Rebirth 86: I use games to kick open the door to the world

Zuo Zhen sat back in front of the computer. This time he did not type in the code, but took out a floppy disk from his bag and put it into the computer.

After a few steps, a new game was successfully installed on the computer, and a new game screen soon appeared on the screen.

"What is this?" Lao Jia Xinyou asked curiously.

"This is called PONG."

"Peng? Are you a mahjong player?"

"No, come on, Mr. Jia, sit down and I'll teach you how to play."

Zuo Zhen made way for Lao Jia to sit down again, and then taught Lao Jia how to play PONG.

"The gameplay this time is simpler than backgammon. You only need to use the left and right buttons and enter. Enter is to restart the game, and left and right are to move the table board under the screen."

Lao Jia watched the screen carefully.

In the center of the screen is a brand new image.

The background is black, with a white strip at the bottom, a white dot in the center of the screen, and rows of white squares at the top of the screen.

Lao Jia couldn't understand.

He could barely understand the previous backgammon interface, but he really couldn't understand this one.

However, the game itself is not difficult. Lao Jia quickly learned the operation method and started the game according to Zuo Zhen's instructions.

"Mr. Jia, that's right. When the white ball falls from above, move the table and don't let the white ball fall completely under the screen."

At the beginning of the game, the white ball automatically bounces upwards and falls quickly after knocking off a white square.

Upon seeing this, Lao Jia quickly moved the table board along the position where the white ball fell. Then after a buzzer, the white ball bounced back to the top, colliding with a white square again, and the cycle continued.

"Ha, that's how it works. I understand. What's so difficult about this?"

After becoming familiar with the operation, Lao Jia was very proud. It seemed that he was going to defeat the computer again this time.

Well, he has to tell his neighbor the good news tomorrow. At first, his neighbor was always upset because his family bought a computer, and said sourly that he didn't know how to use the computer even after he bought it.

But now, he has completely figured out how to use it!

When the time comes, tell Lao Zhang next door and scare him! Let the other person understand how powerful you are!

But just because his mind was distracted and thinking about other things, he moved the table board half a beat slower, causing him to miss the white ball and let it fall below.

‘Game over, please keep trying. ’

Game Score: 3

"Forehead……"

"It's okay, Mr. Jia, press Enter to start again. Most people will be a little unskilled in this game at the beginning. This is normal."

Mr. Jia felt a little embarrassed and pressed the Enter button to start again.

"Xiao Zuo, is this something you researched?"

On the side, Jia Peiwu asked in surprise.

"Well, I'm currently focusing on video game development."

"Video games...this name is very interesting. It's a live game. It's very appropriate."

Jia Peiwu looked admiring. While chatting with Zuo Zhen, his eyes would glance at the screen of his father's game from time to time.

Lao Jia was more focused than before at this time, but he still didn't last a few minutes.

At this moment, Jia Peiwu seemed to be a little absent-minded.

As for Lao Jia, he has completely devoted himself to it, his eyes focused as never before.

This time he must try his best to smash all the squares above to complete the game!

At this time, Jia Peiwu, who was chatting with Zuo Zhen, seemed to have temporarily forgotten about chatting with Zuo Zhen. He stood behind and watched the small balls on the screen that were constantly colliding back and forth again and again. It seemed that he had also entered the game. State-like.

Upon seeing this, Zuo Zhen knew that his work was done, so he said goodbye and left to go back to school.

I am still very happy to make this money. I will continue to work hard in the next few days and strive to make enough money owed as soon as possible, and then wait for the Contra money to be paid back, and everything will be fine!

After Zuo Zhen left, Lao Jia had no intention of ending.

He had ended the game many times before, and each time he was still missing a few blocks.

At the beginning, there are a lot of squares, and you can break them with just a few hits, but as you get to the back, there are fewer squares. The white ball often bounces on top and then goes back to the bottom, and then bounces back again.

This back and forth several times made Lao Jia quite annoyed.

There is no such thing as obsessive-compulsive disorder, but he is obviously suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder now.

Behind him, Jia Peiwu also had bright eyes. When he saw that his father couldn't hit the last few squares, he finally couldn't help it.

"Dad, let me try and I'll abort it for you. It would be too uncomfortable if you don't abort it!"

…

The computer floor in the library was closed at night, and the janitor, Uncle Ma, also came home from get off work. Zuo Zhen walked to Uncle Ma's desk, found a key from the drawer, and prepared to open the door of the computer room.

But when he walked to the door of the computer room, he found that the door was ajar.

Zuo Zhen opened the door curiously. The light in the computer room was not turned on, so he could quickly locate the target.

Those were the two computers in the center of the computer room, and there was a person sitting in front of one of them.

It was Yu Mengchen.

Zuo Zhen could recognize who it was just by looking at his back.

I'm afraid only one girl, Yu Mengchen, has entered the entire computer room so far.

Kyungsan University's computer major has had three classes of students so far, and each class has only male students. It is the only major in the entire school that does not have female students, which is a bit tragic to say the least.

Why is Yu Mengchen here?

Zuo Zhen was a little curious.

During the day, Yu Mengchen had basically finished the art work. All that was left was for Zuo Zhen to put together the overall game program and then test it more.

"Yu Mengchen? Why are you still here? You're not working on the art of Squirrel War, are you?"

"ah!"

Yu Mengchen let out a frightened cry, then hurriedly stood up from his seat and looked at the door. Then he was slightly relieved when he saw that the person who came in was Zuo Zhen, but at the same time he looked a little blushing.

"Well... well, I've actually finished the art for the squirrel fight, and I'm working on something else."

"Something else?"

Zuo Zhen walked over and took a look at Yu Mengchen's screen, and then saw that the screen was the simple version of the pinball game that Zuo Zhen originally made.

This pinball game completely imitates Atari's PONG tabletop pinball game. There is a collision block at the bottom of the screen that can move horizontally, and there are blocks at the top of the screen. Those blocks can be destroyed by continuously hitting them with a small ball, and finally they are eliminated. The game is completed when all blocks are dropped.

This was quite popular in the prehistoric era of gaming, and indirectly gave birth to Atari, the former gaming giant.

Of course, it is already a small shrimp now.