Nolan Bushnell couldn't help but smile wryly when he received the takeover offer from Sunbird. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He never imagined that the intern who had interned at Atari in the past would actually buy Atari in turn!

Subsequently, Nolan Bushnell convened a shareholder meeting to discuss the issue.

"Sunbird has officially made a takeover bid for Atari, do you have any suggestions?" asked Nolan Bushnell.

When everyone heard this, their expressions were very surprised.

Immediately, one of them asked, "Bushnell, how much does Sunbird intend to spend on Atari?"

"$23 million......" Nolan Bushnell replied.

"Oh, Warner Bros. is only willing to give $20 million, and we can make another $3 million! Nolan Bushnell, I'm in favor of negotiating with Sunbird, maybe we can get more!"

"I agree too!"

“……”

The shareholders present expressed their support.

Atari is facing the crisis of broken capital chain at the moment, and there is a strong rise of rival Sunbird Company, shareholders naturally hope to throw away this hot potato as soon as possible, in case it is smashed in their own hands, it will be a big loss.

Nolan Bushnell is a man who really likes to make games, and he actually admires Li Zetian very much, and he is more inclined to sell Atari to Sunbird. Warner Bros. is a film and television company with no experience in running and developing games, and Nolan Bushnell is actually very worried about the terrible result of Atari's sale to Warner Bros. and the dire result of the layman's guidance to the insider, which will lead to the bankruptcy of Atari. If it weren't for the fact that Atari was in dire need of money, Nolan Bushnell would not have contacted Warner Bros......

At this moment, seeing that everyone had decided to negotiate with Sunbird Company, Nolan Bushnell couldn't help but nodded, and then said: "Okay, then according to what everyone said, accept the negotiation invitation of Sunbird Company!"

After the meeting, Nolan Bushnell called Sunbird and agreed to negotiate the next day.

Li Zetian laughed in Wu Guangguang's office, "As I expected, Atari is willing to accept our acquisition offer!"

Wu Guangguang also laughed and said: "After the annexation of Atari, Sunbird is the United States, no...... It's the biggest game company in the world! Atari's arcade and home game console technology belongs to us, which just fills the shortcomings of Sunbird in these two places!"

"Yes, after all, Sunbird is not well established, and its hardware technology is far from Atari. However, from Sunbird's acquisition of Atari, we can draw a conclusion: that is, only the company that can make a good game will stand in the end! In other words, the game is the core competitiveness of the company. If Sunbird can't make a good game in the future, then one day, Sunbird will follow in the footsteps of Atari and be acquired by other companies!"

Li Zetian saw that Wu Guangguang was a little proud, so he said these words and knocked him down. In fact, Li Zetian's words can be called a wise quote in the game industry.

When Wu Guangguang heard this, he knew that Li Zetian was warning him, so he nodded and said, "Got it, Mr. Li, I will let Sunbird Company always maintain the vitality of innovation and make better games!"

"Hmm!"

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At about 10 o'clock the next morning, Nolan Bushnell arrived at Atari with two Atari executive directors.

Li Zetian and Wu Guangguang had been waiting for a long time, and when they learned that they were coming, they immediately greeted them.

The two sides briefly greeted each other, and then came to the reception room.

Li Zetian's eyes stared at Nolan Bushnell and the others like eagles, and he asked directly: "Mr. Nolan Bushnell, I wonder if the board of directors of Atari accepts the acquisition conditions of Sunbird Company?"

The two executive directors on Atari's side did not look at each other in the face of Li Zetian's sharp gaze, and at the beginning of the negotiations, they lost the upper hand in momentum.

Seeing this, Nolan Bushnell couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart.

"Mr. Li, don't you think a $23 million acquisition of Atari is too cheap?"

"Cheap? I think $23 million is expensive, this is already a premium acquisition!" Li Zetian said lightly, "I believe you should understand the current situation of Atari, so I won't repeat it." Right now, Warner Bros. and Sunbird want to buy Atari, but how can a media company that makes movies, television, records, and books run a good game company? Do they understand what the essence of a game company is? They understand what young people are interested in games...... It would be different if Atari had merged into Sunbird, which is a dynamic and energetic gaming company, and our employees are a group of young people who are developing games for fun, not all for money. Mr. Nolan Bushnell, do you remember when you founded Atari?"

After hearing this, Nolan Bushnell's face changed slightly, and Warner Bros. said that after the acquisition of Atari, Ray Casal would replace him as chairman, and Ray Casal, who used to run an Egyptian underwear manufacturing factory and produced impeccable high-end underwear. But the lingerie merchant had no idea what teenagers' interest in games was, his knowledge of electronics came only from the outdated Scientific American magazine, and he hated his management style at Atari, which he thought was too undisciplined to look like a regular company, and once he took office, he hired graduates from Harvard Business School and other prestigious universities to replace the entire management team at Atari. But Nolan Bushnell knew that if he did, many of the best game designers would leave Atari, leading to a serious brain drain.

The management style of Sunbird is almost the same as that of Atari, after all, Li Zetian has interned from Atari and is in the same vein, and after the merger of the two companies, they can naturally integrate well.

Nolan Bushnell pondered for a minute or two, and finally decided, "I can accept Sunbird's conditions, but I have one more condition!" he said.

"What conditions?" asked Li Zetian.

"I and other employees must be hired on a permanent basis, and I must be guaranteed not to fire any Atari employees for three years, if they have not made any serious mistakes!"

"I thought it was some condition, but it turned out to be this. Okay, I agreed!" Li Zetian replied with a smile.

Atari has a lot of talent, and Nolan Bushnell has been recruiting top designers and engineers in the gaming industry since 1971.

On the same day, Sunbird had a great deal to acquire Atari and the two parties signed an agreement to acquire Atari.

After signing, Nolan Bushnell felt relieved and excited. Atari will be a subsidiary of Sunbird in the future, Li Zetian said that he will fully support Atari to develop the second generation of home game consoles, and at the same time, Sunbird's four games will be ported to the arcade and Home-Pong home game consoles developed by Atari!

Back at the office, Nolan Bushnell bumped into a Warner Bros. negotiator.

Ray Casal asked in a condescending tone, "Nolan Bushnell, what are you thinking about?, please don't waste any more time, give me an answer right away!!

"Okay, Mr. Ray Casal, then I'll give you an answer right away!" Nolan Bushnell paused and said coldly, "My reply is, you can get out of !!."