Super Game Empire

The next day, Yang Yun joined the asset rectification and reorganization team of Huamao Electronics Factory, which was what Zhao Yongping and his Soviet expert friend named Alexey Pajitzhov privately called them. Together, the three of them inspected the equipment in the factory.

Conduct systematic analysis and technology, and make a report on factory transformation as quickly as possible.

It took another week for the three of them, led by a local driver, to explore the entire electronics factory in Chongshan City. They also went to Guandong and Shenzhen to visit many colleagues.

Back at Huamao, everyone was feeling heavy-hearted.

In the factory director's office, Zhao Yongping said with a gloomy face: "Alexei, Xiao Yang, time has not waited for me! The Little Genius Cassette Company has begun to set up sales channels, and the sales of Pyramid's learning machine are also good, and the Nintendo Famicom

We have firmly controlled the high-end market in Shenzhen City, but we are a big step behind!"

Alexey rubbed his big nose and spread his hands: "Since you two are optimistic about the cassette market, then don't hesitate to set up the production workshop. Xiao Yang and I will build the 6502CPU development platform first!"

Zhao Yongping nodded, looked at Yang Yun and asked: "Xiao Yang, what do you think?"

Yang Yun laughed: "Director Zhao, Alexey, why do you want to build a platform yourself? Why don't we find another way and directly purchase a ready-made cassette recording equipment?"

The two of them didn't react for a while, and Zhao Yongping asked: "You mean, we can learn from those no-name manufacturers and secretly burn cassettes?"

Yang Yun nodded, that's what he meant.

Each game console has a corresponding development machine and independent development software. The development machine is a complete set of equipment produced by the console. The cassette motherboard is the most important product on the development platform. It uses an independent pseudo-solidified operating system. The size of the ROM is not the same.

One, the cost is different.

When it comes to software development, smart Chinese people are best at cracking, so what those small and no-name companies are most in need of are these technologies, that is, how to make games, or how to crack games made by others, and then how to turn computer language into data.

The instructions are sent to the CPU, and then burned to your own cassette motherboard through the development machine platform.

When making a cassette, the motherboard of the cassette carries memory ROMs of various sizes and integrates a solidified operating system. In this way, the machine and card are separated. The card must be inserted into the game console before it can be turned on. Moreover, a few M of ROM contains dozens of games.

, according to the size of each game and the capacity of the cartridge, it is divided into four-in-one, sixty-four-in-one, and so on.

It’s so troublesome to design original games. It’s better to just crack other people’s games and make money quickly!

This is the copycat spirit that makes the whole world stunned! A mobile phone contains 7 operating systems, and you can switch at any time through options. It’s not like we have never done this before!

The Chinese are best at these things. They buy genuine Nintendo game cassettes, crack the software inside, and then burn them directly into their own cassettes. A game is 256K, no problem. I will take a 1M cassette and stuff it all in.

It becomes a four-in-one game, a game costs 32K, get a 2M cartridge, and it instantly becomes a sixty-four-in-one game.

Everyone understands this truth, and it can be explained in just one point.

Alexey quickly shook his head: "This is not good! Without authorization, you will be legally responsible."

He is from the Soviet Union, and after all, he is much stronger than most Chinese in terms of patent rights and legal awareness.

Zhao Yongping was silent. He was a graduate student at Renmin University and had lived in the capital for many years. Of course he knew the word patent. The country had set up a patent office a few years ago. However, the legal awareness of people in society was too weak, so most of them

Most people didn't take it seriously. The few small and no-name factories that Yang Yun mentioned probably didn't even know what a patent was!

Of course, Yang Yun knew everyone's concerns, and he smiled slightly: "Who said we want to infringe? We are just using this ready-made platform and software to make our own games. Director Zhao, it is too risky to conquer the world with nothing, and it is too time-consuming," Director Zhao said.

It’s not allowed. Nintendo and the little genius have already run 100 meters away, but we haven’t stood on the starting line yet. Extraordinary moments require extraordinary means!”

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Yongping gritted his teeth and said, "That's it! Let's buy a set of equipment and come back!"

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"Huamao Electronics Factory is crazy!"

"They sold the machines in the factory! They got back a few sets of equipment that no one knows how to use!"

"What a prodigal! We need to report it to the factory!"

Although the workers at Huamao Electronics Factory stopped working for a long time, they could not hide all the incidents in the factory, big and small.

Zhao Yongping is the factory director who was hired. Although he is in charge of production and operation, he can't sell the machines!

Fortunately, Zhao Yongping withstood the pressure from the group and let Alexey and Yang Yun build the platform. His future was tied to this unknown project, and now he could only give it a try.

The relationship between Yang Yun and Alexey is getting more and more harmonious. They are both technical men. Although Yang Yun is not as good as the Soviet expert in assembly and VB language, he has many ideas and has made great achievements in data structure.

Even Alexey would be shocked.

I can't help it, but my brother has traveled through time in 2013! In the first year of college, the basic courses that computer majors must learn are assembly and data structures. At that time, I was timid and obedient, and did not dare to skip classes.

You are not allowed to bring a computer. I have just studied hard for a year and my foundation is pretty solid...

Yang Yun also learned a lot of technology from Alexei, especially the platform software they bought back. After seeing visual programming, Yang Yun felt itchy in his heart. He now has many ideas. The first one was made by him.

The game is about to be born!

Finally, on the fifth day after the platform was completed, May 4, 1989, this was a memorable day. Three people gathered in the R&D workshop of Huamao Electronics Factory.

"Xiao Yang, why did you call us here in such a hurry?" Zhao Yongping was busy writing reports, handling assets, and integrating the sales and R&D teams. He wished that one minute could be turned into two minutes.

Yang Yun skillfully opened a program, handed over a handle, and gestured: "Have fun with it!"

A square area appears on the monitor, surrounded by frames, with a stick in the middle, and a small square bright spot not far from the stick.

Zhao Yongping pressed the START button and muttered: "What the hell! How are you doing this?"

"Control the snake's forward path up, down, left, and right, and eat that single point of light, and then the snake's body will become longer. Be careful not to touch the wall or eat your own body."

Greedy snake!

It just looks very crude, doesn't it look like a snake? It's just a square stick!

Moreover, the interface is too simple. A circle of black light spots is the wall, the pure black and white snake body is moving, and the food spots of the greedy snake are more like black smudges on the monitor.

But soon, everyone became interested.

"Alas! A dot appears on the right!"

"We're going to hit the wall! Turn right quickly!"

"I've already eaten 20 points of light!"

"It's too long! Turn quickly! Look, it's too late!"

"Director Zhao, you are so awesome! Are you making flower rolls?"

Zhao Yongping's palms were sweaty. He ate 22 points of light with the first greedy snake. When the result was refreshed, the 23rd point was refreshed inside. He was careless and did not leave a way out. As a result, the snake's head was tight.

Close to the tail, the wraps get smaller and smaller, really like a big flower roll!

Alexey couldn't help it, grabbed the handle, and shouted: "I'll do it!"

Yang Yun wanted to tease him, so he modified the source code, and then opened the game. He saw that the snake body controlled by Alexei moved twice as fast as Zhao Yongping!

"Oh my god! Ёб-твою-мат!@#￥%..." Alexei couldn't help but cursed, making Zhao Yongping who was watching the battle look at him with side eyes.

Snake has successfully aroused everyone's interest, but does it have any market prospects?

Zhao Yongping squinted his eyes, looked at Alexei and Yang Yun who were shouting, and fell silent. He quickly made a calculation in his mind and came to the conclusion that this game can be sold!

But he still had an important issue that needed to be determined, and he looked at Yang Yun.