Game Market 1983

“Scroll the background. ”

“Yes? Do what? ”

At first Kumamoto and Gunpei didn't understand what I was saying. It's hard to understand how to scroll all at once. I took my notebook out of my bag and put it in front of Khumamoto and picked up a pen.

“Here, take a look. This rectangle is the display where the game is displayed. And inside is Marie Kumamoto. And...”

I stretched the pen out of the screen and drew a long line.

“And this is the stage. ”

“Ah!!! ”

At that moment, Kumamoto slapped his knee and shouted. But Gunpei was still looking over his shoulder at us, not knowing what was going on.

“I see!! That's right, you don't have to show the beginning and end of a screen. It's like turning a movie theater projector around with a long background, and it feels like your character is moving forward. ”

Is it like this if you teach me one thing, I know ten? Just a hint, Kumamoto understood the concept of cross-scrolling at once.

“Gunpei. You were right. Kang Jun-hyuk is a genius!! He's a genius!!"

“H-look at you. I still have no idea what you're talking about. What do you mean," this is a stage "coming out of the monitor? How do you show a stage off the screen?”

Then Kumamoto helped Gunpei to explain more easily. After a while, Gunpei nodded a few times and opened his mouth and looked at me.

“How could you even think that? This completely changed the way I've been thinking about the game. ”

“This will make the player feel more adventurous in the game. ”

Kumamoto was mumbling something like he was chanting a spell, looking at the way I painted the cross scroll. What's wrong with him all of a sudden? For a moment, he closes his eyes as if he imagined something. After a while, Kumamoto opened his eyes and smiled.

“I've come up with a simple idea for the next one. ”

Already? In that short amount of time, you come up with a new one? Kumamoto started drawing something frantically with a pen on the table. Bricks and question mark boxes. Mushrooms and flags... They were the basic ingredients for the next Super Mariage.

“I'm Maridge, saving the princess. ”

“Princess?”

“It's been a knight to save the princess so far, but Maridge is modern. Representing the modern man, he rescues the Mushroom Kingdom princess from the monster. ”

Kumamoto said, Gunpei smilingly replied.

“Oh... another interesting idea. Keep trying.”

“The first character, Maridge, is a plumber. I always work in dark, damp places. So the monster looks like a cold-damp reptile. This monster abducts the princess from the Mushroom Kingdom, and incidentally, the modern Maridge, who fell into the Mushroom Kingdom, marches forward to save the Princess and fight the enemy. ”

What is this guy? You made all the games in such a short time? You're a genius. I looked at Mr. Kumamoto leaning against the chair with my arms folded.

I felt like my fingertips were tingling because I thought I was watching the birth of a great masterpiece that would have a big impact on the gaming world for the next 30 years. Gunpei asked Kumamoto with an interesting smile.

“Then the monster and the princess must have names, too. ”

Then Kumamoto asked me.

“Kang-gun. What's Gang-gun's favorite food in Korea? ”

“I don't know. ”

At that moment... I've been going around Japan and eating only the things that taste like doncas or covered rice, and there was a food that popped into my head. Boiled meat soup in a hot pot... If you roll a piece of kimchi on top of it...

“Soup.”

“Cookpot?”

“Guk. Bob. Yo."

“Heel. Park? ”

The Japanese won't be able to pronounce it since they both have supports... Kumamoto smiled and said, trying to pronounce soup a few times.

“The name of the reptile monster is Chappa, because it's an addition to the military's idea. ”

What? Hey, man. Is it that easy to decide!? And why is my favorite food the villain Maridge has to suffer for 30 years!! Then Gunpei, who was next to him, burst his smile and nodded.

“What would you like to call her, then? ”

At that time, the waitress who was bringing dessert after dinner said, raising the fruit.

“Peaches from dessert. ”

Then Kumamoto opened his mouth, looking at the pink peach.

“You can call me Princess Peach. ”

This was the birth of Princess Pitch, who was destined to be abducted by the monsters for the next 30 years. What the hell!!!

&

Two weeks later, I was standing in front of the Mintendo headquarters building dressed as a suit.

“Hah... You made it this far. Now that you've had a good rest for the last two months, shall we get back to work? ”

I took a long exhale and slowly entered the headquarters building. It was still hot to wear a suit in September, but the interior of the headquarters was extremely cold. I was running the cooling at the lowest temperature since I had not been paying much attention to the cooling disease yet.

“It's... cold!! ”

“What brings you here? ”

An escort in the lobby asked me to come into the building.

“I'm here for an interview with Mr. Nisekoi and Mr. Kumamoto.”

“Oh? Then are you Kang Jun-hyuk? ”

“Yes, it is. ”

“I was worried because you're Korean, but you speak very good Japanese. ”

“Thank you, but where do I go? ”

“Well, Kang Jun-hyuk is doing a special interview this time, so I think you should interview him in person in the president's office. ”

“Yes?”

It's not HR or anything. You're interviewing me in the boss' office? With Mr. Kamauchi, Mintendo's boss? I tilted my head slightly and asked the staff again.

“You're interviewing him in person? ”

“Yes, our mintendo is interviewing one person directly by Mr. Kamauchi and assigning him to the appropriate department. ”

Mintendo, who had a more prominent image of being a toy company than a game company, did not yet have an image of being a global company. I followed the desk staff's instructions and knocked on the door of the main office on the top floor of the building.

“Come in.”

Before the door opened, I swallowed some dry saliva and calmed my chest. I'm nervous about this interview, too...

“Go inside. ”

As the employee reached out his hand inside the door, I bowed slightly and entered the room. The boss got up from his seat and sat me down at the reception table and asked.

“Hmm... Are you Kang Jun-hyuk Military? ”

“Yes, it is. ”

“How praiseworthy of Gunpei and Shigegun. He begged me to bring you back. ”

“I appreciate the gesture. ”

“I'm not really into gaming," they said, "but the gaming industry is going to take on a big axis in the toys that kids play with in the future. ”

“I think so, too. ”

“Yes? Then what makes you think that? ”

What's with all the questions as soon as this guy walks in? But I was able to answer it right away because it was a question I had already anticipated.

“Because I don't get bored. ”

“You never get tired of it? ”

“It's because you can play a variety of games on one device. And I can enjoy it all by myself. ”

“One game console never gets tired of playing alone... Funny. But toys aren't made to grow old easily. ”

“The game console is not a toy. ”

“What?"

“Adults don't play with toys. We already know that Japan has a lot of kids and adults playing games together. There are a lot of adults who come to play games with their kids even in a nearby game center. It's going to be an industry that spans from children to adults of all ages. ”

“Really? But unlike the Atari Shock in the United States in the '70s, while the gaming industry is in a downturn, I don't know if it's right for us to jump into the gaming industry right now. ”

“Why don't you take a step closer to everyone when you step back? ”

“Huh? You want me to jump on the bottom of this hellhole? ”

“No one jumped in, so if you just jump in, you'll be the exclusive mayor of Mintendo. ”

“Exclusive! Haha, that sounds good just to hear. ”

Kamauchi smiled and put an end to whether he liked my answer.

“Gunpei's right. You have a funny story to tell. It's a confident voice, as if you're young, but you're seeing the future quite clearly. ”

I felt a warm corner of my heart as Camouflage said. I bet you're old. I heard that when you get old, you lose your sight and you get a good look.

“But it doesn't mean anything to be successful in Japan. It is true success in the United States market rather than the population trapped in a small island country. ”

“Mintendo currently has an office in the United States. ”

“Yes, but I'm more focused on the toy industry than the gaming industry. Now the American gaming market is a dead end due to Atari Shock. No toy store is accepting our family games right now. ”

In the 1980s, the United States also bought and sold gaming machines in a toy store rather than selling them professionally. That is, no matter how good a game machine is, if it can't get through the toy store, it has nowhere to put it and sell it.

So I replied:

“It's not a game machine. ”

“What!? You want me to sell the game so it's not a game machine? I don't know what you're doing because you're too young, but it's against the regulations to sell goods. ”

“Put a robot that moves roughly front and back in the box and dig it up as a toy. ”

“What...? ”

Kamachi, who was waiting for me, was dumbfounded by my answer, called somewhere with the phone that was sitting on the table.

“Overseas sales? Get up in my room right now and take my new employee. ”

So that day I was assigned to the overseas sales part of Mintendo, not the game development part, but the console manufacturing part. This feels a little kinky. You guys!! I'm a game developer!! You guys are making a big mistake!!

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