Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 10
"Oh—Fxxk!!! That's it???"

The picture on the screen made Ethan a little unbelievable.

"I told you this stuff is easy!"

Evelyn proudly replied: "Light gun reaction is the technology of the 20s! Photoelectric movement is a skill that engineers have mastered many years ago! The so-called electronic games are nothing more than the combination of these mature technologies. Just together, not a big innovation.”

"So can I play it now?"

Ethan turned his head abruptly, looking at Evelyn expectantly.

At this moment, he didn't want to listen to any technical lectures at all!
He just wants to hold the joystick and give it a go!
You know it's 1975 now!

What is in front of him is not a future software game, but pure physical charm!
"of course."

Ethan's joy made Evelyn very happy.

As an engineer, there is nothing more gratifying than being recognized by others for your work.

"Wait a minute, I'll connect a joystick."

Between words, Evelyn cut off the power again.

After connecting the wires left on the circuit board to the existing joystick, she restarted the machine.

This time, the TV screen stopped flickering.

Holding the rough rocker, the silver object that is not as long as a fingernail is too small.

Since the rocker in this era is mechanically composed of a connecting rod and a rocker, it cannot perform rotational movement, but can only swing repeatedly. Therefore, if you want to play games, you must work with your left and right hands at the same time, one fiddles left and right, and the other fiddles up and down.

But it doesn't matter, right?
Ethan has played with Nokia's candy bar machine, and this kind of small joystick is easy to control!
In less than 2 minutes, Ethan has already started.

As he fiddled, the little white snake moved slickly on the screen. Every time it ate a piece of 'food', its body would grow a bit longer. When the dark world was completely occupied by light, the whole game would also go ending...

"Perfect!!!"

Looking at the darkened screen, Ethan clenched his right hand and waved it vigorously!
"This is exactly what I wanted! This is simply amazing!"

"Evelyn! Thank you! I absolutely love you!"

He shook off the joystick, opened his arms, hugged Evelyn excitedly, and spun around a few times.

"Wow~~~"

The sudden enthusiasm caught Evelyn off guard and exclaimed.

But the enthusiasm that seemed to be substantive filled her face with a happy smile.

When she landed again, panting heavily, she brushed her hair and said with a big smile, "Okay! Okay! Ethan! I know you are satisfied! But next time when you are celebrating, can you stop hugging me in circles?" ? My head...so dizzy!"

"Okay, I'll try my best!"

Ethan nodded very casually, and said at the same time: "But I don't know if I can control it, after all, this is really exciting!"

Of course Ethan is excited, because "Snake" is not just a game, it also means countless manes!
In other places, money may not be everything.

But in America, a country where everything can be traded, money is God!
Nobody doesn’t love a beautiful green knife!

However, just when Ethan was about to say something, the voice of "dong dong dong" suddenly appeared.

Such a sound made Ethan slightly frowned, a little surprised, but Evelyn tilted her head and whispered, "Thomas."

Sure enough, when she opened the interior door from the garage to the home, Thomas walked in in his pajamas.

There was endless anger on his face, it was the eruption of a volcano after his dream was disturbed.

"Children! It's already twelve o'clock at midnight! Why are you still making such noise!"

"Evelyn, I know, today is the weekend, you don't have to go to school tomorrow, Ethan, I also know, you are unemployed, you don't have to go to work. But me! Your old man! I have to go to the orchard tomorrow morning !"

"Although this year's spring oranges have been picked! But soon they will bloom and bear fruit again! I'm very busy!"

"I know you're reconciled! Glad! But it's bed time!"

"What do you guys have to talk about tomorrow, so now you guys get out of my room and get out!!!"

The spit all over the sky made Ethan and Evelyn look at each other.

In the next second, the two raised their eyebrows and shrugged.

The tacit catharsis made them burst into laughter, and then they quickly packed up their things, and left the garage under Thomas' death gaze. When they went upstairs, the two greeted him kindly.

"Good night, Uncle Thomas~"

"I love you, Dad~"

"Oh!"

However, no matter how sweet their words were, they were met with a dull slam of the door.

The two of them didn't take it seriously, after all, they were indeed a little noisy just now.

When they came to their bedroom door, they also said good night to each other.

"See you tomorrow, Evelyn."

Ethan smiled and waved his hands.

"See you tomorrow, Ethan."

Evelyn leaned against the door and said, "Don't call me before nine o'clock, I want to sleep longer."

"You are the boss."

Ethan agreed.

But the other party's lazy appearance made him a little curious, "How do you know that I have something to see you tomorrow?"

"Because I'm a genius!"

Evelyn made a grimace, and then said: "Last night, no, at this point in time, it should be the night before yesterday. The circuit diagram I rushed out the night before yesterday had many flaws, and only the game process was designed. Photoreaction, nothing else, so you'll definitely let me fill it in."

"Well, I admit that you are a genius." Ethan nodded and said, "Good night."

"Hey~ good night~"

As Evelyn said, the "Snake" game Ethan just played was actually very rough.

There is no entry interface, no background music, no operating sound effects, and no scoring logo.

Apart from pure game content, there is nothing else that can help players play better.

If placed in the 21st century, what Evelyn made can only be regarded as a semi-finished product.

But now...

Just one successful game flow can already be called perfect.

Ethan believes that as long as Evelyn is given enough time, this tech-savvy sister will be able to turn a circuit board into a game console.And the fact is the same, after waking up the next day, Evelyn came to inquire about Ethan's complete needs, and then, she began to increase and decrease according to Ethan's idea.

She first re-made the three circuit boards marked 1.2.3., which are used to hold the game's start interface.

When the main circuit board marked 1 starts to run, the game logo of "Snake Game" will be displayed on the TV screen, and the circuit board 2 will be powered on at the same time to start the background music.

Then, once the circuit board marked 3 detects the player’s coin insertion by physical pressing, it will turn on the power of the No. 4 circuit board made at the beginning, allowing the machine to enter the game interface.

And this No. 4 circuit board was also modified by Evelyn.

Originally, this circuit board directly adopted the NTSC standard, wrapping the periphery of the horizontal 640 and vertical 480 pixel area to act as a wall, but after the modification, the interface of the game was reduced accordingly, and the top part was fixed. The name of the game, the upper right corner, there is a score display.

Every time the player controls the snake to eat a piece of food, while the light source point grows by one point, it will also discharge the counter to start counting. When the player's level can be intuitively represented by the score, isn't the fun of the game coming?
Because it stimulates people to compare.

Of course, in addition to the change of the interface, circuit board No. 4 is also connected to a music circuit board. It took Ethan a long time to record the sound of himself eating an apple. There will be a clicking sound.

After all the core components were finished, a week had actually passed.

Next, Ethan spent more than a day putting a casing on them.

It is a standing 'big refrigerator', if you have to describe it, it is actually very similar to the future self-service payment machine.

With the advent of April 1975, 4, this arcade machine with "Snake Game" printed on it finally came out.

Looking at the simple but not ugly guy with green paint, Ethan was very satisfied.

"Finally, I didn't embarrass the villagers."

He patted the guy on the back of the head.

"what are you saying?"

For the past week, Evelyn, who was nearly exhausted but happy, hadn't caught on, spending the day in class and building machines in the evening.

"Nothing." Ethan replied with a smile, "What I want to say is that the next step is to sell it."

Evelyn, who had known about this step for a long time, was not surprised, but she also had something to say about Ethan's eagerness.

"No, before that, there is one more thing."

The old man's words made Ethan startled, "What?"

"Mirov." Evelyn said the name of Ethan's former company.

"Oh!" This reminder made Ethan suddenly realize.

He nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, there is one more thing. We need to find a lawyer first to solve the damn copyright issue!"

"Bingo!"

Ethan's reaction satisfied Evelyn, and this time, it was her turn to snap her fingers.

(End of this chapter)