Game Market 1983

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But are you sure this is okay? ’

But having a screw hole means you can open it.

Let's just open the lid and put it back on if it doesn't feel right. I soothed myself and carefully opened the back of the game & watch. Once I opened the outer case, I felt...

What's so special about it? ’

Starting with the battery line responsible for the power, there was a mainboard type green substrate.

In fact, all electronic devices are not significantly different from the computer's substrate as a base.

CPU, graphics, and sound devices attached to the main board. The portable gaming console also has a display, so the layout is a little more complicated...

I removed the screws on both sides of the mainboard and raised the caution substrate with the screws.

“Huh? ”

When I lifted up about a third of the substrate, I saw a faint light emanating from the device.

I wanted to listen to the substrate a little more, but I started to feel something stiff. It's too narrow an angle to look inside...

"Isn't it going to break? ’

I looked again to see if there were any screws that I could not remove, but I didn't see any other devices holding the main board firmly.

I think I can tear it apart if I bite it, but I finally decided to quit, because I think something will happen that can't be undone.

What if I don't break it and go back to my original time in 2015?

In fact, I don't feel much merit about going back before time slips right now, but I also don't know people.

“Ah! It was hard to get a clue here after all? ”

Nothing's ever easy.

After throwing the screwdriver into the tool box, I leaned against the chair and smashed my eyes.

It was actually Chendra's opinion that led to the next generation of consoles for mobile devices.

The existing way of combining the two roughnecks is that the volume is too large and the existing cartridge console becomes very cumbersome when the roughneck using the CD comes out.

Then Chendra, who was studying the liquid crystal display that goes into Tamago-san, proposed the direction of the creation of the new game machine towards the mobile device.

This method of replacing the arrangement of liquid crystal molecules with current pressure by injecting liquid crystals between two thin, bottled glass plates was primarily used in an electrocalculator, but the idea of Gunpei led to the creation of games & watches and enabling fluid crystal display from portable gamboys.

Chendra's proposal was a groundbreaking idea at the time.

Portable Gameboys have been increasing interest in liquid crystal display devices since they began selling in the winter of 1987 due to the recent development of color liquid crystal displays and being part of the industry in the future.

However, there were more than one or two issues that needed to be addressed to Chendra's 100% acceptance.

In fact, there was another company that was producing full-colour portable gaming devices at this time, which was the "play gear" that the NEGA company was developing.

Liquid crystals with a resolution of 160x144 on 8-bit CPUs are also full color, but they were overlaid with a backlight function. (In some ways, true innovation was a feature ahead of the time that could have started here...) Thanks to the nickname of the battery ghost that uses six batteries, the problem was that even with six batteries, it didn't take more than three hours to play, so I wasn't the only one complaining.

"Since the moment you've had six batteries, you can't call them mobile devices."

I took a break from demolition work on games & watches from the future and began organizing the features and unnecessary parts of Mintendo's Gameboy and NEGA's Play Gear during the process of building a new mobile device.

First of all, I'd love to have backlighting on my mobile device, but the battery problem is so severe, the first generation passes...

Secondly, the 16-bit CPU decided to be reused by customizing the CPU embedded in the super family using the Litex.

After checking all the sound and battery parts, there was some form of a new generation of machinery.

‘This won't be bad. ’

But there was one big problem, and it was the price.

No matter how cheap it is, we can't make a profit like Mintendo's portable gambler...

At that moment, I was ashamed of my own thoughts.

‘A console is originally a device that sells with fewer hugs. Restricting the performance of the device to profit from the console is the mintenso way, isn't it? Have you forgotten what time slips are for? ’

Last year, I asked Camouflage to invest in the afterlife, and that's exactly what I'm thinking. Shame on you. Kang Junhyuk.

I put all my current capital into making the best instruments

From now on, my path will be different from the history of the console I used to know.

Of course, it could fail.

But at least let's not be ashamed of ourselves.

It's an honor to decorate a page in the history of a giant console...

I put the checked documents aside and pulled out the dryer again for the assembly of the game & watch.

Since he had not even chewed the mainboard itself, he tightened the screws a few times, and the game & watch quickly returned to its original shape.

"If I could just rip off his substrate, I'd be able to feel the extreme over-technology..."

Unfortunately, I opened the hinge and pressed the power button, so the screen illuminated and the device started to operate normally. Luckily, nothing's wrong...

Wait a minute.

"This has two screens, right? Will the screen be detachable from the top with no main board? ’

I quickly turned off the game & watch and this time unpacked the panel case. And my prediction was correct.

‘The top of the sound and main screen can be detached as well!! ’

As a one-way driver, I carefully unplugged the link terminals delivered through the hinges and pulled out the display of the game & watch.

Got it!! That's it!! '

So I got one of those over-technology games & watches from the future.

&

Yuck.

A moment later, a car stops in front of the Ritex Factory, and I take a step toward the Lights' headquarters.

Chendra and her Indian friends were staying in a home in the Leitex factory, so it was not a problem to meet them late at night.

“Kang Joon-Hyuk is here. ”

“Well done. Chendra.”

“Actually, I didn't do much. It's all thanks to the liquid crystal display you brought me. But I'm still curious. How the hell did you get that stuff? Is it really okay to use a technology like that? I heard there's nothing odd about a patented technology. ”

“Don't worry. There won't be any patent proceedings. Rather, we patent technology. ”

“Are you sure it's okay? ”

The low-power liquid crystal display produced by the Litex was more readable and graphical than Mintendo Gamboy due to its 320 x 280 resolution, although light reflection was weak due to the lack of backlight functionality.

When I connected the test prototype liquid crystal to the actual super family, a short while later, a title screen with a distance of my own came to mind.

“Excellent.”

“Although the screen is smaller, there are advantages to making the graphics look better, even with smaller dot arrays. ”

This kind of graphics running on a mobile device is crazy and crazy for gamers.

The Tamago monsters can also be enjoyed in full color, and if you help them properly at a few third-parties, they'll be worth it.

&

The next day, after the next generation of portable console announcements at Pentagon Soft. The gaming industry has turned upside down

The biggest of them was mintendo.

In order to crush the sprouts of the new console, last fall, the loyalty to the Third Party was significantly reduced, lowered to the cartridge block, and the machine announced was a portable device.

I could see Kamachi, who was furious in the conference room.

Raon announced that it was a mobile device on January 12, 1991.

I knew it was a major announcement to others about the beginning of the new year, but in fact, this date was also a deadly date for mintendo.

Why? Because that won't ruin the launch of Valentine's Day on February 14th.

The cartridge making of the super family game took about a month, so if Raon had been announced before, he could have refused to make the cartridge in Mintendo.

However, since Valentine's Day was successfully approved by Mintendo on January 4, 1991 and entered cartridge production, Mintendo was unable to unilaterally cancel the cartridge production on Valentine's Day in the current situation.

Raon's announcement came shortly after the end of January 1991.

With a great handshake in Mintendo, once it was clear that Raon was a mobile device, Mintendo began to reload the portion of the Loyalty that had relieved the Third Party's breath from the beginning of February 1991.

While many companies opposed the new conditions of Mintendo, Mintendo began to exhibit a unique, high-pressure stance, taking a limited time as outlined in the contract with the Third Party.

It seems that if the newly launched Raon is not responding well, it has stated that it is a limited time operation to raise royalties again.

The Third Parties complained about Mintendo's tyranny, but they couldn't change the platform of the game that was already under development, so they had to reapply to eat the mustard while crying.

And, as I waited, I distributed a kit of Raon's new mobile device, the development tool, for free to the third party.

The third-party companies that were perplexed by Mintendo's tyranny began to take an interest in Raon, naturally developed in the Pentagon.

In the meantime, a large corporation recognizes you as one of the three parties.

The gaming magazine reporters responded remarkably to the presentation of the Third Party, which was published to users two days before the launch of Valentine's Day on February 12.

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