Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Zhu Youxing is a time traveler.

He is a Chinese person from 2020.

In the days before he traveled to this world, he was running around looking for work during the hot summer.

Unable to find work every day, his only solace at home was these video games.

That day, he suddenly fell into a coma on the road.

When he woke up, he found himself transported to Tokyo in the 1990s, and he also had a brand new identity: an unemployed rich second-generation named Takeyusei.

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Chapter 2 A Magical Parallel World

In the first few days after arriving in this unfamiliar environment, Zhu Youxing was completely unaccustomed to it. He never imagined that he would actually time travel one day.

At that time, his behavior was also extremely strange.

If the original owner of this body hadn't been on a long vacation overseas, they would definitely have noticed their child's abnormality.

It took him about ten days to adjust before he gradually accepted his new identity and began to familiarize himself with and receive information about this world.

He arrived in Japan in the 1990s.

The family was relatively wealthy, and the original owner should have had a relatively happy life.

Owning a car and a house, and having living parents, this isn't exactly a standard protagonist template.

However, due to a breakup, he took an overdose of sleeping pills and ended up in the body of the original owner who had the same name and looked exactly the same.

However, the original owner's surname was Zhuyou, while the transmigrator's surname was simply Zhu.

After arriving in this world, Zhu Youxing discovered some of its unique features.

First of all, this doesn't seem to be the Earth I'm familiar with from the 1990s.

Because the internet was already widespread here in the 1990s.

The prototype of the mobile smartphone has been roughly formed.

Television programs are the most important form of entertainment for people.

It's unclear whether some time traveler once came here and stirred things up, making the entire television entertainment industry extremely powerful. Because of the overly advanced television entertainment programs, other entertainment industries were squeezed out of their survival space.

Almost everyone has their favorite shows, which is somewhat similar to the era when short videos dominated in Zhu Youxing's previous life, while in this world, television entertainment occupies an absolute dominant position.

At the same time, the technological level of this era should be roughly the same as that of the Earth we are familiar with after the millennium, but it took place in the early 1990s in this world.

Furthermore, Zhu Youxing had never even heard of many of the world's famous people and things.

It seems to be a parallel world similar to Earth, largely the same as my past, but with some minor differences.

However, what surprised Zhu Youxing the most was that the video game industry in this world was not developed.

It's not that there's none, but it's just lukewarm at best.

All the games available on the market have outdated and boring content.

For example, games like Breakout are not included, and even Tetris is not available.

It's absurd that people are almost completely dominated by television entertainment programs.

For someone who used to play video games as a pastime, this is something completely intolerable.

However, it must be said that the television entertainment programs in this world are indeed very advanced, so advanced that even he, a person from the 2020s, would occasionally be amazed by the television programs.

Zhu Youxing, who transmigrated here, has a comfortable life. If he continues to live this way, his parents' wealth will be enough for him to squander for the rest of his life. He doesn't need to worry about working at all, and he can even earn some extra money as a transmigrator by relying on his memories of history.

But without video games, it's a bit unbearable.

So, Zhu Youxing thought he might as well make the game himself.

Even if people in this world don't like this, making it can still entertain you, right?

So, with this "let's give it a try" attitude, he began the process of trying to make a game.

During this period, he began to teach himself various electronics-related knowledge.

Unfortunately, progress has been slow.

He can figure out how to write software programs; he had some connection to this kind of work in his previous life.

Electrical technology still has a certain barrier to entry, and it's not easy to make progress in the short term.

In the end, he chose to take another path, which was to find someone who understood these things.

At first, the people who found him either thought Zhu Youxing was a fraud, because in the eyes of people in this era, Zhu Youxing does indeed seem like a fraud.

He lives alone, has no regular office, lives in a residential house, and his daily life is completely irregular. He hopes to make a game console that they have never even heard of.

Finding Hayazawa Airi, who possesses extensive knowledge of electronic and electrical manufacturing, was a stroke of luck; we bumped into her on the street.

When Takeyusei noticed her looking dejected after not being able to find a job, perhaps due to a shared experience from a past life, he paid a little attention to Hayasawa Airi and was pleasantly surprised to find that she was actually a graduate in electrical engineering, a field he desperately needed.

Then he secretly observed Hayazawa Airi's job search process for a few days.

At first, Takeyusei was a little apprehensive about whether Hayasawa Airi would be willing to work with him.

But to my surprise, when the other party heard that the daily wage was 10,000 yuan and it was paid daily, they immediately agreed without any hesitation.

Perhaps she's so tired of job hunting that she's forgotten what doubt is, or maybe Airi Hayazawa is just a bit neurotic.

Then, unexpectedly, Hayasawa Airi became even more hardworking than him after she started working with him.

If it weren't for the fact that I always seem to have plenty of energy, I probably wouldn't be able to match Hayazawa Airi's relentless drive.

Then, after several weeks of hard work by the two of them, they finally created the prototype of the first generation of game consoles, as well as the world's first truly popular video game.

Super Mario Bros. was born in this world.

The familiar scene moved Zhu Youxing to tears.

The sense of accomplishment from creating something through your own continuous efforts is indeed quite different.

Although this is something created by replicating the success of predecessors.

Zhu Youxing silently thought of those familiar game developers, thanking them for bringing these interesting things to the world.

If you're not in this parallel world, then let me help you spread the game in this world!

"Is this the thing that you mentioned, Zhuyou-sang, that will change the world?"

Behind Takeyusei, Hayazawa Airi stared intently at the television screen.

She has absolutely no interest in little things that can move on television, which has led her to question whether what she created even has any meaning.

Of course, Takeyusei was quite generous with the money, handing over 10,000 yen in cash to her every night without fail.

Could there be a better job than this?

Faced with Airi Hayazawa's question, Yusei Take replied without hesitation, "Of course, you might not find this interesting, but it might be different for others. Alright, let's move on to the next step!"

"What's the next step?"

After skillfully passing the first level of Mario Bros., Zhu Youxing unplugged the wires from the somewhat ugly circuit board.

"Of course, we need to find a place to start promoting our products."

Video games may be a very unfamiliar thing for people in this world.

But in Zhu Youxing's view, it's because the people in this world have never played truly fun games.

Super Mario Bros., however, is a game that can be considered a milestone.

In an era when gaming was virtually nonexistent, this game was like a shot in the arm, injecting vitality into the entire video game market and sparking an unstoppable surge in popularity.

Therefore, Zhuyouxing has reason to believe that even if this game cannot achieve its best effect in this world, at least the mischievous children in this world should welcome it.

Unless all the kids in this world are focused on studying and have absolutely no interest in entertainment.

However, judging from the children's fervent enthusiasm for various Ultraman monster-fighting variants on television programs, the children in this world are no less eager for entertainment than those in the previous life.

Hayazawa Airi still couldn't understand Takeyusei's strange thought process.

What's so interesting about something that can be manipulated?

Can't modern home PCs achieve the same effect?

Why go through all that trouble to create such an ugly device?

In this era, computers have become widespread and their performance is not low. Online games have also begun to take shape, but they are still very boring and are completely suppressed by television entertainment.

Airi Hayazawa didn't understand, but that didn't stop her from continuing to work.

After all, this was the only employer who was willing to give him a job during this period.

"By the way, Airi, would you be interested in wearing a babydoll dress?"

"What outfit?"

Airi Hayazawa didn't react for a moment.

Zhu Youxing pointed downstairs and said, "Come, I'll take you to see it."

Takeyusei took the game console and headed downstairs, with Hayazawa Airi following behind him, somewhat bewildered.

When she arrived at the door, Hayazawa Airi discovered several huge packages at the entrance.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Youxing went over and opened each package, taking out the contents.

Those were two sets of cartoon doll costumes.

It's like the staff uniforms provided for tourists and children to take photos and play together in amusement parks.

"Come on, put this on, and then we'll go to the place with the most kids in the neighborhood."

As Zhu Youxing spoke, he began to put on a big-headed doll costume.

Hayazawa Airi was still somewhat bewildered.

"Hey, hey, hey! Takeyu-san, you never mentioned that being a mascot was an option for my job!"

"Add another 5,000 yen today."

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