Chapter 125 Arakawa's anger
Then, they saw Jester controlling the characters and circulating on the screen. The characters inside were like an ape jumping to avoid attacks, avoiding levels, and then descending from the sky, killing several enemy soldiers into several segments. Red blood scattered out, and came from the computer with the sound of realistic cutting. Coupled with the rich Arabic background music that sounded from time to time, it was like watching a movie.
With Jester's manipulation, the characters inside passed the sprints, and the entire screen actually rolled up synchronously as the characters moved as they had seen on the arcade.
Ordinary players still feel used to it. After all, they have long seen such scrolling special effects in arcade games such as Atari's "Defender" or Mars Entertainment's "Sheriff Balotelli" and are used to it. However, people who have a deep understanding of computer games have once again grown their mouths involuntarily. This time, their open mouths were even much bigger than the last time, so big that they could stuff a duck egg into it.
"This is impossible!" Someone even exclaimed in disbelief.
Yes, in the eyes of these players who are familiar with PC games, it is almost impossible to complete the smooth scrolling of the scroll on the PC. Since Atari's designers first completed "Defender" on the arcade four years ago, many PC game designers also want to transplant this shitty effect to the PC, because the screen effects that can be scrolled and cannot be scrolled are really far from being experienced.
These two are not the same technology as the same era.
But neither Xueleshan, Weizhen, Ea, or Activision, formed by the technical elites from Atari not long ago, have done this on PC, and they all failed.
And now, right in front of them, Mars Entertainment, which has been committed to the development of arcade games and has just been about to release its own home game console, has quietly completed these things that are wanted to be completed but cannot be completed with PC games as the main business direction? And I haven't heard them say that they have overcome the difficulties of this technology before, which is too incredible?
These people are also very itchy. Basically, those who like to play PC games now know a little about computers, otherwise they can't even get in the Dos system, not to mention that many computer games nowadays are game codes that come with game magazines. If you want to play, you need to program the code yourself, such as floppy disks. It's not something that any little designer can do as long as you want, so these people are also very curious about the technology of Mars Entertainment.
Of course, Jester would definitely not talk about their reel technology at the press conference. This is not the point. The point is to let the players on the scene see how amazing the originally extremely blurred mosaic images can reach under the processing of this image display card. When he saw the reaction of the audience on the scene, he knew that his goal had been achieved.
This was originally a temporary demonstration level. It was not the game itself, there was only a little process, and Jester soon ended the game.
After finishing the demonstration, he looked at the audience who were still surprised under the stage. Then he clapped his hands hard, letting his attention return to himself again, clearing his throat, and Jester continued.
"The time is almost over. Our press conference is coming to an end. After a while, we will randomly call a few media or audience to ask us questions. As long as it is about this press conference, I will know everything I can answer. Now I just want to say that what you saw just now is what I want to demonstrate to you. I can say without hesitation that this is the picture of the next era. I am like all of you. When I first saw the screen effect shown under the processing of this graphics card, I only had one idea in my mind, that is, I have a responsibility and obligation to bring such a game to all players."
Jester said passionately, and the audience under the stage was also excited. They had only felt the rough eight-digit videos, and when they saw the sixteen-digit video card processing pictures, the excitement was indescribable. In this era, no player who loves electronic games would cheer for such exquisite pictures, and no one would be born to like playing rough mosaics.
Seeing the players who were excited when they heard his own words, Jester smiled maliciously. He was not a philanthropist, so of course he could not do charity. Originally, he planned to design a game for this graphics card to promote Ati's graphics card, but later he thought about it again. While promoting Ati's graphics card, why not make a high-end gaming computer brand?
Just like Apple.
So, Jester continued to say to the audience in the audience, and his tone became a little regretful: "However, our attempt was not very successful. The employees of the hardware department told me that it is difficult for them to put this large graphic display card into our home game console under the current conditions. Moreover, to complete this delicate picture operation, it is not possible to use this sixteen-bit graphics card. It must be matched with a sixteen-bit CPU. But to be honest, we have no experience yet on how to build a sixteen-bit game console."
Sure enough, after hearing Jester's statement, the players who had been teased by Jester several times before, still lamented without long lessons, and their disappointed expressions even covered the faces of these people.
However, as he did the previous few times, Jester immediately changed his voice and his tone increased, as if he had made a very difficult decision.
"But I still had a long discussion with our hardware engineers and discussed countless methods. The conclusions we came to are that we could not be able to come up with reliable methods in a short period of time. However, one of the absurd suggestions gave me an inspiration. Since there is no way to immediately create a home game console that can fully utilize this sixteen-bit image display card, why don't we directly make a computer that can play its performance like we did before doing experiments?"
Then, Jester photographed the slightly ugly computer beside him, and continued with a smile: "That's it. This computer that can perfectly exert the performance of this sixteen-bit image display card was born. After that, in order to demonstrate the powerful capabilities of this graphics card, I remade this demonstration level. It is also the first game I am going to make to run on a sixteen-bit CPU and a sixteen-bit image processor. As you can see, the game belongs to the next era, "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time".
By the time Jester finished speaking, there were basically only cheering sounds left under the stage. They had seen how powerful this game called "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" was before.
"And I can assure you that although our first eight-bit game console has not been officially released yet, it was even launched in front of you for the first time today. However, the development plan for our 16-bit home game consoles has been established because I can't wait to let everyone play games that truly belong to the next era. After all, the price of assembling a personal computer that can run "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" is too expensive. I believe this is not a price that everyone can afford. This is contrary to my game philosophy. In my philosophy, it is to let all players who love us play our games! This is my always creed."
"Finally, this press conference has officially ended, thank you everyone!"
With his eyes open, Jester bowed to the audience for the third time in this press conference. Everyone present stood up to applaud him, especially those Mars Entertainment or Jester fans, who even kept whistling and shouting loudly about various words to express their excitement.
They were really excited.
Just as Jester ended the press conference and was having a Q&A with the media and the audience, Arakawa, who had already returned to the hotel, got the exact news of the Mars Entertainment press conference.
Especially after hearing the reports from his employees that Jester actually took out an emulator to simulate the FC game on their new game console. At the same time, he compared the FC on the spot to prove that their game console was very powerful and he also made many sarcastic provocations. After many sarcastic provocations, Arakawa almost turned dark and fell to the ground. He really didn't expect that he had just said that their game console was the best similar product, but he was grabbed and slapped in the face in just a few hours.
Moreover, the more Mi Arakawa thought about it, the more wrong he was, especially since he had dealt with Jester before. Although the impression the other party left him was extremely bad, he was obviously very smart.
During the last meeting, he teased him to make a big circle because of his inaccurate intelligence collection. He was humiliated so much that he felt a little dull. How could such a person just "inadvertently" come to Las Vegas with a simulator that is useless to them at this press conference?
As he said, this is just a counterattack after hearing his words that belittle their game consoles, which makes no sense at all. Moreover, using the same eight-bit computer to decipher the encoding method of their machines is not just based on interest. Although Arakawa is not a hardware research and development worker, he still has some basic ability to distinguish between ears and eyes.
All of this started with the reporter who took the initiative to ask himself questions. All of this was a trap made by the other party!
A thorough conspiracy.
Thinking of this, the expression on Arakawa's face became more and more angry. He thought of the humiliation brought by the same person using such despicable tricks again. He also thought that the headlines of many media tomorrow must be the news that he made a fool of himself. He was so angry that he picked up a glass on the table and smashed it to the ground.
Then he also shouted a Japanese-style curse in his mouth.
Chapter completed!