Chapter 29: Eyeing the Gods
Ying Qinglian felt as if she had been hit by an electric current and shuttled through her body!
All of a sudden, there was a bright and brilliant light in his eyes!
She's got it!
Li Fangcheng looked at Ying Qinglian, who suddenly had a significant change in her whole person, and couldn't help but be very happy, it seemed that this explanation was not in vain.
"Thank you, boss!" Ying Qinglian suddenly stood up, bent down and bowed to Li Fangcheng to thank him.
"Hehe, sit down, you understand the concept. Li Fangcheng waved his hand and signaled not to be so polite.
Li Fangcheng was actually still secretly smiling in his heart, don't look at the beauty of the mean, it seems to have been solved, but the next series of requirements are enough to make this group of people anxious.
After the beauty of the mean, the core requirements in the following planning, as well as the setting of the "candy box", the experience of the "triple door", the realm of "beautiful dressing", and the coaxing of "fairy tale fables", which of these steps can be easily completed?
That's why a game takes a lot of time from idea to launch, and it takes a year, two, or even a few years to get out there.
But fortunately, in this era, players have not been raised tricky, so now these will not be as harsh as later generations, and now good games, fun and exciting, have become the first choice of players, as for the style or something, or secondary, who made this an era of game scarcity?
Now and this opportunity,It's also the last chance before the 16-bit machine is developed.,Once the 16-bit machine is developed,The expressiveness of the picture shows a geometric rise.,Since then, the game has begun to have the style attributes of various departments.,In the final analysis,It's because the expressiveness of the 8-bit machine is too weak.γ
Getting back to the point, Li Fangcheng continued to point out his troops.
"As for Ping Xiangtong, I remember that you have a passport and have been to the Soviet Union, right? You and Zhang Guomao have a trip to the Soviet Union, and I need you to buy all the copyrights and patent rights of a thing from the Soviet government, and directly buy it out! The price is not a problem, as long as the negotiation is reached, you will decisively take it down!" Li Fangcheng suddenly remembered that now in 1987, there was one thing that had to be done immediately, otherwise the time would not come.
"Oh, what can make a boss with eyes above the top look at you?" asked Ping Xiangtong, raising her eyebrows.
"A small game called Tetris, which is now well-known in the Soviet Union, but the potential of this game is incomparable, and its influence is at least the same level even above our coming to find fault and Lianliankan, so we first obtained the approval of a game called Alexei, and at the same time negotiated with the Soviet government to buy it. β
Once on Nintendo, there was a game with GB, that is, gamd boy with a huge success, in the history of the game is not even under the influence of Super Mario puzzle game, in China called Tetris generation of masterpieces!
Of course, it's not called Tetris yet, and now the Soviet Union hasn't disintegrated, but the potential of this game is undoubted, and the world's incomplete statistics sell 130 million copies, a representative of a generation of masterpieces!
It's just that Tetris still has a fatal problem to solve, otherwise the next Age of Wonders will be surrounded by entangled lawsuits like Nintendo in the previous life.
The reason is Tetris, which is known as the most complicated copyright dispute battle in the history of gaming!
Tetris, now known as Tetris, Russian: Π’Π΅ΡΡΠΈΡ, is a game created by the Russian Alexei Brown. In June 1984, Pakitnov began to think about developing some simple games on his own computer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and after a period of experimentation, he was inspired by another jigsaw puzzle game, which he considered having different shapes fall one after another, stacking them at the bottom of the rectangle to make them fit into a complete row, and then eliminating them, with the help of two other companions, he finally completed the game.
And in 1985, Alexei ported the program to the personal computer, which spread in the office, and later Alexei wanted to sell the game, but for the country that was in the socialist halo at that time, Alexei did not sell it several times, and was disheartened, and finally handed over the copyright to the Academy of Sciences.
At the end of 1986, Robert Stein, a manager of the British game company Andromeda, who had moved from a Hungarian programmer to Tetris on Apple II and Commodore 64, noticed this business opportunity, and immediately went to the Soviet Union to find Alexei to negotiate to buy the copyright, but unfortunately he was refused, because Alexei had actually given the copyright to the Academy of Sciences.
Therefore, without obtaining any copyrights, an angry Stein claimed that he owned the rights to the game, which was developed in Hungary and sold to Mirrorsoft, a company in the United Kingdom that is only two letters apart from Microsoft, and Spectrum Holobyte Games in the United States.
In November 1986, the game was first released on PC from Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom under the slogan "the first game from the Iron Curtain countries", and it was not until 1987 that Stein obtained the rights to the PC from Alexei and the government.
Without knowing it, Mirrorsoft continued to sell the rights to Tetris to the next company, Atari, which has already sunset SX, and Spectrum Holobyte also sold the rights to Tetris to BPS, the producer of RB, and produced and released 2 million copies, which attracted Nintendo's attention.
Minoru Arakawa, the manager of Nintendo's U.S. branch at the time and the son-in-law of the old president Yamauchi Pu, thought that Tetris was the most suitable game for GB and was bound to become an important help, so he found BPS director Henk Rogers to get the rights to the handheld, so a copyright war began.
This copyright war was finally obtained by Rogers and sold to Nintendo for $8 million, and Nintendo successfully transplanted Tetris on GB, Tetris has made outstanding achievements in GB, and its status, like the founding fathers, is comparable to the later savior Pokemon!
Tetris, a best-selling game that has been a bestseller for 30 years, finally ended in a big victory for Nintendo, and Nintendo relied on Tetris to successfully obtain countless profits!
So now, no matter what, we can't let the copyright of this game leak again!
Now is the time before Mirrorsoft and Spectrum Holobyte sell the rights, if it is a month late, this game will appear on the tables of Atari and BPS!
"Alexei is in the Soviet Academy of Sciences, so you can find him directly by going to the Academy of Sciences to inquire, but the copyright is in the hands of the Academy of Sciences, so you can buy it directly from the Academy of Sciences, if the price is not more than 5 million US dollars, you can take it directly, if it really doesn't work, the maximum is controlled at the limit of 8 million US dollars!" Li Fangcheng thought clearly about the current time cut-off point, and told Ping Xiangtong all the arrangements.
When Li Fangcheng said this price, the eyes of a group of people widened in an instant.
"Boss, is this game so expensive?" Lin Yinger frowned and asked, and Zhang Yun, who had just taken office, also looked at Li Fangcheng puzzled.
"Don't doubt that if we don't make a move, after half a year, the value of this game will increase several times, and even several times after a year, and after a few years, it will increase dozens of times!" Li Fangcheng replied with great affirmation.
Hiss~
There is no need for Li Fangcheng to say anything now, this value alone already says everything!
"Zhao Tieping and I are also going to go to the UK to find a game company called Andromeda, the current copyright, has been sold by Aklesh to a manager named Stein, although the agreement does not have much effect, but it must also be recovered, otherwise there will be a lot of disputes later. Li Fangcheng said to Zhao Tieping about the next itinerary.
"Then boss, which part of my main task is I going to do now?" Lin Ying'er looked at Li Fangcheng and instructed the affairs of other departments, and had not yet talked about administration, so she asked a little anxiously.
"Hehe, you also have a huge and arduous task here, that is, to go to the University of Science and Technology, invite a person named Meng Hao, who is a graduate student, majoring in computer science, to our company, if you can't find him in the school, find him in the arcade hall next to his school, let him be the arcade director, if he is not lucky, let Ling Donghua compare with him. Li Fangcheng said with a smile.
"Meng Hao, it's rare that you have someone you value so much, boss. Lin Yinger said curiously.
Li Fangcheng pointed at Ling Donghua and said: "Don't look at Huazi, I have learned a lot of things in the past month or so, but in terms of skills, now I can only overpower this person's line, and this Meng Hao has a good view of the overall situation, has strong organizational skills and combat acumen, and attaches great importance to emotions, so once you bring it over, the arcade project will be basically stable." β
"Boss, this person is so powerful, I don't believe it! It's good that he doesn't come, and when he comes, I'll let him know what strength is!" Ling Donghua said with an unconvinced expression.
"Haha, okay, I'm looking forward to your performance!" Li Fangcheng smiled, and exploded King Ling Donghua to the army commander Meng Hao, this is very good-looking.