Gaming Empire: from Los Angeles 1984

1984, Los Angeles. This year, millions of "E. T." Cassettes were buried in the New Mexico desert. This year, Atari collapsed and Wall Street declared "video games are dead." This year, Nintendo's Famicom was still struggling in Japan, and Sony was still selling its Walkman. It was in this year that Li Ang, a senior game architect from 2026, woke up in an apartment. "Atari is dead? Then get out of the way, my time has begun." He added a vicious mutual pit mode to "Tetris", allowing countless people to compete with real people in arcades to win or lose; He developed the "Tank Battle" map editor, allowing players to spontaneously produce content and work for him for free; He used the hard-core difficulty of "Contra" to teach American children what it means to suffer. This is a crazy era. Now that the rules have collapsed, it's up to me to define what fun is.