Author: quiet thoughts

Qiuyeji, HAL office building.

"Then it's their ODS prototype?" Hongchuan Feng fiddled with the huge beige machine in his legs with a curious expression.

"Hai, as long as the original design function is satisfied, it can be as big as it is now." Iwata looked at him with some anxiety.

Although the current handheld ODS is much smaller than the bricks when Tanimura took over.

But compared to the previous generation of pocket-sized Game Boy, it was much larger.

The current size can only be held by a child with two legs, but it is very suitable for adults.

Hearing the lack of confidence in Iwata Satoru's tone, Hongkawa Kaede waved her legs.

"It's no problem that it's that big. It's already an order of magnitude smaller than the previous generation of handheld consoles."

In previous disposable game consoles, the display was a TN printed screen, and the external CPU was not a 4-bit machine.

As for the included games, the total capacity is only 4KB, which makes me wonder how limited it is.

But it can be said that the current ODS, from hardware to software, is completely integrated into the first generation of handheld consoles.

The most intuitive one is the yellow-green STN LCD screen, which costs more than twice as much as TN.

But the display effect has not improved by leaps and bounds. Hongchuan Feng turned on the machine.

The opening animation of the handheld device plays very smoothly, and it no longer switches frames one by one like the GB.

Gee, the effect is almost the same as watching cartoons.

Hongchuan Feng tried something, and the effect was so good that for a moment he thought he was playing a show-off game.

The 7MHz main frequency of SIC8089A can handle all complex games, and its external memory also enables luxurious 64KB RAM.

Those two core parameters can support ODS to use a maximum game cartridge capacity of 32MB. Yes, that generation of handheld consoles supports the replacement of game cartridges like FES.

Frankly speaking, the 32MB expansion game cartridge is no longer needed.

The maximum external memory for large-capacity and complex games such as Tank Battle and Double Dragon is less than 1MB.

32MB will not be used in a few years.

In addition to those, ODS has a stereo headphone jack output. Hongchuan Electric's earphones are the best match for it.

In terms of battery life, that generation of handheld consoles also used a chewing gum battery compartment design.

Four gum batteries can support it to run continuously for 36 hours!

For such a powerful game console, 36 hours of continuous operation is already a very despicable battery life.

Of course, if you are at home, ODS supports external AC power supply and you can play without batteries.

The reason why such a long battery life can be achieved is due to Satoru Iwata's training.

As the person most familiar with the SIC8089A chip in the world, he made full use of every feature of the chip to minimize the power consumption of the game console.

Hong Chuanfeng played with the ODS in her legs and felt very satisfied.

Look at the iconic cross-key design, you can tell it is from Hongchuan Electric.

Similar to the FES leg handle, ODS also has a cross key plus A and B buttons.

In addition, Dongfang has a lot of options, including a start button and two auxiliary buttons.

As for the side of the fuselage, there is a scroll wheel volume adjustment key and a backlight button.

From the beginning, Satoru Iwata was very cautious and did not plan to add backlight buttons to ODS.

But after Hong Chuanfeng experienced it once, he was convinced to add this feature.

The yellow-green bottom screen hurts your eyes too much if you look at it for a long time.

After adding the backlight, it immediately became much more comfortable.

The backlight is controlled by a switch. It has a battery life of 36 hours without turning on the light, but 24 hours with the light on.

Of course, during the promotion, the 36-hour long battery life must be strongly promoted.

Is that not advertising fraud, but whether that data can actually be achieved under certain conditions?

It’s not enough that the ODS handheld console has hardware. The most important thing is the software, and the starting lineup of the game is the key.

Without any nonsense, Hongchuan Kaede directly took a game cartridge and stuffed it into the ODS.

The handheld cassette is much smaller than the FES cassette, and the colorful block game stickers on it are also much smaller.

That’s right, the first bundled game of ODS is also a flagship game, it is the famous “Tetris”.

Of course, at that time, the historical "Tetris" had not yet been born.

It may be brewing in the mind of a certain Comrade Su Mi now, and Yongwanzhe is working on it.

But if the request has not yet come out, then Hongchuan Feng will not be polite.

In fact, the story about the "Tetris" patent in history is very exciting. As long as there is his red prostitute, there will be no more troubles.

"Tetris" doesn't have its name, Hongchuan Maple still retains the original English name of Tetris.

After thinking about it, I can't deny that the original name is the most pleasant to my ears. As for the neon square... to be honest, his face is really not that thick.

The word Tetris evolved from the Greek word tetra and the English word tennis.

It is a coined word, and it is suitable to represent a trendy game name.

After Hong Chuanfeng turned on the game console, she began to skillfully code blocks.

biu~boom~! biu~boom~!

Listening to the familiar sound effects and the disappearing blocks one by one, Hongchuan Kaede almost felt like crying.

That’s right, that’s the taste~

Playing Tetris, which he was familiar with, he even felt like he was living in another world.

Something is engraved into the memory, just like it is engraved into the DNA, making it unforgettable.

"Very good." Hongchuan Fengfang nodded with satisfaction. It was the smoothest handheld console he had ever experienced.

No matter how good the hardware is, you must at least ensure that it runs smoothly, otherwise everything will be useless.

After returning to the east, he went online with Satoru Iwata to experience a racing game.

No, ODS supports multi-player connections, with a maximum number of 4 people.

Two computers can be connected to each other through a data cable. If there are 4 people, a small transfer line is required.

It can be said that in ODS, Iwata tried his best to squeeze in all the available functions.

Is the online function a very cool advantage? If the game adds social interaction, its power will be known by looking at the online games of later generations.

"Let's sell it at the original price of 12,000 yuan. As for the version in North America." Hongchuan Feng paused, "Try to put it on the market before August."

"Minghong, is it possible to consider the port FES over there?" Satoru Iwata asked a question that had been in his mind for a long time.

FES is in full swing at Neon, and by April next year exactly one year later, Ye Yi has sold 3 million units.

But strangely, there is no sign of the product being sold in North America. This is not only the case with Hongchuan Electric, but also with Nintendo and Sega.

Satoru Iwata also knows the general reason. It is nothing more than the "Atari shock" that the newspapers last year called.

But a year has passed, so we can consider the one northeast meter side.

After all, compared to neon, the market in Beimi is much larger than the former.

After thinking for two seconds, Hongchuan Feng nodded, "You can try it, but I don't want to ship too much at one time.

Moreover, they accept returns during the sales process and tell the distributors in the United States that if they can’t sell it, Hongchuan Electric can recycle it.”

In fact, despite the "Atari impact", Hongchuan Electric did nothing.

In BeiMi, Hongchuan Electric also established a gaming division.

As for whether its own FES has anything to do with home game consoles, Hongchuan Electric even changed FES to NES (New Entertainment System).

The styling has also been greatly changed. The North American version of the game console looks more sci-fi, and most people will not think of a game console at all when they see it.

The reason why they did this was not because Atari had sinned too deeply.

Nowadays, the people of North America change their minds when they hear about home game consoles. They are frightened by Atari's "E.T."

So it can be imagined that at the peak of the wave of people's anti-home game consoles in North America last year, it was not a wise thing to promote FES.

Bunao Hongchuan Electric did not do anything. The special version of NES was a product of "Atari Attack".

Moreover, Hongchuan Electric did not start selling the product right away. Instead, it chose to place a TV set plugged into the NES in arcades, bars and other places, and then let people play it for free.

Hongchuan Electric will consider launching NES on a large scale after confirming that it has received a good reputation.

Ruming, based on feedback from North America, people seem to have accepted game consoles like the NES and have received continuous praise.

In this case, there is no harm in trying the channel online.

In the current era, all products cannot be purchased by distributors from manufacturers and then sold by themselves.
To be continued...