Chapter Seventy-Four: The Legend of Journey to the West
Li Zetian knew the purpose of Nolan Bushnell's visit to Sunbird, but he still knowingly asked, "Mr. Nolan Bushnell, may I ask why you came to Sunbird?"
Nolan Bushnell replied straight to the point: "I hope that four of Sunbird's games will be ported to the Home-Pong home console." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Li Zetian smiled faintly and did not speak, he knew that Nolan Bushnell would continue to speak.
"Currently, Sunbird's games only run on Apple-ll PCs. However, Apple-ll is too expensive, which discourages many ordinary families. But Home-Pong is different, it costs only $299, which is affordable for the vast majority of families in the United States. And so far, the Home-Pong has sold 125,000 units, while the Apple-ll has sold just over 10,000 units in total. If Sunbird ported its games to Home-Pong, it would definitely be able to sell much more than on the Apple-ll platform! And as Home-Pong's sales increase, Sunbird's games will sell even more!!"
Nolan Bushnell looked at Li Zetian with a smile and confidence, "Chronos, this is a total win-win for both of our companies!"
Li Zetian nodded, "Yes, it sounds very tempting......!
At the sound of "but", Nolan Bushnell couldn't help but frown.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Nolan Bushnell, Sunbird has signed an exclusive game supply contract with Apple, so we can't cooperate with Atari!" Li Zetian said with a very sorry look, in fact, it was completely nonsense!
Sunbird Inc. has no restrictions on its games!
But Nolan Bushnell didn't know, and when he heard this, he also showed a regretful expression.
"It's a pity!!" Nolan Bushnell shook his head, thinking that Li Zetian was still too-young, too-simple, how could he sign such a contract?!!
Li Zetianxin said, if you don't suppress Atari, how can you buy it in the future?
"Chronos, do you have any other games in development at Sunbird? Maybe you should consider porting it to Atari's home console!"
Li Zetian shook his head and said, "Not for the time being." We believe that there is still potential for Chinese Cubes, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Super Arkanoid, so we intend to improve and refine them. ”
"Well, then I'll take my leave, and I won't bother you!" Nolan Bushnell said, rising from his chair.
Li Zetian smiled and watched him leave.
Subsequently, Li Zetian called the employees of Sunbird Company for a meeting.
"The four games of the Sunbird have been a huge success, and next, we are going to take advantage of the victory and chase the !!"
Li Zetian paused and said, "First of all, these four games need to develop sequels!"
One of the tricks of the game industry to cheat money, develop a sequel!!
"Secondly, we will also make a large-scale role-playing game - "Journey to the West"!"
"Mr. Li, is this "Legend of Journey to the West" related to "Journey to the West"?" a Chinese employee asked.
Li Zetian nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, it does have a bit of a relationship, "Journey to the West" is adapted from "Journey to the West". In the far east, there is an ancient country called 'Huaxia', where people live happily and well-being, and are peaceful, but suddenly one day, the door of time and space opened, and the demons invaded, in order to save the Huaxia Kingdom, the warriors of the Huaxia Kingdom followed the guidance of the prophet all the way to the west, overcoming thorns and thorns, improving their combat upgrades, and finally came to the distant holy land to take out the Demon Sword!"
"Journey to the West" is Tang Sanzang with three apprentices to fight monsters and learn from them, and in "Legend of Journey to the West", players can choose three enemies as their combat partners on the road, so as to make the gameplay more colorful, these enemies can be knights, priests, wizards, magicians, or some monsters and other various identities, and the characters must reach at least two hundred. Of course, due to the limited storage capacity of the game cartridge, it is necessary to write a special algorithm to make game characters in a modular random synthesis way, that is, each character can be pieced together from a small module, these small modules include eyes, hair, ears, mouth, clothes, shoes, colors, weapons, skills, etc., therefore, the game cartridge does not need to save the data of each character, there is a module library on the line, thus saving a lot of storage space. The same can be done for maps in order to save storage space. With the storage space freed up, we can make each module into high-definition pixels, making the game look even more beautiful!"
When everyone heard this, they were very surprised, they didn't expect to be able to develop a game like this!!
Suddenly, they looked at Li Zetian one by one full of admiration and admiration!
Li Zetian continued at this time: "When the game is running, the character and map will be generated according to a special algorithm, if the player does not accept this character, then after the battle, the character data will be deleted! When entering the next map, the previous map will be automatically deleted!"
"As for the game's combat mode, it's a relatively simple turn-based system! As for what is a turn-based system? In short, it's one side that attacks and then the other team attacks, and the cycle goes on until the battle is over!"
After listening to Li Zetian's words, everyone was shocked, as if the gods of the game industry were giving them a lecture.
If the game is developed according to Li Zetian's intentions, this game must be an incomparably magnificent production!!
Before everyone came back to their senses, Li Zetian stretched out three fingers at this time, and said lightly: "Three years, I will give you three years to complete this game! Art, design the storyline, write code, etc., presumably three years is enough! Guangguang, you are Chinese, and you know more about "Journey to the West", so this game will be handed over to you to be responsible!!" In the end, Li Zetian looked at a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old Chinese young man.
"Yes, I promise to complete the task!" Wu Guangguang didn't expect that he would be entrusted with a heavy task, and he was immediately excited, and quickly nodded in response.
Li Zetian nodded, then glanced at everyone, and said: "Finally, let me tell you a piece of news, the company will further expand and recruit some hardware engineers to come in, and soon, Sunbird Company will enter the arcade and home machine market!"
Bang Bang Bang!
When the crowd heard this, they applauded.
The better the company develops, the group of people who are the company's veterans will naturally make huge profits, because they all own a part of the options.
Li Zetian said: "Okay, it's !! to disperse."
"Chinese Cubes", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Arkanoid" are four games that make Sunbird a lot of money, but it is true that as Atari CEO Nolan Bushnell said, the Apple-ll platform is too small, and Sunbird can actually make more money.
So, immediately after Sunbird earned its first money on the Apple-ll platform, it was decided to start a hardware project.
Home game consoles are a bit difficult to develop, Atari has spent $100 million to develop the second-generation home game console 2600, and Sunbird currently does not have so much money to develop home game consoles.
So, arcade is a good choice.
Atari started by developing arcade machines!
In addition, Li Zetian has a secret weapon!!
"I'm sorry, Nintendo, my brother's secret weapon is to copy your ...... again"
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