"Is this game?"

Jester's father still had the same suspicious tone.

On the computer screen in front of him was a simple picture, with only a rectangular frame, next to it was a small box, and below the small box was something that seemed to be a scoring number. Now the number on it showed zero, and below the string of numbers was level-1.

At this time, the game had not started yet, and there were no various blocks falling down, so I couldn't tell what kind of game it was.

"The game has only completed a rough idea, and there are some additional work in the later stage, but it can be played... This game is like this..."

Whether in this or the previous life, Jester was not a person who was good at telling the story, so he simply started the game, while operating it while explaining the game to his father and Mark Seney.

The gameplay of Tetris may not be anything to the people in later generations, but it can only be regarded as a small game that can kill time, but in the eyes of people in this world, this game is almost a creative masterpiece.

No one who likes video games can resist its **.

“…That’s it!”

While talking about the gameplay, Jester demonstrated it and turned his head inadvertently to look at the two people beside him.

Unexpectedly, his father actually looked at him with an incredible look, and Mark Seney's eyes shone even more, as if he had discovered something extraordinary.

"I'll try it!"

The tone of the genius game designer Mark Seney became a little impatient. His movements were very fast. Just as Jester stood up from his seat, he took the lead and started the game with an almost flying speed.

At the beginning, Mark Seney was not very skilled in the operation, and even a little clumsy, and often ended the game in less than a few minutes.

But after a few trials, he was a top student who graduated from Southern California at the age of 17, and was also a very talented and talented game designer. He immediately found the tricks of this game and became more and more proficient in playing it.

When he accumulated points to 2,000 points, the falling speed of the blocks in the game suddenly accelerated, and the change in this moment made Maxene a little uncomfortable.

But he still tried hard to control the blocks that were constantly falling down, and he was fully focused and could not stop at all.

Jester was a little bored watching the game. After all, he had played this game countless times. He looked at it with great concentration and was even eager to try it out.

His eyes flashed. He remembered that when he was writing this game, he added a two-person battle mode, which allowed two people to play at the same time and compete.

This is also the reason why he wanted to make Tetris an arcade, because it is extremely confrontational.

To be honest, the most suitable platform for the Tetris game is handheld console, followed by arcade console. As for home computers and PCs, it is not very suitable for this game.

"By the way, I also designed a two-player mode for this game."

Hearing Jester's words, the two turned their heads and looked at him at the same time, with excitement on their faces. Obviously, they were all deeply attracted by this game.

"Can you still fight for two people?!" Mark Seney even showed a sense of surprise in his tone.

Shrugging his shoulders, Jester called out the two-player mode and told his father how to control 2P.

Jester's father, who had been waiting long ago, quickly moved a chair, used the other side of the keyboard to play with Mark Seney like a child.

At this time, Jester discovered that although his father was much older than Mark Seni, he was much better than the opponent in terms of talent in playing games. He played several consecutive games, and the final winner was his father.

Mark Seney did not show any impatientness and didn't want to play. Instead, he challenged Jester's father again and again with high fighting spirit.

Both of them even forgot the time.

Jester could only look at him boredly. He actually wanted to remind the two that he was hungry. He hadn't eaten for most of the day, and you both had been playing for more than an hour!

But when he saw the two of them playing like children and the innocent smile that was filled with their faces, he thought it would be better for them to continue playing.

This is the charm of video games.

Maybe it is not very appropriate to say that the innocent smile of a middle-aged man and a young man is innocent, but Jester really can't think of a more appropriate modifier to describe it, the expressions of the two of them at this moment.

until……

Jester's father's stomach made a gurgling sound first, and then Mark Seney's stomach made the same sound.

Only then did the two look at each other and laugh out loud.

"Amazing! Amazing! Jace! I can't even think of any words to describe it! Masterpiece! In all senses! I feel like I'm back when I was a childhood game on the arcade in the mall and forgot to go home. Fortunately, my mom won't beat me up for this reason now!"

Who would have thought that the first thing Mark Seney did when he stood up was to give Jester a bear hug. He trembled with excitement and hugged Jester tightly together.

At the same time, Mark Seney was still speaking loudly in Jester's ear with his biggest voice. His speaking speed was very fast, and Jester could only hear one approximate one.

"This game is amazing! This is the most fun game I've ever played! Really! Really! A hundred times more fun than Space Invaders! I love it so much!"

Jester struggled to get out of Mark Seney's hug, and saw his father looking at him with a look he had never remembered before.

It was a look of disbelief in shock.

It seems like looking at a stranger.

"Jess, it's incredible! How did you come up with it? This game...good..." At the end, Jester's father's tone even had a choke, so excited that he couldn't continue talking.

He was so excited that he never thought that his son could make such an excellent game.

As an arcade designer, he can be said to have played countless games, but he has never been so addicted to a game, even Pong! of that year.

Moreover, this game is so simple, but it is so wonderful. It is just a simple pattern composed of seven squares. Under random cutting, it will evolve into such an incredible attraction.

It's simply incredible.

"Dad, I just thought of this idea by accident. It's nothing great, it's just a flash of inspiration... Everyone is hungry, let's have a meal first. I have some ideas to tell you."

Jester smiled embarrassedly. After all, the two people in front of him were the father of this body, the senior hardware engineer of Atari Arcade, and the other was a real genius game designer. He was only able to show off his might in front of them by relying on the prophets and the copycats, but of course he knew very well how much he was.

A person must first have self-knowledge.

The three of them saw that the time was approaching two o'clock, and it was too late to cook at home, although Jester learned through memory that his father had Sichuan cuisine that he had good hands on.

Although Jester and his father are both Chinese, and Costa Mesa, a small town with a Chinese occupancy rate of 8.2%, there are special Chinese residential areas in the small town, the family still lives in a white community with better environment and public security.

However, the place they lived was very close to the Chinese restaurant that Jester often visited, and there was no need to drive. The three of them arrived at their destination after walking for more than ten minutes.

This is a Chinese restaurant called Jufulou, next to a high-end Chinese community.

Jester's father is very familiar with the boss here, so familiar that the two of them grew up wearing pairs of pants.

Jester's father even called the owner of this restaurant to call him senior brother.

There is a reason for this, of course.

The Jester family immigrated to the United States when they were his grandfather. His grandfather, Li Yaoguang, was once a general of the War of Resistance Against Japan. He participated in the Battle of Wuhan and Changsha, had great military achievements and also received the Treasure Ding Medal.

At that time, when the War of Resistance Against Japan was over, his grandfather expected that the civil war would be very likely to break out. He did not want to fight the civil war and brought his family across the ocean to the United States in 1945.

Before joining the army, Jester's grandfather passed down his cooking skills at home, and there was a big restaurant in the famous town of western Sichuan.

Li Yaoguang has been practicing good cooking skills since he was a child. Later, when the September 18th Incident, Li Yaoguang was furious when he heard the bad news. At that time, he was still a middle-aged young man, so he joined the army with passion, hoping to fight the Japanese.

Later, when he arrived in the United States, Jester's father was just born, and Li Yaoguang's family also wanted to have a meal. He was good at cooking and opened a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco.

Relying on home-learning heritage, Li Yaoguang changed the spicy Sichuan cuisine method to make them more suitable for Americans who like sweet tastes. Unexpectedly, the business is getting better and better. He has opened more than a dozen branches and is now a well-known Chinese restaurant on the West Coast, with a annual turnover of nearly 10 million US dollars.

The owner of this Jufu Building was followed by Lee Kuan Yew's apprentice at that time. Later, he went to open this Chinese restaurant. Because of his authentic skills, he was good at Chinese tastes, he could make authentic Sichuan cuisine, and American tastes, and he could make improved Chinese food, so his business was quite good.

The three of them came to the store. The decoration inside had a Chinese flavor. They found an empty table and sat down. Within two minutes, the restaurant owner who received the notification from the waiter in the store walked out of the kitchen with a warm smile on his face.

Jester knew that this man who looked a little fat was called Li Guobin. When he saw him coming, he was his elder after all, so he quickly got up and called Uncle Li.

Li Guobin smiled and nodded, then complained: "Xiaojie, you haven't come to me for a long time."

Jester could only smile and not respond.

Jester's Chinese name is Li Jie, so Li Guobin would call him that.

Only his grandfather and his uncle would call him that, but his father would not. His father was born in the United States and received American education, while his mother was a white man. It was precisely this reason that his father and his grandfather had a rupture. He didn't even inherit the family business, so he simply left San Francisco and came here.

Jester's father introduced Li Guobin a few words and asked him to make some special dishes. He originally wanted to let Li Guobin have a few drinks together, but because there was too much business in the restaurant, he gave up.

Mark Seney's taste is no different from that of ordinary Americans. She likes to eat sweet foods very much. In order to take care of his taste, Jester's father specifically instructed his senior brother to make more sweet dishes.

While waiting for the dishes, Mark Seni couldn't help but talk about the previous game again, full of praise.

Even Jester's father was not hesitant to appreciate this game and his son.

"If it weren't for this impact, not many people would still play games now, otherwise, this "American Cube" would definitely be worth tens of millions of dollars!"

Inadvertently, Mark Seney's words of regret made Jester's father silent.

Yes! If it weren't for the damn Atari impact, the most conservative estimate of this game might have been sold at 500,000 sets, or even one million sets. Based on the 40-$40 million card, this is the sales of 20 million to 40 million US dollars.

Judging from the share of Atari's agent issuance, Jester can get at least several million dollars from it.

But now Atari doesn't even develop new games on its own, and the new boss is even more interested in home game consoles, so they can't help you release this game.

Moreover, the current market response is so cold that no one knows what will happen after the release of this game.

Sometimes, when the market collapses, even excellent products cannot be sold because the market is gone.

It was only Mark Seni knew that in order to regain the reputation it had lost before, Atari quickly took out several well-made works after the Christmas boycott, but players who had been fed up had no choice but to buy it at all, and the sales were extremely bleak.

"hehe."

Seeing the reactions of the two, Jester just laughed softly, and the laughter was full of disregard.

Mark Seney and Jester's father looked up at Jester at the same time. Both of them were a little confused about why Jester could still laugh. Didn't he understand that he was most likely passing by millions of dollars just now?

"Father, you are an arcade designer, Mark, you are an excellent game designer..." Jester looked at the two of them, sorted out his words and tone in his heart, and said calmly and slowly.

"I just want to ask you one thing now, do you really think that video games are dead?"

This extremely simple, but pointing to the essence of the problem, like a flash of lightning, slashed hard into the hearts of Jester's father and Mark Seney, and made the two of them dull at this moment.

Yes! Is the video game really dead?
Chapter completed!