Game Market 1983

During the final test for bug fixes, I went to the sound director, Ueno, and made an offer. It was about intermittent beats that could be heard while playing the game.

“Just like Joon-Hyuk said, let's put intentional beats in the game. ”

“Yes. But it doesn't have to sound too blunt and accurate, but a little vague? ”

“Vaguely… then we can adjust the bit frequency separately to about 19kHz. ”

“1.. 19.. what? ”

“Frequency bandwidth that only teenagers with very sensitive nerves or a healthy body can perceive. Normally, 15 kHz is a band of frequencies that ordinary people can hear without crowds, but if you go above 19 kHz, only people with very sensitive senses can hear it. ”

Oh, I hadn't thought of that, but it's a surprise.

Ueno's words exactly coincided with the concept I had in mind. Sounds to some, but none to others.

This beat, like a hallucination, could be an important key point that encompasses the ‘Gift of God’ overall. Well, maybe this is a bad product controversy, but...

And now...

In front of me was a post that matched 99% of what I had previously predicted.

At least a few days later, I thought you'd be noticed, but you're faster than I thought.

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Osaka user who ran as soon as the Pentagon shop opened this morning and bought a gift from God.

Again, I was very satisfied with the first introduction that didn't disappoint my expectations.

I hear strange beats during the game, whether the cartridge I bought was bad.

That doesn't mean I keep hearing it, but I can't hear it for a while after the intermittent beep-beep-beep that I heard while I was playing the BGM.

I tried to play it again from the beginning, but it didn't sound like that in the Prologue, and then I hear the time when the main character of Chapter 1 went back one year.

Does anyone else have the same symptoms as me?

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[A] Looks like the cartridge is bad down there.

I've never heard a beat like that before in all my life.

Perhaps you should contact Pentagon Customer Service to exchange your cartridge, as they may have been damaged by misses during cartridge production.

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I heard that the frequency area of the bit sound set by Ueno can be heard as much as one or two per column. Is that so? This post, which could be a great hint to the story of the game, was soon being condemned as a simple cartridge defect.

Then another interpretation of beats in the game came up from a newly posted post.

[A] I heard intermittent beats.

While playing carefully with my earphones plugged in because I saw a post about poor sound below. I heard the beep-beep-beep you were talking about.

But the zigzagging distance doesn't sound like a ripping sound source, but it has a concise tempo, so it feels kind of intentional.

To give you an additional explanation, I gave my sister one of my earphones, but she said she heard nothing except background music in the game.

So it seems that the beep in question can only be heard by people with sensitive hearing.

I'm also very focused, but I can't be sure I can hear it.

For your information, the earphones I used were Sensoni's E868.

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The expression "intentional" in the newly posted posts led community members to use all their earphones to track the whereabouts of beats.

After the shower, I returned to my computer, and I was already running more than 10 posts on beats. Some claimed that they had heard beats, and some asked for the model name of their earphones, leaving a feeling that no matter how much they turned up the volume throughout play, there were no beats.

In response to various users' reactions, I lowered the power of the computer while swallowing a pitiful smile.

I'm going to be so excited about Sensoni's earphones. ’

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The next afternoon. Before I went to the hospital to see Yuki. I headed to a large record store near the station.

The recent emergence of portable CD players has made a difference to the trend of mobile devices that were at the center of the workman, and the trend of high-quality competition has also made earphones able to output high bands cleanly.

Among them, the most popular models were Sensoni's E848 and E868 models, which were fairly expensive models for earphones, so no purchase was made except for some acoustic device enthusiasts.

I woke up this morning and went back to the Pentagon World community, and every bulletin board had an enormous number of writings about the beats of "Gift of God."

I looked around a few posts and came to the chat room and there was a heated debate.

Why can't I hear a beat? -

- Change your earphones. I switched from cheap earphones to your sister's high-end headphones, and I heard the beats you were talking about. -

- No, but why does everyone care so much about beats all of a sudden? I can't even hear you, but isn't the content of the game important? -

- because the beat might be related to the story. If you've seen the Pentagon walk, you've done enough. Remember when the protagonist on the streets without me deliberately broke the game graphics? I thought my room TV was broken. -

- Yeah, I was surprised then. The game screen that used to be fine suddenly shattered, and that's good enough. -

I'm afraid of the Pentagon. -

- I was thinking about changing my earphones while I was buying a portable CD player, but I'm going to have to pick up something useful next time I go downtown. -

- Sensony E868 totally down. There's nothing in modern earphones that has better resolution than this. Play God's Gift with it and you'll get to experience a whole new world. -

I was thinking about Sensony E868 yesterday's post, how much is that? -

-4,800 yen.

- No, what earphone costs...

- Earphones worth that much. -

Anyway, in the distant future, there must be people who show off to a healthy person like this.

As I opened the record store door with a smile on the conversation in the morning, the "Love Letter", God's main theme song, was flowing from the speakers installed inside the store.

It's rare to play theme songs in a game that's only been released for a day at a record store like this. Maybe the shopkeeper was a fan of Pentagon Soft, or he got a recommendation from his staff...

As I looked inside the crowded record store for the weekend, I looked at the audio-visual side of the crowd.

In order to experience the sound quality of the universalized CD media recently, several people stood in line waiting for their turn.

The most influential musician in the Japanese record market recently is X-JAPAN. I remember how many times this group was quite popular in Korea in the same era.

X, Tears, Endless Rain. It was mostly the same famous song, but...

Unfortunately, their music didn't really suit my taste, but it reminded me of a smile that I didn't know I liked more than Glay or Luna sea.

‘Especially Luna sea-Love song was the real deal..’

But the reason I came here today was not only because of those memories.

In fact, it's part of market research for a future project.

First of all, the ‘Gift of God’ OST that was simultaneously released with the game yesterday is currently on SOLD OUT.

If the OST of the traditional Final Frontier or Dragon Emblem had been sold by a gamer enthusiast, this "Gift of God" would have drawn considerable attention from the public thanks to the use of music from classical and New Age techniques.

“So, I don't care if it's open, can you sell the OST you're playing in the store right now? ”

“I'm sorry, sir. The CD currently being played is not available for sale due to promotional use in our store. Please leave your name and contact information on this booking list and we will contact you upon arrival. ”

A guest who visited the record store to buy a God's Gift OST left the record store disappointed with the employee's expression that it was out of stock.

The OST was launched with a soundtrack with regular BGM sound recordings as well as a Galasho version with original performances of heroes, and the current classics were a Galashoe version. (The CD Yuki had given to Ueno the other day is also this version of Galasho.)

We were confident that some sales would take place because they were both high quality records, but we didn't expect to run out of OST in a day...

As I walked to congratulate myself on the successful sales of God's gifts, I listened to the voices coming from the corner of my earphones.

“Before I just came out to meet you, I saw some scary stuff on the PC at home. ”

“Hmm? What is it? Did you find anything interesting? ”

“This post is about the ‘Gift of God’ we bought yesterday, and once he organized and posted the events up to the point where he played, I did a terrifying in-depth analysis, but it was really creepy. ”

“Yeah? What was it about? Isn't the main character trying to find the hero who saved his life? ”

“Actually, I thought so, but I don't think it's that simple. Once he saw the end from yesterday to this morning for speed clearance purposes, he returned to the game a year ago...”

“Ugh? The story goes back a year? What's that supposed to mean? Explain it to me. ”

“Did you see that post yesterday about the Gift Community of God with the beeping and groaning? ”

“Yeah, I saw that, too. ”

“The second time the author entered the article, people who couldn't hear the beat more and more often. And I'm sure you'll hear it. And when you hear that sound a lot, does it sound like a machine that checks the E.K.G. of a hospital? ”

“Ugh…? Then it can't be…”

“A year of repeating time. And strangely regular beats. Put all this together. It is assumed that the protagonist's current state is‘ coma ’. What do you think?

Amazing, right? "