In the 1970s, a toy company called LJN was established in the United States.
Its name was derived from the initials of its major shareholder, Lewis J. Norman.
At first, LJN's main product was naturally just toys, but … in 1985, just when the "Atari ET incident" was still ongoing … the famous game company MCA bought LJN for 60 million US dollars and set it on the path of video game development …
From then on, a legend in the gaming industry began.
In North America, LJN quickly won the title of "Game Tomato Maker". The company used movies, TV shows, and celebrity characters as themes and continued to produce NES games that were lower in quality and playability than the industry standard.
"Terminator", "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Back to the Future", "Dr. Incarnation", "The Adventures of Abby Abdi" … A variety of games that caused people to angrily throw their controllers due to non-technical mistakes were released. In the 8-bit era, they ravaged the hearts of countless hot-blooded young people and left an indelible shadow.
During this period, in 1990, LJN changed hands and joined Acclaim Entertainment. It closed its toy department and became a dedicated game developer.
Of course, its style did not change because of this, it was still the same …
Those years were the heyday of 8-bit games. LJN used the guise of a legally listed company and was independent of the parent company. It outsourced the game adaptation work of film and television works to some unknown and strange third-party studios.
It ignored the most basic game quality and user experience. It put its little rainbow mark on the uneven (most of which were terrible) works (LJN's logo was a six-color rainbow) and spread it around the world …
The result was as summarized by a well-known game reviewer —
"Purple represents disgusting game operations.
Blue represents terrible game music.
Green represents the blinding game graphics.
Yellow represents extreme disloyalty to the original work.
Orange represents the group of f * cking developers themselves.
Red represents the extreme sadism of the game. "
LJN … had already become a symbol. Just like those unscrupulous merchants who were producing rubbish works but still profiting … Because they could survive, they felt that their existence was reasonable, so they took it for granted … Maintaining the status quo was good enough.
However, time would prove everything …
Even though there were a few decent games under the rainbow logo, but more than 90% of them … were trash. Many years had passed, and LJN had become synonymous with trashy games.
Even in the Otherworld of Thriller Paradise, there was a place called LJN Paradise.
The malicious game designer had built a land of exile here and named it LJN.
Those pixel garbage, game bugs, failed products, defective products … and so on.
— — With nowhere to go and nowhere to take anything, they all ended up here.
And one of the three heads of Origin, ROOT, was the ruler of this place.
Today, a day in the Otherworld was also twenty-four hours, and the flow of time was the same as most places in the main universe but different from the real world. Root rarely walked out from the core of the theme park and came to the edge of LJN Paradise.
She stood there silently, looking at the 'tabletop' plains in the distance. She seemed to be waiting for something, and she mumbled, "Tsk … Too slow, if this continues …"
"… If this continues, V1 will catch up to us." Suddenly, a voice came from behind Root and continued her unfinished sentence.
"First, it was Link … and now it's you?" Root did not turn around and said the man's name. "Ed …"
After the man called Ed heard that, he took a few steps forward and stood next to Root. He said, "Because I'm also curious, what kind of person is the human that you trust?"
This Ed was one of the three heads of Origin. Actually, his full name was Ed Minnestritt, but to avoid suspicion of using his long name to make up the word count, he got the short name Ed from me.
Root looked at him from the corner of her eyes and said, "So … you also came uninvited?"
Ed replied coldly, "You know my authority. It's been a long time since I've asked for instructions."
"Humph … I hate this attitude of yours." Root scoffed, "Using an emotionless tone to say such arrogant words."
"What I said is the truth." Ed replied.
"Yes." Root added, "That's the main reason why I'm so angry."
"Hmm … I've noticed, since the failure of the last mission …" Ed continued, "You've become more and more abnormal."
"Why don't you take a look in the mirror first, Slime, with your behavior … you still have the nerve to say that other people are abnormal?" Root used a mocking tone to reply.
Of course, she had her reasons for saying that. At that moment, Ed's body did not appear to be anything special. He was about 1.8 meters tall, well-proportioned, and dressed in a normal black shirt and pants … but his head was like a floating ball of mercury, slowly wriggling on his neck.
"I just encountered a bottleneck in the process of further upgrading my own program," Ed explained. Using his head (without facial features, the voice came directly from the head), Ed explained, "I can only temporarily maintain this state before the breakthrough."
"This isn't a bottleneck, right? It's just a 'neck' …" Root continued to mock.
"Uh …" Ed was speechless. He did not know how to respond to such trash talk, so he could only change the topic. "By the way, since Link was here before me, why did he leave now?"
"Because there was news from the 'Pi Labyrinth' just now. The search team that Link sent out a month ago finally found SCP-079 and has it under control," Root replied.
Hearing this, Ed was obviously stunned. A few seconds later, he said in a low voice, "Then I have to rush over immediately …"
Seeing his reaction, Root's expression changed immediately. "You all seem to be very afraid of that thing …"
"SCP-079 is the key to our confrontation with the 'system,'" Ed said as he walked over to the table. Ai De said as he walked towards the table. "Also …" He paused for a moment and said in a very serious tone, "He's not a thing …"
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