I want to make a game

In the blink of an eye, the Chinese Spring Festival is coming soon.

"It's February 10th. It goes by so fast."

Liu Zhiyuan sat at his desk and wrote this year's plan.

This year is the year when the Han Dynasty takes off. He must grasp every detail. If he makes a wrong step, he will be doomed.

"Ayuan, Might and Magic are in the middle of the test today, why don't you come over and take a look?"

Li Huagui appeared in his office.

When making a game, you never test it after everything is finished. You always set up the framework first and then fill in the details. Otherwise, just fixing the bugs will cause all the programmers in the company to rebel.

"Let's go."

Liu Zhiyuan put down his pen and walked out of the room. Today was not only a half-way test of Might and Magic, but also a test for Liu Zhiyuan to imitate MD, otherwise Li Huagui would not have come to remind him.

In the conference room, seeing that all the important personnel had basically arrived, Liu Zhiyuan signaled that Chen Guoqiang could start.

A very crude picture appeared on the projection screen. Chen Guoqiang operated the character to move. After a simple battle, the test was over.

"Is this the only way the picture can go?"

Liu Zhiyuan looked at the frozen game interface and was not very satisfied.

On the contrary, Oda Hagoromo thought it was pretty good.

"President Liu, this is already the top game graphics on the market."

Liu Zhiyuan frowned.

“Does the Xeon drive still have the potential to improve?”

This is his goal. Of course he won't compare it with the game graphics of later generations. He wants to see if MD can squeeze out some more profit.

Oda Hagoromo shook his head.

"This is already an improved Xeon drive. If we want to make major improvements, it will delay the release time."

"Forget it, let's do that. There's basically no problem. Now that the shelf has been built, let's fill in the details."

"The meeting is dismissed."

Oda Hagoromo heard Liu Zhiyuan's dissatisfied tone and was very puzzled. This picture was obviously very good.

Liu Zhiyuan returned to his office and made a call to Nakayama Hayao.

"President Zhongshan, the second phase can begin. Let's release our game promotional video."

Nakayama Hayao has been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

Now Super Mario has been at the top of the expectations list for a week in a row. This feeling of having a back-up but not being able to use it is so uncomfortable.

"Liu Jun, I will let Minister Hase announce it now. What about our third phase of publicity?"

Liu Zhiyuan felt helpless listening to Nakayama Hayao's impatient tone. Sega's defeat was not unreasonable. Is Super Mario an existence that can be beaten to death with a stick?

The first stage of publicity for Super Mario 3 surpassing Might and Magic is too normal, after all, the player base is there.

Liu Zhiyuan is very satisfied that he can achieve this level with a gimmick that has not even been seen in the game.

In Japan, anyone who could get close to Super Mario once would cheer for a long time.

"I will arrange the third phase. I just finished testing the game today. I will make a few sets of game battle scenes for next time's promotion."

"Would you like to come over to Sega and talk to Minister Hase about the third phase?"

"No need, the second stage should last for a while. Besides, the Spring Festival is coming soon and I have to go back to China."

"Okay, then I wish Liu Jun a happy New Year in advance."

"Thanks."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Zhiyuan sat in the office for a while before leaving the company.

The office of the replica MD was obviously very close, but Liu Zhiyuan took several taxis and drove around several times before returning.

"Mr. Liu, you're here. Xiaofu, go out and watch."

The young man named Xiaofu said hello to Liu Zhiyuan and walked out of the office building.

Liu Zhiyuan walked to an office with ease and pushed open the door. Three black game consoles were placed on the table.

Ye Zhenglong pointed to the host computer in the middle that Liu Zhiyuan was very familiar with.

"Mr. Liu, this is a 100% replica of Sega. The performance is almost the same. The difference between us and Sega is that some parts are not easy to get."

Sega's MD has stopped research and development and is now undergoing comprehensive testing. This is inevitable. There is no upper limit to technological progress, as long as companies are willing to spend money.

If you cannot develop any new technology, you will have to apply it to MD. Then the time for MD to be launched is far away.

Liu Zhiyuan stroked the familiar black body, this was his future capital.

"Turn it on, let me try."

Ye Zhenglong connected the imitation MD to the TV and inserted a cassette, and the scene of the Magic Gate appeared on the TV.

If Oda Hagoromo were here, he would realize that this is not a magic gate at all.

This is the loaded version of Magic Gate that Liu Zhiyuan asked Chen Guoqiang to use to test the performance of the machine. As for the Sega Magic Gate, he didn't bother to test it at all, as long as there were no big loopholes.

Adding MD to the new type, and using his promotional techniques, it will be difficult to lose in Super Mario 3 on the same stage, and even if you lose, you won't lose much, so that's enough.

Hiroshi Yamauchi will be in chaos when he sees someone who can threaten the pillars of his empire. MD's victory will definitely make Nakayama Hayao even more convinced that hardware is king, and Sony will spare no effort to win over him.

This is enough. The chaotic Nintendo will decline in just a few years. Sega, which does not pay attention to game software development, will soon suffer. In order to win over him, Sony will definitely give him very large authority.

Liu Zhiyuan just sat and tried out Might and Magic for more than two hours. He already had an understanding of the performance of this imitation MD, which was similar to the first-generation MD in his memory.

"Zhenglong, let's test Unit 1."

Ye Zhenglong changed the connection line to the host on the left. This was an improved version of the Han Dynasty's MD, and the idea was provided by Liu Zhiyuan.

The biggest difference between it and the Sega MD is that it has an additional sub-graphics processor, or graphics card. This idea came from Nintendo's SFC, and he wanted to see the graphics card production capabilities of MSI and Biostar.

Sure enough, compared to the MD, this host machine named No. 1 has better performance than the MD.

"How much is the difference between the cost and MD?"

Ye Zhenglong said a price that he couldn't accept at all.

"The difference is between 200-300 US dollars."

"Change to Unit 2."

Liu Zhiyuan borrowed ideas from Inter for Machine No. 2. He mentioned ideas such as multi-threading and high concurrency to Tong Zixian and Xu Xiang several times.

After some testing, the performance of the CPU is slightly better than that of the MD. It seems that the Han Dynasty has moved ahead of Sega in terms of CPU. MSI over in Baodao has recently shown signs of dominating the market.

This time, without waiting for Liu Zhiyuan to ask questions, Ye Zhenglong said.

"Unit No. 2 is about $100 more expensive than MD."

Liu Zhiyuan could barely accept the $100 price, which meant that the CPU production capabilities of MSI and Biostar were obviously better than those of graphics cards. He thought that graphics cards were better than CPUs.

"I will call Mr. Xu back soon. You and he will use the current technology to make a handheld console. I will see how far it can go."

Then Liu Zhiyuan took out the drawings of a handheld console from his bag, which was the famous GBA in later generations.