Charles Club。

Liangkun invited Qiusheng into his office and sat down on the sofa.

Liangkun asked, "Qiusheng, what do you think of the game?" ”

Qiusheng said a quip: "Aren't games meant to be played?" ”

Liangkun smiled and nodded.

Qiusheng restrained his smile a little and said, "There is a lot to do!" ”

Liangkun looked at Qiusheng with interest and asked, "How can you see it with such confidence?" ”

Qiusheng said: "It's not that I have confidence, but I have confidence in Jobs. Steve Jobs was the No. 40 employee of Atari, the world's largest console manufacturer. Jobs was a straightforward and aggressive man who did not hide his thoughts, so he was notoriously unpleasant to speak, and because of his philosophical and meditative beliefs, Jobs believed that as long as he insisted on eating a fruit-based vegetarian diet could cure body odor, he would not need to take a bath and apply perfume. Atari's employees were physically and mentally unreceptive to Jobs, but Atari's founder, Nolan Bushnell, favored him and arranged for him to work night shifts so that he could work without having to face other colleagues. An industry that can be valued by Jobs is certainly promising. ”

"I designed a game and wanted you to implement it through a computer program. ”

Qiusheng asked, "What game?" Is it more powerful than Jobs's "Knocking on the Bricks"? ”

"The game I designed will be recognized by people inside and outside the industry as the only nuclear weapon in the gaming industry," Liang Kun said. Greatness, immortality, and other beautiful words are not enough to describe the ...... of this game."

When he saw Qiusheng's eyes like a fool, Liangkun had no choice but to stop boasting and began to introduce his "design".

The game that Liangkun "designed" is "Tetris".

After listening to Liangkun's "genius design", Qiusheng first hit the knot and was amazed, and then said that he couldn't do it.

And after listening to the reason why Qiusheng couldn't complete this work by himself, Liangkun also expressed his understanding.

Although Tetris is a game with still graphics, far from being as complex side-scrolling as Super Mario just now, it is not easy to do.

In later generations, there is no memory limit, so that many codes are not concise enough, but not in this era, you must know that IBM5150 this kind of personal computer that has just been launched for a short time is already the most advanced one now, but its memory is only 16KB! As for Atari's classic console, the Atari 2600 game console only has 2KB of RAM!

In order for a game to run perfectly on such a machine, due to memory limitations, it is necessary to be extremely short and concise in terms of programming.

This process has a special name in later generations, called optimization.

Qiusheng can't do it to this extent - if he can do it, he will stay in the United States as his "second Jobs", and he will not return to Hong Kong to inherit his father-in-law's mahjong parlor.

Although Qiusheng couldn't do it himself, he also pointed out the direction for Liangkun - to go to the United States, in the United States, there are enough manpower to help Liangkun turn his idea into reality.

Qiusheng's reason was the "Atari Shock" incident.

The "Atari Shock" incident that occurred in 1983 was due to the lax management of the games developed by the third-party game developer at that time on Atari's own game console "Atari 2600", which led to the emergence of many "junk" game products on the market, which made consumers lose confidence in games and game consoles, and were unwilling to buy games and game consoles. As a result, the American game industry suffered a devastating disaster at that time.

At that time, the huge investment and super IP brand game that was expected by the whole industry, and "ET", which was produced by Atari himself, was smashed so that the game disk was dragged to the desert of New Mexico by a car and buried.

- This is a game directed by Steve Spielberg, which hit an 800 million dollar box office and is known as the warmest and most touching sci-fi movie "ET".

After that, no investor wants to enter the industry. This disaster in the American gaming world is known as the "Atari Shock".

After the catastrophe of the "Atari Shock", many professionals have asserted that the American video game market will not recover in two decades.

The "Atari Shock" happened because of Americans' hostility to repetitive games without the slightest novelty, rather than a genuine sense that video games were meaningless. However, fueled by the media, Americans call this period not a temporary gap in the video game industry, but a dead period.

However, after the debut of Super Mario Bros. in 1985, it took NOA only three years to restore the market to the heyday of Atari, and only the FC software market exceeded the $400 million mark that year, and Super Mario Bros. made an indelible contribution to the reconstruction of the world's largest electronic entertainment market.

It was precisely because of the "Atari Shock" incident that almost all video game companies in the United States were "wiped out" in 1983. After the "Atari Shock", the "center of gravity of the global game industry" began to gradually change from the United States to Japan.

Qiusheng said: "I put forward this suggestion, not to let Brother Kun sail against the current, but 'a rotten ship also has three catties of nails', not to mention that the United States is far from being called a 'rotten ship'." Instead of cheapening the Japanese, it is better to help the Japanese set up an opponent. ”

Liangkun slapped his thigh and said, "Then we are going to the United States." I'm not familiar with the computer field in the United States, and I need you to show me the way. ”

Qiusheng said: "It's no problem to lead the way, but the United States is different from Hong Kong, and there are some things that you have to pay more attention to, Brother Kun." ”

Liangkun asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Qiusheng said: "According to the current law in the United States, everyone should be consistent with their words and deeds, and they must not have any sympathy for the people around them. This will ensure that you do not go to jail and are not prosecuted. ”

Then, Qiusheng gushed about what he knew about the prison history of all kinds of unlucky people in the United States.

Example 1: A young girl, who is not deeply involved in the world, goes out. Compassion is overflowing, helping a single old man or single old lady with her luggage in a place like an airport terminal waiting room, and the luggage is full of drugs. The police seized both the stolen goods, and there was no argument for it. If you admit guilt, you can be sentenced to a few years less, and if you don't admit guilt, in addition to spending a lot of money to fight a lawsuit, the result is a few more decades of sentence.

Qiusheng advised: "If you want to live well and be free in the United States, put away all your compassion in a public place." ”

Example 2 is about walking the talk.

Police in the United States are notoriously phishing, and phone recordings can also be used as evidence for prosecutions. Selling cheap luxury goods on the street can be a police hook, and giving you a phone to a door-to-door delivery service (except in Nevada, where takeout is legal) can also be a police hook.

Therefore, Qiusheng's advice 2 is: "Say no to all criminal acts." Abandon all guilty thoughts and rhetoric, and be an honest saint, otherwise as long as the police want to catch you, there is nothing that they can't catch. ”

Then there are various cases, such as:

Once, the federal police cracked a drug deal, and several suspects only found a pound of Miss Bai, which was a little less.

So, the federal police forced the drug dealers to mix things in Miss Bai, flour, laundry detergent, and white anyway.

In the end, dozens of pounds of drugs were mixed in, and the federal police were finally able to crack a large-scale drug trafficking case, arrest several drug lords, and the newspapers were full of pictures and texts, exaggerating the words, and the federal police department had all the inside and face.

Qiusheng said: "If you know that the people around you are going to talk about breaking the law, and you don't want to be a whistleblower, go away before they do. If someone calls you about something illegal, remember, call the police immediately! It doesn't matter if the person calling you knows or doesn't, or if your parents, wife and children are the same. Call the police, because it's the hook, and the phone recording will land you in jail. People who don't like and aren't used to calling the police in the United States have been arrested. ”

Liangkun was dumbfounded when he heard this, and said, "I can't afford to mess with it!" Can't afford to mess with it! I'd better take a lawyer to the U.S. ”

……

After listening to the reason why Liangkun wanted to go to the United States with him, Ye Yingwen asked, "What is the name of the game you designed?" ”

Liang Kun asked, "What do you think of the name 'Hongxing Cube'?" ”

Ye Yingwen said: "The name has the word 'Hongxing' in it, which is illegal in Hong Kong. ”

Liangkun said: "Then take a homonym, Red Star Cube, how about it?" ”

Ye Yingwen said: "Fortunately, it is not the 'McCarthyism era' now, otherwise the name would be illegal in the United States." ”

Liangkun said: "Shouldn't it be called the 'era of loyalty oath'? ”

"Thirty years have passed since that era, but McCarthyism touches all levels of American politics, education, and culture, and its influence is still visible today, and its shadow has never dissipated," Yip said. ”

"This is first and foremost related to the history of the United States itself. As a relatively young country with a large group of immigrants, the United States lacks a strong national bond of history, civilization, and even religion, etiquette, or habits, so the best way to unite a common will is to mobilize ideologically and politically to find a common enemy, such as the Soviet Union. Therefore, whether it is the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, whether it has been, is at present, or will be for a long time to come, 'anti-Soviet' will always be a common goal, an absolute 'political correctness', and the most effective weapon that can mobilize the strength of the people of the whole country. In this sense, 'McCarthyism' will always have the soil to survive in the United States. In the end, it is the inferiority complex of exiles and descendants of pirates. ”