a long time, say three or five years.

After getting this answer, Jester was relieved, even if he lost the lawsuit three or five years later, it would just be a loss of money, but at that time, the overall situation had already been decided, and perhaps his home machine already had a market share far beyond Nintendo, and the outcome of the lawsuit was irrelevant.

The game for the launch is certainly ample and adequate, with all genres, puzzle sketches, action passes, shoot-'em-up, flight shooting, sports, and more.

But now basically his company's design team has its own tasks, and temporary recruitment is certainly not realistic, after all, it is now the end of October, and he is about to officially announce his home console at the CES show, and at the same time announce the first game, in order to give players a positive impression, it will inevitably provide a large number of game trials, which is to be naked-naked to be just positive with Nintendo, not to mention that the quality of temporary recruitment cannot be guaranteed at all, even if the level is good, but let some brand new, If someone who has never had experience in making a game makes a game, then the quality is not guaranteed.

After all, the video game industry has already experienced a cold winter, and now a bad game on a home console will be a very big blow to players' enthusiasm for buying.

Therefore, for the current Jester, he can only be submerged internally.

After all, this era is the wild era of video games, many games are just innovations in gameplay, in fact, the quality of itself is not very high, and Jester now debuts a game with a high-quality game finale, and there is no shortage of ported works after the big sales on the arcade to increase popularity, what is missing is some products that supplement the game genre.

Of course, for the sake of your company's reputation, you can't do it casually.

Although the competitive racing game has the idea of doing this, Jester decided to give up temporarily after thinking about it for a long time, because to make a high-level racing game, even in this era, especially if it can't be compared with Nintendo's similar "F1 car", it takes a lot of effort to craft, but now what he lacks most is time.

After thinking about it, Jester decided to let his team make two simpler ones first.

One is the sports game that I thought of before by relying on the speed and accuracy of the keys to manipulate the characters.,Mainly athletics sports.,This kind of game basically only needs to do a simple judgment program and a few images that are not complicated.,Plus a scoring system.,And the playability is not low.,It seems that in Jester's impression, Namco launched a similar sports game in 86 years.,It's called "World-Class-Track-Meet".,Sales are good., The total sales exceeded 3 million, and it is also among the top 20 in the history of FC game sales.

It is worth mentioning that this is also the first game in the world to be equipped with a dance mat, of course, this is not a dancing game, but a somatosensory game, at this point Jester also has to admire the imagination of Nintendo's designers, they designed many FC/NES special somatosensory appliances for their games in the eighties to give players an experience, although things such as ROB, somatosensory gloves, voice-activated helmets have become out-and-out failures, so that the image of Lao Ren in the minds of fans instantly dropped, However, these things still provide Nintendo with a lot of technical accumulation in somatosensory, and make an indelible contribution to their development of a real somatosensory game console in the future, once again dominating the next era.

Jester also feels that his company should also accumulate technology in this area in advance, otherwise, he doesn't want to beat Nintendo now, and give Nintendo a chance to make a comeback in the future, and this kind of somatosensory equipment in this era is also a money-making weapon, such as Nintendo's light gun, although this is the standard configuration of the American version of NES when it is released, but it costs money to buy a special game card, and the sales of the light gun game "Duck Fighting" are as high as 28 million copies, which is higher than the sales of Superhorse 3, On the FC platform, it is second only to Super Mario.

In Jester's eyes, this is all about grabbing money, and this new thing is very useful for driving the sales of game consoles, after all, a game console with a light gun is not with it, in the eyes of some players, the moment with a light gun is tall.

However, it will definitely not be at the beginning of the sale, after all, its own hardware R&D personnel do not have so much energy.

And then it's a sports game that's similar to Nintendo's "Baseball" on FC, and it has to be specific to the specific project, but Jester doesn't plan to make the same "Baseball" as Nintendo, because with the current hardware system, he can't do anything to make the same game, and it can also compete with Nintendo.

In addition to baseball, the hottest thing in the United States is football, as for basketball? It's still a popular sport in the United States, let alone football.

But the reason why baseball can be done is because this sport only needs the player to hit and catch the ball most of the time, that is, the CPU only needs to process the static picture most of the time, which is also the biggest difference between them and football football, so this kind of game is easy to do, and it can be done more realistically, of course, it is equivalent to this era.

But other sports games......

Jester thought about it, whether it was rugby, basketball or football, it didn't meet this condition, and he had also played football games on FC, and the rough Cheng dù was simply indescribable, and the sales were not high, he didn't really want to do it, and even if he did, he would be blown up by "Baseball" in terms of game quality.

It's not that these games don't do, but they can't be made to go head-to-head with Nintendo's "Baseball", but they can enrich the game genre in post-production, and at the same time accumulate the skills of such games.

Then, Jester began to think about the best-selling sports games of this era.

Aside from Baseball, he has the impression that sports games are actually selling very well on FC/NES, not particularly outstanding, but not bad.

For example, Nintendo's several games directly named after games, "Tennis", "Ice Hockey", and "Volleyball" have sales of more than two million, but on this issue, Jester is a matter of opinion, in his eyes, the reason why Nintendo's several sports games can sell well is purely because of the high market share of the FC platform.

Some gamers have no choice but to buy Nintendo's sports games.

Because very few players are dedicated to playing sports games to buy a different game console, there are no sports games in this era that have this kind of appeal, but there are many players who like sports games, although the sports games of this era are too simple, but the problem is that players in this era have never seen what sports games are not simple.

In the end, after writing down all the sports games that he remembered on FC, he realized that he had really forgotten about a sports game that was not inferior to Nintendo in terms of quality, or even better than Baseball in terms of sales.

Because this sport is too niche in China, when Jester played, because the domestic version was played in the United States, and it was in English, and he didn't know anything about the rules of this sport, so he played no fun, so he was not impressed.

But later, when Jester was researching the history of FC games, he read some articles about sports games, and they all spoke highly of this game.

Extremely playable,This is the evaluation of this game in those articles,Among them, there are some star players in Europe and the United States,In this era,In the case of impossible to win with pictures,Playability,Almost the only criterion for a game to survive。

This sports game also continues Nintendo's naming rules for sports games, not like EA's ** too fancy naming, it is a simple sports name, simple and clear to let people know at a glance what kind of game this is, this is also the principle that Jester follows in the naming of the game, absolutely do not make a fuss.

This game is "Golf", the sales on FC exceeded 4 million, it is one of the only 11 games on FC with a total sales of more than 4 million, and it is also the only sports game, the image of the swing in it is Mario, as for why Mario is used? It's not that I want to borrow Mario's fame, Mario didn't have much fame when this game was released, this is completely the reason why Nintendo wants to cut corners, in this era, as far as sports games are concerned, this game is impeccable in quality, even when Jester is watching the video of James, professional trolls like JAMES praise this game.

If you first release your own game at the beginning of next year, you will first occupy the audience of golf games, and when Nintendo comes up with it again, the overall situation will already be decided. The reason why I chose this game, the most important thing is that the system is simple, only a simple game can be made in a short period of time and the quality of the game can be guaranteed.

Next, it's my next highlight, "Saroman Snake".