Game Development Giant

Jester took the microphone and put it to the little girl's mouth. Jester and other Mars Entertainment staff had talked to her about what to say before, but the little girl was still a little nervous. She turned her head and looked behind the stage. Her father stood with the Mars Entertainment staff, and his father clenched his fists vigorously and waved them to cheer her on.

The little girl withdrew her gaze from her father, seeming to have mustered up her courage again.

"Dream-box." Although the little girl's voice was not loud, through the amplification of the microphone and the speakers scattered throughout the press conference, it was still spread throughout the entire venue, and everyone present could hear it clearly.

Then, Jester saw a buzz from the audience below, followed immediately by the most intense cheers.

This scene lasted for more than ten minutes before stopping.

Then Jester asked the little girl to introduce herself and interacted with the audience a few questions. This session came to an end.

Jester asked the little girl to step down first, and then replaced him with one of his employees. With the cooperation of this employee, Jester personally removed the green cloth on the tray, revealing the box named dream-box. The main body of the game console. This pure black machine has an appearance design that is completely different from any previous game console. It is no longer the square design inherited from Odyssey or Atari.

It has an oval shape, similar to the main appearance of the flying saucer in the movie. The surface adopts a mirror-polished design, which looks particularly elegant. Moreover, the two handles are in a half-moon shape, and the round cross button is completely different from the previous ones. Nintendo released the FC cross-button. It has a more next-generation beauty - this appearance was designed by Jester with reference to the Sega fifth-generation controller and the Japanese version of PC-E, which is very in line with American aesthetics.

And Jester also kept Yokoi Gunpei’s design ideas for entertainment hardware in mind. The design of nes is actually very failed because of its size. It's not that the main body of the game console cannot be made larger, but that it cannot be made this big. In Jester's eyes, the appearance of the FC is a very successful design, with a suitable size, far exceeding the NES.

As Jester displayed the Mars Entertainment console in front of everyone, the audience naturally burst into cheers in cooperation, and many people chanted the name of Dream-Box at the same time. It took five minutes before Jester spoke up to ask everyone to be quiet. Then he gestured towards the back of the stage. Yuji Naka, who had been waiting there, also walked up quickly holding a box.

While the audience below didn't know what this was about, Jester directly asked someone to connect the Dreambox next to him to the TV on the side. However, no game cartridge was inserted into the place where the game console inserted the cartridge. So the TV screen is still full of snowflakes.

Are you going to demo a new game? This made the audience in the audience feel a little excited amid doubts.

But Jester just smiled. Then he said to the still confused audience below: "I heard people who went to Nintendo's press conference come back and said that they are still calling their game consoles the best game consoles in the world. In fact, I personally am right. I respect Nintendo very much. Because they were the first to carry the banner of revival during the darkest period of video games in the past, and I also admire Nintendo’s President Yamauchi very much. I heard about the Japanese branch before The employees mentioned the past when President Yamauchi was developing FC. At that time, he asked them to use the best technology to produce a game console that no other manufacturer could surpass within a year. "…

After a pause, Jester stuck out his tongue and licked his dry lips, and then he continued: "So far, FC has been on sale for more than a year. I admit, in the past year. Nintendo The FC game consoles deservedly defended this title. They were once the most powerful game consoles in the world. But now..."

Jester was halfway through his words but did not finish. He paused deliberately. Moreover, he did not continue what he had said before, but instead turned the topic in another direction.

"Mr. Arakawa of Nintendo North America Branch previously said in an interview with the media that the performance of their machine is better than the machine called Dreambox that we have not announced yet. And after repeated questioning by the media, he was asked I didn’t know the specific parameters of our game console in advance to be so sure, but I didn’t expect that Mr. Arakawa didn’t know, but just emphasized that their game console is currently the best game console.”

Jester also burst out laughing as he spoke, and his tone became teasing: "Of course, Mr. Arakawa doesn't think their machine called n...s is a game console. I'm sorry, I really don't think so. I didn’t remember such a convoluted and boring name. He called this machine something like advanced audio-visual, but I didn’t see any relationship between the machine he released and audio-visual. And judging from the parameters, it’s not just FC Have you changed the shell?"

"So I was a little angry at the time, and I felt that Minoru Arakawa was looking down on people. You have a game console that was released a year and a half ago, and was developed maybe two years ago. It's short-sighted to say so brazenly that the performance of current game consoles is not as good as that of others." , I guess he just thinks that most people can't understand the specific parameters anyway, so he just lets him say whatever he says. They are all eight-bit computers anyway. Even if the performance is worse than mine, can ordinary people still see it with the naked eye?"

Although Jester was smiling as he spoke, as his words came out, his smile was not as gentle as before. Instead, there was a hint of chill hidden in it.

The audience below the stage seemed to have guessed what big news Jester would reveal, otherwise he would not be able to directly attack the biggest competitor he was about to face, and these players were also afraid of the world. Don't be chaotic, plus most of them are fans of Mars Entertainment, even if they are not, they are all here to watch the fun. And those who watch the excitement like this kind of hot plot.

Not to mention those media reporters who like this situation the most. Except for a few from Japan, the rest of the reporters showed extremely excited looks on their faces.

They knew that now they would have no shortage of material to write about.

In addition, most of these people have no deep feelings for a Japanese company like Nintendo. So after hearing Jester's aggressive declaration, he once again burst into enthusiastic roars.

Jester smiled again and waited for the situation to calm down. He cleared his throat before continuing into the microphone.

"To be honest, many employees in our company, including me, love Nintendo games. We even have several FC game consoles and almost all the game cartridges that Nintendo has ever sold in our lounge. It is precisely because An employee in our company made a very interesting gadget out of curiosity. This is really a genius invention. If this thing didn't exist, I would have to prove it in front of you with my game. The performance of machine Dreambox is better than that of FC, which may be a bit difficult, but with it..."

Jester still didn't finish his words. He deliberately let it slip and continued to smile: "Fortunately, this employee also came with us this time and happened to wear this gadget he invented."...

These words also completely whetted the audience's appetite. They really wanted to know what this little thing in Jester's mouth was, so. At the same time, there was a slight buzz under the stage and it suddenly became silent. It seemed that everyone was holding their breath and waiting for Jester to tell the answer to the riddle that they all wanted to know.

What exactly is this gadget?

Jester just smiled. He glanced at Naka Yuji next to him. It was the first time for the young Naka Yuji to face such a scene. When he saw his boss looking at him, he quickly showed a stiff smile that was slightly nervous and awkward. Jester He didn't take it seriously, and he wasn't much better than the other person when he was interviewed for the first time.

Therefore, Jester just gave him an encouraging look, then nodded calmly, and continued to speak to the audience who had been looking forward to it.

"As for what this thing is, I don't need to say it. You just need to watch the following demonstration. You will know that it is really a very, very amazing thing!" Jester finished. While pointing to Yuji Naka, who was standing next to him, still a little uneasy, he said loudly, "Mr. Yuji Naka is the inventor of this genius tool. Now he will personally demonstrate it to everyone. What a magical tool!”

After saying that, Jester made another gesture, and the employees of Mars Entertainment who had been prepared under the stage quickly brought up a new TV and a brand new FC.

These people were busy on the stage for a while. After connecting all the wires, Jester pressed the fc switch. Naka Yuji gradually got rid of his initial restraint. Jester also After signaling to him, Naka Yuji nodded quickly and turned on the switch on the dreambox.

At the same time, two pictures appeared on the big screen behind Jester, both of which were snowflakes with no signal.

While the people under the stage were still looking puzzled, Naka Yuji inserted a square black box about the size of an adult's head that he had kept next to him through a dedicated communication line. It was inserted into the cassette slot of the dreambox, and on the shell of this strange black box, on the side facing the audience, there was a gap that looked like a cassette slot.

Then, Jester took two game cartridges from the staff on the side. At this time, the snowflakes on the big screen disappeared, and the on-site camera gave a close-up of the two game cartridges in Jester's hand, letting the stage The audience below can clearly see that it is their iconic "Donkey Kong" that Nintendo launched simultaneously with the release of FC.

This made the audience in the audience even more curious. What was Jester doing with two "Donkey Kong" game cartridges? Does he still want to promote Nintendo games at his own game console launch? This is incredible.

Jester just smiled, handed one of the cassettes to Yuji Naka, and then inserted the cassette in his hand into the Nintendo FC game console next to him.

Yuji Naka also made exactly the same move as Jester. The only difference was that he inserted the "Donkey Kong" cassette in his hand into the black square box connected to the Dreambox. In that card slot.