Early one morning in the spring of 1993, in an ordinary residential house in Tokyo, a lamp in the attic had not been extinguished for a long time.
In this attic, there was a man sitting in front of a lamp, assembling some kind of electronic equipment.
In his side, scattered piles of a variety of original circuit parts, and some finished octopus balls packaging boxes cluttered pile.
In the dark part of the room, there is a girl hands pillow heavy sleep, from the corners of her eyes that some dark bags, it is clear that the girl has stayed up for a long time.
And also continue to sit in front of the lamp buried in the hard work of the person but seems to be tireless general continue to assemble electronic components.
The soldering pen next to the faint heat, from time to time this person will pick up the pen to add a variety of strange circuit components on the circuit board.
Finally, when the clock struck six, the man in front of the desk lamp let out a long breath.
"It's finally done!"
The man in front of the desk lamp made a voice of unconcealed excitement.
The girl behind him was slightly awakened by the sound, and she rubbed her eyes and got up to look at the man in the direction of the lamp.
"Takeyu-san, is it finally finished?"
The body of Take Yuxing in front of the lamp shook slightly, and then he turned around with the somewhat ugly looking circuit board in his hand.
He waved the rough circuit board in his hand as if to show off and said, "Yes, it's done! The world's first home game machine was born!"
The girl did not understand what home game console.
But she understood one thing.
The job was finally over!
She felt that she should not have taken the job, because it is not human to do!
About four weeks or so ago, Ari Hayasawa had just graduated from college.
She didn't want to go to her parents' arrangement to find a man to marry and become a housewife after she had just graduated.
She wanted to have a life of her own.
Only the reality was unbearably devastating.
In this era of economic recession, jobs are becoming increasingly difficult to find, especially for a freshly graduated college girl like her, and her future is even more bleak.
The most important thing is that she studied electrical and electronic engineering in college when she was a hothead.
It is even more predictable for a girl of this major to find a job in a place like Tokyo.
As far as she knew, all her female classmates in this field had just graduated and gotten married, as if electrical women were only suitable for the 'job' of getting married and becoming housewives after graduation.
There is no company that would want a female electrical and electronic engineer.
It was at this time that Take Yuxing appeared in front of himself.
It was the guy who had just been working on the game console.
She still remembered that scene that day.
This man stood with a smile on his face in front of himself who had just failed the interview.
Then he opened his mouth and the first words were, "Want to change the world?"
This sentence was not important, but the sentence that followed was important.
"Daily pay of 10,000 yen, daily."
This was incredibly tempting to the girl who had been unable to find a job.
Of course she was also wary of whether this man was up to something illegal.
But by the time she cautiously followed Take Yuxing to his house, he found out that the other man simply wanted his assistance in making a weird device.
A device that can be connected to a TV and then controlled by two odd-looking things.
Now, after four whole weeks of working day and night, she and Take Yuxing both finally made what Take Yuxing had envisioned.
Now the Take Yuxing holding is the fruit of their four weeks of hard work.
Looking at the board that does not look very beautiful, Ari Hayasawa would like to spit out, what is this strange and bizarre thing?
The good thing is that I did not waste my time in school, at least this kind of thing can still barely help to make it.
But Take Yuxing looked excited.
He ran towards the TV set with the finished circuit board in his hands with great enthusiasm.
Even if he unintentionally stepped on a lot of electronic components that could hurt one's feet, he did not care.
When he came to the TV, Take Yuxing began to skillfully pick up a video cable and plug it into the TV and the exposed circuit board socket respectively.
Ari Sawa is not a bit sleepy now.
Even though she wants to sleep now, she wants to see how interesting this thing that she has worked so hard on for four weeks really is.
During the four weeks, Ari Hayazawa, in addition to making this thing with Take Yuxing, was constantly listening to Take Yuxing introduce the interesting aspects of this thing.
"This game machine can bring something new and interesting to this world, and of course, it can bring a huge market as well."
"The game console will also become an indispensable form of entertainment for humans in the future, and both men and women, young and old, will love video games."
Sazawa Ari had no idea about this, but since Take Yuxing had described it this way, she would more or less have that much to look forward to.
"Well, officially welcome the moment when the home game console comes to this world."
At this moment of time, Take Yuxing gently closed his eyes, seems to be doing some kind of ritual, the expression has become as if sublimated.
This guy, in fact, is not bad looking.
Ari Sazawa thought so at this moment.
The drop.
On the somewhat ugly circuit board, the red light representing the power on came on.
At the same time, the TV screen was also lit up at this moment.
Ari Hazawa also came closer out of curiosity.
And in the view of Take Yuxing, the sound of the music that he was once incredibly familiar with slowly played.
Light light light light ~ wait light ~ Den!
It was an unforgettable memory that belonged to a good moment in his memory.
Super Mario Bros.
A few English words that Take Yuxing was incomparably familiar with were presented on the TV.
"Oh oh I remember this, this is something you got on the computer." Ari Hayasawa's eyes widened slightly and pointed at the TV screen.
Immediately after, she saw Take Yuxing pick up what he named the gamepad and start manipulating the picture on the TV.
In the TV, a plumber with a big nose, a little short and fat, wearing suspenders jumped in the picture with the manipulation of Takeshi.
The height of this jump is like a rabbit.
Ari Sazawa blinked her eyes.
If she knew modern buzzwords, she would have said.
This is it?
A device that remotely controls the characters on the TV screen through the device?
What's so interesting about that?
Ari Hazawa couldn't imagine it at all.
A video game.
This is something completely new to this world.
However, it is not new to Take Yuxing.
Because in the world before he crossed over, video games had long been one of the most important forms of entertainment for people in that world.
Take Yuxing is a traveler.
He is a Chinese from the year 2020.
In the days before he crossed over, he was running around looking for a job in the summer heat.
Every day he could not find a job, his only solace at home is these video games.
And that day he suddenly fell unconscious on the road in the end.
When he woke up, he traveled to Tokyo in the nineties, and at the same time he had a brand new identity, a jobless rich kid named Take Yuxing.
The new person new book, thanks to the readers of the great appreciation, if there are free recommendations votes and collections would be better!
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