Game Market 1983

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About two weeks later...

After dinner, I also digested and enjoyed basketball with the swindlers at 3: 3.

I had a rough idea of how 3D accelerators drive, but I had too much to do. I had to design it. I had to consult with professors.

“You said you were going back to Japan next week, right? ”

In the meantime, Jack and Rob, friends who worked out together, drank beer, looked lonely as the day I came home.

Especially Rob, who enjoyed playing me psychic battles so much that he even asked me to sign the game and send it to the dormitory once it was officially released.

If I didn't know anything and only tried to use them for money, I wouldn't be this close to them. Programmers prided themselves on their own coding methods, and they never opened their hearts to people who didn't understand it. He seemed to have given some recognition to me, who had rolled my head together since the Bios setup.

Bam! I bounced the basketball off the ground and handed it over to Rob as a Bound Pass.

“I keep my promises. Sign the psychic battle handwriting!! ”

“Yes! Thank you for remembering. And who is that psychic battle main programmer? ”

“Me.”

“Really!? ”

“I'm kidding.”

“Of course. The coding arrangement is simple and neat, but it's not even a psychic battle.”

“By midway, I must have written it, but a friend of mine had completely broken the code. ”

“You smashed someone else's code!? ”

In one coding, individual programmers' habits are often melted. In some cases, it was almost impossible to determine the structure of coding made by others and to change it freely, because it was different in their own way, or to mark it as a slang that only they knew.

In Hayashi's case, it was so clean that it could have easily changed Chendra because he had written a sign for the flag movement.

“Can you believe it? But it's true. One of the guys I know is a genius. ”

“You Japanese?”

“No Indians. ”

“I see. I'd like to meet him someday. ”

“You can all come to Japan together in the summer. I'll get the hotel. ”

“Really? Oh, what a different society. ”

“I'm a little older. ”

As soon as I got Rob's pass, I flew the ball once and shot him in the three-point line, bending his knee.

Tsk!! The ball bounces high, with a nice sound coming out of the net.

“Slowly, one by one. There's no rush. Bring only the blueprints when you come to Japan in the summer. ”

“Slow down and have your drawings ready by summer. You have no conscience!”

Jack suddenly retrieved the ball that had bounced off the floor and gave it back to me.

“Don't you feel confident? Well, that's $50,000 worth of merit flying away. It's hard money. ”

“Bastard! Kick-kick!"

“If it's unfair, you can make a lot of money, too! Haha!”

We spent the night blaspheming at each other.

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The next day.

Mr. Gunpei's Gambo, who was licensed to sell in the United States, was installing a demonstration model in one of Mr. Wilson's premium stores.

Even before the store was open, the children who came to see the magazine were looking inside and outside the door.

You hear a shrill smile outside as I shake with a strange look, raising one of my gamblers. Elise, who was watching him next to me, burst a smile and said to me.

“Sir, do you know how to make that face? ”

“Aren't kids cute waiting for the store door to open? ”

“It looks like it's from the media. And then it's all over the news. Kick Kick”

Then Mr. Wilson glances out the window and opens his mouth, frowning at one eyebrow.

“Well, and it looks like there's a couple of Toy World employees. ”

Mr. Wilson turned his head and saw some people presumed to be members of the Toy World.

They turn their heads to the other side, avoiding pretending to be ignorant when they meet me.

After all, Mintendo's family refused to supply Toyworld, which has been in disagreement for the past three years.

Soon after the shop door was opened, the children who were waiting outside ran up and stood in front of the expedition table.

I gave a little boy a gamble and briefly taught him how to use it.

At the same time as Mr. Wilson opened the store, he was busy requesting interviews from reporters, and Gunpei began photographing the children who were gathering to fill out reports to the headquarters.

At that time, a young man who had taken away the Gameboy that a small child was playing with said with a friend beside him, looking at the game machine.

“Ouch... My eyes hurt because my crystal is so bad!! The CPU is too slow, and I can't afford to play speedy games like this. I feel like I'm losing my sight just watching.”

“That's it? That's four batteries in there. I'm going to hurt my wrist just holding it. ”

“When kids play with it, they shouldn't be overwhelmed by their wrists. If you drop it on the ground by mistake, it's so heavy. ”

What is that, soulless foot smoke? It must be hard to spit out a gamble boy's weakness like that in three seconds. However, the faces of the parents who visited the store with the child began to harden slightly by what the men said.

“Well, maybe. If you keep looking at the little screen like this, your eyes might get worse. ”

“Expensive gaming machines over $150 shouldn't break so easily. It's just so hard for my kid to play with toys.”

It worked once for a while for such a cheap act. But it was definitely a reasonable anxiety, so reporters who were interviewing Mr. Wilson began sending suspicious glances.

“Phew... I didn't want to do this. ”

I take a long sigh and approach the experience and reach out to the man holding the gamble boy.

“Can I have the machine, please? ”

As a Mintendo employee, I asked politely, and the man gave me the Gamboy with a shaky expression.

“Is this heavy? This portable gamble is 300g when equipped with 4 batteries. If you only feel 300 grams of weight, you should exercise more often. This game machine is never light. But it's not heavy enough to get the wrist out. And...”

Repeating that I threw up and down the Gamboy I was holding, the heads of the people in the store moved up and down along the Gamboy. Somewhat focused, I threw the Gameboy high enough to reach the ceiling of the store and then took a step back.

“Don't be surprised? ”

“Uhh.. uhh!? ”

Kuang!! With a heavy voice, the gamble boy in the air falls to the ground.

The machine hits the floor, and with a dull sound, all the cartridges and batteries that were inserted in it are shocked enough to bounce off.

While everyone was watching the Gameboy fall to the ground, only Gunpei smiled faintly in the store.

“Cartridge... where did it go? ”

I found the cartridges and batteries that bounced off the ground as soon as they hit the ground and put them back in the Gamboy. Then he returned the gamble boy to the man with the blank look on his face.

“Check it out. ”

“No way! I heard a crash. Can this work?" ”

When the man in the store raised the power switch, looking at the man with a look of disbelief while everyone was breathing. Tiring! I heard sound with a clear sound effect.

“She's fine. ”

Ignoring the embarrassed man, I borrowed a Gamboy holding it for a moment and pointed to the side dial.

“Here are two dials. one for volume control and the other for contrast. So you can control the intensity. Although the battery life is a little shorter, adjusting this dial allows you to play games with a clearer screen. But they're not wrong. Playing games for too long can make your eyes tired. But that's also true when you look at school textbooks. If you focus on an object for a long time, of course, your eyes become tired. So you have to take care of your parents at home so they don't play too much. ”

I knelt on my knees and handed the gamble boy back to him.

“A good kid can only do an hour a day. ”

“Yes, thank you.”

“That's a good and clever answer. ”

I stroked his head a few times before getting up and looking at the men.

“As you almost took away what the other child was playing with, you took it with your strength. Aren't you ashamed of being an adult? ”

“Are you ignoring us? ”

Then the child's mother yelled at the men.

“Those are the guys who cut in front of the store. You can skip the line and insult the store. They were listening, and all I could hear was this horrible curse on my face. ”

Then the atmosphere in the store turned upside down. Apparently, the two men who were clearly interfering with the sales, stepped back and ran to the front door of the Huddak store.

I shouted to those who disappeared as if they were running away with both hands on their mouths.

“If you see Tom, say hello!! If you say Kang Jun-hyuk, you'll know!! ”

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The portable gambling experience continued after a little bit of hedging.

After the interview, Wilson opened his mouth as soon as he saw me.

“How do you intend to put a gamble boy on the floor? ”

“To solve consumer misunderstandings, of course. ”

“What if I get really smashed up!! ”

Then Gunpei approached us one day and answered Mr. Wilson's question.

“It never breaks. In fact, right after the prototype was completed, our boss Kamachi threw a perfectly healthy game into the cement floor. ”

“Excuse me?”

“There was a carpet here, but it was just a stone floor. Of course, the prototype was shattered. And Kamauchi said, ”

- Toys for kids to play with. Throw it away and you'll be fine. -

“Ugh."

Mr. Wilson made a strange look on Gunpei's face. I was surprised then, too. Suddenly, I hit the machine on the ground without any notice... I smiled at Gunpei's silly face that day.

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