Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

In the early morning of this day, hearing the sound of the sliding door moving, Su Yun, who was in a daze, poked her head out of the bed, and immediately sneezed from the cold.

"Excuse me, did the wind hit you?" Zhuang Long quickly closed the sliding door.

"Is it snowing outside?" Although it was only a glimpse, I could also see the whiteness of falling snow mixed with the deep wood color behind Zhuang Long.

"It started in the middle of the night last night. I was afraid that you would be freezing, so I asked someone to add a charcoal stove and quilts. Seeing that both of you were sleeping deeply, I didn't wake you up." Zhuang Long explained.

No wonder my body feels a lot heavier than when I slept before.

Su Yun glanced at herself and Puchi Fazi's super quilt next to her - Puchi Fazi came in a hurry, there were no spare rooms in the hotel, and considering that she was only two years older than Su Yun and the room was bigger, Simply ask someone to make an extra bed next to Su Yun.

At this time, Pu Chi Fazi, who was also awakened by these sounds, was rubbing his eyes in a daze.

"Thank you, what time is it?" Su Yun asked.

"It's almost seven o'clock, and I've informed the staff to prepare breakfast." Zhuang Long quickly answered Su Yun's question.

Thinking that today was the day they made an appointment with Junpei Yokoi, Su Yun sighed.

Seeing Su Yun slowly getting out of bed, Pu Chi Fazi was a little puzzled: "Where are you going?"

"We have a business negotiation in the morning. After the discussion, we will fly back to Xiangjiang to celebrate the New Year, and we will come back on the 26th." After Su Yun answered, she looked at her gently, "Yoshida and the others will take you to the hotel in Yinshan, So you don't have to worry."

"Oh, I see." Although Su Yun, a rare peer of the same age, has to leave for a while, Pu Chi Fazi is not a child who needs to rely on others, so after hearing that someone else will continue to guide her, she put it down Come on.

After changing clothes and talking to the translator Yoshida and the Japanese teacher in the next room, Su Yun and Zhuang Long went out together.

This Kyoto is worthy of being an ancient capital that has preserved many ancient buildings. After a night of snowfall, the dark color of the buildings blends with the whiteness of the falling snow. The strong color contrast is like the scene of an old Japanese movie.When the wind is blowing and the snow is all over the sky, it seems that there is always a bit of unfashionable aloofness and alienation.

But when the wind and snow stopped, it was so simple and quiet that it seemed to have a touch of sadness like an ink painting.

The agreed meeting place was in a box of a traditional Japanese restaurant. When Su Yun and Zhuang Long were led in by the staff, they immediately saw the two sitting inside.

Through Junpei Yokoi's introduction, Su Yun finally knew that the middle-aged man wearing glasses sitting next to him was the current president of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, who had not yet changed his name to "Hiroshi Yamauchi" in order to break through his own ambitions. .

Although Hiroshi Yamauchi has not changed his name yet, Su Yun is most familiar with the name of the godfather of the game industry.

In addition, one of the reasons why Hiroshi Yamauchi changed his name was that the company began to transform, and now Su Yun's sudden joining may prompt Nintendo to develop handheld devices in advance and transform into a game company, so they simply use this name as a title.

It can be seen that they really want to make a game. Not long after Su Yun and Zhuang Long sat down, after a few pleasantries, Hiroshi Yamauchi asked Yokoi Junhei to take out a design manuscript, explaining it in English while explaining it in English. The design manuscript was pushed in front of Su Yun.

These two people are both talented students who have studied in prestigious universities, so although they both have the unique English accent of Japanese people, they are not so unintelligible...

Yamauchi Hiroshi is famous in the industry for being fond of "newcomers". As far as Su Yun knows about it: After his father died of a sudden illness, Yamauchi Hiroshi was ordered to drop out of school to take over the position of Nintendo's president when he was in danger. The elders resisted openly and secretly. He directly used tough methods to sweep out these old fritters who hindered innovation and stuck to the rules one by one.

Afterwards, with a high salary, he recruited his colleagues from Waseda University and top students from various prestigious universities in Japan, and started his iron-fisted rule with his personality in the newly cleaned Nintendo.

Knowing that the person in front of her was a big boss who could talk to that Disney copyright maniac about the exclusive agency rights of Japan, Su Yun naturally didn't dare to play tricks, so she took the design manuscript and read it seriously.

It's also a good thing that Nintendo's current bosses and employees still have a devout heart for games. Even if Su Yun is at this age, they don't think there is anything wrong. Instead, they just sit here honestly, waiting for her Comments after reading the design manuscript.

It is really a perfect implementation of the essence of learning the sea without boundaries.

After reading the design manuscript, Su Yun raised her head and looked opposite: "This is the best design you can do so far, isn't it?"

For her, this design manuscript is terribly crude; but for this era, this design manuscript is far ahead of this era just by its concept.

It's hard for the president Hiroshi Yamauchi to be willing to give the design manuscript of the main product that his company will develop in the future to an outsider under the suggestion of Junpei Yokoi.

Yokoi Junpei knew there was something going on when he heard it, and hurriedly replied: "Yes, but the operation of the buttons is indeed relatively simple, so we are very interested in the 'cross key' you mentioned on the Shinkansen."

"If your design can really improve the quality of the machine, everything is easy to say." Yamauchi also added.

Seeing their sincerity, Su Yun took out a pen: "Do you mind if I modify it directly?"

"You don't mind, please!" Yokoi Gunpei, who has a strong pursuit of new knowledge, was so excited that he even used an honorific title.

After receiving an affirmative reply, Su Yun directly started to modify with a pen: "Look, the two circular buttons on the left and right sides respectively represent 'LEFT' and 'RIGHT', but in fact, they can be directly changed to represent 'up, down, left and right'. cross key."

This first-generation handheld is a very simple left and right buttons to control the direction, with the A and B buttons on the upper right corner to modify the difficulty of the game and a Time button to display the time-the reason for matching a Time button is that you can use it It is used as a portable clock to avoid the function of the machine from being too crude.

"In this way, the single-sided cross key occupies the area on the left, so the right side can be replaced with some function keys, such as adjusting the size of the sound effect music or mute, adjusting the brightness of the screen, pausing or even saving and loading..."

Junhei Yokoi looked at the modified part of Su Yun, pondered for a while, and was a little embarrassed: "These suggestions are very good, but if we want to make such a function key, with our current technology, we need to spend more. time……"

"You can release a cheap and popular version with less engineering and fewer functions first, and then continue to slowly upgrade to a hardcover version and a premium version with more functions and games... Isn't that all right?" After Su Yun, the former leek of the routine, turned into a member of the profiteers, she immediately put forward these classic profiteering routines with a decisive head.

"However, I suggest that the cross key should also be directly loaded on the cheap version. Firstly, arcade users can get used to this kind of small machine that controls the direction while controlling the function operation. Second, if the cheap version is different from the subsequent upgraded version, the operation will be different. If we do, we may lose a group of customers who are used to the original operation method because they played handhelds at the beginning..." Now the carrier of all games is basically a huge arcade machine, which suddenly makes people change from a big arcade machine that is taller than a person Transferring to a palm-sized small handheld, although you can enjoy the bonus of portable and convenient entertainment, you also need to try to give people an adaptation process.

Junhei Yokoi suddenly realized and nodded: his original design actually referred to the operation method of the arcade, but the handheld machine is originally for small and portable existence, and installing a joystick will only increase the cost and greatly increase the space volume , so had to design the left and right double buttons instead.

What I was thinking at the time was to create a new and huge market for a portable game console in a market full of giant arcade machines, and to enjoy the benefits of portable entertainment. After all, the age of an office worker like him is already It is impossible to directly take out a large game console to play on the Shinkansen.

Considering that when sitting in a seat, most people will naturally put their hands in front of them, so he decided to define the idea of ​​the new design as "a small game that can be played with the thumb in this posture." machine"... Then the size of the calculator is just right.

As for the comparison between the arcade machine and the handheld machine, except for the difference in size and volume, the operation method proposed by Su Yun, which is a cross key plus a function key, is very similar to the arcade machine's operation method of a joystick and buttons.But compared to the original idea of ​​installing a joystick handle, the new design of the cross key is obviously more advantageous on the handheld.

Because arcade machines are huge in size, they can accommodate joysticks and multiple function keys; while handheld machines, small things that can be grasped by a small adult with one hand, are reserved for buttons. Very little.

The design of a cross key can liberate the need to control the displacement direction with one hand, and free up the key position for more function keys.

With these modifications, the quality and playability of this handheld game console can be improved, and the confrontation with arcade machines can be enhanced.

"Actually, your idea of ​​the portable game "Ball" is more suitable for using such simple left and right double buttons, but the game is easy to change, and subsequent additions to the game are not easy to change." Su Yun briefly explained the left and right double buttons and the one-sided cross button. Then he added, "Since I have the idea of ​​cross keys, I don't just want to play only one game on one game console."

"The key to the success or failure of a game is whether it is interesting enough."

"That's right." Hiroshi Yamauchi nodded: After the emergence of arcade machines and arcade games, Daito Trading Co., Ltd. created an arcade game called "Space Invaders" with a development cost of only tens of thousands of yen and annual sales. However, the business myth of tens of billions of yen was surprisingly reached, and he, who had repeatedly failed in his side business, couldn't help but follow this emerging wave and join in it.

It's a pity that Nintendo, a poker manufacturer that makes flower cards, even if they have the heart, Yokoi Gunpei, who is active in thinking, as the head of the development department, took the lead in studying BASIC programming and copying other companies' successful homework to follow suit. The popular game "Space Ranger" is still useless in the end-when the financial and technical resources are completely unable to compete with others, then everything still needs to be done according to the leader's wink.

Thinking of the huge arcade center, high-tech products are placed in the most conspicuous position from the beginning to the end; and their follow-up works of Nintendo and other manufacturers are often only cramped in the corner... Hiroshi Yamauchi was extremely sad and wronged.

This time, he made up his mind to use this brand-new "handheld game console" to make his way in the video game industry and fight his way out!

For this reason, he did not hesitate to offer Su Yun a high gross profit share—in the conversation, Su Yun was obviously not satisfied with the small game "Ball", so she must have a better idea. Suggestions for Improvement.

In order to get the new ideas in her mind, Hiroshi Yamauchi, who is used to poaching talents with high salaries, is very generous.

"Currently, the two parties headed by Sharp and Casio are engaged in a war of handheld electronic calculators, so Sharp, which has been slightly defeated, now has two production lines for the production of 'portable micro-LCD panels' which are half-stopped. State, if we order a large number of micro-LCD panels at this time, we will definitely get a very cheap and affordable quotation." Junhei Yokoi hurriedly spoke out the market research he had done before.

Su Yun, who heard that the cost could be further lowered and that she could get the profit share, was relieved. After a round of back-and-forth price negotiations, she negotiated a tiered price that changes the proportion of the share according to the sales volume.

The lowest, she can get 10%; the highest, she can get 50%!

Of course, this is not as good as the 70% share that independent developers of later generations can get, but this is when she provides ideas, designs and other free businesses, so this share ratio is surprising enough.

After densely writing down the design ideas, character design, story outline and other information of the two classic small games "Snake" and "Super Mario" on the manuscript paper, Su Yun slowly pushed the manuscript again. go back.

At the same time, it also took over the contract to re-draw the sharing ratio.

After reading the new design manuscript in his hand and looking at the new contract that Su Yun had already signed on the opposite side, Hiroshi Yamauchi couldn't help sighing: "Although the design of this "Super Mario" game is very powerful, but in the end The most amazing thing is you, 'Super Mario'!"

"Thank you." "Super Mario" has a history of being mistranslated as "Super Mario" after it entered China, so Su Yun is really not surprised by this title. It’s better to stay in the film industry.”

"What film industry?!" Yamauchi Hiroshi and Yokoi Jun were taken aback for a moment.

"No way, you don't even know us?!" "Artificial Intelligence" became popular overnight after it was released in Dongying. here.

"Look, it's that poster." Zhuang Long, who had been making decorations by the side, took off his sunglasses, and after shocking the two opposite people with his appearance, he stood by the window and motioned them to look at the huge poster in the opposite cinema— —

"Are all of you actors so unprofessional?" Seeing that the two in front of you are really good posters, think about those foreign actors who are part-time inventors, and some have changed careers to become governors or even presidents... Hiroshi Yamauchi and Gunpei Yokoi were suffocated for a while.

Seeing that the shocked faces of the two giants of Tie Lao Ren's family would not be relieved for a while, Su Yun turned to chat with Zhuang Long: "After returning to Xiangjiang, do you want to come and live at my house?"

"Do you have any spare room in your house?" Having known each other for so long, Zhuang Long naturally knows the distribution of Su Yun's house.

"Not for the time being, but you can stay in my room. I'll go and sleep with my mother-in-law for a few nights—I can't make you travel thousands of miles back to Xiangjiang and have to stay in a hotel." Su Yun said.

"Will this be troublesome?" Zhuang Long still hesitated.

"It shouldn't be too much trouble." Su Yun waved her hand: A real warrior is one who dares to bring newcomers to meet old ones!

It is best to let them live in peace!

The young but ambitious Mary Sue thought so.