Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 10
"Oh——Fxxk!!! Is this it???"

The scene on the screen was a little unbelievable to Ethan.

"I told you this stuff was easy!"

Evelyn replied proudly, "Light gun reaction is a technology from the 1920s! Photoelectric movement is a skill that engineers have mastered many years ago! So-called video games are just a combination of these mature technologies, and it's not a big innovation."

"Can I play it now?"

Ethan turned his head sharply and looked at Evelin expectantly.

At this moment, he didn't want to listen to any technical presentations at all!
He just wants to pick up the joystick and have a go!
You have to remember that it’s 1975 now!

What lies before him is not a software game from the future, but pure physical charm!
"of course."

Ethan's joy made Evelyn very happy.

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

"Wait a minute, I'll take the joystick."

While talking, Evelin turned off the power again.

After reconnecting the wiring left on the circuit board to the existing joystick, she turned the machine back on.

This time, the TV screen didn't flicker.

Holding the rough joystick, the silver object, which was not even as long as a fingernail, was too small.

Since the joysticks of this era were made up of connecting rods and joystick mechanisms, they could not rotate and could only swing repeatedly. So if you wanted to play games, you had to use both hands at the same time, one to fiddle left and right, and the other to fiddle up and down.

But that’s not important, right?
Ethan has played with Nokia's candy-bar phones, so this kind of small joystick is easy to control!
In less than two minutes, Ethan had already mastered it.

As he fiddled with it, the little white snake slid across the screen. Every time it ate a piece of 'food', its body grew a little longer. When the dark world was completely filled with light, the game came to an end...

"Perfect!!!"

Looking at the screen that had returned to darkness, Ethan clenched his right fist and waved it vigorously!
"This is exactly what I wanted! This is amazing!"

"Evelyn! Thank you! I really love you!"

He threw away the joystick, opened his arms, picked up Evelyn excitedly, and spun around a few times.

"Wow~~~"

The sudden enthusiasm caught Evelin off guard and she exclaimed.

But the real enthusiasm made her face filled with a happy smile.

When she landed again, she panted and lifted her hair, laughing and said, "Okay! Okay! Ethan! I know you are very satisfied! But next time when you celebrate, can you please not hug me and spin around? My head...I feel dizzy!"

"Okay, I'll try my best!"

Ethan nodded casually and said, "But I don't know if I can control it. After all, this is too exciting!"

Of course Ethan was excited, because Snake is not just a game, it also means countless Manes!
Elsewhere, money may not be everything.

But in America, a country where everything can be traded, money is God!
No one doesn’t love the green dollar!

However, just when Ethan was about to say something, a "dong dong dong" sound suddenly appeared.

Such a sound made Ethan frown slightly, a little surprised, but Evelin tilted her head and whispered, “Thomas.”

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

There was endless anger on his face, which was like a volcanic eruption after a sweet dream was disturbed.

"Children! It's already midnight! Why are you still making so much noise?"

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

"Although the spring oranges have been harvested this year! But they will soon bloom and bear fruit again! I'm very busy, okay!"

"I know you guys reconciled! I'm so glad! But now it's time to go to bed!"

"We can talk about it tomorrow if you have anything to say, so now get back to your room and get out!!!"

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

The next second, they both raised their eyebrows and shrugged.

The tacit expression of their feelings 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, they greeted him cordially.

"Good night, Uncle Thomas~"

"I love you, Dad~"

"Oh!"

However, no matter how sweet their words were, all they got in response was the dull sound of a door closing.

The two of them didn't take it to heart, after all, they had been a bit noisy just now. When they arrived at their bedroom door, they also said good night to each other.

"See you tomorrow, Evelyn."

Ethan smiled and waved.

"See you tomorrow, Ethan."

Evelin leaned against the door and said, “Don’t call me before nine o’clock. I want to sleep a little longer.”

“You are the boss.”

Ethan agreed.

The other party's lazy look made him curious, "How do you know I have something to talk to you about tomorrow?"

"Because I'm a genius!"

Evelin made a face, and then said, "Last night, no, judging from this point in time, it should be the night before yesterday. The circuit diagram I rushed out the night before yesterday had many defects. I only designed the photoelectric reaction of the game process and did nothing else, so you will definitely let me fill it in."

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

"Hey, good night~"

Just as Evelyn said, the Snake game that Ethan just played was actually very crude.

There is no entry interface, no background music, no operation sound effects, and no scoring icons.

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

If it were placed in the 21st century, what Evelyn made could only be considered a semi-finished product.

But now...

Just a successful game process can be called perfect.

Ethan believed that as long as Evelyn was given enough time, this tech-savvy sister would be able to turn a circuit board into a game console. And this was indeed the case. After waking up the next day, Evelyn came to ask Ethan about his complete requirements, and then she began to increase and decrease according to Ethan's idea.

She first remade three circuit boards marked 1.2.3. to hold the game's start interface.

When the main circuit board marked as 1 starts running, the game logo of "Snake Game" will be displayed on the TV screen, and at the same time, circuit board No. 2 will be powered on to start the background music.

Then, once the circuit board marked 3 detects that the player has inserted a coin by physically pressing it, it will connect the power of the circuit board No. 4 made at the beginning, allowing the machine to enter the game interface.

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

Originally, this circuit board directly adopted the NTSC standard, wrapping the periphery of the pixel area of ​​640 horizontally and 480 vertically to act as a wall. However, after the modification, the game interface was reduced a bit accordingly, with a fixed game name at the top and a score display in the upper right corner.

Every time the player controls the snake to eat a piece of food, the light source point will grow stronger and the counter will start counting by discharging electricity. When the player's level can be intuitively expressed by scores, doesn't the fun of the game come?
Because it stimulates people to compare with each other.

Of course, in addition to the changes in the interface, circuit board No. 4 is also connected to a music circuit board. Ethan spent a long time recording the sound of himself eating an apple. Now, every time the little snake eats, a clicking sound will be heard from the speaker.

By the time all the core components were completed, a week had actually passed.

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

It was a standing "big refrigerator". If I had to describe it, it was actually very similar to the self-service payment machines of the future.

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

Looking at the guy painted green, simple but not ugly, Ethan was satisfied.

"At least I didn't embarrass my fellow villagers."

He patted the guy on the back of the head.

"what are you saying?"

In the past week, Evelyn, who was almost exhausted but happy, attended classes during the day and built machines at night, didn't understand.

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

Evelin, 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 words spoken in a fatherly tone startled Ethan, "What?"

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

"Oh!" This reminder made Ethan suddenly realize.

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

"Bingo!"

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

(End of this chapter)