A Magical Parallel World

Just after crossing over, those first few days, Takayukicompletely didn't adapt to this strange environment. Takayuki couldn't imagine that one day he would really cross over. If it weren't for the fact that the parents of the original owner of this body were on a long vacation abroad, they would definitely have noticed something unusual about their child.

After about ten days of getting used to it, he gradually accepted his new identity and began to familiarize himself with and receive various information from 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.

Having a car and a house, parents still alive, this couldn't be considered the standard protagonist template.

But because of a failed relationship, he impulsively took an overdose of sleeping pills, and Takayuki, who crossed over, arrived on the original owner's body, who shared the same name and appearance.

However, the original owner's surname was Takayuki, while the traveler's surname was simply Zhu.

After arriving in this world, Takayuki discovered some characteristics of this world.

First of all, it didn't seem to be the same 1990s Earth he was familiar with because the internet in the 1990s here was already fully popularized. The prototype of mobile smart phones also existed.

The most important form of entertainment for people here seemed to be only television programs.

It seemed that some travelers had also been here before, stirring up the entire television entertainment industry, because of overly advanced television entertainment programs, squeezing out other entertainment industries.

Almost everyone had their favorite programs, somewhat similar to the dominant short video era of Takayuki's previous life, while television entertainment in this world occupied an absolute dominant position.

At the same time, the technological level of this era should be roughly similar to the Earth after the millennium that he was familiar with, but it happened in the early 1990s of this world.

Also, many famous people and things in this world Takayuki had never heard of.

It seemed like a parallel world similar to Earth, mostly the same as his past world, but with some differences in small details.

However, what surprised Takayuki the most was that the electronic gaming industry in this world was not developed.

You couldn't say it didn't exist, but it was relatively lukewarm.

All the games available on the market looked outdated and quite boring.

For example, games like brick breaking, and even Tetris were missing.

Almost everyone was completely dominated by television entertainment programs, which was ridiculous.

For a homebody from his previous life who used to spend his leisure time playing video games, this was completely intolerable.

However, it had to be admitted that the television entertainment programs in this world were indeed advanced, so advanced that even someone from the 2020s like him would occasionally be amazed by the television programs.

Takayuki, who crossed over, had a comfortable living environment. Living this way, his parents' wealth could sustain him for a lifetime; he didn't need to worry about working. He could even make some extra money based on his memory of familiar history.

But without electronic games, this was somewhat intolerable.

So, Takayuki thought, why not just make games himself?

Even if the people in this world didn't like it, making games could entertain himself, right?

So, with this mindset of giving it a try, he began the process of trying to make games.

During this period, he started self-learning various electronic-related knowledge.

Unfortunately, progress was slow.

He could figure out software programming because his previous life was somewhat related to this field.

But electrical technology had some barriers; it wasn't easy to make short-term progress.

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

At first, the people he found either thought Takayuki was a scammer because he did seem like one to the people of this era.

Living alone, without a regular office, only a residential house for daily life, and his life was irregular, and then hoping to make something they had never heard of, like a game console.

It was like hitting the jackpot when he accidentally encountered Hayase Airi on the street, who understood various electronic and electrical manufacturing knowledge.

She looked so dejected while looking for a job outside that Takayuki took a slight interest, perhaps because of empathy from his previous life, and was pleasantly surprised to find that she was a graduate in electrical engineering, which he desperately needed.

Then he quietly observed Hayase Airi's job search process for a few days.

At first, Takayuki was somewhat nervous about whether Hayase Airi would be willing to work with him.

But unexpectedly, as soon as she heard about the daily salary of ten thousand yen of daily pay, she immediately agreed without any hesitation.

Perhaps she was tired of looking for a job and didn't know what doubt was, or perhaps Hayase Airi herself was a bit eccentric.

Then, unexpectedly, after Hayase Airi started working with him, she worked even harder than Takayuki.

If it weren't for his seemingly inexhaustible energy, he might not have been able to keep up with Hayase Airi's hard work.

And after weeks of effort from both of them, they finally created the prototype of the first-generation game console, along with the first popular electronic game in this world.

Super Mario Brothers was born in this world.

The familiar scenes made Takayuki even excited to the point of tears.

Creating something through his own continuous efforts was indeed different.

Although it was a replication of the success of predecessors.

Takayuki silently thanked those familiar game developers in his heart for bringing these interesting things to the world.

If you are not in this parallel world, then let me help you make the game popular in this world!

"Is this the thing you said, Takayuki-san, that changes the world?"

Behind Takayuki, Hayase Airi stared at the TV screen without blinking.

She really had no interest in things that could move on TV, which made her doubt whether the thing she had made had any meaning at all.

Of course, Takayuki was quite generous with money; he would hand her ten thousand yen in cash every evening.

Could there be a better job than this?

Facing Hayase Airi's question, Takayuki answered without hesitation, "Of course, maybe you don't find this interesting, but for others, it might be different. Well, let's continue to the next step of work!"

"The next step of work? What is it?"

After skillfully passing the first level of Super Mario Brothers, Takayuki unplugged the wires on the somewhat ugly circuit board.

"Of course, it's time to start promoting our product somewhere."

Electronic games might be unfamiliar to the people of this world.

But to Takayuki, that was based on the premise that the people of this world had never played a truly interesting game.

And Super Mario Bros, this game, was enough to be considered a milestone.

In the desert of games at that time, such a game, like a shot of adrenaline, entered the market, completely activating the entire electronic gaming market, and then it was unstoppable.

So Takayuki had reason to believe that this game might not have the best effect in this world, but at least the children of this world should welcome it.

Unless the children of this world were all inclined to study and had no interest in entertainment at all.

But judging from the enthusiastic pursuit of the mutated programs of Ultraman fighting monsters on television shows, the pursuit of entertainment by the children of this world was no less than in his previous life.

Hayase Airi couldn't understand Takayuki's strange mindset.

What was interesting about something that could be manipulated?

Couldn't today's personal computers at home achieve the same effect?

Why bother to make such an ugly device?

In this era, computers were already popular, and their performance was not low. There were also some rudimentary forms of online games, but they were still very boring and completely overshadowed by television entertainment.

Hayase Airi didn't understand, but it didn't prevent her from continuing to work.

After all, Takayuki was the only employer willing to give her a job during this time.

"By the way, Airi, are you interested in dressing up as a mascot?"

"What costume?"

Hayase Airi hadn't reacted for a moment.

Takayuki gestured downstairs and said, "Come on, I'll show you."

Takayuki walked downstairs with the game console, and Hayase Airi followed him a little confused.

When they arrived at the door, Hayase Airi found several huge packages outside.

Then Takayuki went over and unpacked the packages one by one, taking out what was inside.

It was two sets of costumes for cartoon characters.

Like the costumes provided to tourists and children to take photos and play together in amusement parks.

"Come on, put this on, and then let's go to the place with the most children nearby."

Takayuki said as he began to put on the costume of the cartoon character himself.

And Hayase Airi was still a little confused.

"Hey hey hey! Takayuki-san, you didn't mention that one of my job options was to be a mascot!"

"Today, I'll add another five thousand yen."

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