Chapter 1043: A New Masterpiece in the Game!
At the end of the year, some ordinary companies are almost desperately trying to move forward and the momentum is about to stop, but in Xiangjiang, this does not seem to exist.
This may be related to the warm climate of Xiangjiang all year round, which makes people feel that everything is converging in winter, so people's motivation is still quite sufficient.
Especially in Xiangjiang, the place is small and densely populated, and the competition is still a bit big, and everyone always has to work hard in order to survive.
Perhaps only the two weeks before and after the Spring Festival is a rare opportunity for Xiangjiang people to relax.
In this year, even in Xiangjiang, Christmas is not a national festival, young people may care about it, but adults are working hard to make money, who has the heart to have fun?
In Asia, the only people who can work harder than the people of Xiangjiang are Koreans and Japanese themselves.
For example, the group of Japanese game design engineers in the Kirin Game Company of the Kirin Group.
After the release of Hong Kong Cube in February, and after all the rights were cleared in March, they started the second arcade game design and production non-stop.
Super Mario Bros.
This classic game, until 2020, existed on many players' consoles in Europe and the United States, and there are often people who continue to work hard to break the record.
Although this does not mean that the vitality of "Super Mario Bros." is extremely strong, at least before INDOS95 came out, in such a dozen years, "Super Mario Bros. has brought hundreds of millions of pure profits to Nintendo every year, dollars!"
Yin Jun needs money.
Although he had a very good start with Disney and United Arts Films in Hollywood, the huge debt of $3.7 billion still made Yin Jun feel a lot of pressure.
Disney's prosperity is not to be counted on at all in the short term.
Now Disney, if only relying on Disney TV channels and cartoons, can keep clearing all their $1 billion debt in 5 years, it is already thankful.
You must know that not a penny of Yin Jun's $3.7 billion loan is related to Disney's own $1 billion debt.
With the addition of this debt, Yin Jun's total debt is $4.7 billion, and it is almost $5 billion!
Forbes hasn't opened the rich list yet, but the world's top 50 super-richest people are starting with this number, right?
It's great that a person can earn $5 billion, but if he owes $5 billion, it's even more amazing, and it can crush the person at any time.
This is also one of the reasons why Disney's old courtiers who have been purged are waiting to see Yin Jun's jokes.
Yin Jun has not collapsed now, and the biggest contributor is the popularity of "Transformers" peripheral products, as well as the super high sales of "Kirin Weekly" and single books sold all over the world.
Everyone was laughing at Yin Jun for buying so many burdens at a high price, but in fact, Yin Jun himself realized that if it weren't for such a loss of money and such a big burden, would Americans be willing to sell these companies to themselves?
Don't even think about it!
Of course, this is not the way to go, and these companies must begin to learn hematopoiesis on their own and continue to make money, so as to fill these holes step by step.
Disney's movies have always been a big entry, and the continuous improvement of the Disney brand will also bring about the continuous development and growth of Disneyland, which will bring a steady stream of profits to Disney.
It's a pity that Disney doesn't have any shares in the two parks in Japan and France at all, and the share ratio is very low, which makes Yin Jun very dissatisfied, but there is no way to reverse it for the time being.
Relying on these two Disney parks in the United States alone, it is very difficult to have explosive revenue growth in a short period of time.
A very important change of the Disney brand by Michael Eisner in later generations was the development and sales of Disney peripheral products, but it took a long time to slowly begin to grow, thus bringing huge benefits to Disney.
What's more, Disney's movies are constantly innovating, bringing more and more fame to Disney, and it is also an important factor in saving this old animation entertainment group.
Even if you change to Yin Jun, you can't have earth-shaking changes in three or five years, the re-cohesion of fan power, and the continuous strengthening of a company always take time.
Therefore, if he wants to solve these huge loans, Yin Jun can only think of other ways.
This is the easiest and most straightforward way Yin Jun can think of to make the arcade and home game consoles that were all the rage in the 80s.
Compared with the large-scale games such as Warcraft and Dead Pesticides, which took thousands of years to complete the development at every turn, today's video games are simply outrageously simple.
Suffice it to say, with a good idea and a few production and development staff, a classic game can be born.
In fact, so many classic video games in the 80s were developed in this way.
So Yin Juncai so decisively bought the Japanese Genie Game Company, brought Nakata Tomogang and them to Xiangjiang, and let them do their best to develop the game.
Nakata Tomotsuyo's group of people don't have much creativity, but their basic skills are very solid, and they belong to craftsman-type talents.
It just so happens that Yin Jun has creativity, so this is complementarity.
It can be seen from the development and research of "Xiangjiang Cube" that their strength is still very strong, whether it is from the logic of the game, or the picture effect, speed and rhythm control...... Wait, this "Xiangjiang Cube" is no worse than the "Tetris" in the previous life, and even better than the first few versions, after all, what Yin Jun started playing is the version that is almost the 2000s.
After completing "Xiangjiang Cube", "Super Mario Bros. is their second job".
As long as they are not discouraged, they will continue to work tirelessly, and will not be complacent because they have achieved a little success.
However, "Super Mario Bros." is not only twice as difficult as "Xiangjiang Cube", but also ten times and eight times more difficult.
So it only took them a little more than a month to develop "Xiangjiang Cube", but it took a full 8 months to develop "Super Mario Bros.".
A total of 23 versions were repeated during this period, and with the addition of 6 excellent game engineers recruited by Tomoyo Nakata, it would have taken a little longer if it had been replaced with only 15 people from before.
Fortunately, at the end of November, the mass-released version of "Super Mario Bros. Bros. finally passed the test of all the engineers of Kirin Games and was brought to Yin Jun".
It is also because of the popularity of "Xiangjiang Cube" that the dubbing and soundtrack of "Super Mario Bros." this time can invite the best experts in the United States and Japan, repeatedly compare various versions, and finally come up with the most suitable plan.
Standing in front of the game console, Yin Jun skillfully played "Super Mario Bros.", and Nakata Tomotsu and several engineers watched behind him with a little nervousness and confusion.
They were sure that this was the first time Yin Jun had come into contact with the finished game of Super Mario Bros., but after Yin Jun only got used to it a few times, it was as if he had been able to clear the customs all the way through the game at a very fast speed, and he was more skilled than any of them as engineers.
Although the game has been tried repeatedly, the engineer is also worried that the boss will suddenly get stuck or have a problem with the program when trying the game, which is a shame.
It's just that what they were worried about didn't happen, and after Yin Jun cleared all the levels directly, when the victory music sounded, the game ran perfectly and smoothly, and it was very successful.
But Nakata Zhigang found that Yin Jun was actually frowning a little, and hurriedly said cautiously: "Jun Shao, do you think there is anything wrong with it?"
"Oh...... No. ”
Yin Jun shook his head, "Very good, to my surprise, you guys have made a great contribution this time!"
"Yes, yes, this is all thanks to the support of the company's funds, as well as the efforts of your colleagues, and the most important thing is that Junshao is invincible in your creativity!" Nakata Tomoyo is still low-key and modest, whether it is the character of obedience to his superiors as a Japanese person, or because the person standing in front of him is the chief planner of the game, he has no qualifications to be proud.
Naturally, he couldn't imagine that Yin Jun's melancholy came from the music at the end.
The music soundtrack during the game, in Yin Jun's opinion, can be remembered, so there is a little rhythm and tone of what is needed in the planning book, and it is hummed to Nakata Tomogang and them, so this music is the same as "Super Mario Bros." in the previous life.
But after completely clearing the customs and rescuing the princess, the final ending song was too long for Yin Jun to remember at all.
Therefore, the last music this time is completely different from what Yin Jun remembers.
Yin Jun can't say that it's bad, but it's a pity that the classic in his memory can never come back, although it is not bad to replace it.
"How are the preparations for the mass production of chips and shell accessories?"
"I have already negotiated with the electronics processing factory in Japan, and you think there is no problem, so I will take people to Japan in the afternoon, and they will work overtime to study the substrate in the past few days, and they will soon start mass production. Nakata Zhigang said, "The shell accessories are also simple, because the design of "Xiangjiang Cube" is very classic and can be used completely, so as long as they are given ten days to prepare, they can be completely ready." ”
"Can you catch up with January 1st and spread all over Xiangjiang?" Yin Jun asked.
"Yes!" Nakata Tomotsu said, "In fact, we are only preparing about 3,000 units in the first batch, and like the "Xiangjiang Cube", we will take them in Xiangjiang for actual operation experiments. This amount of chips and shells will be ready on December 15 and will be sent to the various arcades for them to play by Christmas at the latest. ”
"Good!"
Yin Jun nodded, "It's Christmas Eve!" Super Mario Bros. has done a great job, congratulations on making another game that can go down in history! Together with Kirin Games, you will become the object of everyone's admiration and worship!"
This time, not only Nakata Tomogang, but even several engineers who had not spoken next to him all had excitement on their faces.
They are all technical nerds, and they are not too particular about money or anything, but they can make such unprecedented achievements in the work they like, which is enough to make them feel extremely proud.
Even if the idea is Yin Jun, they work day and night to study and write programs, constantly overturning their previous mistakes...... The pain and suffering in this are also incomprehensible to ordinary people.
Especially now, a person as talented as Yin Jun praised them with such high-level words, which made them even more proud!