Giant of the times

Li Zetian knew the purpose of Nolan Bushnell coming to Sunbird Company, but he still asked knowingly: "Mr. Nolan Bushnell, why do you come to Sunbird?"

Nolan Bushnell answered straight to the point: "I hope that four of Sunbird's games can be ported to the Home-Pong family game console."

Li Zetian smiled faintly and said nothing. He knew that Nolan Bushnell would continue talking.

"Currently, Sunbird's games can only be run on Apple-ll personal computers. However, the price of Apple-ll is too expensive, which prohibits many ordinary families. But Home-Pong is different. Its price is only US$299, which is absolutely unbeatable in the United States. Most families can afford it. And so far, Home-Pong has sold 125,000 units, while the total sales of Apple-ll are only more than 10,000. If Sunbird Company transplants the game to Home-Pong, it will definitely be able to Get much more sales than on the Apple-ll platform! And as Home-Pong sales increase, Sunbird games will also sell more!!!"

Nolan Bushnell looked at Li Zetian with a smile and confidence, "Chronos, this is a win-win situation for both our companies! What do you think?"

Li Zetian nodded, "Yes, it sounds very tempting! But..."

Nolan Bushnell couldn't help but frown when he heard "but."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Nolan Bushnell, Sunbird has signed an exclusive game supply contract with Apple, so it cannot cooperate with Atari!" Li Zetian said with a look of regret. In fact, it was completely You are telling lies with open eyes!

There are no limits to Sunbird games!

But Nolan Bushnell didn't know that. When he heard this, he also showed a regretful expression.

"What a pity!!!" Nolan Bushnell shook his head, thinking that Li Zetian was still too-young, too-simple, how could he sign such a contract? ! !

Li Zetian thought to himself, if we don’t suppress Atari, how can we acquire it in the future?

"Chronos, are there any other games being developed by Sunbird? Maybe you should consider porting it to Atari's home console!"

Li Zetian shook his head and said: "Not yet. We believe that "Chinese Cube", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Arkanoid" still have potential to be tapped, so we plan to improve and perfect them."

"Okay, then I'll take my leave and won't disturb you anymore!" Nolan Bushnell stood up from his chair and said.

Li Zetian watched him leave with a smile.

Later, Li Zetian called together the employees of Sunbird Company for a meeting.

"Sunbird's four games have achieved great success. Next, we will pursue the victory!!!"

Li Zetian paused and said, "First of all, these four games need to develop sequels!"

One of the most popular tricks in the gaming industry to make money, develop a sequel! ! !

"Secondly, we will also produce a large-scale role-playing game - "The Legend of Journey to the West"!"

"Mr.li, is this "Legend of Journey to the West" related to "Journey to the West"?" a Chinese employee asked.

Li Zetian smiled and nodded and said: "Yes, it is indeed related. "Legend of Journey to the West" is adapted from "Journey to the West". In the far east, there is an ancient country called 'Huaxia'. People live a happy and healthy life, and they are peaceful. , but suddenly one day, the gate of time and space opened, and the demons invaded. In order to save the Huaxia Kingdom, the warriors of the Huaxia Kingdom followed the guidance of the prophet and headed west, overcoming obstacles and improving their combat upgrades, and finally came to the distant holy land to take out the Demon-Slaying Sword. !”

"You will encounter various enemies along the way, and players can conquer any three of them as their fighting partners! "Journey to the West" is about Tang Sanzang leading his three apprentices to fight monsters and learn scriptures, and "Legend of Journey to the West" , players can choose any three enemies as their combat partners on the road, making the gameplay more colorful. These enemies can be knights, priests, wizards, magicians, or some monsters, etc. identity, and there must be at least two hundred characters. Of course, due to the limited storage capacity of the game cartridge, it is necessary to write a special algorithm and use modular random synthesis to create game characters, that is, each character can be composed of These small modules include eyes, hair, ears, mouth, clothes, shoes, colors, weapons, skills, etc. Therefore, the game cartridge does not need to save the data of each character, as long as there is a module library, so This saves a lot of storage space. In the same way, the same method can be used for maps to save storage space. With the storage space freed up, we can make each module into high-definition pixels, making the game screen more beautiful!"

Everyone was very surprised when they heard this. They didn't expect that a game could be developed like this! ! !

Suddenly, everyone looked at Li Zetian with admiration and admiration!

Li Zetian then continued: "When the game is running, characters and maps will be generated according to a special algorithm. If the player does not conquer the character, then the character data will be deleted after the battle! When entering the next map, the previous map will be automatically deleted Lose!"

"As for the battle mode of the game? Then use a relatively simple turn-based system! As for what is a turn-based system? In short, after one party has finished attacking, it is the other party's turn to attack, and the cycle continues until the battle is over!"

After listening to Li Zetian's words, everyone was extremely shocked, as if a great god in the gaming industry was giving a lecture to them.

If the game is developed according to Li Zetian's wishes, this game must be an extremely grand production! ! !

Before everyone could recover, Li Zetian held out three fingers and said calmly: "Three years, I will give you three years to complete this game! It must take three years to do art, design storylines, write code, etc." That's enough! Guangguang, you are Chinese and know a lot about "Journey to the West". I will leave this game to you!!!" At the end of the sentence, Li Zetian looked at a Chinese young man in his mid-twenties.

"Yes, I promise to complete the task!" Wu Guangguang did not expect that he would be entrusted with such an important task, and he was extremely excited and nodded quickly.

Li Zetian nodded, then glanced at everyone and said: "Finally, let me tell you a piece of news. Next, the company will further expand and recruit some hardware engineers. Soon, Sunbird Company will enter the arcade and home machine markets!"

Bang bang bang!

When everyone heard this, they applauded.

The better the company develops, the group of people who are the company's veterans will naturally make huge profits, because they all own some options.

Li Zetian said: "Okay, let's break up the meeting!!!"

The four games "Chinese Cube", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Arkanoid" have made Sunbird a lot of money, but there are indeed people like Atari CEO Nolan. Bushnell said that the Apple-ll platform was too small and Sunbird could actually make more money.

Therefore, after Sunbird made its first money on the Apple-ll platform, it immediately decided to launch a hardware project.

Home game consoles are a bit difficult to develop. Atari spent $100 million to develop the second-generation home game console, the 2600. Sunbird currently does not have that much money to spend on developing home game consoles.

Therefore, arcade machines are a good choice.

Atari started out by developing arcade machines!

In addition, Li Zetian also has a secret weapon! ! !

"I'm sorry, Nintendo, my secret weapon is copied from you again..."

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