This New Year, Li Xuan has been quietly staying at home to accompany his family. On Chinese New Year's Eve, he and Zhong Chuhong also dressed up in disguise and went to Victoria Park to visit the flower market. After coming back, Li Xuan personally accompanied his mother to the Wong Tai Sin Temple to worship the New Year's first pillar incense.

This time, he can be regarded as a responsible good husband and son. Of course, Li Xuan also took the time to secretly go to Li Zhi to comfort him.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Hong Kong companies reopened, and the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year quickly dissipated. As soon as Li Xuan walked into the company, a series of greetings came to his face. As the scale of the Oriental Group became larger and larger, Li Xuan's wealth continued to rise, and ordinary employees in the company would have a sense of awe when they met him.

This may be the legendary self-esteem of not being angry! But today, everyone is obviously not suppressed by Li Xuan's aura, but is rushing towards him like moths to fire! On the first day of the new year, when the boss says an auspicious word, he can ask for a profit, and this is also a custom in Hong Kong.

Ordinary people's red see envelopes are also filled with ten or twenty yuan, begging for an auspicious lottery. For a generous boss, the red envelope may be fifty or one hundred yuan. After all, everyone has a share, and the extra expenses of the bosses are actually not a lot.

But Li Xuan is the richest man in the world, and as the "God of Wealth Li", he naturally can't be too stingy. His annual profit is encapsulated, but it is a big golden calf of 1,000 yuan.

The HK$500 Hong Kong dollar has a cow motif on it, so it is commonly known as the "big cow" by Hong Kong people. And the 1,000 dollar note has a larger face value and is golden. Therefore, it is also called the "big golden bull".

Just say a casual auspicious word, and the red envelope of 1,000 yuan will be in hand. Naturally, everyone didn't want to miss such a good thing! So everywhere Li Xuan went, it was immediately full of people.

"People were so welcoming. All the red packets in my pocket have been taken out by you! But don't worry, if you haven't got them, there will definitely be red packets. I'll send it right away, and I'll make sure everyone has a share!

As the so-called new year and new atmosphere, I sincerely hope that all colleagues can continue to work hard in the new year and contribute to the company's next greater glory!"

Li Xuan deliberately put a hundred red envelopes in his pocket before going out, but in the crowd of employees went to beg one after another. The hundred red envelopes were quickly used up, so I had to speak out a few words of appeasement first.

"Li Sheng, Happy New Year. Good luck, good bags!" Du Wenqiang made a gesture of reaching out to ask for a red envelope with a smile on his face to the boss who walked in the door.

"It's gone!" Li Xuan looked at Du Wenqiang angrily, "It must be that you, the general manager, are too stingy." As a result, your employees are all blocking in front of me to beg for praise!"

"Li Sheng. A poor person like me naturally doesn't dare to compare with you! I have already given out tens of thousands of yuan in benefits this morning, and my family's milk powder money is about to be lost by me!" Du Wenqiang said and gently touched his chest, looking very painful.

Doudou is Du Wenqiang's newborn daughter. Li Xuan didn't bother to pay attention to him, so he grabbed the phone and asked the assistant to send some red envelopes over and distribute them.

"I haven't been here for a long time, does the game company have any new plans this year?" Li Xuan asked after making the phone call and sitting on the sofa.

"Next month. The FC-2 home game is officially available for sale around the world. In May, The King of Fighters 2nd Street opportunity was listed. In August, the game "Sword and Sorcery" will be released on the East-DOS platform!" Du Wenqiang put away his previous hippie smile. Very formally introduced to Li Xuan a few of the most important matters of this year.

"Those people in the FC-2 project team are probably already scolding their mothers!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

The design of the FC-2, the main unit of the new generation of home video game consoles, was completed as early as 1982. As a result, for one reason or another, the FC-2 has been hidden from the light of day, and the only thing the project design team can do is to keep improving.

According to the original plan, the second-generation FC home TV game console should have been on the market as early as last year's Thanksgiving. However, at the end of August last year, the US Department of Commerce and the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry formally signed the "US-Japan Semiconductor Agreement" after nearly a year of arguing.

Li Xuan's butterfly effect began to appear, and the first Li Mei semiconductor agreement in another time and space was not officially signed until 1986, and now it is two years ahead of schedule. The most important reason for this is that Intel's current situation is far less nourishing than it was in another time and space.

In another time and space, the PC frenzy started by IBM in 1982 caused the sales of X86 series processors to skyrocket, creating huge profits for the company. But in this life, X86 has long been stillborn, and all of Intel's profits come from the memory business. So under the pressure of Japanese semiconductor companies, Intel's life is very difficult.

Although Intel is not the largest semiconductor company in the United States, its influence in the semiconductor field in the United States is beyond the reach of many other peers. Robert Noyce, one of the three founders of Intel, is known as the "father of Silicon Valley".

When Intel, in order to survive, mobilized the power of the entire Silicon Valley to put pressure on the U.S. government, the White House's efficiency immediately increased. The main content of the Japan-US semiconductor agreement is to set the export prices of six types of Japanese-made semiconductors to the United States and third countries, so as to prevent Japanese companies from dumping at low prices.

As a result, the agreement has just been signed, and the price of memory has risen accordingly. This not only increases the manufacturing cost of the FC-2 console, but also pushes up the cost of the gaming card. The most important reason why the launch plan of the FC-2 game console has been pushed back again and again is that the production cost is too high.

In the case of the CPU of the FC-2 console, the ERM-1 processor was sold at a wholesale price of $350 when it first came out, and now it is now priced at just $99. Only then did Oriental Games decide to officially mass-produce the FC-2 console.

The soaring price of memory has not only pushed up the cost of FC-2 consoles, but also directly increased the manufacturing cost of game cards. Especially with the FC-2 main engine performance has been greatly improved. A variety of new games tailored to the console require a larger memory chip.

And the profit created by game cartridges for game companies is actually higher than that of game consoles. After an urgent decision-making by Oriental Games. In the end, the original new product launch plan was cancelled. The company is preparing to redesign the second-generation FC home console, abandoning the use of game cartridges in favor of game discs.

The design of the game console has undergone such a big change, but the FC console design team still came up with a mature new plan within two months. In the past few years of waiting, they have already accumulated a variety of design solutions, including the use of game discs.

"What's this game called?" Li Xuan tried out a new game as he tried it out earnestly. He asked curiously.

In Du Wenqiang's office, there is a brand new FC-2 home TV game console. This disc in the console, presumably the original version. The beginning of the game does not have an intro prologue. Instead, he went directly to the plot from the beginning, so Li Xuan had no way of knowing the name of this game.

"The Legend of Zelda!" Du Wenqiang said, "This is the next main game promoted by FC-2, and the playability is very high!"

Li Xuan was stunned. I thought I had heard it wrong! The famous "The Legend of Zelda". It is naturally impossible for him not to play in his previous life. But the picture and protagonist of this game in front of Li Xuan are very different from the epoch-making game in his memory.

"Who designed this game?" Li Xuan was shocked in his heart, but asked quietly.

"The main creators are several Japanese, Shigeru Miyamoto, Tajiri Tomo, Sugimori Ken! By the way, at the Chinese New Year's Eve group luncheon, the two men sitting on your left are Tajiri and Sugimori Ken!" Du Wenqiang suddenly remembered.

Li Xuan came to Dongfang Games today, one of the original purposes. I just learned about Tajiri's information, but I didn't expect to find another bigger surprise. It can only be said that Li Xuan has not paid attention to the specific situation of the game company for a long time. Otherwise, he should have noticed the name as early as the beginning of the project of "The Legend of Zelda".

"Show me the information of a few of them!" Li Xuan said.

"The Legend of Zelda" is Shigeru Miyamoto's greatest work besides "Mario Brothers". It can be said that this game directly defines the basic gameplay of Japanese RPG games.

In the past, the selling point of games like "Mario Bros." and "Tank Wars" was fast and smooth operation. The essence of "The Legend of Zelda" lies in exploration, and players must search out the nine labyrinths hidden underground by Galodorov one by one in order to successfully pass the level. The game has a high degree of freedom, and the plot changes subtly depending on the order in which the player discovers the maze.

Li Xuan uses the controller to control the protagonist of the game, using a first-person top-down perspective to explore the map. This "The Legend of Zelda" is actually more like the style of European and American RPG games, dungeon exploration, first-person perspective, and open-ended gameplay, the three most important styles of European and American RPGs are all vividly reflected.

Li Xuan played for about half an hour, and this "The Legend of Zelda", which was many different from later generations, did not disappoint him at all, and the essence of the game of the same name in another time and space was completely transplanted.

At this time, Du Wenqiang had already sorted out the information, and the first information on the top was introduced by Shigeru Miyamoto. He was also the original designer of The Legend of Zelda, and many of the game's ideas are said to have been inspired by his childhood fairy tatale fantasies.

Shigeru Miyamoto and Junhei Yokoi were poached from Nintendo to Oriental Games by Li Xuan as early as early 1981. Two years ago, Shigeru Miyamoto was seconded to Hong Kong from the Japanese branch through a regional exchange program.

In the same year, Tajiri, who had just graduated from high school, did not join the magazine "Oriental Games", but came to work at the Hong Kong headquarters of Oriental Games under the recommendation of the magazine's editor.

Tajiri has been very fond of playing games since he was a child, and often skips school for this. As a result, he had poor grades and skipped school, and almost didn't even graduate from high school. His father, who worked as a salesman at Nissan Motor Company, originally hoped that he would work for TEPCO, but Tajiri refused.

It's not for nothing that Tajiri loves to play games, and he always likes to study a new game in detail. So when the magazine "Game World" under Oriental Games Company was released in Japan, Tajiri quickly published a series of game strategy articles in this magazine and gained a lot of fans.

With the support of Oriental Game Company, Game World magazine has grown from scratch to become the world's largest and most influential game magazine. It has a circulation of more than 250,000 copies in Japan alone and a global circulation of up to 1 million. The rating of new games in each issue of "Game World" is an authoritative opinion widely recognized by game fans around the world, which can directly affect the purchase choices of many game fans.

But Tajiri's ambition is not to be a journalist or a writer for a game magazine, but to develop a game himself. So Tajiri was finally appreciated by his editor and recommended to work in the R&D department of Oriental Games.

Shigeru Miyamoto and Tomotoshi Tajiri, who are also Japanese, quickly became good friends in Hong Kong. Li Xuan had to sigh at the miracle of fate! Many things in this world have become unrecognizable because of his appearance, while others are still stubborn and have not changed.

In another time and space, Tajiri and Miyamoto Shigeru are also good friends, and the reason why the two protagonists in "Pokémon" are named Ash and Shigeru is because Tajiri Tomoka uses his own names and those of his friends.

It's just that in another time and space, the link between the two of them is Nintendo. And in this life, the two went around in a circle, and finally met, met, and got to know each other in another company.

Shigeru Miyamoto and Tomotomo Tajiri were mainly responsible for building the story framework of The Legend of Zelda, while manga artist Ken Sugimori was responsible for the game's graphic design. Li Xuan didn't know much about this Ken Sugimori, and he didn't know that he was the manga artist of "Pokémon" in another time and space, and the cute Pikachu was sketched under his brush.

In another time and space, Tajiri met Ken Sugimori because he compiled a magazine about various game guides to sell, which aroused the interest of Ken Sugimori, who also likes to play games.

In this life, Ken Sugimori also liked Ueda Jiri's various strategies, and specially wrote to the editor of "Game World" to ask for Tajiri's address. After Tajiri came to Hong Kong, he recommended a friend to his boss, so Ken Sugimori simply resigned from the original comic book club and came to Hong Kong to break into the world.

Some people's encounters may be fate!(To be continued......