Rebirth of America, this is my time

"Three years ago, if I asked everyone what a video game is, many people may not know because most people have never seen such a thing. But now, three years later, I think everyone can understand this question. A. Those big guys that are placed at the entrance of bars, dance halls, and billiard rooms and play strange music contain video games."

"Speaking of video games, we have to talk about Nolan Bushnell. The founder of Atari used the wisdom of engineers to bring video games that originally existed in the laboratories of major universities to everyone, giving them It adds a lot of color to our daily life. But at the same time, I believe most people have also heard about Milova’s lawsuit against Atari. Although Nolan Bushnell changed the world, he did use despicable methods. Using this method, we plagiarized Mi Luohua’s game.”

"We thought that the out-of-court settlement two months ago would put Atari in trouble because they would not be able to launch their own creative games in the next year. We even had speculation that Atari and Mi Luo Hua's settlement would be the beginning of their decline. But no one expected that within half a month after the lawsuit ended, Atari would publish a new game as an agent - "Snake Game"."

"When we first heard the name of this game, our entire Los Angeles Times editorial team was confused because the name was so abstract that we couldn't guess what the game was about."

"So, after the game was released, we were curious and went to the game console to try it out."

"To be honest, when watching other people play, we felt that this game was very boring. Because this is not a battle game, it is a single-player game, in which the player plays a snake, a snake that can move on its own. What the player can do is to control the joystick, change the direction of the snake, let it eat the things on the screen, and watch it grow longer and bigger as it eats."

"This kind of game without interaction with friends and without fierce confrontation makes us feel that it is meaningless."

"But after we tried it, we discovered that this is a uniquely charming game!"

"Although the snake in the game will move on its own, it will also die after touching the boundary and itself."

"Although the snake in the game can grow longer by eating, at the same time, it will move faster after eating a certain amount of food."

"This discovery shocked us!"

"And after we kept trying, we even had an illusion in our minds that what we were playing was not a game, but what we were controlling was actually a life!"

"The little snake we play seems to have wisdom! After discovering that food can help him grow, he can't wait to speed up and look for more!"

"The little snake we play seems to have a soul! Because it knows that no matter what it eats, it cannot eat itself!"

“To be honest, we don’t know where the inspiration for this game came from! But we do know that this may be the best video game this year! Or, it may be the best video game since the birth of it. Electronic games!"

"Because it portrays the greed in human nature extremely perfectly!"

"The game design that is in line with human nature is full of fun! The increasing difficulty that makes people want to succeed attracts people to challenge 'Win' again and again!"

"Maybe it's because the design of "Snake Game" is so charming. In just one month since the game was launched, it has occupied the entire West Coast! If the previous "Pong" occupied almost all karaoke halls, dance halls, and billiards The door of the hall, then "Snake Game" completely dominates them all!"

"We don't know how many copies of "Snake Game" Atari has sold in total! But we know that it may not be long before "Snake Game" will break all records and become the best-selling video game in the United States!"

"Because it's so much fun!"

"It was precisely because all of us editors at the Los Angeles Times were fascinated by this little snake that we contacted Atari and wanted to interview Nolan Bushnell, but because they were busy selling, we He was not contacted."

"However, the staff at Atari answered our questions. They told us that there are two inventors of "Snake Game" and they live next to Atari. One of them is Evelyn Johnson. , is a student at the Stanford School of Engineering, and the other is his brother, Ethan Jones, a former employee of Mirowa.”

“When we heard about Stanford and Mirowa, we weren’t surprised because they are both places where miracles happen.”

"And we were unable to contact these two people before publishing this article, which makes us very regretful."

"If we have the chance, we will do an exclusive interview with the inventor of "Snake Game"."

"We wanted to know how Snake Game, which has taken over the West Coast, came about."

…………

To be honest, when Ethan read this article, his hands were shaking!

This is the "Los Angeles Times", the largest daily newspaper in western America, and its influence in the United States is second only to the "New York Times" and "The Washington Post"!

The media wrote a sideline headline for Snake Game?

Oh! Sxxt! ! This special code is great too!

Especially those extremely beautiful words put a happy smile on his face!

What does it mean for a snake to be intelligent?

What does it mean that a snake has a soul?

He doesn't know at all!

But these overinterpretations—

"Cough cough cough." Ethan coughed twice with a straight face.

He said pretentiously: "Well... the editor of the Los Angeles Times is good at writing. He writes very well."

"Oh! - Fxxk!!! Ethan! If you want to laugh at that special number, just laugh out loud!"

Steve Jobs pushed him and yelled: "I know you are very excited! Because your face is so tight right now! If you don't believe me, you can look in the rearview mirror! It's so tight! Now You look like a constipated person!"

As soon as these words came out, Ethan couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Hahahahaha——"

The empty gas station was filled with his laughter.

He is just a layman!

He loves such compliments!

"Oh~ I want to keep this newspaper in a good collection~ because they discovered a good game~"

After laughing, Ethan folded the newspaper again and put it in his pocket.

That stinky look made Steve Jobs roll his eyes.

"If I had known better, I wouldn't have bought this newspaper." He muttered.

Then, he directly opened the door of the cab and said, "Get out of the car!"

"What are you doing?" Ethan was very puzzled and shouted: "Oh! My dear Steve! Are you jealous of me? Jealous that I am famous? So you want to leave me here and let Shall I walk back?"

Ethan's words almost made Steve Jobs angry.

His eyes darkened and he shouted loudly: "Fxxk! Ethan! Are you mentally ill? I'm afraid of death!"

"You're so excited now, what if you weld your feet to the accelerator later when you're driving in search of excitement?"

"It's not far from Los Gatos. I don't want to have an accident!"

"Oh~ Is that so? Thank you~" Ethan smiled and got out of the car.

In his opinion, if someone takes the initiative to drive, that is simply a good thing!

Because in the past month, he has really been vomiting!

After he got back into the passenger seat, he patted the car window and shouted: "Let's go! Go home!"

In a roar, Ethan also returned to Atari.

According to his previous plan, the most important thing to do after coming back is to count the sales of "Snake Game".

As for this matter, Nolan Bushnell is more anxious than him.

He came back first and calculated the total sales volume directly.

Within six weeks of the game's release, a total of 1,121 arcade machines had been sold, earning $1,345,200.00.

2,715 gaming circuit boards were sold, earning $1,086,000.00.

The two items totaled US$2,431,200.00.

Although compared with the revenue of popular games in later generations, which can easily reach hundreds of millions, this number is completely insufficient, but in this era, nearly 2.5 million dollars can already drive people crazy!

Among them, the share that belongs to Ethan and Evelin is 15% of the electronic arcade machine, which is US$201,780.00, and 18% of the game circuit board, which is US$195,480.00.

If you deduct the 50-50 share with Evelin and the $7 you get for exchanging a motherboard, he and Jobs exchanged a total of 732 game motherboards for a total of $5,124 in labor fees...

"Snake Game" brought Ethan US$203,754.00 in income in just over a month!

You know, this was 200,000 in 1975!

"It's been done!"

Ethan’s mouth grinned to the base of his ears!

"If we work hard and sell the game to the East Coast, the share this year should be half a million?"

Ethan's idea made Nolan Bushnell burst into laughter.

He coughed twice while he was smoking and said, "Ethan, I can understand your mood, but the time to grab money has passed."

"Next, we won't be able to continue selling like before."

Thanks to [Protection Point Solution] for the 100 starting coins reward.

PS, when I was writing Chapter 33 yesterday, I made a mistake in writing the data. 100 circuit boards can earn 40,000 U.S. dollars. It was written as 30,000 U.S. dollars. It has been revised. I’m sorry.