Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 7 development planning

Chapter 7 Development Planning

Hirohito Chida is a salesman at a well-known circuit board manufacturing factory in Tokyo.

 In the past few years, their company's performance has been very good.

 Orders are coming in almost like snowflakes.

At that time, Japan’s national economic level was changing day by day, rising like a rocket.

 At the same time, people’s demand for a high standard of living has become stronger and stronger.

 This has also given rise to the rapid expansion of industries such as personal computers, televisions, and mobile phones.

In addition, the technological level of this parallel world in the 1990s was equivalent to the level ten years later in Zhuyouxing's previous life. Small mobile phones have also become popular. In this era, various clamshell phones can be seen on the streets.

Companies that specialize in the production of circuit boards for various products will naturally flourish and make a lot of money.

 This is how Hirotoshi Chida’s family moved towards the middle class.

However, this good life did not last long.

Although the level of science and technology has advanced ten years, history has not changed much.

　　The Japanese bubble that occurred on Earth in Zhuyouxing’s previous life also exploded at the same time in this world.

 From that moment on, people were in mourning.

 They are no longer obsessed with the high consumption of the past and have begun to live frugally.

 In the past, personal computers, high-end TVs, mobile phones and other products no longer become necessities for people.

 The profitability of circuit board manufacturing companies has also begun to plummet, and they can only rely on a small number of orders from high-end automated machinery and equipment to maintain their profits.

　　How fast you rose on a rocket in the past, now how fast you fall when the rocket explodes.

 As a salesman, he is about to be unable to survive.

Thanks to the lifetime employment system of Japanese companies, he can still have a decent job. In addition, his family has always been relatively conservative and has not made reckless investments. It has not been too hard hit by the bubble. He can be regarded as the luckiest family among thousands of families. a wave of people.

It’s just that people have less and less demand for high-end consumer goods, and electronic products are the most dispensable things.

Even if he, a salesman, is tied to a lifetime employment system, his current salary is pitiful. At most, he can only maintain the basic expenses of food and clothing for his family.

Especially recently, the leaders above have been frantically giving them orders and tasks. If they don't complete them, they will be greeted by Dogeza and the boss yelling at them four hours a day.

He is under a lot of pressure now, and he can only feel better when he sees his happy children and considerate wife at home, which makes him understand that it is worth taking a seat at the company and being scolded.

 So even if the situation is bad now, he will try his best to save some money and buy things he likes for his children, so that they can be filled with smiles.

However, today the child suddenly said that he wanted a brand new thing, and it sounded like it had something to do with television.

He, a salesman who had been tortured by his boss for almost a week, couldn't help but start to think.

“Come on, son, tell me what’s going on and what the villain you mentioned on TV does.”

 Hearing that his father seemed interested, Chidao was even more happy.

It seems that this time dad can meet his request again!

 “Dad is like this…”

At this moment, Takeyusei and Airi Hayasawa have been running outside for more than a week. Basically, the two of them have completed all the nearby parks.

Zhu Yuxing actually wanted to visit more parks, but just yesterday he seemed to have been targeted by the police from the Metropolitan Police Department. They warned Zhu Yusing not to set up stalls casually. If he wanted to set up a stall, he must go to a designated park. The market will do.

 So the plan to continue promoting the game can only be temporarily ended.

But after traveling to so many places, video games have basically begun to spread among children.

 Even takes on the color of an urban legend.

This has basically met Zhu Youxing's requirements, so he also changed his mind and prepared for the next plan, which is to try to recruit more people and see if he can find a company that makes electrical appliances to try it out first. Some of the first generation red and white consoles.

Zhu Youxing had to lament that he came at the right time, just in time to catch the last train of making a fortune from a small electronic product workshop.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs assembled a personal computer with two people in his garage, and Nintendo built the first red and white console prototype with only three or four people.

Moreover, Bill Gates was able to earn thousands of dollars with just two people after learning the Basic programming language at the age of 13.

If this was left two thousand years later, there would be no way to develop it without forming a R&D and manufacturing team of several hundred people.

The myth of sudden wealth and fame is becoming increasingly rare.

The red and white machine in front of me at the moment has some experience from Zhu Yuxing's previous life. In addition, he has written a simple game system in the Basic language that he has rarely dabbled in in his previous life. There is also a passable employee who specializes in electronics and electrical appliances, but he can barely build it. Pieced together.

Of course, the main reason is that the requirements of the game console system itself are much simpler than that of a personal computer, and it does not require such complicated knowledge to build.

 But if you want to develop it, it is simply impossible with just such a prototype.

 He ​​needs to produce some more game consoles, at least first, a batch of game consoles that can be used in entertainment halls.

 “Zhuyousang, what are you doing?”

 Hasawa Airi, who was finally able to rest, felt like she was in a dream for the past two days.

 The salary will be paid every day, and she only needs to check the prototype every day for any loopholes.

 Now she was drinking juice through a straw while curiously looking at the computer screen in front of Zhu Youxing.

 “I’m working on a project.”

“Project? Are you finally planning to sell a product? Let me tell you, this thing is very popular with children and will definitely sell well!”

"It's hard to say." Zhu Youxing shook his head.

 In this world, although there are no competitive peers.

However, other entertainment industries in this world are quite powerful and have attracted the attention of most people. If they want to pull these people out of the original entertainment industry to play their games, Zhuyouxing cannot guarantee that it will really be possible. Smooth sailing.

 So, he should try his best to find ways to make the game attractive.

 First of all, what needs to be done is to streamline and reduce the difficulty and improve the feeling of enjoyment.

In the early years, games on the Famicom were generally quite difficult.

If we compare it to the large-scale games of later generations in the 21st century, the games of the Famicom era are probably the difficulty level of games of later generations, excluding nightmare-level difficulty games like Demon Village, which are not for people to play at all. .

“Isn’t it hard to say? But I see those children playing games very happily, and actually, I have been playing too recently.”

In the past two days, when Airi Hayasawa had nothing to do, she finally thought of trying Super Mario.

At any rate, she helped to make this, at least she needs to experience it.

 Then, she quickly fell.

 (End of this chapter)