Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 7 This is an age of physics

The Chinese name of "Snake Game" is "Greedy Snake".

This is a video game that even New Bing can't count the exact sales but must admit its best-selling.

Because this game was released together with Nokia, if calculated based on Nokia's factory production, "Snake" can definitely beat "Wii Sports", step on "Minecraft", and bring down "Northern Square". Reach the top of the world.

There's no way, the King of Machines is just such a hooligan.

But if it is calculated according to the amount paid...

How much money did the game "Snake" earn?

No one knows about this.

But one thing is certain, even if Nokia's mobile phone empire collapses suddenly, after losing the free environment on which to survive, the game "Snake" not only did not die, but instead sprung up like mushrooms after rain, countless Variant version.

Games like "Ball and Ball" and "Bugs and Bugs" just changed the Bluetooth version of "Snake" into an Internet online version, and changed the protagonist from a snake to something else.

The "Slither.io" launched by America later was even more outrageous. As soon as the game was released, it reached the top of the App Store sales charts in America, Ruguo and other regions with a crushing posture.

In addition to that, it also became the most searched video game on Google America in 16.

In just three months, more than 1000 million US dollars were swept away.

It is precisely because it has been popular for decades and has brought good memories to generations of people, so when Ethan was about to make a game, the little snake who had spent countless nights in bed with him suddenly appeared .

And after Evelyn finished reading the idea of ​​"Snake" quickly, the girl who had been cursing at Ethan before suddenly raised her head, and her bright eyes shone with unbelievable light.

"Ethan—this is your idea?" The girl was very surprised.

"Huh?" Ethan shrugged, admitting it.

"Oh! My! God! How did you come up with this idea? It really is a genius idea!"

Evelyn shook the paper in her hand, and said loudly: "I can assure you, this thing is definitely more interesting than "Spacewar!"!"

"Spacewar!" "is "Space Wars", which was born at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, and then spread to all universities in America, becoming an introductory game for countless computer majors.

The gameplay of this game is to allow two players to control a spaceship and compete around a gravitational star. Whoever is destroyed first loses.

Although this game is revolutionary because it is the world's first multiplayer video game, when the entire video game industry is in the ascendant, the game "Space Wars" is still relatively rough .

So, when "Snake" and "Space Wars" under mature industries are put together...

As long as it is an individual, it will choose the former.

"Then can you make this thing?"

Evelyn's surprise made Ethan very happy, because it could at least prove that he hadn't chosen the wrong game so far.

"Of course!" Evelyn nodded vigorously.

Perhaps because she was too excited, her words became somewhat incoherent.

"The arcade is not difficult to make at all. The "Snake Game" you are drawing now can completely copy the technology of "Pong". For example, the snake on the screen can be fed back with the photoelectric signal of the Light gun (light gun) to show..."

Speaking of this, Evelyn suddenly noticed that Ethan looked blank.

Then she slapped her forehead.

"Oh God! I forgot you don't know anything about this stuff!"

Then, she stood up decisively.

"Come on, follow me to the garage, and I'll show you how simple this thing is."

The resolute actions made Ethan smell like a strong woman.

However, just as Ethan and Evelyn walked out of the bedroom together, Evelyn turned around and went back to her own room.

At the same time, he said: "Wait for me, I will change my clothes."

A moment later, when Evelyn reappeared, the jeans she was wearing had disappeared, replaced by a pair of denim overalls that are common in factories.

The sweater on her body was also missing, and she replaced it with a black dress made of denim that didn't look dirty, and even the hair in the shawl was tied into a bun by her.

This behavior made Ethan raise his eyebrows.

'It seems that even a decisive girl cares about her own image. '

After sighing, Ethan and Evelyn went downstairs together.

Thomas and Linda were very surprised by the tandem figures.

They didn't expect that Ethan could solve the problems accumulated for many years so quickly.

Under their watchful eyes, the two got into the garage at home. Like countless engineers with secret bases, this belongs to Evelyn's garage, and there are a lot of electronic components piled up.

Under Ethan's watchful eyes, Evelyn took out a TV from a pile of electronic waste, and removed the casing with three steps, exposing the picture tube inside.

Then, a happy smile appeared on the girl's face.

"This type of display tube is called a CRT. It uses an electron gun to emit electron beams, which are deflected by a magnetic field, allowing the electron beams to scan a glass plate coated with phosphor powder on the screen to generate images."

The girl introduced to Ethan: "All the arcade machines on the market now use the most basic photoelectric feedback. In all electronic arcade machines, the objects on the screen do not really move, but are turned on and off by lighting and dimming. The electron beam of the TV to create a visual illusion for the player that there are objects moving on the screen."

While speaking, the girl also put the TV set on the table.

Then, she removed the circuit board behind the TV. After searching in the hills for a while, she took out another box, took out a circuit board, and put it back into the TV.

She then attached the excess wire from the circuit board to a thumb-sized joystick.

After plugging in the power and debugging for a while, Ethan was pleasantly surprised to find that the TV screen had turned into black and white.

A white dot appears in the center of the screen.

As Evelyn pulled the joystick, the white dot kept moving on the screen.

The faster Evelyn taps, the faster the white dot moves, and the slower Evelyn taps, the slower the white dot moves.

If you don't move the joystick, the white dot will stay in place and keep flashing.

"Oh! Fxxk! Is this thing so simple?"

Ethan was startled.

"Of course! How difficult do you think it is?"

Evelyn smiled.

"I thought this thing needs a CPU anyway! Didn't expect it to be just a TV?"

Ethan couldn't believe it.

"Oh!!!"

Evelyn yelled.

"Ethan! You're probably out of your mind! CPU? Are arcade machines equipped with CPUs? Do you know how expensive CPUs are on the market now? Intel's cheapest CPU costs hundreds of dollars! If every arcade machine They all install a CPU, so the store where the arcade machines are placed must not call 911 every day? You should use your brains!"

Yes, the production of video games in this era is so simple and crude.

Before Ethan traveled through, in the era decades later, the birth of a game required the efforts of dozens of people, planning, development, art, soundtrack, testing and other links to perform their duties. The game may use Unity, UE, or a self-developed engine, and then it needs to be adapted to the hardware.

But this age...

One person is enough.

The C language has not been fully promoted, and when the price of the CPU remains high.

The so-called electronic games are really the crystallization of the wisdom of engineers!
The technology used in all video games is the most basic photoelectric signal feedback. The world's first "Pong" is even poorer with only one circuit board, which is controlled by a few integrated circuits, transistors, resistors, and capacitors. Output of game logic and graphics!

And in this era, the running game that game developers talk about is a running game in the real physical sense——

Check if there is a problem with the photoelectric signal!

If Ethan wanted Evelyn to write a game in BASIC, it might take her a while.

But make a game with physics...

Sorry, this thing rubs up quickly!
When this fact was presented in front of Ethan, he immediately rubbed his hands happily.

Because he has already seen that countless money is rushing towards him!

"Then can you make "Snake Game" tonight?" Ethan asked tentatively.

However, his inquiry was met with blank stares.

"Ethan, I really don't know what's going on in your head."

Evelyn patted the TV and said: "I'm just showing you how easy it is to control the photoelectric signal. It's not enough to make an arcade with just these things. In addition to the monitor, I also need to make a Special circuit boards, in order to better receive and transmit the circuit commands of the joystick, I can be responsible for drawing circuit diagrams and making circuit boards, but the materials..."

Having said that, Evelyn elongated her voice.

"I'll fix it!"

Without thinking about it, Ethan agreed directly.

"very good."

Her brother's decisiveness made Evelyn very happy. She clapped her hands and a big smile appeared on her face.

"Then you go back first. I'll think about it and make a list of the materials I need. I'll send them to your room when I'm done."

To be honest, Ethan didn't know why Evelyn suddenly became happy.

Because Evelyn is helping him with the game!
In this case, shouldn't he bear the cost of materials himself?

But when Ethan got the list sent by Evelyn, his face turned dark!
'Fuck!Careless!No flash! '

Looking at the densely packed two pages, Ethan almost couldn't hold back his curse!
"Does it take so many things to make an arcade machine?"

He shouted at Evelyn in surprise.

"Why is there a Barbra Streisand album on it?"

And Evelyn, who flashed back to the room after handing the list to Ethan, responded with a "bang dong".

On the closed wooden gate, there is an annual ring.

The dark and dense pattern, like a big mouth, is laughing at Ethan's idiot.

Can be easily fooled.

　Note: ① "Slither.io": It is the US version of the web version of Snake, you can play directly by typing the name in the address bar of the browser, there is no wall.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)