The JC's C62 steam locomotive was once used as an important means of transportation along the Hudson coast of the United States, so it was also known as the "Hudson-shaped car", and it was the nickname of the car that the Kudo brothers adopted as the registered name of the company.

Even more exaggerated, Yuji Kudo liked the C62-2 unit of the C62 steam locomotive, which is the No. 2 part, so he set the last four digits of the company phone number to 4662 and the post office number to 062.

However, the company's headquarters is located in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan.

It does not match the number of the post office.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

Having a company doesn't mean you can make money.

After it all began, business did not go as well as it should, and in 1979 there was a radio boom in Japan, and radio communication became one of the great magic weapons for young people in Japan to catch up with the trend.

Hudson, also known as Hudson, quickly grew into a franchise company that developed communication software, and even began developing game software for PCs.

But there are so many game development companies, and Hudson is not the only one who has seen this cake, so why is it your turn that Hudson can share this immature cake?

In the early days of the Japanese computer software industry, known as the "Dark Ages", there were hundreds of development companies, that is, companies, that were as small as one person.

All of them flocked to the market and sprung up like mushrooms, similar to the later powerful companies, Enix, Koei, Ascii, GameArt, etc., were born during this period, and the fierce competition in the PC market with only hundreds of thousands of installed units can be imagined!

If it is evenly divided, it will not be enough for everyone to play!

Hudson also emitted his own energy on this battlefield.

At the beginning, using a simple BASIC language to imitate, transplanting some European and American interesting games, this practice did have a small success, but soon fell into disorderly competition and struggled to extricate itself, just a few years, to the beginning of 1984, the entire Hudson company's liquidity was basically dried up, and it had to close down.

The hardships of entrepreneurship are something that anyone who has experienced it personally cannot bear to look back on.

There is nothing wrong with that.

At that time, the Kudo brothers could be said to have fallen into an endless quagmire, and they were miserable!

The Kudo brothers wander the streets of Tokyo like lost drunkards, and when they stumble in front of the window of a department store, they see many young people gathered outside the window to comment on the products displayed in the window.

Driven by curiosity, the two brothers squeezed into the crowd to see what it was that could attract the attention of so many young people.

It didn't matter if they saw a red and white machine in front of them in the glittering window, then they lifted it for the first time, it turned out that this was Nintendo's FC game console!

It was the appearance of this FC that ignited the hope of the dream of rebirth of the two brothers, who had fallen into the abyss.

At that time, Nintendo had just gained a foothold, and had not yet developed the power of the later emperor.

After the Kudo brothers stumbled upon FC's super popularity, they vowed to develop game software on this console with extremely perverted popularity!

So as soon as the two discussed, they had an idea, and immediately hurried to the Nintendo headquarters in Kyoto, asking to meet with Nintendo President Yamauchi Pu, who is known for his "bad temper".

Hudson broke all the way to Nintendo, and this behavior is not bold!

It's like someone broke into Apple and said they wanted to make software for Apple......

The crazy behavior caught the attention of Yamauchi Pu.

It just so happened that at this time, Pu Yamauchi was struggling with the growing demand for FC games.

So someone came all the way to make a game for Nintendo???

What a good thing!

Yamauchi Pu chose to meet with two reckless young men.

When he first met the Kudo brothers, Yamauchi really felt that having more franchisees come in to develop game software for his console was not only a symbol of Nintendo's strength, but also a mutually beneficial thing!

However, this joy did not bring Yamauchi much time.

When I learned that the small company of the two Kudo brothers had recently faced bankruptcy!

Yamauchi Pu almost didn't give the first second of the order to drive them out,

It was only the repeated assurances and determination of the two Kudo brothers that left a glimmer of possibility for Yamauchi to consider.

At this time, Masayuki Uemura, the head of Nintendo's second development department, happened to hear about it on the side.

So I don't know why, under the mission of the gods, he told Yamauchi Pu what he thought.

In fact, it is to tell Yamauchi that their company has also used software developed by Hudson, and it is used well!

Because of these words, Yamauchi authorized the Kudo brothers to develop game software for FC!

Of course, the premise is that they need to pay a significant deposit for game development.

Although the weight of this deposit is not small, the Kudo brothers still collected all their assets and sold everything they could, just to guarantee money for this job of "developing games for Nintendo FC".

Hudson at this time, faith, supreme!

This decision allowed Hudson to begin the official pace of progress in the company's history.

In a short period of time, but only a month or two, Hudson made his first game.

LodeRunner, alias, digging for gold!

This game is the first game software made by Hudson when Hudson was launched on the Nintendo FC console in 1984!

This game is Hudson's first product after reorganizing the company!

The entire company has been engaged in the development of FC game software and peripheral equipment.

When the game was first released, the Kudo brothers were not sure if the game would make money, let alone any fantasies about bringing the company back to life with this game.

They just want to get some income.

However, when this game was put on the shelves of game stores, the response of the entire market was undoubtedly strong and enthusiastic!

The first batch of 500,000 copies of "Gold Digging" was sold out!!

This big surprise almost fell from the sky, and the Hudson company went crazy!

In particular, the Kudo brothers not only paid off all their debts with the money they earned from "digging for gold", but they even had a surplus to give their employees financial rewards for the whole year!

What is striking is the story of the two Kudo brothers who spent a lot of money to charter a passenger plane and flew to Hawaii with their employees for a vacation!

This experience made everyone stunned.

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