Super Game Empire

On December 20, Nintendo began to launch the "Dune 2" game worldwide. Dealers from all over the world have put on game cartridges that have been prepared on the counters and posted huge posters in the most conspicuous places. They strongly recommend this "TV game platform"

The world's first real-time strategy game".

But the court's subpoena was issued the next day and sent to West Wood Company in Las Vegas by a special person, requiring them to stop selling worldwide before resolving the infringement.

Seeing that the plaintiff was several military factories in Russia and Ukraine, Ximu Company felt a chill in the vest, so she called Hiroshi Yamauchi and suspended the sales of "Dune 2".

At that time, in the presidential office of Nintendo, Japan, Hiroshi Yamauchi was also shocked when he looked at the original court summons in his hand. Nintendo also became the second defendant and also received a copy.

Ximu Company organized two groups of people. The company's president Bright flew directly to Moscow. Vice President Terry came to Tokyo to discuss with Hiroshi Yamauchi. Ximu launched an emergency public relations team, as if facing a great enemy.

After hearing Terry's explanation after meeting, Hiroshi Yamauchi knew something big had happened and developed a strong sense of crisis.

After trying this before Christmas, I at least I learned what happened after Christmas, but the next is the Japanese New Year. It will take a few more days to go until mid-January.

The sales peak season that was nearly one month has disappeared like this. How can Nintendo not feel frustrated?

Terry was even more frustrated. One month before Christmas, Ximu Company promoted and placed advertisements in various professional game magazines. Finally, it created sufficient suspense and produced a large number of game cartridges. Then it distributed goods around the world and carefully prepared luxury.

The big gift package designed various game peripheral products, successfully picking up the appetite of players.

After washing the body, spraying perfume, putting on the "qiqu neiyi" and the ambiguous lights lit up, and the seductive music started. After waiting for several months, the thousands of players were looking forward to "shuxing" half-exposed

lying on the bed in a charming manner, waiting for Ximutu to turn over and enjoy the thrilling pleasure of the game.

Before I started, he was over.

Nintendo fans who were excited to come with the money and lined up to buy game cards. Seeing that "Dune 2" which was on the shelves was forced to be removed from the shelves, the feeling was...

I'll go, you can just rush it!

"The court summons were sent out in less than 24 hours..." Terry's words were filled with grief and anger: "It must have been Sega, they kept staring at us!"

Yamauchi Hiroshi became alert: "What does it mean?"

Terry suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing. When he was transferring to the Nintendo camp, he only mentioned that Sega Store bullying customers and deliberately made things difficult for Ximutu. He did not say anything about the weapon authorization.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was completely unaware of the content of the document that Nishimu applied for SGL1. Under Nishimu's deliberate concealment, Hiroshi Yamauchi only thought that Yang Yun was planning to make the same type of game himself, so he deliberately made things difficult for Nishimu.

He didn't know that there was any T-26 tank infringement!

Although Nintendo also considered the issue of weapon authorization after seeing the Dune Game. But President Bright and Vice President Terry patted their chests and promised that the various tank models in "Dune 2" are not exactly the same as the real world.

After the game magnification model is indeed different from the real tank, Nintendo is relieved.

But the question is, how much performance is 16-bit SFC? The graphics processing effect is very scattered, and the enlarged model is indeed different from the real T-26. But once placed on the TV screen, there is no difference in the small pattern.

It has also become one of the reasons why the military factory sued Ximu Company for infringement.

"What does Moscow say?" Yamauchi Hiroshi has no choice but to do anything. He is in Japan and the game publisher. Ximu Company is the first defendant, and Nintendo is the second defendant involved.

Terry was so depressed: "Bright said that those military factories were tough and asked us to pay a patent fee of $30 million."

"30 million!" Yamauchi wailed in his heart. This was a tough situation. Their sales expected was 1 million boxes, and the total sales price did not exceed 30 million US dollars. These weapons manufacturers are completely blood-sucking leeches!

After making a few phone calls, Hiroshi Yamauchi frowned.

Surprisingly, Sega had a very strict tone. Other games were step by step in distribution and sales, and no special spot was found. Nintendo's imaginary "Dune 2" game did not appear.

Is Yang Yun really not optimistic about real-time strategy games?

But why did Fengyun President Wang Zhe make a harsh words and say such provocative words, "Nintendo is ready to accept the test of the market, there are countless companies in this world that make real-time strategy games"?

After discussing, Nintendo's lawyer team finally came up with a solution.

"Continue to discuss with Moscow, and provide evidence, settle privately with them as quickly as possible, and cancel the accusation. If it really doesn't work, bargain with them and use a few million dollars to dispense them!" Yuki Yamauchi was very alert.

It is certain that there must be something tricky here, but Sega doesn't make any moves, and he can't see the real method clearly.

"You can't miss Christmas sales. Our repeated retweets will make players dissatisfied. And this year's Sega Carnival will definitely happen!" Every year, Sega Carnival is the most difficult day for Nintendo, especially in recent years, from Longteng.

After joining the Sega camp, Hiro Yamauchi never had a happy New Year. He felt that Yang Yun was like his nemesis.

But Nintendo and Ximu were neglected. Russia only had Christmas on December 25. Their Orthodox Easter was in March and April every year. The traditional Russian festival of the Meat Festival was also in February. These military factories

There is no such thing as Christmas holiday, so they are reluctant to give in and tangle Nintendo all day long, without rest days, and do not accept reconciliation.

But the most important thing in the Western countries is the Christmas holiday. Even if you want to find a lawyer, it is rare to find someone. In addition, the bloated and complex legal procedures have made the acceptance area span half of the earth. The entire company was dragged out and exhausted and frustrated.

, Christmas was destroyed like this.

Players around the world are cursing, especially war game enthusiasts, who don’t say much or less, especially in the North American market, and players from the victorious countries of World War II have long seen it from various channels.

The promotional advertisement for "Dune 2" is full of great expectations for this game that is covered with science fiction and is actually filled with World War II content!

Ximu Company did plan this way. Sand Dunes is a science fiction novel, but all of those tanks were German and Soviet tank models in World War II.

They vaguely imply that the players were real-time strategy games or World War II themes. You can play the tank war. Then they wrote a disclaimer on the game's release box, hoping that the military factories of Germany and the former Soviet Union were in the military.

They won't be sued.

If you really want to sue, open the source code and check the tank model, these military factories are very likely to lose.

But it is obvious that the military factory instructed is trying to fight this time difference, deliberately destroying the Christmas sales season, and deliberately disgusting Nintendo and Westwood.

Ximutou shot itself in the foot!

Angry military fans came to the Nintendo sales office in groups and launched a massive condemnation, demanding that Nintendo sell "Dune 2" as scheduled to give players an explanation.

But even though they knew this was a trap, no one knew whether there were Sega people among these protesters, whether there were undercover reporters, and whether there were any vicious plaintiff representatives collecting evidence.

So Nintendo dares not sell it. They are law-abiding companies. They don’t want to commit crimes and forcefully sell it after receiving the subpoena. They can’t afford to gamble.

On December 28, the exhausted President Bright spent a lot of money to deal with the plaintiff's representatives and finally found out that a representative of a military factory in St. Petersburg revealed the details: "Our Russian 1C game company has been authorized, but you are not.

What a pity, Russians!"

Bright almost fainted at that time. What do you mean? If a Russian local company makes World War II games, is it not allowed for European and American companies to make similar games?

But Ximutu cannot blame anyone who is authorized to the freedom of the military factory, and has no right to blame.

Ask about the specific details of 1C Game Company again, the representative refused to say it, but after taking the 2,000 US dollar bill, he still squeezed out some practical information: "I heard that their war games are all Soviet tanks, and there is no

Of course, our factory managers will prefer them for the German army!”

Bright resisted the urge to vomit blood, knowing that he could never ask anything anymore, so he spread the news to Tokyo, and the mouth of blood was spit out by Terry.

Conspiracy, a conspiracy that has endured for more than half a year!

When applying for the first SGL1 license, it was indeed a problem of Ximu's lazy life. The Tiger tanks of Nazi Germany and the T-26 of the Soviet Union were completely followed by the novel "Dune" and used in those three fictional families.

, if you don’t write like this, you will not feel substituted!

Then Sega was picky and finally said the reason for the infringement, forcing Ximuto to turn to Nintendo, and even made harsh words to find someone to play similar games in the world!

Now I finally see the competitor, Russian 1C game company, and all tanks use Soviet models, completely avoiding the accusation of German military factories, and by the way, the appeal of local enterprises is used to severely attack Ximutu!

Terry sighed to the sky, crying without tears. He finally understood what Wang Zhe said. In this world, Ximutou is not the only company that can do real-time strategy games...

Russia's 1C Game Company, Yuuchi Yamauchi said a few words and arranged for the investigation below.

However, the results found made Terry and Yuki Yamauchi strangely angry. This is Longteng’s own game department!