Rebirth of America, this is my time

Chapter 167 The alternation between old and new

Boss, in the past two months, I have designed a scroll-type racing game. The reason why it is called a scroll-type racing game is because the car controlled by the player can only move horizontally. The so-called speed is achieved through This is achieved by reversing the scene. The gameplay of this game is very simple. Players will control the car in the game to continuously move forward. In the process, they need to avoid obstacles that appear randomly on the road. As the game progresses, the road will appear faster and faster, and when the player hits an obstacle, the entire game will end...

Boss, the game I designed is a collection game. The gameplay is that every once in a while, some stones will fall from the top of the screen. Players can collect the stones by moving the bag below. It has two modes. , in the single-player mode, the player faces the challenge of clearing the level, which is to continuously collect stones until the speed of the stones becomes faster and faster. If the player does not collect all the stones, he will fail. In the multi-player mode, we will set A fixed number of levels allows two players to compete against each other...

Boss, the game I designed is a shooting game...

Two weeks later, when the topic of the canal handover became less and less popular and the voice of public opinion gradually became smaller, Ethan Jones finally came out of the cave and entered the game of destiny he loved so much. Since he had been away from the company for a month, the first thing he did after coming back was to gather department employees to inspect the work results.

The game development department led by Damio Dean was his first target, along with former Activision founders Larry Kaplan and David Crane, as well as EA founder Tripp Hawking. As Si told him, each pixel game appeared in front of him.

Your ideas are great.

After listening to these people's explanations, Ethan gave his own evaluation.

Racing games can be made directly. I personally feel there is no problem... The collection game needs to be slightly modified. The gameplay does not need to be changed, but the idea of ​​using bags to catch stones is too boring. In this way, the stones are changed into gold coins and the name of the game is changed. Windfalls are coming all day long. It will make the player's perception much better, right? After all, who doesn't love money in this world? As for shooting... do it, do it...

Yeah!!!

“Wow!!!”

“Long live the boss!!!”

The final establishment of each project made everyone in the conference room smile. The reason why these people are coming together again is for game development. Now Ethan is willing to let them go and let them be their own inspiration. That is a very wonderful thing for anyone who creates.

The excited faces also made Ethan smile and nod.

After his employees took the project reports and left one after another, Ethan turned his attention to his head of game research and development department, Damio, where is your project?

Unlike those guys with dreams, Damio Dean, the company’s veteran, came empty-handed today. Facing the boss’s inquiry, this guy who was a few years older than Ethan smiled shyly, “Boss, I I don’t have any good ideas at the moment. If I get interesting inspiration one day in the future, I will definitely tell you about it, and...

He changed the subject and said: These new guys all want to show off their talents, so they basically work on their own inspirations alone. But because some people can't program, such as Tripp... Hawkins, so they need programmers to cooperate with them when they conceive the project, so that they can be on the same starting line, so I help them...

Ethan smiled widely after hearing this little story, The newly formed department turned out to be a mess?

Oh - these people really don't know how to win-win cooperation. He lamented.

Damio Dean didn't think the problem was big, Boss, this is just the beginning. After their first game is released, there will be a clear distinction in their status in the office. By that time, I think They will naturally choose to cooperate.”

Hahaha—— Ethan laughed.

Damio, you are so interesting! They are obviously competing for their talents, but how come it turns into a street story told with fists from your mouth?

Absolutely. Damio Dean replied naturally with a smile on his cheeks.

Ethan, on the other hand, has no interest in taking care of such trivial matters.

Since you don't have any projects of your own for the time being, how about I arrange two jobs for you?

No problem, boss! Damio Dean answered quickly.

Ethan smiled and said: Then let me briefly tell you about the project concept. First, it is to develop a female-oriented Pac-Man. I have already chosen the name of the game, and it will be called Ms. Pac-Man... …”

Second, it is Battle, the sequel to Snake. Two players control different snakes on one screen to have an eating competition. Whoever scores more points wins. Among them, one snake is green and the other is green. Snakes are pink, and then you give them names...

Since Barbara is a complete feminist, and her schoolmate is the murderous Wolf, the project of maintaining the arcade market will naturally be put on Ethan's agenda.

Eh--

Ethan Jones has no intention of licking it!

The main thing is that things happened so coincidentally!

Ethan had decided to make Ms. Pac-Man before, but due to Nintendo's sudden betrayal, Alien suddenly appeared, and Warner's sudden attack, he had no time to plan a specific project.

And now, when these feminists want to win over him, they respond with their own main game, which is a kind of support that cannot be more correct. When Ms. Pac-Man is released, they will definitely believe that Destiny Games attaches great importance to women's rights.

Of course, this is actually a fact, right?

Since the establishment of Destiny Game, the company's chairman and CEO has been Evelyn. Ethan, a 22-year-old child who has not received higher education, can only reluctantly be the president.

When corporate structures are ahead of historical trends, who dares to say they are incorrect?

(laugh~

Okay, okay, no kidding, since both the donkey and elephant parties have targeted them, normal contact must still be maintained. The donkey's side is maintained by Evelin, while the elephant's side is maintained by Thomas.

In the past few days, Ethan has communicated with Thomas. Since people from the former governor of California have come to visit, it would be no problem to make an appropriate donation in the name of an agricultural company, not to mention Thomas is an upright person. As a farmer in Miaohong, there is no pressure for him to do this kind of thing.

As for whether there is a problem with two parties in a family?

There may be problems in other countries, but there will definitely be no problems on the continent of America, because America is such a magical country where one's party identity can be switched at will.

In his previous life, when Ethan was hanging out in New York, he witnessed Michael Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg, making repeated leaps. He was a leader of the Donkey Party at first. In order to serve as the mayor of New York, he decisively gave up his status as a Donkey Party member and joined the Elephant Party to seek support. Shortly after he was demobilized and returned to his hometown, he re-registered the Donkey Party in order to run for the leadership. identity.

Perhaps for ordinary people, only by standing firmly on one side can they reap the benefits they want, but for capitalists, I will support whoever is obedient. If not, how could the word financier be spread? If people are really serious about running for office, then they can use their own money to run for office!

Things with the console are fast. Because there are reference objects in reality, I know what functions a home game console needs to have. I have almost drawn the internal circuit board.

Next, I will ask them to purchase parts and assemble a prototype machine to see if there are any problems with the design ideas and actual operation, and then look at the effect of each chip and 6502.

For example, Texas Instruments' image chips, although they are cheap, may be incompatible with the 6502. If this is the case, we will probably have to use Motorola's chips. After all, their chips are produced together with the 6502. Isn’t it Yiyuan?”

Oh, by the way, where's the project book for the shooting game you told me about last time?

You've been staying at home these days, so you should have finished painting, right?

After arranging the arcade game development work, Ethan went into his sister's office and asked her about the console and console game development.

As for the large number of words Evelin said, Ethan both understood and failed to understand them.

If he said he understood, he knew that the development of the host was going very smoothly. The only tangled point might be the selection of the chip. If he didn't understand, he didn't understand. Is there any incompatibility issue between the image processor and the central processing unit? The development environment in the early days of computers was too poor, right?

But regarding this point, Ethan did not ask. This was not a question of whether Evelin would answer it for him, but once Evelin started to answer it, she would think of ways to make Ethan understand her words like a class. , Ethan is generally very resistant to knowledge that does not belong to him.

Therefore, after receiving the answer that the research and development was almost done, he immediately took out the Contra level illustration he had designed in the past few days from behind his back, pushed it in front of his sister, and then took steps to escape.

Just as he was about to rush out of the office, Evelin spoke again.

You're not going out today, are you?

no.

That's good. There will be an optical expert who will talk about optical storage later. Although I have decided to cooperate with him, you'd better meet. After all... this is a company with a guaranteed R\u0026D funding of more than 100 yuan. As for Wan's project, I can sign it directly, but you'd better know.

During the time that Ethan was hiding from the limelight, the optical storage project cooperation he proposed has been finalized by Evelin. The personnel are not professors at Stanford, but personally recommended by the director of the Stanford Physics Department, for the California Institute of Technology and General Motors. The master of electrical efficiency.

The big boss’s name is Robert Hall. He was born in 1919. He worked for Lockheed and later did research for General Electric. He is currently an academician of the American Academy of Engineering.

His greatest invention was the development of a magnetron during WW2, which could emit continuous wave magnetic interference to interfere with enemy radars. This magnetron was later eliminated by the military and entered the civilian field, becoming most microwave ovens today. Heating tube selection.

In addition, he also invented the world's first laser diode, which made the telecommunications industry, medical industry, and chip industry run wildly out of control.

Therefore, when the dean of the Stanford Physics Department, who returned from vacation, learned that Ethan and Evelin wanted to study optical storage, he directly recommended this industry giant to them.

The process of poaching people was also very smooth, because during WW2, the US military’s radar project research was led by President Fred Terman at Harvard, and the two were originally ‘colleagues’.

Let him start a project to study optical storage, it will be simple!

That’s weird——

Fred is really annoying me to death!

He called me one after another, saying that I rejected Stanford and returned to my alma mater, Caltech. That was not giving him face!

He said that I didn't give him a face back then, so I have to give him a face no matter what now, otherwise he will be talking about it before he dies. He has done everything, but he didn't invite me!

I'm really convinced!

The extremely serious scientific research in his mouth is like inviting guests to dinner!

He's driving me crazy! I have no choice but to come here!

What kind of product do you want?

You said, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it for you!

When Ethan met the old man in his fifties and almost sixty years old recommended by Stanford in the company's living room, his complaining tone filled the air with a sour smell.

His endless words vented his inner dissatisfaction.

The dancing movements speak of his inner anger.

But even so, the old man did not leave. Instead, his buttocks were welded to the seat, and he kept banging the table, asking Ethan and Evelin to quickly put forward their requests.

This was the first time that Ethan had seen this kind of dissatisfied cooperation.

And when he turned his head and looked at Evelin...

He saw a glimmer of certainty in his sister's eyes.

Such a clear statement made Ethan's eyelids jump. At this moment, he finally understood the status of Principal Fred Terman in the American scientific community.

That's simply disgusting!

Ah bah bah bah!

It’s to give me face!

He shook his head, regardless of this, raised a smile and said: Uh... Professor Hall...

Just call me Robert. I know Ralph, and he said you are a very good young man. I also know Arnold. We worked together at GE before. The lean old man wearing glasses waved: If not I don’t care about them, Fred!”

He's so bored!

'oh--'

Ethan understood.

‘It turned out to be an acquaintance of an acquaintance! Isn't that an old acquaintance? ’

When Robert Hall mentioned the names of Ralph Bell and Arnold Spielberg, Ethan immediately felt relieved and stated his needs directly.

Uh... What I want is a CD player that can play the sounds and images stored in the CD... Different from the ones introduced by Philips and MCA now, what I want is one that can be loaded on a plate. A large-capacity disc for the game... Then, it is best if the player is small enough to be held in the hand... Oh, by the way! It would be better if the data in the disc could be easily erased and then re-recorded. …These… shouldn’t be difficult, right?”

Ethan told as much as possible what the future disc would look like.

After listening to his description, Robert Hall touched his cheek.

He looked at Evelin with doubtful eyes and said as if he had a toothache: Uh, Evelin, is this how you usually communicate? He doesn't know any professional terms?

Yes... Evelin smiled and nodded.

Oh! My! God!

Robert Hall shook his head, It's amazing that you can continue to do this.

As soon as he finished speaking, he stood up and left.

As the old man left quickly, Ethan looked at his back in confusion.

Did he agree?

certainly.

But he didn't say anything!

Maybe this is related to your description?

Am I so unprofessional?

Guess? Hahahahaha——

As Evelin's laughter left, Ethan twisted his mouth and made a sound.

Although he doesn’t understand technology, he knows what technology will make him prosperous!

This alone makes these scientists unable to catch up!

After achieving spiritual victory in Ah Q's way, Ethan returned to the office.

With the main business finalized, future products established, and scientific patents collected, he could finally lean on the boss's chair and listen to financial and other reports.

The company's financial director Alan Massey said that in the past few months, the arcade shipments of Star Wars have reached a new high. In addition to the 10,000 units ordered by Fox, additional purchases from other small merchants will also The total shipment volume of arcade machines has reached 48,000 units. If nothing unexpected happens, the sales volume of this game will create an astonishing history, exceeding 50,000, touching 60,000, looking forward to 70,000, and tapping 80,000.

Although the shipment volume of a single arcade machine in the North American arcade market cannot match that of Benzi, the current results do not surprise Ethan, because the game he sells is called Star Wars! If this name could not make history and break the record of Donkey Kong launched by Nintendo in his previous life, then George Lucas would not have made billions with one IP.

If the No. 1 IP in North America can't fight, then America will have nothing to fight against.

In addition, Nintendo's payment has also arrived, and they have completed the settlement of the report amount brought in the previous period. At the same time, they also hope that Ethan can fulfill his promise as soon as possible.

What? Ethan didn't understand what Nintendo meant.

He looked at Allen Massie in confusion and said, What promise?

He doesn't remember promising anything to Nintendo.

Supervisor. Alan Massey reminded.

Oh - Ethan remembered.

Then his face darkened, Why are they pushing for this again?

Regarding the issue of dispatching supervisors to the chip factory, Ethan has been undecided because there are few people he can trust around him.

He had been troubled by this matter before, and now, Nintendo is urging him?

Pooh!

These people are really special bitches!

There was no reaction when he was doing trouble before, but now he behaves immediately after being hammered.

And when Ethan was thinking about how to solve his problem, Alan Massie said again: Ethan, if you don't have a suitable person, then let Julis go.

‘? ’

The suggestion startled Ethan.

Julis? This is the administrative director of their company!

Yes. Alan Massie nodded: She actually has this idea too.

‘! ’

A big exclamation mark suddenly appeared on Ethan's head.

'What the hell? ’

‘Julis wants to go to the bookstore herself? ’

He quickly asked Allen Massey to call the girl.

After Julis Noble sat down in the chair across from the boss's desk, she told her inner thoughts, Boss, I wonder if you still remember our first conversation?

“It’s the conversations we had when the company was starting up and when we were recruiting.”

I told you at that time that the purpose of my coming to the company was to find answers.

I want to know whether people are free, whether people have absolute freedom.

I think I have found the answer on the day you angrily criticized Arakawa Minoru.

That day, I was standing guard outside the living room. I heard you say that we don't need evidence to solve the case. As long as we think you have it, you have it.

At that moment, I seemed to understand the meaning of freedom. As long as I can decide other people's thoughts, or in other words, as long as I can make others accept my will, whether they want it or not, whether the process is forced or not, then we are free. of.

This kind of thing may not happen in our country, but in this country, it seems to be easy to achieve.

So I wanted to try it.

Go and try what freedom feels like.

Julis Noble looked at Ethan with a smile.

The face under the blond hair was full of desire.

‘…’

Ethan blinked his eyes, and the right hand that was turning the pen slowed down.

After looking at Julis seriously and confirming that she was not joking... Ethan immediately complained in his heart, 'Special code, why are the women I come in contact with more and more eager to succeed? ’

‘Are American intellectual women in the 1970s so scary? ’

Although he was doubtful, Ethan would not ask all this.

Instead, he changed the subject and said, Do you know Japanese?

They definitely know English.

Do you know the way of life over there might be different from ours?

They'll help me become the same.

Then do you know what you're going to do over there?

Keep an eye on Nintendo, from the game business to the chip business, and then collect the information they said before about home game console cooperation to confirm the authenticity of the news we got before. Although the truth is not important, Nintendo Honesty or dishonesty is important.”

‘Hiss…’ This direction of the girl’s work made Ethan interested.

Are you sure you can do it? He also wanted to know every move of Nintendo.

Of course! Julis Noble replied affirmatively, After that time, I have been learning Japanese and Japanese by myself. As long as the company arranges a translator for me this time, I am confident that I can fully understand it within a year. Their language and writing...

Okay, Ethan is convinced.

I have one last question. Does your family agree?

He stared at Julis Noble, wanting answers.

The girl smiled sweetly and said, My dad wants me to go back and get married, but I don't like that man.

Snapped!

Ethan's vision went dark and he raised his hand to his forehead.

Come on!

He finally knew why Julis Noble took the initiative to apply for assignment!

This guy turned out to be trying to escape from marriage!

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