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If you want to give a simple score to “Funny Games”Like, most of the laughs in the works may come from drama, creativity, interaction or gameplay. However, there is another type of content that you can hardly summarize in a few words. It is often that after many years of contact, you suddenly think of it, only to find that the person playing the game is sand sculpture, and the person making the game is also sand sculpture.
From today ’s perspective, (MindSeeker) is definitely an unprecedented work. In 1989, I did n’t know which Namco was the wrong one, so I invited the “Super Junior” Ching Tian Yizhang, who frequently appeared on TV shows, to co-produce “Check if the player is super capable” Wonderful game .
Although the suspicion of making a show cannot be ruled out, people later found out that the development team actually treated their work with 120% seriousness and never thought of making a “dung game”.
What kind of mystery is behind this? Who is Qingtian Yizhang? I didn’t hold back the laugh until I sorted out the incident.
Last superpower
To understand the wonderful game, you must first understand the background of the strange flower behind it.
In the 1980s, a social phenomenon known as the “superpower boom” emerged in Japan. Israeli magician Yuri Geller who visited Japan in 1974 (Uri Geller) acts as the source of all evil. Sharp-eyedReaders, you will find that this person actually performed on stage in China. (around 2010) , the content is nothing more than some magic tricks to “prove that they have “Superpower”, the most classic is to bend the spoon with mind.
Although those tricks may not be so clever, at that time, a large number of Japanese people were still relaxed and relaxed, and even gradually transformed into a popular culture. In the “Pokémon Pokémon” series, Pokémon Yongkira holding a spoon and using super powers (Yungera) is exactly Yuri. Geller is a prototype, he also initiated a lawsuit against Nintendo on this incident, but was eventually rejected by the court.
Even if you have n’t heard of Yuri Geller ’s name, you should also see some “psychological institutions” in Japanese movies, TV dramas and comics that deal with supernatural events. No relationship.
Some people really believe that they have magic skills, while others are planning to take advantage of the heat to make a fortune. In any case, suddenly appeared in the major newspapers and magazines and variety shows at that timeA large number of “superpower prodigy”, 12-year-old Qing Tian Yi Zhang is one of them.
Are you superpowered, it depends on your imagination. There are countless stories of Kiyota blowing out the sky, and he debuted that year when he said that he had moved to Mars and had several exchanges with alien life. In contrast, other superpowers who have only wobbled once in Okinawa and Hawaii are dwarfed, and the Martian scene he described in the rumor is the same as the reality, causing many social topics.
But when someone asked Qing Tian to perform live again, he hurriedly changed his voice “it was his consciousness was transmitted to Mars”, which became impossible to verify.
The director of the “Japan Brain Development Institute” Yoshiya Shiga is also one of the promoters , who said in the promotion of the so-called “α brain wave”: “All the participants in the experiment Among the people, Qingtian’s ability is the most powerful. I measured the brain wave, and when he showed his superpower, he released a very strong alpha wave. “
On the TV screen, Qingtian is undoubtedly a versatile master of mindfulness, perspective and predictive ability. It ’s just that some predictions have not broken through today, such as “Superpower will become common sense in 2014 and become one with science.” That may be something that happened in a parallel world, and some Japanese are so superstitious , Also related to the past cultural heritage.
In the early 19th century, there were many those who claimed to have the ability to “see clairvoyance” in the early 19th century, the most famous of which was the Qianhe Qianzuzi who committed suicide in 1911 . It is rumored that she can not only see through the patient’s lesion at a glance, but also predict which warship on the Japanese-Russian battlefield will sink, and even help the Mitsui consortium find a rich coal mine burial site.
However, these abilities are always hindered by various events in the subsequent scientific verification, and her death is also full of doubts-is it because of the pressure of public opinion, or is there a larger interest group behind meThey are now unknown.
The only thing that is clear is that as wise culture and more and more ordinary people can receive more and more information, the living space of scammers is naturally getting smaller and smaller.
It ’s not that no one refutes superpowers. The Weekly Asahi revealed the trick of bending the spoon in a 1974 article. In a special TV program of Fuji TV in 1984, the producer originally intended to confirm Kiyoda ’s magic, but did not want to capture the details of the person ’s bending the spoon with brute force . Faced with the doubts of everyone, he can only claim that “because of the pressure on TV, he is definitely a superpower.”
By the year “Mind Catcher” was released, the super power boom has actually faded. At the beginning, the young girls who actively or passively showed their miracles also stepped into the society one by one to become a “serious person” for honest work. Only Qingtian Yizhang became “The Last Superpower” Appeared in big variety shows. It may be in a bubble economic period of paper drunkenness, and the Japanese do not mind having an amused clown around.
What ’s even more funny is that Qingtian even debuted as a rock singer in 1990, but in the end, only 8,000 CDs were sold. This kind of chaos reminds me of the recent “stealing Guevara” that steals battery cars from prison on live broadcast platforms. They are all victims of the entertainment market.
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However, Qing Tian Yi Zhang is obviously not worthy of sympathy. After the release of “Propagation from Superpowers” in the spring of 2003, he began to explore the fun of combining “prayer” and “dance” without changing his magical posture. In 2006, he was arrested and imprisoned for illegally obtaining marijuana and sentenced to one year in prison.
Luck is all about superpowers
After understanding the life of Qing Tian Yi Zhang, you can easily notice the problems in “Mind Catcher”, but the early game practitioners are not necessarily.
Frankly speaking, The announcement process of “Mind Catcher” is extremely strange . Before the release of this game, the two major Japanese game magazines “Famitsu” and “ビ デ オ マ ガ ジ ン” jointly planned a software special. As the game producer, Qing Tian Yizhang appeared in person, showing the super ability to bend the spoon and read and write. Interestingly, he also had a telepathic experiment with the players watching the show at that time, as long as someone could accurately “sense” (guess) to An image of a virtual character can get a gift from Qingtian.
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The specific game content is actually as magical as reality , the player was abducted by 8-bit Qing Tian to a superpower research institute, only to find that he had to endure a seriesColumn training, and finally broke through the test in the “super energy” residents’ test. The training course covers the common “perspective”, “mindfulness” and “foresight”, the gameplay is not complicated, it can be seen as a simple command selection adventure, and find the answer you think is right.
But when I actually experienced these contents, I found that It may be more important to be favored by the goddess of fortune than to have superpowers .
Perspective training requires us to choose one of the five cards to see if it matches the suit of the white card. The subject of mindfulness training is to light a lamp by “madly pressing the handle A key”, which is called “the light is not on because of lack of mindfulness”. Foreseeing training needs to judge which of the five small holes will shine first, and it is also inseparable from luck.
If the player is lucky to (or unfortunately) to break through the cyclical meditation and training, the game will enter the second stage and come to be like The box of ghosts and animals in the city of Z in Superman. The NPCs here are all like weirdos with abilities, and you will have a superpower test if you catch them. But compared to the final test of “energy points”, their level can only be regarded as a little witch.
The final “energy point” contains a total of three levels, and the content of each level is roughly the same, requiring people to open correctly in 40 of the two choices.24 times. But if you fail to open the door at the third level, you have to go back to the beginning of the second level and try again.
After calculation, if the mortal does not want to pass the superpower clearance, the chance of pure luck is only 0.356% . Even if you become the lucky person of 35/10000, there is no exciting breaking screen at the end, only a magic stick message from Teacher Qingye: “Space has speed but light has no speed.” p>
Just like the last reprimand left by the well-known dungeon “Challenge of Kitano Takeshi”-what is it to spend Kung Fu to play this game?
To say that “Mind Catcher” is fun, that must be fun . At that time, there were very few players who cleared the market, and many years later, with the S / L function of the simulator, more talents have tapped the whole picture of the game step by step. In addition to having to endure uninteresting content, the teenagers and girls who have dreams of superpowers and bought the cards home have to accept the fact that they have no qualifications.
After the game was released, “Fami Pass” changed the attitude of actively cooperating with the publicity before and only scored 25 points for this work (out of 40) ‘S low score, its score in “フ ァ ミ リ ー コ ン ピ ュ ー タ” magazine is only 16.93 (out of 30) , and even did not reach the pass level.
Namco did n’t get caught up in public opinion because people in the 1980s and 1990s really believed in fortune telling, abilities, and qigong. Also in 1989, similar works include “Taboo: The Sixth Sense” with the theme of Tarot (Taboo: The Sixth Sense) , and “89 Computer Astrology” that predicts the fortunes of work, school and love 九星 占 い) Wait.
As for why the development team is not a mess, in fact, it can also be seen from the exquisite pixel painting of “Mind Catcher” that the overall sound effects and atmosphere of the game are also remarkable. And when testing whether the subject is super capable, they also carried out some design considerations, such as covering a layer shallowly above the dark card. If you really have perspective, you will not be affected by the virtual card. limit.
Interestingly, it is said that when Qingtian personally tried the game in front of the developers, the machine always showed symptoms such as power outages and crashes . Looking back now, it may be that the game has a bug, or it may be a small trick that Qingtian did in order to escape the test. But all kinds of rumors mixed up, and there actually appeared a voice that “this person really has superpowers”, showing how fanatic people were in that era.
Many years later, a player had encountered Ching Tin at the bar. When he took out the cassette of “Mind Catcher” and was about to request a signature, the other party said, “Why are you still buying this broken game?” Like the emotions expressed, it is also time for a scam that spanned several eras to come to an end.
Reference materials: Qingtian Yizhang, マ イ ン ド シ ー カ ー, Game Time Department House
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