America started as a game

Warner has put too much pressure on Atari, forcing them to find ways to reverse the current situation.

Especially now that Warner's stock price has been plummeting, it is entirely because of Atari. The key is that it continues to fall, with no end in sight.

If Atari has been unable to reverse the situation, no one knows how far Warner's stock price will fall. It is reasonable for Warner to be anxious.

Historically, because of this incident, Warner's stock price plummeted from $60 to $20.

Now Warner's stock price has reached the forty dollar mark, with a drop of twenty dollars.

Under such a situation, it is natural for Atari to focus on the only hit game on the market.

And because of its absolute advantage in size, Atari did not take Qingshan Company seriously.

After Ray Kesar was settled, Atari's top management also began discussions in this regard.

"With our Atari sales channels and brand effect, this game should be able to sell better in our hands." Some people are confident.

"Yes, we still have overseas channels, and this game is a waste in their hands."

"Then how much should we pay to buy it? I'm worried that they won't be willing to sell it without it."

"As far as I know, the current sales volume of "Super Mario Bros." is almost more than three million units, and is about to exceed four million units. The low price is really not easy to negotiate."

Ray Caesar thought for a while and said, "Their sales must have dropped sharply now. Our bottom line is fifty million US dollars. I believe they will not refuse this price."

Time is tight now, they are anxious to make some achievements, and there is no time to waste.

The price of 50 million US dollars, in their view, is already full of sincerity.

To be honest, if an ordinary company made such a hit game and had already made so much money, and Atari offered this price, it might actually sell it.

With fifty million US dollars, plus previous profits, Li Hua is almost reaching the threshold of a billionaire.

To be honest, most of the people in the conference room looked envious at this time.

A lucky boy who made so much money so quickly must have made them very jealous.

You know, except for Ray Caesar, basically none of them has reached the level of a billionaire.

Ray Kesar has such a net worth only because he has made such outstanding achievements, otherwise he would not have it.

How is it possible to say that you are not jealous?

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At this time, Li Hua didn't know that Atari had already begun to develop his own games. He was now fully engaged in arranging new game development.

In fact, Li Hua is also hesitating about which game to develop is the best, because he has too many classic games in his mind.

For example, the most classic game "Contra" is a very good choice.

"Contra" and "Super Mario Bros." can be said to be the two most classic games, and they are hits in any country.

Although "Contra" needs to spend a lot of money to purchase the copyright of "Alien" due to copyright reasons, Li Hua can now afford it.

After much deliberation, Li Hua abandoned the idea, mainly because he wanted to leave "Contra" to be released together with their own home game consoles.

In this way, games can completely drive the sales of game consoles.

Therefore, Li Hua temporarily put down the idea of ​​developing "Contra".

In the end, Li Hua chose the two games "Bomberman" and "MapleStory".

This time Li Hua had capital, so he was no longer stingy and established two projects at once.

Both games are developed by Japanese game developer Hudson.

They are also classic games.

However, what is interesting is that at the beginning, the game "Bomberman" did not sell well in Japan, and it can even be said that it encountered a lot of resistance.

The reason is that at this time, Japan is still immersed in memories wrapped in nuclear warmth. Just such a small game stings their poor, fragile, and sensitive self-esteem.

However, this game is selling well in other places, and sales in the United States are also very good.

Although this game only entered the US market in 1985, it entered with the Nintendo Famicom.

In addition, the game "Bomberman" was only released in July this year.

Li Hua also checked in the past two days and found that the copyright has not been registered yet, so Li Hua also developed with confidence and boldly, and at the same time, the copyright and other things were registered.

As for "MapleStory", it is also a classic among classics, and the sales of the game have always been very good.

However, the game "MapleStory" is not a game developed by Hudson itself, but the copyright was purchased.

This is not a problem for Li Hua now. After all, he is not short of money now and can get all these things done quickly.

Through these two games, Li Hua is confident that he will completely establish the name of Qingshan Company.

At the same time, it will pave the way for the company’s next home game console.

He handed over the planning of the two games to Sandy and asked him to seize the time to develop them.

"After reading this, do you have any opinions or thoughts?" Li Hua asked Sandy.

Sandy's eyes were shining and he said: "No, boss, you are simply a genius in the gaming world, a true genius. I have nothing to add, you are very perfect."

Sandy now has a complete sense of belonging to the new company.

This sense of belonging is not a matter of how much salary is given, but a matter of conceptual recognition.

Even though Qingshan Company does not yet have a real company culture, judging from what Qingshan Company is doing now, he already has a sense of identity.

Although Sandy is not a very talented and creative game creator, his love for games is as much as anyone else.

Now that these two games were in front of him, his first feeling was that he was not in the wrong place.

I did not jump into the wrong job, my choice was right!

This is a company that really wants to make games, not just to make money like Atari.

"Since there is nothing I want to ask, let's start development. The other issue is the manpower issue in the planning department, which should be resolved as soon as possible," Li Hua said.

Sandy immediately said: "There are really not enough manpower in the planning department now, especially now that the two games are being developed together, but I believe that many people will be willing to join our company soon."

Li Huadao: "No matter what, our company now prefers to have a shortage rather than an excess. We don't want people whose technical level is not up to standard. You need to check this aspect for me."

The gaming industry is in such a miserable state now that many people are unemployed. However, the current planning department staff of Aoyama Company are all former Atari employees who came with Sandy and have very high technical levels.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have been retained by Atari until today. If I didn't have any skills, I would have been kicked out by Atari long ago.