Now, it would be ridiculous for a game designer to say that he had never been influenced by Jester Lee, like a film director who says he has never seen a Hitchcock film, or a writer who has never read a Shakespeare play. In the gaming world, Jester Lee is Hitchcock, Spielberg, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy. His design ideas, rooted in human nature, will be more valuable than all current or future technologies, and will live forever. ”

This is the third time Time magazine has selected the legendary Jester Lee as the person of the year, and the story of this saga began in the summer www.biquge.info of 1984 in the summer of 1984......

"My name is Jester Lee, a Chinese-American, 19-year-old, and I'm a sophomore at UCLA in the Department of Electrical Engineering."

A young man with black hair, yellow skin, and black eyes muttered to himself in a mirror on the wall, his eyes full of confusion and disbelief.

For only the young man knew that the person in the mirror in front of him was not himself.

He was supposed to be Li Ming, a 22-year-old college student who was graduating in 2014, and he vividly remembers that just the night before, he had been playing a creative mini-game on STEAM, Game-Dev-Tycoon, in his dorm room all night, which translates into Chinese as Game Development Giant.

Just when he was using his own developed console, he punched Sony, kicked Microsoft, and sold tens of millions of single-platform games to dominate the world game industry, but when he woke up, he found that the world had already changed beyond recognition.

Thirty years ago, in the barbaric era of video games, the United States in 1984 was reborn as a young Chinese American.

Moreover, they also inherited the memories of each other.

Does that sound incredible? It's like a plot on a website where a certain type of novel is so old-fashioned that it is extreme?

Li Ming also thinks so.

Even if he often reads novels of rebirth, when this qiē happens to him, Li Ming or Jester is a little difficult to accept.

It's too late for him to scold this kind of novel for being brain-dead.

Just as Li Ming, or Jester Lee should be called now, was recalling in his mind the memories of the original owner of this body.

In his mind, a crisp beep sounded without warning.

Similar to the 'Didi' sound of the buzzer alarm when the computer was just turned on, followed by a mechanical voice without the slightest emotion echoed in his ears.

"Binding successful...... Host Eligibility...... The system was officially launched...... Countdown...... Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven......"

"What is this!"

The moment the sound sounded, Jester Lee turned his head in horror to look around, trying to find the source of the sound, but the bathroom was empty, and when he listened carefully to the source of the sound again, he realized that the voice was sounding directly in his head.

“…… Two, one, zero...... The countdown is over, and you're welcome to get the Game Dev Giants system. ”

Then, the eerie sound vanished.

And in front of Jester's eyes, it turned out to be like a virtual screen in a science fiction movie, with columns of patterns appearing.

It's a not-so-fancy, even rudimentary interface, with only a few simple options and a number zero at the top of the screen, and in front of that number, the balance is displayed.

"Balance zero?"

Jester didn't know what that meant, or what it meant.

The other five options are, R&D, Training, Shop, Tasks, and View.

Jester was overwhelmed by the qiē happening in front of him, but driven by intense curiosity, he reached out to the virtual screen in front of him.

As soon as his hand touched the first of the five options on the virtual screen, the 'R&D' lit up, then reverted to its previous dimness, and then a line of prominent writing appeared on the screen.

"Your current privileges are insufficient, please check this option after unlocking it."

At this time, Jester realized that the appearance of these five options was not exactly the same, except for the fourth mission, the other four all showed a dark gray, as if they were not activated, and only one of the tasks actually flashed a faint light.

Sure enough, after clicking on the gray options in turn to indicate that his permissions were insufficient, Jester clicked on the 'Tasks' column that was still glowing.

Swish!

The virtual interface in front of him suddenly changed, and all the previous options disappeared, except for the prominent balance zero in the top bar of the screen.

Instead, it seems to be a mission interface that closely resembles the one in the online game he played before.

There is a large golden question mark at the front of the mission.

And in front of the question mark, there are also unfinished words.

"Mission: Make your first game and launch it to unlock the other four options, and show how many purchase points the system owner will be awarded for completing the mission."

At the end of this quest, there is also a note that through guò buy credits, you can buy all the games that have been released or not released and their design ideas, the source code of various powerful game engines, advanced console architecture, and even improve your skills through guò training, etc., etc., so that you can make better games......

Seeing this note, a thought suddenly flashed through Jester's mind.

"Isn't this the game development system in the game development giant's game, and the wish I made before won't really come true...... But this game is completely different from the game......"

Jester suddenly remembered that just when he was fascinated by playing that game simulation game, he was ashamed to say that if he was allowed to go back to the pioneer era of video games, he would definitely be able to punch Ren Hell and kick Da Sega, as for Sony Microsoft, Who-are-they?

But I thought it was just a few casual words, and it really brought him to this era of unfamiliar life, so it's too grassy......

That being said, Jester is still very familiar with this game from the game development giant.

I have cleared no less than fifty or sixty times, unlocked all achievements, matched almost all game types, and developed countless highly rated games, with the highest sales of a single game selling more than 60 million copies...... But the system in front of him, which seemed to be stored in his mind, was very different from the game he played, which was called a game development giant.

However, after only a little thought, Jester realized that many of the options in the game were not suitable in the real world.

For example, the game only offers four themes at the beginning, and dozens or hundreds of other themes need to be unlocked by players using the R&D points earned in them.

But there is no such thing as zài in the real world, and a game maker can make any theme if he wants to make it, and naturally he doesn't need to unlock it.

Another example is that after each game is made, there is an option to summarize the game and generate a game report, which allows players to summarize whether the type of game completed by Zuò is suitable for the theme.

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

For example, war-oriented games are very suitable for matching with simulation games, but not for casual games.

For another example, you can also know whether the ratio of game functions carried out during the previous development of the game is appropriate.

For example, a casual game doesn't need some exciting missions and complex artificial intelligence, but needs extremely high gameplay and strong level design, while an adventure game needs a great mission system, and an action game needs powerful artificial intelligence.

And so on, different games have different emphases.

These summaries require the player to come to a conclusion after the game is a game-by-game reality, whereas in the real world, these things are ready-made, because he has known them for a long time, and even memorized them backwards.

After all, you have to make a good game, and you don't know that it's impossible to do it.

Moreover, there are many places where the game in reality is very different from the game, and it must not be copied.

So, these had little effect on reality, and even some of the misleading options were naturally removed, and a few things that were not originally in the game were added.

For example, purchases and tasks.

Oh, by the way, there is no option to hire in the real system, and this is very easy to think of, because in the real world, you can directly hire people.

In-game mercenary ...... Is it possible to directly employ black households that do not exist in this world?

After sorting out all the information, Li Ming or Jester o Li also accepted his fate, after all, he had come to this world.

Even if he wanted to go back, he probably wouldn't be able to.

And, in the minds of Li Ming, or Jester Lee, is he really yearning for this era, and as a die-hard player of video games, how can he not envy this era? Do you want to rise and grow with this era?

It's the pioneering period of video games! How accomplishing it would be to be able to personally participate in the construction and development of an emerging industry, and after decades later, after the industry is perfected, that moment of being worshiped by future generations?

Even, inexplicably, Jester still has a vague impulse and excitement.

As a die-hard fan of gaming, he knew that the golden age that all gaming fans longed for was coming.

Countless classic games are coming.

Especially the masterpiece that will appear in the near future.

It is recognized by people inside and outside the industry as the only nuclear weapon in the game industry.

Witnessing its appearance, and accompanying it to reign supreme in the world, seemed a bit like a pilgrim's pilgrimage to Jester.

Maybe it's a bad description, but for him, and for almost all avid gamers, that's it.

As of the moment of Jester's crossing, the total sales of this series have accumulated 525 million units, and 40 million units have been sold on a single game and a single platform, ranking first in the history of video games in the world, directly leading the second place twice, with a direct sales value of more than 30 billion US dollars, and the indirect added value is at least three times that of this number.

In other words, in the 30 years since its inception, it has generated more than 100 billion US dollars, both indirectly and directly.

In particular, this game saved the world gaming industry from collapse at the most difficult moment.

It's just a legendary aura for this game.

Great, immortal, and all sorts of beautiful words are not enough to describe the game in what if......

You think I'm bragging?

No, no, no, I'm not exaggerating even a single letter, and every pinyin description of it here is the most appropriate and unmistakable.

Because, this game, that's how diao.

Wait a minute!

Jester's eyes widened suddenly, he realized at this time that it was only June '84, the former overlord Atari had just been on the verge of collapse in the Atari impact incident, they had hidden hundreds of millions of game cartridges in the desert of New Mexico, and the overlord Hell who no one could shake for the next ten years had just released their home computer game console Famicon, which is the famous FC, the legendary game console called the red and white machine in China for less than a year.

Although the console is selling well in Japan, it has not sold a million units so far, and it will take a full year and three months for the NES to be released in Europe and the United States.

And this game, which is so legendary that it has established the supremacy of Ren Hell and their FC, has not yet been released!

Thinking of the game's influence and ability to attract money, Jester Lee's eyes instantly turned red.

There was a voice in his head that kept shouting.

Take him down!

Jester Lee clenched his fists fiercely.

His eyes were also inadvertently filled with a light called longing.

If he was reborn and given that strange system that he didn't know how powerful he was, why couldn't he enter this magnificent era of the gaming world to call for wind and rain?

Why not?

Gotta take him down!

It must be affirmed and by all means!

Because everyone who has played the game knows what that game stands for in history!