Game Development Giant

Jester is not interested in these, because he may be more familiar with NES than Minoru Arakawa, who is currently introducing this game console on the stage.

However, other people below the stage were very interested in the game console in Minoru Arakawa's hands, especially after Minoru Arakawa used Pac-Man to compare the performance of his own machine to completely surpass the Atari 2600, and then continued to demonstrate Several games with completely different styles.

Whether it's their own Donkey Kong, Namco's Dugger, Mario Brothers, or Steel Formation, everyone in the audience burst into cheers, especially It was after a few randomly selected people came to the stage to experience it for themselves and were interviewed immediately, and they all spoke highly of these games.

The cheers at the scene got a little louder.

Jester curled his lips disdainfully at this. He would also use this method, and he dared to vouch for it. The people he randomly selected just now were basically all stooges. He would also prepare to do so at his press conference later. Play this trick.

It's not that I'm worried about the quality of my game, but I'm just trying to make sure that if anything happens, who knows if there are people from hostile companies below the stage who might cause trouble?

After the presentation of these games, Minoru Arakawa once again made an action to calm everyone down.

As he spoke, he picked up a toy pistol from the side.

The handle of this toy pistol was connected to a wire, and the other end of the wire was connected to the nes. Arakawa Minoru showed the toy pistol in his hand to everyone in the audience.

Then, there was a buzzing sound under the table. Obviously, many people didn't know the use of this thing that looked like a toy pistol.

Seeing the confusion in the audience, Arakawa Minoru continued to explain with a smile: This is a standard peripheral that we designed exclusively for n**s. It's called a light gun. As for what it is used for... Halfway through the conversation, a Nintendo employee on the side inserted a new game cartridge into the nes.

Minoru Arakawa did not continue talking, but asked everyone to wait for his demonstration. After he restarted the machine, a new picture appeared on the big screen.

Shoot ducks.

This is the name that appears on the screen.

And a duck suddenly took off from the bottom of the screen and flew towards the top of the screen.

At the same time, Minoru Arakawa raised his hand and pulled the trigger towards the TV connected to the NES. Through the amplification of the speakers at the scene, the sound of the biu of the light gun was clearly heard by everyone present, and when the sound sounded At the same time, the fat mallard that just flew to the middle of the screen on the big screen that everyone in the audience could see clearly seemed to be really hit. It first stagnated in the air, and then fell down with drooped wings. .

At the same time, a prompt appeared on the screen indicating that you obtained xxx points.

At this time, the second duck also began to fly towards the top of the screen. Arakawa Minoru aimed at the duck again and pulled the trigger. This time, he may have missed it intentionally. The duck flew smoothly across the center of the screen and towards the screen. above, and finally disappeared into the sky.

Then, an incredible burst of cheers erupted from below. Many people raised their hands and kept swinging, and some even clapped hard. After all, this was the first time they had seen a game played in this way.

...Arakawa Minori stopped the demonstration and looked at the reaction on the scene with satisfaction.

Jester could only sigh about this. He was powerless to do anything about it. The light gun system was nes's trump card before the ultramarathon, and the fact that nes could still have acceptable sales volume before the ultramarathon was entirely due to Americans. In the eyes of these Americans, the light gun game is extremely new to everyone. In the eyes of these Americans, it is as if they are playing a game from the next era, with a full sense of technology.

The sales volume of the game Duck Shooting is second in the history of FC, second only to Super Marathon, which is enough to illustrate this point.

Nintendo's entire demonstration conference lasted nearly two hours. In addition to introducing nes and the games to be released in great detail, Arakawa did not announce a confirmed release date. Instead, he said that at the beginning of next month, they will launch a new game in New York. Two flagship stores are trial selling NES, and the official release date will be decided based on the results of the trial sale.

Then, it is question time for various media.

Like CES, the world's largest electronics exhibition, the attendees are basically either multinational giants or companies that are very famous in their own fields. Therefore, there are also many media coming, and there is no shortage of famous large-scale media. .

The game console that Nintendo is preparing to release, which is not called a game console, has created a lot of momentum before, so these large media have not hesitated to send reporters to interview it, but such as Newsweek, New York The Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune all ask the same questions.

Basically, Why do you think there is still a market for home game consoles now?, Atari, which re-released its new game console at Christmas, has been ignored by the market and hasn't sounded the alarm for you? and so on? The problem.

Of course, there are also Japanese media who will ask when Nintendo will launch light guns in Japan...

We are not a game console, but a home entertainment system., Our products naturally have our core competitiveness., We will not disclose it yet., and Arakawa Minoru's reply was also very official and basically did not say anything. It seems that any nutritious things have been drafted long ago.

On the contrary, gaem asked Minoru Arakawa a bit off guard by asking the question according to Jester's intention. The reporter from game asked Minoru Arakawa this way.

Mr. Arakawa, you said that your game console is the most powerful among similar machines at present, but you are only comparing a game console that was released four or five years ago. This is too unfair, but we have I already know that just after your conference, Mars Entertainment will hold their new product conference, and they will also officially release a home game console that they have never revealed to the public. You said that your n**s is the most powerful console, do you already know the specific parameters of the game console from Mars Entertainment?

Hearing such a question, Arakawa Minoru frowned. He had indeed asked people to inquire about the specific situation of Mars Entertainment’s home game console before, but the other party had an extremely strict blockade on this aspect. Except for the previous ones from mainland China, Apart from the appearance of this game console, there is no other specific information.

However, the team developing this game console is mainly formed around the team that previously developed the vcs7200 at Atari. Arakawa Minoru does not believe that this team's research and development capabilities can achieve much breakthrough in a short period of time. At most, it can improve its functionality. It is better than our own machine. After all, our machine was developed in 1983, and it is now 1984. According to Moore's Law, it is natural for them to be powerful.

But as long as they are all eight-bit machines, it is impossible for players to tell who is better than who from the actual processing effect. At that time, even if Mars Entertainment’s game console is better than their own n**s, but What exactly is it? It’s up to you to say whatever you want?

…Can Mars Entertainment still prove that its functions are better than its own? Haha, even if it can be proven, can players who buy game consoles still be able to understand why their consoles are better than their own? There are so many professional terms, who is not a professional who pays attention to this can understand it?

So Arakawa Minoru relaxed his eyebrows in an instant and said in a very determined tone: Although I don't know how Mars Entertainment's new console is, I believe that the performance of our Nintendo Advanced Video System is definitely the strongest at present. , and we also have peripherals such as light guns and auxiliary robots included, and the price is only $199. I believe American buyers will be satisfied with our machine.

Jester had already left when Arakawa Minoru answered this question. After all, he was about to hold his own product launch conference. This time he came to listen to Nintendo's launch conference in person, and he was also preparing to make targeted arrangements at his own launch conference. , to exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses.

For example, peripherals such as light gun systems are what you need to pay attention to.

He believes that there will definitely be Japanese media who are familiar with Nintendo to criticize his press conference, just like he asked Game to criticize Minoru Arakawa.

Mars Entertainment’s press conference was also held at the Las Vegas Convention and Exhibition Center, but it was not in the same exhibition hall or adjacent to each other. It still took ten minutes to walk there. When Jester arrived at his press conference, , what I saw was a much larger number of people than at Nintendo’s press conference.

Except for a small number of media, most of them were Mars Entertainment players. There were even many people wearing T-shirts with images of Mars Entertainment game characters and holding high various slogans. What made Jess the most What was particularly surprising was that he saw cosplayers in this era.

A middle-aged white man in his thirties, wearing the same old-fashioned Western Sheriff's costume as Balotelli in Secretary Balotelli. He even had to carry two revolvers - of course the gun must be It was fake, and his image instantly attracted the attention of others.

Seeing such a lively scene, Jester took a deep breath, knowing that his moment was coming.

His first console is about to be officially released. rs