The company worked overtime, so it was slow, and it rushed out for an hour......

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When Miyamoto brought the news back to Japan, Yamauchi was overjoyed and immediately set about starting the hurricane plan. This is the code name for their first home console release, which means that it will sweep through Atari like a hurricane and dominate the entire Japanese market.

For this ambition, Hiroshi Yamauchi endured it for two years, from the failure of his own plan to the recourse to the long-term machine, all of which revealed his gambling nature.

In order to ensure the success of the initial release, Hiroshi Yamauchi's two teams ported two best-selling arcade games, Donkey Kong and the well-known Mario.

This is Nintendo's leading game show, the market has had good sales results, it is a pioneering achievement to be able to realize arcade shows on home game consoles, 021 processors plus independent graphics chips have completed this goal very well, up to 64K memory to ensure the graphics performance of this new game console.

Originally, Yamauchi was trembling, and all the plans were aimed at Atari, both in terms of hardware and game software, and it was necessary to surpass it in an all-round way.

A year allowed them to accomplish this task perfectly, and the new console was called "Home Computer" by Yamauchi, or FamilyComputer, or FC for short.

The FC host uses a 021-type risc processor manufactured by the Jiujiu factory, with a computing speed of one million instructions per second, and uses a special chip from Ricoh that specializes in processing images, supporting 64 colors, limited to memory, and can only display 24 colors on the screen at the same time.

This kind of functionality naturally sounds pitiful, not even as good as a mobile phone in the future, but it is not far behind the old arcade machines of the time, and it is enough to support those arcade games.

In order to achieve a more realistic arcade effect, Nintendo's engineers even improved the prototype, adding hardware sound sources, supporting rectangular wave 2 tone, triangle wave 1 tone, and murmur 1 tone, which made it an incomparable advantage over any previous game console that entered the home.

This is remarkable, although the sound produced by these simple sound sources is just monotonous electronic music, like the music greeting cards of later generations, but at that time, it seems that there were no computers to support music, sound cards have not yet appeared, and the appeal of such a game console named home computer to people can be imagined.

Although he has great confidence in hardware and software, Yamauchi is still not so confident, after all, his net worth and life are on this machine, so he is still not at ease after being fully prepared, and always pays attention to the trends in the industry.

It was as if God was helping him, and it was halfway through this plan, at the end of '82, Atari suddenly became turbulent overnight, and finally collapsed after holding on for three months.

As if the world was apocalyptic, the legendary brand of Atari began to undergo some changes in '82. Perhaps not Atari's own problem, but the loss of faith in the fledgling entertainment company.

Since its inception in 1972, Atari has been on a thriving trajectory, with a turnover ranging from millions to billions, surpassing the entire Hollywood by itself and becoming a model for Americans to get rich.

At that time, the video game industry and the computer industry were inseparable, and Apple wanted to sell itself to Atari at the beginning.

Interestingly, Atari's fortieth employee was none other than Steve Jobs, the future president of Apple. When Old Joe couldn't get along, he once begged Atari to carry the handle Bushnell: Boss, buy my Apple computer, you will get rich!

Bushnell, who was in the limelight, didn't take the toy of the apple in his eyes at all, so he naturally refused, and later remembered that he regretted it, but there is no such thing as "if" in this world.

Atari is so brilliant, even IBM has an idea. After Apple made its fortune, IBM jumped to the ground, and the most convenient and quick way they thought of at that time was to buy a microcomputer company to go public, and the target was the Atari game console (isn't it ridiculous, that's what it is!).

is such a giant in the industry who is not a bird, and it was finished overnight, which surprised everyone, of course, some people are happy and some are worried, and Hiroshi Yamauchi is mixed.

At the end of '82, after the initial madness, the gaming industry gradually showed a subtle change, and that was the resentment of the inferior games that flooded the market.

Because Atari pursues a development strategy, which is to sell machines at a high price and open the platform to anyone. As long as you want, you can release a program based on the Atari VCS console without spending a dime.

Of course, in the early days, this greatly enriched the products of this platform, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, limited to the function of VCS, even if you have the best ideas, you can't express it, there are few excellent works, and most of the products are similar design works.

The weakening market and increasingly fierce competition have forced people to start looking for another primitive stimulus, that is, restrictive games.

It seems that the first service item of all new technologies is the industry**, and this most primitive human desire has indeed stimulated the hot sales of game cards, but this is only temporary, and a faster decline will follow.

Atari had no choice but to show his leadership and spend $25 million to buy out the game adaptation rights of the popular movie "E•T" in an attempt to turn the tide.

It's just that the cloth boss has a heart, the market has no intention, and the E•T game servant, hundreds of thousands of game cards are unsalable, and finally had to be buried in the desert of the State of Mexico.

The failure showed Atari's decline, and the technology continued to evolve, and in '83 Atari finally realized the crisis and released the latest game console VCS5200.

History is always amazing, VCS5200 other performance is not good, the biggest "feature" is that it is not compatible with the VCS2600 game console with the highest market share, and the price is actually comparable to PC......

At this moment in history, Yamauchi was overjoyed and surprised. The good thing is that Atari has been thinking about it day and night, and the huge market gap seems to be so within reach, and the worry is that Atari has done everything wrong and left a mess, and people's impression of video games has fallen to the bottom, which makes the upcoming FC how to live.

However, the investment has been irreversible, the ordered goods have been prepared for a long time, and the most critical component processor has also been shipped to the ship, which is like an arrow on the bow and has to be sent.

The bad form stimulates Yamauchi's gambling nature, and it depends on whether he is dead or alive. Yamauchi originally planned to advertise a lot, hoard the goods, and release FC on Christmas Eve after whetting the appetite of players.

But the sudden death of the Atari empire has disrupted this seemingly perfect plan, and intelligence suggests that arcade giant Sega has a similar plan for a home machine, and its release time seems to have been a bit of a crash, and war is imminent.

Yamauchi immediately decided to start assembling the finished product as soon as the processors arrived in Hong Kong, and to purchase an additional 100,000 processors at any cost, so that FC could be released throughout Japan at the same time in July.

It was a huge, crazy project, and those in the know were shocked. However, Yamauchi's madness seems to have infected most people, and people are becoming more and more motivated, faithfully carrying out this plan like machines.

The news reached Hong Kong, and the long man who had just started the mass production of processors frowned.

"The factory has just been put into trial production, and the performance and quality of this processor are not too stable, can't you wait any longer?" Miyamoto persuaded Miyamoto in a long and soft voice, trying to get him to give up this crazy idea.

In fact, for a long time, it is just simplifying the processor, trying to reduce costs, and there is no problem in starting to mass produce 500,000 pieces of 021 processors in a month.

"Please be considerate of our president, we are willing to pay a higher price, please meet our request, please. Miyamoto bowed again and again, his face was almost against his pants, and when he saw that there was no one around, he knelt down for a long time with a snap, "Please!"

"Alright then, we'll just do our best. Chang Chang nodded with satisfaction, "This batch of 100,000 expedited chips will be added to $4 each, and our loss is too great." ”

“…… You're so dark!"

"Each other, each other!"