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

Xie Qin’s family situation has never been very good.

Although my father is an industrial worker, and the salary is not low now.

But I can't bear to have a sick person at home.

My mother's lung disease has always been bad, so she needs to have regular check-ups and take medicine.

Most of the money spent over the years has been spent on Xie Qin's mother's medication and surgery fees.

The entire family didn't save much money.

In fact, Xie Qin has always seen it.

But as a young man, all he could think of at first was escape.

I don't dare to face my mother too much every day, I just want to go out and get some fresh air.

It just so happened that his father had said that when he came of age, he would get a job in a factory and his father would find a way.

He just had to wait.

He just let it go and just wanted to wait for the time to work.

However, everything changed when Zuo Zhen appeared.

Zuo Zhen took him into the world of games.

Introduce him to the charm of video games and high technology.

At the same time, it also allowed him to see for the first time how terrifying the money-making power of high technology can be.

This was also the first time he heard the so-called industrial upgrading from others.

The future belongs to high technology, and low-end industries will become less and less valuable over time and will gradually be surpassed by high-end industries.

Originally, Xie Qin wanted to wait a few more months until he could save up to 1,000 yuan so that he could pay off the foreign debt of more than 1,000 yuan for the surgery fee for his mother.

But I really didn’t expect that the money would be earned so quickly, and the time would come much earlier than I expected.

Xie Qin’s mother was still in a daze.

But after her son's repeated assurances, Xie Qin's mother finally couldn't help crying with joy.

He was happy to pay back the money.

At the same time, I am even more happy that my children can earn so much money.

As a mother, seeing her children live a good life and make a lot of money is what makes her happiest.

Xie Qin then promised his mother that she would not have to worry about medical expenses in the future, as he could already afford it.

Xie Qin's mother doesn't understand those high-tech things, but she only needs to know that her children are living well and happy.

She could feel Xie Qin's excitement from his heartfelt emotions.

At the same time, other students who had just received a bonus of 500 yuan were also very generous and very high-spirited.

The prying eyes want to know what kind of profitable business they are doing.

After the time came to 1987, the country increasingly encouraged individual economics and corporate operations, hoping to activate the vitality of the entire society in this way.

The hawker economy, which people did not dare to mention before, has begun to be discussed by more and more people.

Making money has gradually become a topic discussed by many people.

Several employees of Zuo Zhen are particularly conspicuous.

But when these students say that they are developing video games and making money from foreigners, they become confused.

Use games to make money from foreigners?

How to make money?

When asked this question, Zuo Zhen's several employees could only shake their heads and express that they didn't know.

Until now, only Zuo Zhen has been running overseas business and has not handed it over to anyone else.

The main reason is that he can still cope with it now, and he also wants to travel abroad frequently to prevent himself from being derailed by the world.

On the second day, Zuo Zhen woke up from the rental house, then simply washed up and prepared for the next development work.

After the New Year, the team has been in the training stage.

He assigned each person a series of tasks.

Let Yu Mengchen use limited resources to draw some art styles every day.

Let Xie Qin use eight-bit performance to play better music.

Others asked them to further compress the content of the game program while maintaining the original game level.

This is an early stage of military training and can be regarded as a kind of assault training.

During the winter vacation, everyone was not in good working condition at the beginning. Zuo Zhen had to get them back to their original state first.

Among them, Xie Qin is in the best condition, because he can occasionally run over to do some work of his own. He has no idea of ​​a holiday. He just thinks that working here is very interesting.

After April arrived, the entire team was finally back on track, and Zuo Zhen also began to consider subsequent game production issues.

Zuo Zhen has several options.

Continue to develop side-scrolling adventure games.

This type of game has now been thoroughly understood by myself and my team, and the efficiency of development is beyond words.

But now... I am not particularly short of money anymore. If I continue to develop side-scrolling games, that would be somewhat unfulfilling.

And now the upper limit of side-scrolling adventure games has been reached.

One million sales is a small upper limit. If you want to increase it further, it is already difficult to satisfy yourself through NGS.

Developing a role-playing game?

Zuo Zhen thought for a moment and shook his head.

Dragon Quest and The Legend of Zelda are very popular right now, and everyone is rushing to develop games on this track.

There are dozens of role-playing games of the same era that Zuo Zhen can remember.

They all want to take the opportunity to make more money.

Zuo Zhen is not claiming to be aloof, but mainly because he feels that the performance of the NGS game console is really not good enough.

With this performance, the role-playing game must make various compromises, and the track is crowded, which is really unnecessary.

When 16-bit game consoles have game graphics and content that can do more, it won't be too late to develop some fun and durable role-playing games.

Then...it seems that the only option is to continue developing side-scrolling games.

Developing a Mega Man sequel?

Yes, listed as an option.

But this is not what Zuo Zhen wants to do most.

Zuo Zhen picked up a piece of paper and simply started writing down the game types he was familiar with on it.

From action, to role-playing, to racing and sports games.

These are OK.

But it's definitely not the best choice.

However, Zuo Zhen's pen paused slightly as he wrote.

His pen stopped at the last game type he wrote down.

Battle game.

The figures of Street Fighter and King of Fighters in his previous life immediately appeared in Zuo Zhen's mind.

Of course, there is an even older fighting game: Kung Fu.

This... seems to be a bit confusing.

Zuo Zhen narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

A man came to Zuo Zhen and took a curious look at the words Zuo Zhen wrote on the paper.

He seemed to understand some of the titles such as side-scrolling adventure and gun racing and ball games.

It seems to be a game-related term?

"Huh? Didn't you go back to the dormitory?"

Zuo Zhen raised his head and looked at the employee.

Zuo Zhen recognized the other person. He was a classmate majoring in computer science, and then he volunteered that he wanted to develop games with Zuo Zhen. He was now regarded as the backbone of program development.

Looking at the other party's clothes, it's obvious that he doesn't look like he just came in from outside.

"Well, I wanted to come over and play some NGS games with a few other people last night after dinner, and I fell asleep while playing." The man said a little embarrassed.