It is said that Jester had a quarrel with Jobs because of Pixar Studios, so he did this.

But the problem is, it goes without saying that Jobs actually left Apple at that time, and was driven out by Apple like a dog that has been losing his family. Just say that the birth time of "Mine-Sweeping" was much earlier than when he had a falling out with Jobs because of Pixar animation.

But even so, even the simplest game "Mine Sweeping" did not appear on Apple.

Thinking of this, a dialog box appears on the computer screen. In this dialog box, you need to enter an account and a password. This is also the function of the card given by the staff when entering the venue. Moreover, it is particularly stated on this card that the game time obtained for each account is twenty minutes.

After twenty minutes of gameplay, no matter whether a game is finished or not, the time will be counted as ending, and the game will automatically log out, and the account will be frozen and will not be unfreezed until tomorrow.

In other words, during the Mars Carnival in the past two days, every player may not be very accurate. To be precise, each card has only two times, and each time has a 20-minute game opportunity. This is also a kind of improvement. It is much better than last year's kind. Some people can occupy a machine for several hours.

"Age of Empire" has also learned about it through some magazines before, not to mention that Harrison has heard his colleagues talk about the content of this game.

The essence of this game lies in battles. It seems that this is also a game system that Jester mainly wants to study in the past two years. It seems that in Jester's view, player battles will become the mainstream and development direction of Lailai games. Last year's "Thor's Hammer" and this year's "Age of Empires".

Harrison said with some regret that "Thor Hammer 2" has once again delayed the vote.

It seems that John Carmack, the producer of "Thor Hammer 2", has too high requirements for the game. He has already skipped the ticket twice this year. He originally said that he could definitely meet players during the Carnival, but in previous interviews, John Carmack or others from Mars Entertainment regretfully said that "Thor Hammer 2" has been beaten back and re-made because it did not reach the level they expected.

It is said that when Jest's speech is waiting for a while, he will talk about "Thor Hammer 2".

You know, there are many players nowadays waiting for news about this game.

If you look at "Age of Empires" briefly, you will think it is similar to "Civilization". But after entering the game, you will find that these are completely two games. Except for the borrowed ancient countries or city-states, the two basically have no similarities.

Harrison is quite familiar with this game. He did not enter the battle mode at the beginning, although he knew it was the core of this game.

He clicked on the second option, which is script mode.

According to his colleague, in this game mode, players can operate some historical kings or famous generals, participate in some major historical moments or some historical wars, but it may be because it is a trial version, so there are not many options for players in this script mode.

There are only three scripts to choose from. The first script is Hannibal, the commander of Carthage. He once destroyed nearly 100,000 main players of Rome in one battle. He was called an impossible battle by Western military strategists. This time, the player must become Hannibal and complete a Cannibal battle.

The second script, Harrison is not familiar with it. This is a script for a country on the other side of the Pacific that cannot be named and will be reviewed. It is a battle of a famous general named Xiang Yu. He led 30,000 cavalry to defeat his opponent's 600,000 army. It is known in history as the Battle of Pengcheng. However, in Harrison's opinion, this is basically awesome and he absolutely does not believe that there is a battle in this world that can still win under such a huge gap in troops.

The third script is Genghis Khan's Battle to Khwarezm.

After thinking about it, Harrison chose the first one he was most familiar with, Hannibal's Canny Battle script.

at the same time.

In addition to these reporters from various media who entered the venue in advance, there were also representatives of the World Electronics Association membership invited by Jest. After the discussion meeting on game grading three days ago, Shinho Nakayama hurriedly returned because there was something in Japan that he needed to deal with.

But Ken Kutaraki has nothing important recently, so he stayed.

The main reason for staying is to see with your own eyes how the Mars Entertainment Carnival is. He read the information before and knew that the first Mars Entertainment Carnival was held very successfully, but seeing black and white words and seeing such a person like a snake with his own eyes is completely different from seeing the crowded voices of people.

When he entered the venue, he had seen the long queues lined up in front of the Anaheim Convention and Exhibition Center with his own eyes. It really opened his eyes.

To be honest, even the morning when their PS started, there was no such grand occasion.

Moreover, as far as he knows, three days before the opening of the Mars Entertainment Carnival, someone started queuing up, and even before yesterday, there was a team of more than 100 people. Although Ken Kutaraki had known that Mars Entertainment had a great influence among North American players, he now has a very deep understanding of how much influence Mars Entertainment has.

Most importantly, it's not just North America.

Ken Kutaraki even saw some Europeans, even Japanese.

Jester was preparing for a opening speech for a while, so he did not accompany Kyutaraki Ken, and Kyutaraki Ken was not together, but scattered together in groups of three or three to visit the venue. You should know that the Anaheim Convention and Exhibition Center is very large, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people to hold a rally.

Just say that this Mars Entertainment Carnival sold more than 20,000 tickets.

After a while, Ken Kutaraki moved to an exhibition area that was not mainly promoted in this carnival. This is the exhibition area of ​​Gameboy. Last year, Gameboy and "Thor's Hammer" were the absolute protagonists, but recently, gameboy's sales have tightened and stabilized, and there are not enough competitors, so Mars Entertainment itself does not pay too much attention to gameboy.

Without enough competitors, Mars Entertainment will not invest too much in this regard.

However, Ken Kutaraki knew that this definitely did not mean that Jester was not optimistic about palm phones. You should know that Nintendo agreed to compete with home phone platforms, but proposed that they could develop palm phone platforms. Originally, Jester did not agree, but after Nintendo insisted, he reluctantly agreed.

The palm machine is also what Jester has carried forward.

Before gameboy, no one would have thought that such a small thing would have such a large potential audience, and Jester's fragmented time-based game design idea was regarded as a golden rule by many designers.

Not only Nintendo, but even Sega is very interested in palm phones.

However, it seems that Sega has high requirements for palm phones. They have been promoting the development of palm phones for a long time, but they still haven't produced the finished product. This makes Ken Kutaraki feel a little incredible because he is just making hardware himself. He knows that palm phones like Gameboy are not very difficult to develop.

If it were handed over to them, it might take less than a few months to produce a commercial product.

Sega has been immersed in gaming consoles for so many years, and it is impossible for it to be over a year now. She has not yet produced a reliable product. However, Ken Kutaraki remembered a piece of information he had seen. It seemed that Sega did not want to follow the Mars Entertainment to share soup. What they wanted was to completely change the pattern of the palm machine.

In other words, they are developing a new handheld machine that has great advantages in all aspects compared to the gameboy of Mars Entertainment.

As an elite who has been in the hardware development field for decades, Ken Kutaraki is also thinking about how to design a brand new handheld machine if he is asked to design a brand new handheld machine and completely break the gameboy's monopoly on the current handheld machine platform.

While randomly looking at gameboy's games that are about to be released, I looked at the gameboy handheld console on the display stand.

An idea couldn't help but emerge from Ken Kutaraki's mind.

It is undeniable that gameboy is indeed a very excellent hardware. Its biggest advantage may be its stability. It is said that the failure rate is very low. There is also a story about gameboy development in the industry that is widely circulated. It is said that after the gameboy finished product was developed, before Jester tested the performance of gameboy, the first thing he did was to throw the gameboy down from the window on the second floor high.

Then, someone picks up the thrown gameboy and then performs performance tests.

This ensures that the failure rate of gameboy is very low, which is what Kutaraki Ken admires very much, because he himself works on hardware, so he knows how difficult it is to be able to do this.

But gameboy has many disadvantages.
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