Chapter 27 Nintendo is here
Jester received a call from the company, which forced him to rush back in advance.
However, his affairs in Los Angeles were basically over. After he explained the situation to his grandfather, his grandfather reasonably asked Jester to rush back to handle the company's affairs as soon as possible.
Jester also promised his grandfather that he would form a delegation to invest in the mainland, no matter how many people would participate in the end, as long as the tour was completed, he would definitely go.
If he can't make a move, he will also accompany his grandfather back to the mainland to have a look.
This also made his grandfather very pleased, and he said directly that he didn't expect that his rebellious son would have raised a good son.
As for what he had to say was going to Zhang Le'an's house to be a guest tomorrow, he had to give up. Jester had to hang up Zhang Le'an and explain the situation.
Bailang is open-minded by nature, so naturally he is not a petty person. When he heard Jester say that the people from Hell found his company and wanted to discuss the transplantation of "American Cubes" on the home machine, he also encouraged Jester to kill the Japanese again.
Jester just smiled and didn't explain. He had no intention of collaborating with Ren Hell on "American Cubes".
Just kidding, Jester turned out that Tetris in the world not only sold well on arcades and handheld machines, but also sold more than 5 million copies on FC, ranking in the top ten in the entire FC game sales list.
How could he give such a hen that can lay golden eggs to his biggest opponent in the future?
This is his absolute weapon for distribution in the early stages!
He wanted to go back to meet Ren Hell's people, just wanting to find out their reality. He knew that Ren Hell's original history was in October 1985 that their FC European and American version of NES were launched in the United States, but he was not sure about this era.
After all, the "American Square" I launched has made the arcade market hot again to a certain extent, and the games I will launch next will inevitably pour a large bucket of hot oil on it.
The electronic game market is inherently closely linked, and a large number of players will inevitably be ignited again for their interest in home electronic games.
Will Ren Hell change his mind temporarily and release NES in advance?
Jester is not sure.
At the fastest speed, he drove back to the company at a speed. He didn't even ask about the completion of the task assigned before leaving, so he came to Mark Seney's office in a blink of an eye.
Inside, Mark Seney is drawing the setting picture of his new game "Avengers", and the ground is filled with abandoned sketches like a garbage dump.
Jester had already informed Mark Seney before coming. After Jester came in, Mark Seney didn't talk nonsense and directly pulled out a folder from the sketches piled on the table and threw it into Jester's hands.
"There are information about the people who came from Hell this time. They are very sincere and determined to win. They have asked me a few times before, but I asked them to talk about "American Cube" after you come back."
"Um!"
Jester agreed, then quickly opened the file folder and started to look carefully.
There is a character information in the folder, which is very detailed. Jester doesn't know how Mark Seney got it, but when he thinks about his relationship with Sega in Japan, he knows it.
Sega is now also an enemy of hell.
He knows this person in the information, or is very familiar with him.
Arakawa Miya is the president of Hell's American branch and the son-in-law of Hell's leader Hiroshi Yamauchi. During his school days, he married Hiroshi Yamauchi's eldest daughter Yoko Yamauchi.
As a veteran game enthusiast, Sogou has always regarded Renhe as a conscientious player in the industry, Jester naturally has a very good understanding of this crucial figure in the period when Renhe Renhe rose.
He was the first person to be called the successor of Yamauchi Hiroshi. In 1946, he was born in the Arakawa family, the second year after the Japanese emperor announced the surrender edict. His mother was also the eldest daughter of the Yuo family, a wealthy family. These two families also had a lot of wealth in Japan after the war. Some people estimate that in 46, these two wealthy families controlled one-fifth of the land in Kyoto.
Arakawa grew up in such a rich environment. Although he was in charge of the traditional textile industry at home, he chose civil engineering as his further study, and studied engineering at Kyoto University College and the best MIT engineering department in the world. In 1980, Arakawa, who had already worked in one of the five major trading companies in Japan, was inspired by his father-in-law Yamauchi Hiroshi, and eventually retired from the society and established the United States as hell in New York, and became the president himself.
This is the beginning of the legend.
At that time, Arakawa could basically be said to have gone to the United States alone, and Yamauchi Hiroshi also gave Arakawa a great trust. At that time, the maximum amount of funds that he could mobilize was 10 million US dollars, which was an extremely huge amount for Ren Hell at that time. If he failed, Ren Hell would almost never be able to recover.
Of course, Arakawa Mi did not let down his father-in-law's trust in him.
Although Arakawa is an executive of a game company that never plays games, in the United States in 1980, there was not even a special arcade hall. Arcades can only be regarded as an affiliated entertainment venue such as bars. Americans can only play games like Little Bee, which are so naive that they are not good at playing games. Therefore, there is no need for someone who knows much about games to manage.
Arakawa doesn't play games, but he is a veritable genius businessman. He knows that arcade games are also a product, and are essentially no different from other products.
As a business genius, he was highly expected. Ren Hell had failed several times before Donkey Kong. This attempt in the United States can be said to be a gamble that Ren Hell had been burning his way.
If you succeed, you will go to heaven; if you fail, you will go to hell.
At that time, Ren Hell's transaction method was to hand over the money and deliver the goods in the same way, but this sales method was very inappropriate for "Donkey Kong" and expensive arcades.
Because those who are willing to buy these arcades are those bars and malls, whether or not these arcades has little impact on them, so "Donkey Kong" which is twice as expensive as other arcades will naturally not be favored.
Therefore, the bold Arakawa Min made a decision behind Yamauchi Hiroshi, which was to use it first and then buy it. This decision seems to be extremely correct now.
It is also the same as Jester's method when he first promoted "American Cubes".
Donkey Kong's shock to the Americans who played the Little Bee at that time, who thought it was the most fun game in the world, was a crushing moment. This made Americans feel that video games can still be played like this for the first time?
In a very short time, the first batch of 2,000 Donkey Kong arcade motherboards were sold out. Then, when Arakawa saw that the market was so popular, he boldly asked the Japanese headquarters for 6,000 Donkey Kong substrates. Before the goods arrived, the 6,000 substrates were also purchased in advance by enthusiastic Americans with real Americans.
In just over a year, Donkey Kong sold more than 60,000 units in the United States, earning more than 100 million US dollars in profits for Ren Hell.
From then on, Arakawa became famous in one battle, establishing his absolute core position in Hell.
Jester knew clearly how keen Minagua's vision was. The Tetris that year was decided after seeing him and he decided to take it at all costs. In the end, he spent nearly 10 million US dollars on the copyright of Tetris.
But he did not disappoint. He just relied on Tetris, and he made unimaginable profits for Ren Hell. GB was able to succeed in the early stage and Tetris made great contributions.
Before Tetris became popular in the last life, Miya Arakawa could see the charm of this game, and of course, this world could also be seen.
"Ren Hell's American branch comes in person? Will Hell respect us enough?"
After closing the information in his hand, Jester smiled and said to Mark Seney, who was still frowning and sketching.
Perhaps not very satisfied with the picture I just finished drawing, Mark Seney sighed, grabbed the paper on the table and threw it aside.
He looked up at Jester, shrugged, and said with a smile: "It's not that you can respect us, but that you can respect American Cubes. The charm of this game is something that people in hell cannot see."
"They didn't say what they were going to talk to us?" Jester pulled over a chair and sat down, crossed his legs and asked casually.
Mark Seney frowned and thought for a while, and said, "I didn't talk to them carefully, but they meant that they wanted to buy our copyright directly. Even if they couldn't, they would at least plan to get the authorization of "American Cubes" on the home machine."
"Buy the copyright of "American Cubes"? They don't think so!" After hearing Mark Seney's words, Jester snorted coldly.
Then Mark Seney looked at Jester carefully, his face became serious, and he said seriously: "My personal opinion is that even the authorization of the household machine cannot be given to them. Our household machine development progress is very fast and will definitely be completed before the end of the year. At that time, it was just when we quickly distributed the goods with "American Cube" and gave Ren Dihe a very wrong decision to Ren Dihe's home machine copyright."
"I think so too." Jace nodded, touched his chin and thought for a while before speaking, "I mainly want to talk a little from Mina Arakawa's mouth, when will they be ready to release their FC in the United States."
"Do you think Nintendo will enter the United States? They can't see how depressed the current market for home game consoles in the United States?" Mark Seney was a little confused after hearing Jester's words. He wanted to make home game consoles because of his dreams and responsibilities, while Nintendo's president Yamauchi is a shrewd businessman. He will not do things that are obviously losing money.
In other words, Ren Dihe is optimistic about the future of video games?
"FC's sales in Japan are so hot, and they are out of stock. This may give them enough confidence. After all, Ren Hell's game is indeed doing well, and the US market is ten times that of Japan. He must be unwilling to give up if he doesn't want to try it." Jester explained carefully, and then he asked, "Didn't Arakawa say when he will arrive?"
"He said he must have arrived before noon today, and he had booked a hotel, a Japanese restaurant on Riberg Street. He said if you can arrive before noon, please be sure to come." Mark Seney nodded.
"Then let's go there at noon." A cold light flashed in Jester's eyes, and then he made a decision.
Then Jester discussed with Mark Seney the several tasks he had assigned before going to Los Angeles. After hearing this, Mark Seney immediately showed an excited expression on his face, and the look of looking at Jester also brought a hint of conscience.
"The alpha versions of the three games you designed are done. All the employees are very fascinated by the game. They all consistently comment that these three games are not inferior to "American Cubes"! Of course, everyone still has different loves, for example, I like Zuma the most, and Will Wright likes "Gem Maze" a little more... But it is foreseeable that if it is released, we will definitely succeed!" Mark Seni said excitedly, and then he was still dancing with some unstoppable hands. Obviously, he was very excited at this time.
"That's good. I'll draw out some people to finish the rest of the finishing work. After the BETA version is finished, each production will be put in the trial area on the first floor. Let the players try it out and see what they have. If it is good, we will improve it and strive to confirm the complete version by mid-next month."
Jester made his decision just after thinking for a moment, and then he turned to look at Mark Seney and showed a smile that made Mark Seney look a little creepy, "Mark, I'm going to make a new game, not a small-level game like "American Cubes", but a big production similar to your "Avengers", but a still picture. I hope to borrow someone from your production team to help me."
Hearing this, Mark Seney's face changed instantly. He hesitated for a moment before he said with difficulty: "Okay, I can draw one for you, but I want to make up another one from the rest."
"No problem." Jester smiled happily, "needless to say, one, it's okay to smoke two. I want Will Wright from your side, I see..."
Unexpectedly, before Jester finished speaking, Mark Seney's face suddenly turned pale. He grabbed a stack of paper on the table and smashed it. At the same time, he shouted: "Get out!"
Then Jester escaped from Mark Seney's room in a panic, and while escaping, he shouted loudly: "He's such a stingy guy! I don't want to borrow someone, so I'll find a better one!"
Although he had been together for only three or four days, Mark Seney had already felt the amazing talent in how to design an excellent game from Will Wright. The feeling was like seeing flying fireflies in the dark night and seeing scarabs in the fields. Just one glance was enough to be engraved in the heart and could not be forgotten.
And when Jester spoke up, he wanted to borrow Will Wright away, which was absolutely not allowed in Mark Seney's heart. In his heart, Will Wright was irreplaceable in his design team.
"This damn Jester! I always like to take advantage of others."
Mark Seney, who was still angry, thought so.
PS: If there is no manuscript saved, the code will be released immediately...so there is no fixed time to update...but it is not urgent, and it will definitely be updated every night and will not be interrupted.
Chapter completed!