Chapter 272 Thunder and Lightning, First Update

The technical research on flash memory has been finalized. If we optimistically estimate that we will work hard on research and development within this year, the possibility of achieving results within this year is very high.

At least we can first come up with a batch of products that are of slightly inferior quality, but are usable enough.

After all, it is only the 1980s, and foreign technological development is not much faster than domestic technology.

As long as China really wants to do something seriously, it will never be afraid of anyone.

After all, when I was studying the atomic bomb, I used an abacus to calculate formulas.

If you are not afraid of not getting things done, you are afraid of not doing anything.

However, some people are positive and some are not.

Liu Chuanqing is obviously the unhappy person.

His Minimally Invasive Computer Company, based on the Computer Research Institute, had just been established a few years ago. When he needed money, he had just come up with a new business model.

That is to find a way to buy finished foreign hardware products, assemble them, and then sell them domestically to expand the audience of computers.

But Zuo Zhen's move directly reduced a lot of the funds that belonged to him, which made him very unhappy and incomprehensible.

There are obviously ready-made products abroad, so why do we have to bother to research them here?

Just for the demand for tens of millions of overseas flash memory chips? It feels completely uneconomical.

With the money, he felt it would be more appropriate to buy more ready-made foreign products, assemble them, sell them, and then expand the scale.

He even ran up and down specifically to convince some people to support him.

However, the superior blocked his way with just one word.

We need foreign exchange, and you have to spend foreign exchange to buy foreign products.

One is the opportunity to obtain more foreign exchange, and the other is the idea that more foreign exchange reserves will be consumed. Naturally, there is no need to think too much about which is more important.

Liu Chuanqing was choked to death, and his whole body felt bad. He was depressed for a while and did not recover. Even the next development plan of Minimally Invasive Computers would undergo major changes because of this.

Afterwards, he was a little angry and said that it was because of the research on flash memory chips that the progress of popularizing computers in the country was greatly hindered. Otherwise, it would have been a few years earlier for all the people to have access to computers.

However, he can only complain like a whiner, and it cannot change the established facts.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Zuo Zhen, who has retreated behind the scenes.

The next thing he has to do is develop the next game.

In a conference room at the headquarters of a real game company, a group of people are sitting here staring at a fax machine on their desk.

Zuo Zhen was silent in the first place, while his eyes kept moving as he thought about things.

Zuo Zhen doesn’t have many ideas yet about the development direction of the next game.

So he decided to first ask Rogers, who is now in the United States, to conduct a questionnaire and survey thousands of responses to see if the players there have any type of tendencies.

"Boss, now players here in the United States prefer some shooting games. Maybe we should launch another Contra."

"It's definitely not possible now. The copyright doesn't belong to us now." Zuo Zhen shook his head.

Pajitnov said: "Then maybe we can develop another similar game."

Zuo Zhen thought for a moment and asked: "Approximately how many players want to play shooting games?"

Rogers looked at the summary of the questionnaire and replied: "65% of players want to play shooting games."

"What about the rest?"

"The rest are more complicated, including role-playing, jumping, chess, and even singing games."

"Singing game? Are you sure? How to make this thing?"

Zuo Zhen said: "It's not impossible, but it doesn't make sense."

Xie Qin became interested and wanted to know how this game was made.

But Zuo Zhen's focus was obviously not here. He began to think about what should be done in shooting games?

There are quite a few games to choose from, such as Metal Slug.

However, the capacity requirements of this game are also quite high, so it is still a bit difficult.

So what should you choose?

Others also started having heated discussions at this time.

They don't have Zuo Zhen's vision for later generations, so now they are just making wild ideas.

"I have an idea, how about making a fighter plane game like Mega Man?"

"It sounds interesting, and it shouldn't be difficult to make."

"Boss, what do you think?" Everyone looked at him. Zuo Zhen

Zuo Zhen frowned slightly, and everyone's hearts suddenly tightened.

"You continue to say, leave me alone."

"Boss, what do you think of our idea for this fighter plane game?"

"Fighter? What kind of fighter?"

Zuo Zhen was stunned and did not react.

"We are talking about making a fighter plane game in the form of Mega Man. Isn't this also a shooting game?"

"Well, it's not impossible, but maybe it can be better."

"Then boss, what do you think?"

"I……"

etc……

Zuo Zhen had an idea and suddenly thought of a game.

thunder and lightning

"Rogers, in your questionnaire, is there anyone who wants to try more novel games?"

Rogers responded: "Yes, and there are quite a few. Are the bosses going to develop new games?"

They all showed hopeful eyes.

Want to develop a new type of game? This is much more interesting.

"There is indeed an idea for a new game, but it is still in its infancy."

Zuo Zhen picked up the paper and pen beside him. Write and draw on it.

"That's how I conceived it. Now I plan to design a vertical scrolling shooting game."

Zuo Zhen continued. "This time we will not be playing a player, but a fighter plane."

"You can control this fighter plane through the direction keys. The screen will automatically scroll from top to bottom. Enemies will appear from above continuously during this process. All the player has to do is fire and kill all the enemies in front."

This kind of gameplay is actually easy to understand, because similar games have appeared before, but thunder and lightning strengthened the sense of strike and strengthened the graphics, which laid the foundation for this type of game.

Everyone briefly thought about it and found that it seemed quite interesting.

Zuo Zhen said: "What I think is that this time we can no longer simply satisfy players who like this type of game. This time we have to find ways to expand the number of players."

One person raised his hand: "Then boss, can this game expand the number of players?"

Zuo Zhen said with a smile. : "Of course, because this type is simple and easy to use."

All you need is an up, down, left, right and shooting button.

You can even deactivate the shooting button. Just change the ultimate button.

This is basically something that normal people can play, and it’s pretty awesome.

to the hereafter. After the screen enters the touch era, this gameplay will be even more simplified.