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When I opened the game, the background music of "Metal Slug" sounded familiar to Gates.

There is another selling point in "Metal Slug" - its sound effects.

"This seems to be an Elvis Presley song, right?" Gates was stunned for a moment. Although he also knew Elvis Presley, since he was bored in the computer, Gates rarely paid attention to the news outside. He vaguely remembered Elvis Presley.

It seems that a new album was released not long ago, using CD as the carrier...that's all. As for other news, Gates didn't know.

"It's not bad..."

Most of Elvis Presley's music is rock music. This kind of music combined with the explosive "Metal Slug" can be described in one word, that is - cool

Although it is impossible for Catherine to listen to the original version of "Metal Slug" more and more, in terms of momentum, Elvis Presley's rock has a more refreshing feeling, which is even better than the original version.

Originally, the game was planning to add some functions such as self-naming, but these functions have not been added yet.

It is said that if the sales of "Metal Slug" can reach one million, the company will have plans for a sequel. Gates can't wait to see the next generation of "Metal Slug".

"It would be nice if the picture could be better..."

Gates uses the controller to direct his character forward.

This is the first level in the game, and it is only used for teaching. Of course, in Gates' view, this level is almost unnecessary. As a senior game player - although he is still young - Gates has

The content of this kind of teaching for newcomers is deeply abhorrent.

"This kind of plot must be skipped."

He complained, but Gates continued the game.

"Metal Slug" uses the now mature side-scrolling style, and the background has finally become a real background, instead of the dot matrix graphics like those in 8-bit machines - of course, if you are serious, 8-bit

The machine can also produce beautiful pictures.

After the novice tutorial level, the character appears in a city.

At this time, the dialogue between the characters appeared.

Different from 8-bit machines, in this regard, the company has adopted a new technology. When the dialogue appears, images of the player and NPC will appear, that is, vertical drawings, located on the left and right respectively. And below the character images,

It is similar to a translucent dialog box. The edge of the dialog box is grass green, which has a sense of war.

Originally, it was planned to add full voiceover, but because the capacity of "Metal Slug" itself is very large, there is no way to install voiceover. Gates felt a little regretful in this regard. However, he did hear that Blizzard had another

At the same time, we have also developed a series of "Live XX" games, including football, rugby, basketball, etc., which have full voice and commentary.

Following the task prompts, Gates entered the map of the first level.

At this time, Gates was excited because he designed and produced this map himself. However, there were some big differences between this scene and the one he designed.

The first is the background. The background of the first level is a jungle, but don't underestimate this "jungle" background picture.

This picture actually has four pictures in total, namely sunny day, cloudy day, rainy day and snowy day. Through these four kinds of weather pictures, the whole game can give people a very "dynamic" feeling, and in the game

Among them, players can also check the diary. The starting time is 2056, and the time will change accordingly.

It is gradually extended as the player's game progresses. Originally, everyone considered joining the generation exchange system, but later chose to give up due to various reasons. Besides, except for a small number of senior players, who would play in the game for five years?

What about sixty years? Of course, it refers to the time in the game.

After entering the game, a kind of green-skinned soldier appears.

"Jack, this is Jack Thomson" Gates became excited.

——In the game, Gates gave each soldier a name, and he even worked on it endlessly for three days.

At the beginning, Catherine was also embarrassed by Gates' behavior, but Gates's idea seemed to Catherine quite creative, so she might as well just leave it like this.

This little soldier named "Jack" is the first monster in the game, so Gates remembers it so clearly.

He didn't shoot, but rushed forward, stabbed the opponent with a knife, and then continued walking forward.

Compared with Xbox, the controller of Nimbus is also much enhanced, so characters can do more things, such as running, jumping, stabbing with knives and shooting normally.

The game also provides a "stealth" ability. When players need to sneak into the enemy's territory during the game, they can choose several modes. Wild players can choose to rush directly from the main entrance of the base, but Gates

I prefer to go around from the back,

Then kill the enemy - the advantage of using a knife is that if you kill the enemy in a "stealth" state, you may not be discovered by the enemy. Generally speaking, the opponents in the enemy base are relatively advanced, and if you want to kill them hard,

The probability of death by breaking in far exceeds that by sneaking.

After killing the first soldier, Gates continued to walk forward. At this time, he saw a tank, but Gates did not get on it. The name of this tank was "Metal Slug."

In one scene, it was just for the convenience of testing the riding function, but in this version, the riding function has been turned off, so the tank is just a decoration.

"But this kind of chariot seems really good... It would be great if it could drive all the way to the end..."

Gates still remembered that the last time he came here, the engineers were testing the functions of the chariot, and the ferocious ability of crushing them all the way. Even watching from the side, it seemed to have another "hearty" feeling.

"Ah, it would be great if I could join a tank garage. I could just buy a tank and crush it from start to finish..." Gates shook his head. This was a bit unrealistic. Although tanks are easy to use, they are not practical.

Placing it in some levels is obviously too disruptive to the balance, and in the mountainous terrain of the second level, it is impossible to use this kind of tank.

Opening the submachine gun, red flames spit out. Although there are different ammunition in the test version, it is not open. Only the submachine gun with unlimited bullets is provided. In the game, the submachine gun is the easiest weapon for players to obtain.

, it’s just better than the original one.

Unlike "Contra", in Metal Slug, every character is "fatter" than in "Contra". The characters are Q-versions, and the colors are also very bright.

In fact, this Nimbus game console is on par with the historical SNK-NEOG. Neog, a large game console, is the launch platform for "Metal Slug" and "The King of Fighters", and its arcade version of the mvs substrate is for everyone

As we all know - the arcades in China in the 20th century basically had this type of machine, and Catherine also played it back then.

This game console is composed of two motorola-68000 and an 8-bit z80a. Its main frequency is as high as 14mhz (note 1), which is more than double the current strongest chip of Catherine. It also has extraordinary performance

Display chip, its high-efficiency display chip color display capability is a total of 16-bit colors, 4096 colors on the same screen, and without G

The nimbus of PU is evenly matched. And that model has 7mb of memory, which is something Catherine cannot do - if 7mb of memory is really added, the cost will increase significantly. Even for GPU,

It's just an optional component. Like the one in Gates' hands, it doesn't have a Thunder graphics card.

For a company, providing consumers with the appropriate and needed experience is the most important thing. The level of technology itself is not important. For the people Catherine is dealing with, most people don’t have that many needs.

For ordinary people, Thunder graphics cards sometimes only meet the needs of some people.

But there is also a difference between installing a Thunder graphics card and not installing a graphics card.

For example, in this "Metal Slug", because the machine itself is not very good, many settings are disabled in the machine. If all settings are turned on for rendering together, the machine's picture will become dull.

Get stuck.

When a Thunder graphics card is installed, this product equipped with the world's first GPU will take over the work of the display chip in the original machine, turning the original display chip into an auxiliary chip, and then work, while the other

On the one hand, a graphics card using a special architecture can also improve the CPU's floating-point computing power, making the picture even better.

If the screen of "Metal Slug" is fully opened, the original background will start to move and turn into dynamic backgrounds one by one, making the scene more outstanding, and small creatures such as crows, bats, rabbits, etc. will also be added to the scene.

Inside the scene, players can feel more present.

But even so, it is still a little difficult to improve the performance of the graphics to the same level as the machines in the late 1980s. After all, some things cannot be achieved through trickery.

"I really hope Steve can come and see~"

After destroying the boss of the first level - a large station car hidden in the jungle - Gates successfully passed the level. At this time, he suddenly thought of Jobs again. But unfortunately, Jobs didn't seem to have that time this week.

Otherwise, it would definitely be more fun to play with two people.

"I really don't know when this game will be completed..." Gates felt that he seemed to be able to start designing a second game.

"Well, let's start by naming the enemy..."

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Note 1: I don’t remember whether it is 14mhz or 24mhz. Please refer to Du Niang Encyclopedia for reference. If there is any error, please let me know and we will refine it and modify it.

ps: Those who stay at school to do homework during the winter vacation cannot afford to be hurt...

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