Chapter 005: Make up your mind to do piracy
Putting down the gamepad, the three sat down with serious expressions.
Jishu controlled Alexei and said: "A large number of application stacks, simulating the path of the snake, this game should not be difficult on Jishu." ”
Zhao Yongping nodded and looked at Yang Yun: "But the game interface is too simple." ”
Yang Yun is confident: "This is just my first experimental work. If the snake is so simple, how can it be all shijie popular......" Suddenly startled, he realized that he had slipped his mouth.
Gluttonous snake was really mediocre on the computer PC at the beginning, it was brought to fire by Nokia mobile phones, all shijie people who bought Nokia mobile phones, when waiting for the car, when they can't sleep, when they sit on the toilet, when the idle egg hurts, they like to take it out to play, and in later generations, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, speed, maze, puzzle type, the gameplay has been greatly expanded, which is the reason why it is popular all shijie.
Hearing this, the other two laughed, all shijie is popular, they didn't think that they could sell some in the Chinese mainland market, that is, to burn high incense.
Besides, how could they possibly imagine what would happen 20 years from now......
Yang Yunqing coughed twice and brought over a stack of papers, each page of which was a simple hand-drawn drawing.
There is a square cage room, there are four squares divided by two horizontal and vertical walls, there are special-shaped baffles, there is a light-eating point acceleration mode, etc., this small stack of paper is exactly eight pictures, corresponding to the eight game levels of the Glutton.
The two of them looked at each other and were immediately overjoyed, which greatly enhanced the playability of the game!
In these years, it's not jishu that's bad, it's creativity that's bad!
In the first generation of snake games, it's all black dots, even if the map is complex and the gameplay is changeable, it looks like there are many kinds, but in fact, it's a change of soup at the jishu level!
Stack theory in data structures can be handled perfectly.
The trajectory of the snake is to add 1 to the node coordinates at the top of the stack, and at the same time add 1 to the coordinates of all nodes in the stack, and then redisplay all the nodes in the stack, and it looks like the previous second, forming the effect of the snake taking a step forward.
The same principle applies to the depletion point, which is to increase the number of nodes in the stack by one.
A change in velocity is simply a change in the timing of the stack reset.
After hitting the wall or eating your own body, because the coordinates of the two nodes in the stack are exactly the same, the game ends, and the snake dies and starts again.
This kind of little game, in the 21st century, any college student in the computer department who has learned some computer languages can basically make it up.
Therefore, in this year, only creativity is the rarest!
Zhao Yongping asked: "Xiao Yang, how long does it take to make up these eight games?" ”
Yang Yun looked at Alexey, who immediately said that there was no problem and fully cooperated, so he replied with a smile: "For two days, the main thing is that the method of burning into the cassette needs to be debugged." "These are all jobs that don't have any jishu content, no need for art, only programming and debugging, 2000 lines of code is about the same, and most of the eight game codes are the same.
Zhao Yongping was overjoyed: "That's good!" Time is money, efficiency is life! Hurry up and start selling when you're ready! ”
This classic saying of time and efficiency was defined by the great man in 1984, so that after the great man's southern tour, the whole country set off an upsurge of economic supremacy, and even Zhao Yongping, a graduate student of the National People's Congress, was not exempt from vulgarity.
Yang Yunle said: "Director Zhao, let's think about it in the long run, let's see how to sell it." ”
Yang Yun said that this sale, of course, is selling cassette!
Zhao Yongping didn't have too many good ideas, although there was still a kind of literati arrogance in his bones, but the pressure of reality was too great, and he finally gave in.
Huamao Electronics Factory is now poor and white, a set of FC development platform, can only do research, or secretly engage in pirated cassette burning, and the development experience of FC host and remote control is insufficient, so it is unrealistic for them to make the whole machine.
The most important thing is that the sales channels of Huamao Electronics Factory are almost zero, and there are fun games and jishu in hand, but there is no way to sell them, which is a situation from scratch.
So after discussion, despite Alexey's opposition, Zhao Yongping and Yang Yun started pirated and burned and did OEM work for other people's families!
First of all, I contacted the Chongshan Huaqiang Electronics Factory that sold this platform to them, and privately bought back 1,000 sets of learning cassette.
The source of these cassettes is not clearly stated by Huaqiang Electronics Factory, the trademark information is torn off the cassette, and there is no trace left, it should be a complete black card, and it requires cash in stock, no credit, no refund or insurance.
These overlord clauses, Zhao Yongping gritted his teeth and accepted it, there is no way, Huamao Electronics Factory now only has one game jishu can get his hands on, and other hard conditions are subject to others, so he has to swallow his anger.
This batch of study cards was brought back, and Alexei and Yang Yun quickly entered the working state, to break the obstacles set by the motherboard, and to implant the game of the snake, the difficulty of disassembling was not small, but fortunately, there was Alexey, a Soviet expert.
At Yang Yun's suggestion, Zhao Yongping was ruthless, in order to grab time, he invited a master from an underground cassette black factory in Shenzhen, and took over to guide the cracking and burning work in the factory, and worked for a few days, spending him a full 3,000 yuan, and his heart was distressed!
However, Zhao Yongping's tenacious and decisive character is an important reason why he will be indomitable in the future shopping mall!
Three days later, Yang Yun and Alexei reprocessed all 1,000 cassettes for the second time, perfectly embedded the eight 32K mini-games of Snake into the learning card, and then affixed the most popular Kote learning card trademark at that time, which must be a fake and shoddy product.
🤔 Do you want to use a study card instead of a special game card?
This was related to China's national conditions at that time.
In 1984 in Shanghai, the great man visited the ten-year exhibition of scientific and technological achievements in the Shanghai Exhibition Hall, watched the 13-year-old child demonstrate various programs on the computer, patted the child's immature shoulder, and sighed and said: "The popularization of computers should start from the baby." ”
Next, almost all home computer FC manufacturers are under the banner of learning machines, and have successfully attracted countless parents who want their children to become Jackie Chan, as long as parents can keep up with their economic strength, they are scrambling to introduce this new type of home appliance to their homes.
If this is under the banner of a game console, try it, can it sell so hot?
Yang Yun's childhood is like this, the neighbor bought a learning machine, whether it's a big bully, or a pyramid, anyway, what is the Basic program on the attached learning cassette, Wubi font, LOGO language, it looks really high-end, and it can help children learn computer knowledge or something.
Coupled with the emerging trend of comparison, as well as the crying of children, parents were also afraid that their children would fall behind to children of the same age, so they finally gritted their teeth and spent a month's salary to buy a set.
As a result, there are always times when parents are not at home, and then Yang Yun and his friends changed into a four-in-one, sixteen-in-one game cartridge, and had a lot of fun, even forgetting that his parents forgot to come home from work, and he was beaten a lot.
One of the things that parents liked to say was, "What's so fun about this!" ”
They don't know what children like, in fact, children are naturally curious, love to explore, love to play games, let them go to the Basic language, which is more reluctant than playing games.
And the simple snake game is suitable for all ages, which is more acceptable to parents than those pure children's games such as "Squirrel Wars", "MapleStory Island", "Ice Digging" and so on.
1,000 cassettes were loaded into the jeep by Zhao Yongping, and Yang Yun followed him to Shenzhen, where they were going to meet with the former sales staff of Huamao Electronics Factory and prepare to sell these cassettes with high hopes.
It's a matter of success or failure!
PS: Radish was beaten by my dad because of the game console back then, hey, a handful of bitter tears!