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

This old man is a retired cadre. He is bored at home and likes to go to the street office and other places.

In his words, he still has room to use his remaining energy.

After Zuo Zhen brought the Contra game over, the uncle immediately became very interested.

In the first few years, he played chess with his neighbors, but in the end he always won, which made it boring.

The games that Zuo Zhen brought over gave him a lot of fresh feelings, and he was a little addicted to playing them.

His family also thought this was just right, allowing the old man to stay at home and not run around, so they paid 100 yuan very simply.

Let alone 100 yuan, it would be easy to spend 1000 yuan to make the old man settle down.

Zuo Zhen took the opportunity to sell the pinball game he brought over temporarily, but this one was cheaper. Originally, the game was not very playable, but it still sold for 20 yuan.

Seeing that the old man was having a good time, Zuo Zhen didn't bother him too much and prepared to go to the next house.

The next family is similar to Han Hongkun's. They also suddenly became rich in the past year or two through business. They didn't hesitate to spend 100 yuan. After the other party paid, they actually became interested in the video game Zuo Zhen. Maybe they thought that Zuo Zhen has a good future.

But when he learned that video games could only be played on a computer, he gave up the idea.

How many families can afford a computer these days?It seems like it was just a small fight after all.

Zuo Zhen didn't care what the other party thought. Video games really had no place to survive in China, and Zuo Zhen had to admit it.

However, the other party still expressed his love for Contra, and said that if there is such a game, he can sell it to him again, and he will definitely buy it.

In this way, Zuo Zhen ran outside all day.

I have to say that it is really inconvenient not to have a car of your own now.

Zuo Zhen only visited four stores during the day and got 340 yuan. One of them was not interested in Contra, but was very interested in pinball games, and bought a pinball because it was cheap.

Zuo Zhen knows that the money he can make is limited, and he only has about 20 phone numbers on his hand. After running out of more than [-] families, he estimates that it will be difficult to find other families willing to buy video games.

But this is enough. He has the starting capital, and the games he will make later can be sold to these people one after another.

You can still make a little profit when Squirrel War is finished.

Back at school, I continued to work overtime in the computer room at night to catch up on the program, and finally completed the Squirrel War at around three in the morning.

After finishing the program, Zuo Zhen fell asleep in the computer room in a daze.

Vaguely, Zuo Zhen seemed to dream that he was still living in the 21st century and was still running to establish a new game company.

Just like him in this world, he is running around to make the first pot of gold.

It seemed like someone was calling him in a daze, and Zuo Zhen gradually woke up from his sleep.

"Zuo Zhen, Zuo Zhen?"

It was a very gentle and pleasant voice, like the language of an elf that could make people intoxicated.

Zuo Zhen raised his head from the computer desk with half-open eyes, and then felt as if an angel appeared in front of him, with a halo of light above his head.

But Zuo Zhen soon realized that it was the light bulb in the computer room, and the person in front of him was Yu Mengchen.

"Well, I fell asleep?" Zuo Zhen shook his head vigorously to wake himself up.

"How long did you last night?"

"It didn't take long, I just wanted to finish the last bit of work."

Zuo Zhen immediately looked at the computer and relaxed after finding that the computer was still at the moment before he went to bed.

Today's computer save functions are quite backward. If you shut down accidentally, all programs will be lost.

Fortunately, Zuo Zhen himself has the habit of saving things casually, so there won't really be any serious losses.

On the screen, two cartoon squirrel images appeared back to back with smiling faces looking towards the camera.

That's the game's cover art.

Yu Mengchen also looked at the screen and said, "Are we done with the game now?"

Zuo Zhen smiled: "Yes, this game has been completed! The next step is to send it to Japan."

"Send it to Japan? Why send it to Japan?" Yu Mengchen was curious.

"Oh, that's the hottest market for video games over there. Didn't I tell you? The main battlefield for our games is not domestic yet, but overseas, to make money from those gringos overseas."

"Can I just send it over?"

Yu Mengchen felt that he could gain a lot of interesting knowledge by following Zuo Zhen.

"Of course not. I still need to find an opportunity to go to Japan to sign a contract before I can let them sell the game."

"Oh, then this has something to do with starting a company you mentioned?"

"Well, if you want to develop and start a company, it is definitely a step to take." Zuo Zhen nodded, then he looked at the screen again, and at the same time, he put a floppy disk he had prepared into the computer and started copying the completed Squirrel War game.

"Okay, let's not talk anymore. I have other things to do during the day today. Mengchen, you can continue yesterday's work and optimize the graphics in Contra."

"Okay, but I feel like the optimization is almost done today. Will there be any new work tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow." Zuo Zhen thought for a while and then nodded and said, "Yes, I have already decided what to do for the next game. Then you have to start preparing the character paintings and scene paintings for the game."

"What game?"

"The name is Mega Man. The gameplay is similar to Squirrel Wars. It is also a horizontal version of the game, but this time the game is played by a single player."

Last night, while Zuo Zhen was improving the code, he also began to think about subsequent game production issues.

Finally, he thought about it for a long time and found a game that suited him very well.

On the one hand, he already has production experience in two side-scrolling games, so the efficiency is definitely higher. On the other hand, this game is also a classic of the era, and Zuo Zhen doesn’t want to miss it yet.

Moreover, Zuo Zhen also specially investigated Capcom in this world during those few days in Japan.

The answer was no, not even Rock Man's creator Rei Kitamura existed.

In addition, Mega Man is still more than a year away from release, and there is basically no possibility of a crash, so Zuo Zhen will never miss making this game.

"Mega Man? What a strange name."

Zuo Zhen replied casually: "The name is not important. What is important is the game itself. Making this game well is our biggest gain."

Then he took out a piece of paper and began to give Yu Mengchen a general explanation of the game.

"Mengchen, your task in the next few days is to use your imagination to create vivid characters. My setting is a future technological world. An intelligent robot is the protagonist. The image of this protagonist Try to use a child-like appearance as much as possible, and then have some mechanical elements.”

"This seems very interesting."

After hearing this, Yu Mengchen was a little eager to give it a try. This time she had to take the initiative to create the character image, instead of Zuo Zhen directly giving a complete image, she only needed to extend it.

"Okay, then I'll spare your trouble for the next two days. I'll go out first."

Zuo Zhen finished giving a rough explanation, and then left the school with a copy of the floppy disk of Squirrel War.