Game Development Giant

Being familiar with this period of history, he naturally knew that Nintendo was playing a trick of selling dog meat instead of medicine. Nintendo was worried that the impact of Atari might have too great a negative impact on the sales of their game consoles in the United States, so they decided to Instead of copying the name of their FC, they ingeniously changed the packaging of FC, but except for the appearance and name, the inside remained unchanged and became NES, making it such a tall thing as the Nintendo Entertainment System. . In fact, it is essentially a game console.

Jester is dismissive of this kind of thing, and he is not worried about the negative impact of Atari's impact on the home game console market. In his eyes, the renaissance of video games It is the wheel of history. No one can stop it, and it will not be diverted by any will. It is just a matter of time.

And he made it very clear through the "game" article before that what Mars Entertainment wants to sell is a game console, not anything else.

Play-enjoy, play happily, this is the slogan prepared by Jester for his home game console.

Picking up a document on the table, Jester took a look at it, and then fell into deep thought. This was an official letter from Columbia Pictures. They asked if they could make the film "Chief Balotelli" When purchasing the rights to adapt the movie, they did not directly state the intended price, nor did they mention the number of adapted movies they planned to purchase and the share of the box office after the release. It was just a simple inquiry. Adapting his own games into movies is definitely what Jester wants to do. After all, this is a good thing that can enhance the influence of game characters. Many game companies in his memory will adapt similar movies and TV shows for their game characters. His works include movies, TV series, and cartoons. However, he originally wanted to do it himself, but being able to cooperate with a film giant is also a good choice.

Moreover, Colombia has just emerged from the fake check crisis in the 1970s, and its career is on the rise after joining forces with Coca-Cola. It is indeed a very good choice.

In Jester's impression, although he was not familiar with movies, he was very familiar with famous companies in the history of games, not to mention that as a cable dog, he was naturally familiar with Sony's most famous acquisition in the 1980s. Well, in 1989 in his original time and space, Sony acquired Colombia from Coca-Cola for a total of US$5 billion including debt. This caused a great sensation in the United States at the time. To be precise, , is a huge panic.

At that time, Newsweek, the most famous and best-selling publication in North America, published a dozens-page special issue on this topic. The title was extremely alarmist - "Japan Bought the Soul of America", and the cover was originally registered in Colombia. The Statue of Liberty, the trademark of the United States, was replaced by a Japanese geisha wearing a kimono with thick white powder on her face. In addition, the American manufacturing industry suffered a disastrous defeat in the face of Japanese manufacturing industry at that time, which made the United States already angry. People were outraged by Sony's acquisition. In this special issue of the most influential magazine in the United States, based on the results of public opinion polls, it is asserted that Sony's acquisition is a more terrifying threat than the Soviet military power.

When Jester read this period of history, he could understand the thrill of this event just from the simple and plain words between the lines. Under this pressure, Sony and Akio Morita were still able to complete this super event. Mergers and acquisitions are indeed impressive.

However, we are not in a hurry to talk about whether we agree or not. Judging from Colombia’s official letter, they only have such an intention and it is not very urgent. In Jester’s mind, he is now He also doesn’t really want to sell the adaptation rights of “Chief Balotelli”. After all, he has another game with him as the protagonist waiting for release.

This even better game based on the prototype template of Super Horse is Jester's trump card to increase the sales of his home game console, although he has already prepared games such as this for this home game console that he has high hopes for "American Cube" has gained great popularity through arcades and has many fans. However, at the same time in history, Nintendo also had the equally famous "Donkey Kong" to help out, but it still has not completely opened up. In the U.S. market, it was not until the release of the ultramarathon that the success of nes was so natural.

In Jester's eyes, even if he goes to talk to Colombia now, the price offered by the other party will definitely not reach his psychological price. It is better to wait for the release of "Balotelli's Adventures in Another World" and Make a decision.

Moreover, he is going to attend the CES exhibition soon, and there will be no time to discuss this matter with Columbia Pictures in the next half month.

The preliminary preparation team has arrived in Las Vegas for three days early and is preparing for the venue and booth. After all, this CES exhibition is extremely important to Jester and Mars Entertainment, and there is no room for it. Lost, and after Jester learned about the time of Nintendo's product launch, he immediately changed the time of his own launch.

Jester very insidiously set the time three hours after Nintendo's press conference ended, and he prepared an extremely delicious meal for Nintendo at this press conference.

"Dangdangdang..."

At this time, there was a knock on the door in Jester's office. After he said come in, Naka Yuji, who looked a little tired, walked in quickly.

After all, the plan to cheat Nintendo was about to be carried out, so Jester couldn't help but be careless. Although he had seen the demonstration given to him by Yuji Naka in the R\u0026D department before, he was still a little worried, so he called him over again. Ask again.

"There's nothing wrong with our simulator, right?" Jester's tone was extremely serious.

When Jester asked about the simulator, Yuji Naka couldn't help but feel a hint of excitement on his face. After all, this was the biggest achievement of his hard work for so long. Originally, his English was very Japanese-like. However, in the past six months, my English has become much more proficient and authentic. At least Jester doesn’t listen as hard as he did at the beginning.

Naka Yuji nodded without hesitation, and then said in an unquestionable tone: "Don't worry, boss, I have simulated it hundreds of times. Although the sample is still a bit low, I think there will definitely be no problem."

"That's good." After hearing Naka Yuji's reply, Jester finally nodded.

This emulator is the key to his plan to cheat Nintendo.

"But..." A curious look suddenly appeared on Naka Yuji's face, and he hesitated to speak. Jester smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he could just talk.

Then, Naka Yuji took a breath and said with some doubts: "Boss, although I shouldn't ask, I still want to know. It is impossible for us to make this simulator for sale, but you have given me a lot in the past six months. What is the point of supporting a huge amount of money and spending millions of dollars on research and development just for an emulator for an FC game console that can’t bring you direct revenue at all?”

Before Jester could reply, Yuji Naka bowed fiercely and continued in a very grateful tone: "Also, I am very grateful to the boss for giving me this opportunity to develop the FC simulator. I have experienced tremendous growth during this period, but I still hope that my boss will allow me to make games. Although making simulators is very challenging, I feel that I can’t create profits for the company despite my hard work. , this is emotionally difficult for me to accept, and besides, I also like making games very much.”…

Jester smiled after listening quietly. He didn't want to go into too much detail about the matter, but simply said perfunctorily: "Sometimes, it is not the direct monetary gain that is called gain. "

After finishing speaking, Jester paused for a moment and seemed to think for a while before he answered Naka Yuji's second question: "After this CES exhibition is over, I will personally take you to make a game. Recently, Hayao Nakayama from Sega called me several times in succession, saying that their new console was ready for final debugging and the development machine was ready. He asked me when the game I promised to make for their game console would be made. Woolen cloth."

"Making games for Sega?" As soon as Naka Yuji heard Jester talking about Sega, he thought of the harsh and sarcastic words of the HR person at Sega he met when he went for the interview, and he suddenly became a little unhappy.

Jester also knew about this story. Tamahide Yoshiro had talked about it with him before. He also didn't expect that Yuji Naka, the father of Sonic who had created countless brilliant achievements in Sega, would be so powerful. A game designer would be so prejudiced against Sega because of such a trivial matter.

Although he was a little proud, Jester still felt the need to comfort the other party as much as possible.

"Don't think that Sega won't try its best on its games. This game is very important to us. Being able to negotiate the previous contract is my biggest weight. Otherwise, the treacherous people like Nakayama Hayao will be willing to put their large arcade machines Give up the somatosensory technology? Now the team I sent has replied that Sega has no secrets, and the development process of the game "Hang-on" is also fully open to them, so naturally I can't break my promise. For Sega, their new Console sales are more important than anything else."

Moreover, as he spoke, Jester also became a little depressed. He seemed to be blaming himself, "It was also my fault for talking big words at the time. Now that I think about it, I do regret it. Now I have shot myself in the foot. If I had If Sega cannot sell one million units of this game, then I will give up the console rights of "American Cube" to Sega."

"One million sets!" Yuji Naka was surprised when he heard the contents of Jester's contract with Sega for the first time. This number is really incredible. Even Nintendo, which is still at its peak in Japan, The highest sales volume of a game was only over 1.5 million units. The impact of the figure of one million units was so great that he could not react for a while.

Jester did not continue. He waved his hand and said to Yuji Naka: "You go back first and take a rest. Our charter flight will fly to Las Vegas in the afternoon."

After Naka Yuji left, Jester looked out the window at the vast expanse of white. He couldn't help but think of the upcoming CES exhibition and the official head-to-head confrontation with Nintendo. This also made Jester involuntarily excited.

"It's finally here."

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