"Donkey Kong" is a vertical-axis game, but the "Mario" series is a horizontal-axis moving game. "Mario" was not made into an arcade machine by Nintendo, but was directly developed for the FC family that was newly developed at the time.

Sold on video game consoles.

It can be said that it was the huge success of the Mario series that established the dominance of the Nintendo FC game console in the console market throughout the 1980s.

Compared with the fixed screen of a tank battle, which is just a map level, the screen of the horizontal axis game will continue to advance with the movement of the protagonist. The complexity of the game has suddenly increased a lot, and the corresponding design difficulty has naturally increased.

Bai Zirui asked his assistant to distribute the new game planning plan printed on A4 paper to everyone, and said: "This is the plan for the next game of Dingtian Game Company. Take a look. The game is inspired by Miyamoto-kun's design last year.

For the Jumpman character in the game "Donkey Kong", I have asked the company's legal department to discuss licensing matters with Nintendo.

I named jumpman Mario and redesigned the character. Mario is a plumber and he has a brother, Louis, so the new game is called "Mario Brothers".

The Mario Brothers destroy monsters such as turtles that emerge from the water pipes, eat gold coins, and "kick" the turtles to immobilize them, and then "kick" the immobile turtles away to earn high scores.

If the incapacitated turtle is not kicked away for a long time, the turtle will resume action and become faster. The game also includes a gold coin level.

In the two-player mode, the two characters can "butt" or "chasing" each other to cause trouble for each other, which also adds to the fun of the game."

Everyone was watching the new game plan while listening to Bai Zirui's speech. Through the huge success of "Tank Battle" and Great Wall Cube in the market, everyone has been conquered by Bai Zirui's creativity and talent. This kind of respect and admiration is

From the heart.

Bai Zirui took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and continued: "The new game background that the company will develop has a complete game world view. "Mario Brothers" will be a side-scrolling game. This game company wants to enter the family

For game consoles, we want to develop a home game console that cannot be imitated by other manufacturers for at least a year, called the Xiaobawang Game Console.

Then there is the question of how to control the rhythm of the game? When the player crosses a very difficult section, the player should be given a time to relieve their tense nerves. The next section of the map should be simpler.

After players are familiar with the game, they can combine and configure these traps and enemies to guide players to higher difficulty challenges. If you let players get stuck as soon as they start and cannot continue playing, many players will choose to give up.

No matter how exciting and interesting the content of the subsequent games is, it is still a waste of time.

The patents for recorders are basically in the hands of the Japanese company Sony. We need to obtain the patent authorization from Sony, even if we have to pay a little more to buy the patent."

This requires that the screen of the new game can be moved horizontally, which puts higher requirements on our program design.

Programming is only one aspect, while game design is another. The map of the new game is more complex than a tank battle, and it contains more game content. Whether it can keep players playing will determine the success or failure of the game.

The key. How to design each level is something we need to dig deeper into.

Dingtian Software Company was established to develop computer software. The first software developed was RoyalTek-1, a personal computer office electronic graphic form software."

It is mainly composed of microphones, tapes, recording heads, amplifier circuits, speakers, transmission mechanisms and other components. In addition, a headset must be developed for the Walkman, and the sound quality must be good. The control of the Walkman software part is very simple, and the controls used

The chip is not very complicated either.

Bai Zirui announced the candidate for the general manager of Dingtian Electrical Appliance Company. The general manager of the electrical appliance company is named Peng Feng. He graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Xiangjiang University and can be regarded as Bai Zirui's senior.

It is a machine that records sounds for repeated playback. It uses magnetic materials as carriers and uses the residual magnetism properties of magnetic materials to record sound signals on the carrier. It must have a playback function, and most of them use test tapes for playback and recording functions.

On other relatively mundane paths, can you consider laying some gold coins to guide players to control the characters to jump, which can improve players' concentration and investment."

Bai Zirui hand-drawn several game screens of "Mario Brothers" based on memories from his previous life. He also talked about some game development ideas and game hardware development parameters, and then asked Miyamoto Shigeru to be responsible for the research and development of the "Mario Brothers" game.

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Based on the ideas provided by Bai Zirui, the R&D department first filled in the details of the entire game, then brainstormed and came up with a detailed feasible plan.

How are we going to design this game to make it interesting, fun, and engaging! Each level of the "Mario Brothers" game is not like a map like a tank battle, but like a rolled-up picture scroll.

It slowly unfolds as the protagonist continues to advance.

For example, the difficulty arrangement technique should be easy first and then difficult. The arrangement of enemies and traps should start from simple and safe configurations, and players should not be killed as soon as they start. Players should be given an adaptation process, and dangerous elements should be added step by step.

Established Dingtian Electric Co., Ltd. and developed the first product, the Walkman. The Walkman was a smaller version of the tape recorder. It was a portable pocket tape recorder. I named it the Walkman.

After Bai Zirui finished talking about the development of new games, he said solemnly: "Our company will expand its scale. Several subsidiaries in the city: Dingtian Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. will be established. Wang Yatao and Li Yalei will serve as the general manager and deputy general manager respectively.

, responsible for managing PCB production.

Bai Zirui continued: "To establish Dingtian Computer Company, I have entrusted HSBC to help acquire Lingyi Computer Company from Zhu Bangfu of Wanwan.

Bai Zirui asked Dingtian Software Company to develop the RoyalTek-1 software. In 1982, Lotus Company released the spreadsheet Lotus1-2-3, priced at US$495. 1-2-3 represents three advanced functions: tables, charts, and small

Database. Soon defeated VisCalc, n took the first place in sales, becoming the first software in the world to sell more than 1 million sets.

Dingtian Communications Company was established to develop Chinese pagers and mobile phone communications. Pagers are another name for BP machines. They are personal information terminals that receive wireless call signals from paging stations. They do not have a transmitting function, so they are only one-way receivers.

In the early 1980s, BP machines and the wireless paging network serving them appeared in my country. After just over ten years, they reached their peak - in 1998, the number of BP machine users nationwide exceeded 65.46 million, ranking first in the world.

In 1902, a handsome Chinese named "Nathan Stubblefield" made the first wireless telephone device in his country house in Murray, Kentucky. The Nathan Stubblefield device was capable of wireless mobile communications.

The phone is the earliest human exploration and research on "mobile phone" technology.
Chapter completed!