Chapter 34 Aptitude Test
Monthly Day, Monday, Propaganda Department.
People in different clothes filled the entire warehouse. This place is not in the building where Hudson's Tokyo branch is located, but in a warehouse at the corner of Akihabara.
These people were secretly hired by Hiro Kudo. He didn't want ordinary players to know that he had collected many game experts.
He was afraid that if the players knew about it, it would be unfair, and he felt that the whole game was planned by Hudson. Although it was true, if the players knew about it, they would feel that there was no suspense in the game, they were played with it, and the game would not be good.
Therefore, in name only Takahashi is the only one in the entire Propaganda Department, and the rest are shadow department members.
Takahashi came to this warehouse and wasted some effort. He was a celebrity in Akihabara, and he didn't know him even when he walked on the street, but no one knew him, at least those who played arcades knew him.
As a public figure, there are many benefits and corresponding troubles. For example, it is not an easy task to go where he wants to go secretly.
Fortunately, this warehouse is connected to the stairs on the top of the floor. Gaoqiao can enter through the main gate of the building and then go down through the stairs. If no one follows him specifically, no accident will happen.
With the help of a colleague in the Logistics Department, Takahashi calmed down these players who had been recruited by Hudson.
He looked at these players and introduced himself first.
"My name is Takahashi. My game is good at "Interstellar Power". Now the record of Akihabara's highest score is me, and the special stunt is a high-speed double-click, which beats the head of Cleopatra VII." Takahashi took the introduction of himself and looked at everyone's reaction and said, "You all introduce yourself in this format."
"My name is Yayoi Ishihashi. My game is good at "Iron Plate Formation". The best result is to rank third in Akihabara. The secret skill... the secret skill is to play accurately." Yayoi Ishihashi, who looked a little otaku and was not very outgoing.
"My name is Daishi Fujisaki. My game is good at "Pac Man". The best result is to hit the 256th level of "Pac Man". The score is not recorded in the ranking list. The secret skill is probably concentration of mental power."
Compared with "Pac Man" and "Iron Pill Man", it is a relatively old game.
Therefore, it has many design mistakes that ancient games have, and the screen will be lost at the 256th level.
The reason why game designers make this mistake is very simple. First, the arcade base version is eight-digit, and in binary, it contains zero or one and can have a total of 256 numbers.
Therefore, "Pac-Man" is still normal at the 255th level. Once you enter the 256th level, the data will overflow and the entire game will be lost.
Second, when the game designers were developing, they didn’t expect that someone was crazy about playing more than 200 levels. When they designed the game, they could reach the top of the top ten levels.
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"My name is Kubo Sho, and my game is good at..."
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There were thirty people in the room. Each of them introduced them once and calculated for one minute. Half an hour passed quickly.
Takahashi recorded all the games that everyone is good at. After a little statistics, he found that Namco NAMCO has the most players, with fifteen, accounting for half of everyone present.
The remaining are players from KONAMI, Taidong TAITO, Nintendo NINTENDO and other families.
It is basically proportional to the number of arcades on the market. The only difference is that except for Takahashi, there is no Hudson HUDSON's own arcade player.
Takahashi had a headache when he saw this group of players who were good at arcades.
Although arcade games are a major category, after several years of development, several different subcategories have also been developed.
For example, Hudson's "Interstellar Power" is a part of the shooting game developed from "Space Invaders" developed from Taidong, "Little Bee", "Big Bee" and "Iron Plate".
And Namco's "Pac-Man" is even the branch of puzzle.
Different people's talent for playing different types of games will also have slight differences. It may be that it will not be so easy to play puzzles, but it will not be so easy to play shooting games.
However, Takahashi is not very worried about this. Although the players in the room are not the top players played in various games, they are all from the first tier.
No matter how many types of video games are, they are essentially understandable. As long as you practice enough, your skills will definitely be improved.
He wants to explain the specific training plan before publishing it.
He began to call people according to the list, "Yaki Ishihashi, come and play "Star Power".
"Oh." Yayoi Ishihashi walked to the arcade.
There are five "Star Power" arcades in the warehouse. These five "Star Power" have undergone special transformations and no longer have to throw coins.
There is a button on the coin port, and you can play the game directly by pressing it.
Yayoi Ishihashi sat in front of the arcade. After touching the rocker with his hand, his temperament changed suddenly. As if the rocker gave him strength, his confidence was still the game.
Takahashi and others watched Yayoi Ishihashi play games.
He introduced himself correctly, his design was indeed very accurate. If he could count the hit rate, it would be at least 80%.
This is already a very terrifying number. Takahashi's own hit rate is only hovering in the range of more than 40% and less than 50%.
This is mainly because he likes to keep clicking the shooting button and always fire the gun when there are no enemy units.
He did this because he felt that after seeing the enemy plane, pressing the shooting button would have a delayed reaction time. The delay may not be too long, at most one tenth of a second, but this tenth of a second is enough for him to shoot one more bullet.
Although the gameplay of Yayoi Ishihashi's every bullet kills an enemy looks very cool, Takahashi doesn't want to learn this way of playing.
However, there is no need to let him change this style of play. It is a good thing to have differences. If everyone in the game department plays like a mold, the performance effect will be poor. It may also be discovered that these people were trained together.
After Ishihashi Yayoi finished playing, Takahashi finished recording the book and shouted, "Next..."
Fujisaki Daishi started the game before the arcade.
Takahashi looked at Fujisaki Daisuke who had been very focused and thought that he might have a bigger success by playing other games.
It usually takes about half an hour for an ordinary person to keep his mind focused. But Daisuke Fujisaki can play at least five or six hours of errors in Pac Man.
Takahashi prefers to call this kind of player "stopping urine". In addition to their explicit talent of concentration of mental power, they also have a hidden talent, which is to be able to hold urine.
If you play a game that takes a very long time to decide the winner, their hidden talents can defeat many people.
Unfortunately, it may be because he played less shooting games. When he reached the fifth level, his hidden talent was not yet in use, his small plane was buried in the oncoming artillery fire.
Chapter completed!