Game Development Giant

Before he knew it, Jester had already written on more than a dozen pieces of manuscript paper. These papers full of writing were scattered on the table. Mr. Jester frowned, then he sorted them carefully and put them away in categories. Although he has written a lot, he still has many unprepared plans for the next month.

Especially "Saraman Snake".

Jester is full of respect for this game, and Jester believes that everyone who has played this game will have full respect for this game.

Although his own "Dawn" is much larger and more complex than "Saloman" in terms of setting and game system, in Jester's eyes, if his game can be transplanted to his home machine, That couldn't be better.

But the reality is that because the content of this game is too large, it is impossible to transplant it to the console version while ensuring quality. If you want to transplant it, you have to perform game castration like "1942". If the castration is too severe , cannot guarantee the quality of the game, in Jester's eyes, it is better not to transplant it.

He doesn't want to be like Capcom, who finally released a well-received and popular game in the arcade only to lose its reputation because of poor porting quality. Not all game manufacturers are as powerful as Konami. Not only can they transplant arcade masterpieces to the motherboard without castration, they can even make the console version better than the arcade version. At least according to what Jester knows, his employees are not as strong as Konami in the future.

Anyway, in Jester's mind, Konami in the late 1980s and Capcom in the early 1990s all had the prefix "Invincible" all over them, especially Konami's three masterpieces a year, which made them even more... Many game enthusiasts talked about this. At that time, Konami's popularity in the United States was almost unparalleled. Later, when Hideo Kojima came out with his mgs2, the eight major manufacturers avoided it.

Jester is also very curious about this. Logically speaking, because of the large space of arcade machines, developers can use more powerful substrates, because the larger the space, the larger the substrate, and the larger the substrate, the more it can be integrated. The circuit performance is naturally powerful.

However, Konami’s games have always been able to make their FC ported works no less than arcade machines. For example, the famous Final Four. In the eyes of many people, the FC version of Final Four is not inferior to the arcade machines released at the same time. version, and even in the eyes of some players, the home machine version is even better than the arcade version. Speaking of the game "Salomander", Jester has very good memories. It is the famous FC top four game. Jester can still remember the first time he played this game. The scene at that time.

Regarding the origins of the top four, it can be regarded as an early ridicule among domestic players, and these four games, to a certain extent, can be said to have cultivated the first batch of non-Nintendo game fans in China.

At that time, domestic pirates made a combined card of the four most popular games on FC except Laoren. Because the games on it were all classics and had a large audience, these four games were also popular among domestic players over time. Players affectionately call it the FC Old Four, which means the most fun games on FC.

In fact, it is a bit one-sided to say this. After all, there are super masterpieces such as Super Horse, Super Horse 3 and even Cuckold, ff3, etc. It may be possible to evaluate other games as one of the best, but to say it is the best is to be a bit blind. , but this also shows to a certain extent that these four games are indeed excellent.

Jester first played it at his neighbor's house.

It was winter at the time, and Jester remembered clearly that he had just gone on winter vacation, and he was playing "Super Mario" at home on a blue and white machine that his uncle had brought back from a trip to eastern Guangdong. Jester was very obsessed with it at the time. This is a cartoony and fun game.

It can almost be said that you never get tired of playing it.

At that time, Jester's neighbor was his classmate. Whenever his classmate had time, as long as the adults in both families were not at home, he would always sneak to Jester's house to play games together. , Jester likes to play ultramarathon the most, and his neighbor classmate likes to play "Motocross" the most, but later he was accidentally discovered by the adults in his family, and the classmate was also beaten severely, and Jester's classmate is also stubborn and refuses to admit that he has done anything wrong.

His parents had no choice but to agree to buy one for Jester's classmate as long as he ranked among the top three in the final exam.

As a result, Jester's classmate really got into the top three in the exam with the encouragement of a game console, and his parents also bought him a game console as promised. Just like his own, he was also a trustee. A blue and white machine brought from eastern Guangdong.

Speaking of blue and white consoles, many people may not know it. Some players who are new to cassette game consoles may know that red and white consoles refer to Nintendo FC, and they know that black card game consoles generally refer to the fifth generation of Sega, which is also Sega MD. Knowing that Xiaobawang is a game console disguised as a learning machine after copying FC.

In fact, at the beginning, especially before the popularity of Xiaobawang, the first popular fc compatible machine in China, or one of the fc compatible machines was the blue and white machine.

However, the blue and white console is not a copycat, but authorized by Nintendo and produced and sold by Shengtian Electronics. However, Shengtian Electronics basically copied Nintendo’s FC red and white console in terms of appearance design, and even The appearance of the accessories and the printing on the machine are exactly the same. The only difference is that the Nintendo is red, while the blue and white machine is blue.

Comparing this to the little genius from Crystal Electronics, another company authorized by Nintendo, at least in terms of appearance design, Shengtian’s blue and white machine is going to be completely blown away by the improved appearance of the little genius, especially the one designed by the little genius himself. The handle is even much better than the Nintendo FC handle in terms of feel.

Of course, the feel of the Nintendo FC controller itself is not very good.

Later, Shengtian's blue and white machines and the young geniuses of Jingji Electronics entered the domestic market, each occupying half of the country.

But generally speaking, Shengtian's blue and white consoles are far inferior to Little Genius in terms of market share. It was only after these two became popular in China that a large number of copycat FC game console manufacturers appeared in the country.

Before Subaru, the most famous was probably Boning Tianma's copycat machine, which was green and white or off-white in color. The others were no different in appearance from Nintendo's red and white machines, but if you take them apart and look at the circuit board inside, then You will find a big difference.

Let’s not talk about these for now, let’s get back to the business.

At that time, Jester was excited about playing Super Mario when he heard a knock on the door. He paused the game and went to open the door. It was his neighbor and classmate.

Jester was a little strange at first. Didn't he buy a game console?

Unexpectedly, his classmate said to him with excitement: "Come to my house, I just got a new game card. The games in it are much more fun than yours!" To be honest, he listened to the other person at that time. Jester was a little dissatisfied with this sentence. He originally wanted to refuse and continue playing his own ultramarathon, but he really couldn't stand the temptation of the new cassette in his classmate's mouth. After thinking about it for tenths of a second, , Jester also decided to go to his house and have a look. If it’s not fun, he would just come back.

Unexpectedly, this trip lasted only a day, and he played until dinner, when his parents took him out of his neighbor's house.

He didn't even feel hungry even after lunch and dinner. When leaving his classmate's house, Jester was extremely reluctant to leave. He looked back three times and continued to play the music. He had been listening to it all afternoon. But I still can't get tired of listening to the electronic sound of the TV, and even the sound of biubiubiu gunshots is in my head.

It was this combined card that Jester played that day. At that time, he was not playing "Saloman", but "Contra", and this combined card was also the one that many people talked about. Tao's four-in-one old four card. To be honest, when Jester recalled it later, he realized that the person who could select these four games to combine them into cards was indeed a genius.

Because these four games are all wonderful and can be played hundreds of times, and the gameplay is different, they can well meet the needs of different groups of people. In fact, the top four were recognized as the best games on FC in China at the time. However, the evaluation of these four games in Japan was average, so the people who selected them at the time did not look at reputation, but had to rely on level and vision to make the selection.

But then again, these four games are very popular in the United States, especially "Contra" and "Red Fortress". According to the video that Jester watched back then, basically there are no games in schools. For those who have never played these two games, in fact, if you carefully analyze these four games, you will find the essence of the problem.

The main weapon of the protagonist of "Contra" is a gun, the main weapon of the main character of "Red Fortress" is a car, the main weapon of the main character of "Saraman Snake" is a ball, and the main weapon of the main character of "Green Legion" is a knife, a car, a gun, a ball, and a knife. Doesn’t look familiar? Yes, these are the three major cancers of car, gun and ball that later generations said. In fact, it is because both Americans and domestic people are very different from Japan in game selection, but the two are very similar. For those very sophisticated Japanese I am not very interested in traditional RPG games, but I am very fascinated by this simple and crude game.

For example, the sales volume of the DQ series in Europe and the United States is similar to that of Xiang.

Of course, it cannot be generalized. For example, cuckolds and ff are very popular among European and American players. Cuckolds, in particular, are almost the representatives of perfect RPGs in the hearts of European and American players, and whether it is European and American media or Japanese media, they all Give the cuckold a high score without a doubt.

Games that can defeat Europe, America and Japan are very, very rare. As long as there is one, there is no doubt that it is a masterpiece.

However, in Jester's mind, even if they are also among the top four, these four games are divided into different grades. "Green Army" is definitely the second best among these four games, and the remaining three are not even better than the others. Bad, if I have to choose one, then Jester feels that "Saloman Snake" is slightly better due to its grand setting and perfect soundtrack, while "Red Fortress" and "Contra" The games are neck and neck.

When Jester woke up the next morning, the first thing he did was to knock on his neighbor's door again. Then he and his neighbor classmate devoted themselves to the battle of "Contra" without sleep or food. However, For a novice like Jester at the time, "Contra" was relatively difficult.

And his neighbor is pretty good. Some people who have never played "Contra" may not be familiar with this game. Some games are more difficult for one person than two people. This is essentially true, but "Contra" The game is not like this when the level of the two people is different, because the person with a slow pace will always be dragged to death by the person with a fast pace.

So Jester is always dragged to death by his neighbors, and his neighbors always criticize him, which makes Jester very angry. After all, he can also surpass the horse in one life, and his The neighbor's level was not good, and he couldn't even pass the third level. But this time when he played "Contra", it was his turn to be laughed at by the opponent, which Jester couldn't tolerate.

However, when the two of them finally finished "Contra" and started playing the second game on this game card, "Saraman Snake", Jester completely found himself playing "Super Mario". 》The feel of the time.

It is a very subtle feeling. It seems that if you operate it casually, the plane in the TV can dodge all bullets and attacks. You can easily eat capsules to synthesize weapons, and then you can easily destroy those who are in your own body. A very difficult boss in the eyes of the neighbors.

Jester is still looking at the shocked look in his neighbor's eyes when he saw him easily defeating the fire dragon in Fire Dragon Pass.

That feeling was very superior and admirable for Jester, who was still young at the time.

ps: I’ve been busy these days, so I’ll resume two updates tomorrow.