Conan: The Mechanic

Early in the morning, Qianyu dragged a small flatbed truck and a large suitcase to the door of Dr. Agasa's house and knocked on the door.

"Qianyu!" Within three seconds, the magnetic access control on the door was lifted, and the eyes of Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi were all excited. "Did you bring something?"

"Bring it~" Qianyu smiled and carried the box that looked large but not too heavy into the room, while the others cheered and pulled the flatbed into the room.

In the room, Conan and Dr. Agsa were spreading a large rug on the ground, signaling Chiba, who had just taken off her shoes, to bring the box over.

Qianyu came to the altar of earth and opened the box, revealing the contents inside.

A cube-shaped computer display, a tape reader and a keyboard, connected by a data cable.

"Commodore64~~~^_^" Chiba smiled and took out the parts of the computer and assembled them. "Doctor, bring the multi-directional line and the magnifying device. Haibara, where's the game tape?"

Haibara Ai inserted a tape that was obviously not a regular game cassette into the reader, and the reader immediately turned up and began to read the contents of the tape.

This tape is the re-engraved product after Dr. A Li rewrote the genuine cassette, and the name of the genuine cassette is - SQIJ.

SQIJ is a role-playing game. Players need to play as a bird, explore in caves, avoid attacks from monsters that appear at any time and kill them, and find pieces that can make it immortal.

Although this game is a game from seven years ago (1987), it is probably because the program code itself is more practical. In the case of excellent picture quality and rich game content, the frame rate, operation feel and music are also considered. Superior is superior.

Of course, when Dr. Agasa rewrote the code, he also modified the game itself.

For example, each player-controlled bird will disappear when it touches the decision line to enter the next map; in order to accommodate six times the firepower of six birds, the number of spawned monsters has also tripled; for convenience Everyone can distinguish where their birds are, to avoid overlapping of their birds, and the volume of the birds has been reduced to a quarter of the size.

However, the display screen of the commodore64 computer itself is actually not large, not even the size of a piece of A4 paper. It is impossible for six people to play games through such a small screen together, so Chiyu asked Dr. A Li to be ready to enlarge device.

Plug the multi-directional cable into the output port of the commodore64, which is convenient to operate the six birds through the six handles. The combined lens magnifies the image on the monitor and projects it onto a large screen.

"Speaking of which," Mitsuhiko leaned over to a handle and sat down. "Does the difficulty increase or decrease after this setting?"

"As you know, each bird only has 5 lives, so in the later stage, only some of the birds may be able to continue to pass the level." Chiba sat down in the way of a duck and picked up the other handle. "In my personal opinion, the difficulty in the early stage should be similar to the normal single-player version, but the difficulty in the later stage will be several times higher. After all, even if there is only the last bird left, the number of enemies that will be spawned is still three times that. many."

"Is it that high?" Yuan Tai wailed. "The single-player version is already a very difficult game. If there are twice as many enemies, it's impossible to fight well!"

"The enemy will only come out from the holes at the edge of the map, and will only attack after half a second of being out," Qianyu said leisurely. "As long as you pay full attention when rushing to the next map's decision line, it is basically impossible to get hit."

"You're the only one who can clear the single-player version more comfortably, right?" Conan squinted. "Well, if you have the ability to clear customs, Haibara-san is also one of them."

When Haibara Ai was playing the game before, it all depends on the state if he can't pass the level, and it often happens that he loses all his life before clearing the level. Of course, it's still better than Mitsuhiko and the others who rely on the outbreak of character to clear the customs.

A certain Conan who has no record of customs clearance is speechless and scratches the wall.

. . .

"I'm really curious now, how did SQIJ on the spectrum platform look like that." Haibara Ai lost her life and can only wait until the next map is resurrected, while watching Chiba's little bird rushing Towards the end, while complaining.

"That ghastly thing..." Chiba's hand trembled after hearing Haibara Ai's words, causing the bird to be almost hit by a large number of shells, and was in a hurry to avoid the barrage. "SQIJ on that platform is poisonous!"

SQIJ is actually a very extreme game, because although the SQIJ on the commodore64 platform has very high gameplay, the SQIJ ported to the spectrum platform is simply terrible.

Imagine that a big white bird with the style of pixel games in the 1970s is standing in the center of the screen, and two monsters with the same rough picture quality are beating the white bird one pixel block and one pixel block by the way. The picture quality is so rough that it seems to be only 40*30 pixels, the frame rate is very low, it takes about one second to refresh the picture (that is, one frame per second), and there is no sound effect at all!

Of course, all of these flaws are theoretically fixable, because the real fatal flaws are far more than that.

If you try to play this game on the spectrum platform, you will find the most fatal flaw in the entire game.

If you try to press the four keys of wasd that control the operation of the big white bird, you will find that no matter how you operate~www.readwn.com~ this bird will not make corresponding actions at all! This game is simply a piece of junk that doesn't work! Therefore, this game also successfully defeated ATARI's "ET Alien" (this game has short development time, few personnel, and high development difficulty due to non-professional factors such as schedule, resulting in very low game quality, The content was very boring. It ended up taking the Atari home video game tape market by storm.) It's currently considered the worst game of all time in the game market - of course, only in the spectrum version.

"Speaking of which," Yuanta, who had already been out because the bird died five times, suddenly remembered something. "Why did you move the computer over today? I remember you always asked to play this computer at your house before?"

"I changed my computer," Qianyu shrugged. "So this computer was moved here."

"Qianyu, you are so happy," Mitsuhiko said enviously. "You can buy a computer if you want. My parents are very strict!"

"..." Qianyu shrugged and said nothing.

The computer that I bought by myself is not something that I can buy if I want, because it is a hand-made computer that Qianyu ordered heavily on the dark web, and its performance represents the top level of personal computers.

Although the display performance of the liquid crystal display itself is limited, and it is still in the era of six-digit pixels, Qianyu scales the pixels of multiple screens to a normal-sized screen by means of specular reflection and lens scaling, so as to obtain Over 1 million pixels. As for the chassis under the table, it was enlarged to the limit size that his room could accommodate without hesitation in order to improve performance.

However, the guy who took over his task of making a computer by hand seems to have similar tastes to himself, and the computer is quite easy to use. . .