Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

"A long time ago, I said such a sentence, on my business card, I am the president of a game company, in my mind, I am a game developer, and in my heart At the same time, I’m a player, and that’s one thing I’ve always identified with.”

When he said this, Zhu Youxing suddenly became very calm in his heart.

This famous quote from the most famous game developer in the previous life and Zhu Youxing’s favorite game developer, Mr. Iwata Satoshi, is the most memorable passage in Zhu Youxing’s memory.

He also agreed with this sentence from the heart.

In the depths of his heart, he is still a player, recalling the familiar game scenes from his previous life, recalling the scenes that were moved by the touching scenes in each game.

After coming to this world, his heart has never changed.

He has always hoped that this world can also create wonderful games. He brought the games from his previous life to this world, so that this world can feel the culture of his own world.

He also wants to have a good experience of the culture of this world.

Strictly speaking, this should be regarded as a cultural collision between two parallel worlds.

"I remember this sentence. I have watched some interview videos of you in Japan. This sentence is also a sentence that I especially recognize."

At this time, Bruno has already decided on the title of the cover, which is called the player's heart, which is very appropriate for Zhuyouxing.

Zhu Youxing's eyes were deep: "If you want to talk about the original intention of game development, I probably have a somewhat cultural family background. My mother is a painter, which should be considered a bit famous. My father used to be an investor, but now he is He's a novelist, but he's not as famous as my mother."

"Mr. Takeyou's mother is Ms. Takeyou Masako, right? I have also had the honor to see her paintings, which are very good works, but I really haven't heard much about your father. His novels..."

"Well, there is no need to say more about that."

To put it simply, my father's novels are all off the shelf. I'm afraid no more than 10,000 people have read them. Even if 99% of the 10,000 are read, they only read the beginning of my father's novels and put them aside. up.

He remembered that his mother, Masako Takeyou, said that his father paid for his novels at the expense of others. He spent money to find someone to print them, and then paid others to read them. It was very miserable.

But even so, he still enjoys writing novels, obviously he really loves this.

"So Mr. Takeyou came up with the idea of ​​creating a brand new cultural product under the influence of such a family background?"

Zhu Youxing nodded first, and then shook his head: "It's not entirely true, family background is one of the reasons, after that, it's my own inspiration."

"Oh? How to say?"

"It's actually quite clichéd. At that time, I happened to be living a good life in college, and I was accompanied by a close girlfriend. The family is rich, and I have a girlfriend. This is more or less a winner in life."

Bruno nodded, but did not interrupt Zhu Youxing.

"However, because I did some wrong things, we finally separated. At that time, I couldn't bear it, even to the point of dropping out of school."

In fact, with Zhu Youxing's personality in his previous life, he would never have an emotional breakdown because of a single emotional experience, even to the point of dropping out of school. These are the memories of the original owner, so he just copied them directly, blindly in front of the editor of Time Weekly. It's not wise to tell a lie.

They are the organization with the most authoritative information channels, no matter how big or small the information is, there are almost no problems. Anyway, the original owner's memory has nothing to do with him, and he has no burden to tell it.

Zhu Youxing put on a helpless look and said: "It's bloody, right? But in such a bloody state, I wanted to have some... fun. At first, I hid at home alone and frantically read novels, movies, and animations. I watched movies and comics, and then gradually I felt a little bored, and video games were born in my mind inadvertently.”

The original owner Zhu Youxing happened to be a computer major in university. After emotional sinking, and then the influence of family culture, he naturally wanted to create a new entertainment method in the computer field. All this sounds very logical.

Although there are still some slightly far-fetched places in the middle, Bruno seems to be very empathetic. Zhu Youxing's expression began to empathize with him while talking.

"It's really full of twists and turns. Mr. Takeyou, your experience is really wonderful, so it's the combination of these reasons. You created the world's first popular video game, Mario Brothers, right?"

"That's right."

"So what is the origin of the image of Mario Brothers? Because the characteristics of this character are so unique, it always feels as if there are many stories in it."

Bruno obviously wanted to dig deeper into some stories about Zhuyouxing.

A dry origin interview is certainly not enough.

I have promised to let Zhu Youxing appear on the cover of the main edition of the Times, so I must collect more interesting stories, otherwise I will not be able to explain to the editor-in-chief.

He promised the editor-in-chief that he would definitely write an excellent interview article.

"Well, it's actually nothing complicated. When I was conceiving a video game in my head, there happened to be a problem with the plumbing at home, and then I called a plumber to come to my house to fix it. I was thinking about it while thinking about it. The idea of ​​a video game."

"That plumber is where your idea came from? So he must have a big nose, right? Because Mario's most distinctive feature is his big nose."

"Ah? This is really not true. I just used the identity of a plumber as a reference, but the image is actually one I have carefully considered."

Zhu Youxing is now talking nonsense without blushing, and some things cannot be lied to, but such things that cannot be verified can be made up.

"About the image of Mario, it was actually because of the performance limitations of the game console I developed at that time. The FC game console I created at the beginning was very poor in terms of screen performance. After all, this was the first time I was in the attic with another founder. The spelled things really have no technical content, so the picture can only show very simple pixel color blocks."

Zhu Youxing took out the paper and pen and began to continue talking with his own description on the paper.

"The original FC was an eight-bit machine, and the characters in it only had very simple pixel images. At that time, I just wanted to make the characters as characteristic as possible in the simple pixels, so the big nose is obviously the most conspicuous. This is Mario's big nose. origin."

This incident is true in the previous life. In the previous life, Mario's big nose was created with the intention of expressing image characteristics in simple pixel paintings.

Later, the image of Mario was short and fat with a big nose, and then another character, Luigi, was made into a thin and tall appearance in order to distinguish it better in the game.

In this way, Mario and Luigi, two of the most famous characters in video games, were born.

"So it's like this, it's really amazing." Bruno said with a look of surprise.

He doesn't understand these things about programming and computer technology, but Zhu Youxing has tried his best to make it as simple and clear as possible, making it easy for him to understand.

He conceived a lot of very tortuous storylines in game development in his mind before, but in fact the development of the game really has a lot of coincidences, and at the same time the drama is not weak.

He is very satisfied with this interview, and it seems that the job can be completed perfectly.