Super Mario Bros. has been on the market for a while, with excellent gameplay, excellent graphics, and quickly conquered many players.

In the absence of "Super Mario Bros." advertisements in any media, the sales in the first week easily exceeded 100,000.

With such sales figures in the first week of the infamous period, you can expect from your heels that the total sales of this game must have exceeded one million.

After analyzing the gameplay and presentation of this game, a large number of similar game projects were launched.

Hudson, who is short of programmers, is also targeting this market.

Although Hudson is not a programmer, he has a killer feature, which is Nintendo's identity as a third party.

Since I can't make a similar game now, I just go to the arcade and find a similar game and adapt it with them.

In order to avoid the embarrassment of "Interstellar Force" from happening again, they have even thought that this game will be a facelift from the beginning of the port, so that the original manufacturer has nothing to do with this game.

Some people may wonder, will anyone agree to such strict conditions? Aren't their games the same as their own children?

That's right.

However, this world really sells children, and it is not strange to sell a game for money.

Soon, Hudson's marketing department found a game similar to Super Mario Bros. - "Wonder Boy".

The main character of this game is a wild man in a Hawaiian grass skirt, and he is in the rainforest in the background.

The whole game is a story of a wild man named "Wonder Boy", who picks up stone axes, eats fruits, and passes through one level after another.

When Yuji Kudo saw the game, he immediately decided to port the game.

"Takahashi, how is your work during this time? Yuji Kudo called Takahashi to the office and asked for warmth.

Takahashi replied modestly, "I'm not very busy, everything is on the right track now, just do it step by step." President, why did you call me?"

"You sit first. Yuji Kudo waited for Takahashi to sit down before continuing, "That's right, Super Mario Bros. is really popular, you have a good eye." The company wants to transplant a similar game to the platform of the red and white machine, rubbing this hot wind, the game has been chosen, called "Wonder Boy", which is a game on the arcade.

To prevent something like Star Force from happening again, I'm going to change the skin of the game.

You're so popular right now, I want to use your name on this game and make this game "Takahashi Celebrity's Adventure Island", do you have any opinions?"

Yuji Kudo asks for opinions, not whether it is okay or not. It can be seen that he already has a decision in mind.

Takahashi didn't have any reason to refuse, he said, "Since you have your name like that, President, let's call it this one." However, I have a proposal to register 'Takahashi Celebrity' as a trademark. ”

"Smack!, you're paying attention!", Yuji Kudo agreed, patting the table, "If you have time, you can also come and participate in the porting of this game." Young people like you, it never hurts to learn more. ”

"Got it. Takahashi said.

Although the project "Takahashi's Celebrity Adventure Island" has been established, Hudson did not start promoting it immediately as usual.

Because, now the focus of publicity is still the game "Gold Diger".

If it were because of a work that was originally a follow-up and ruined the plan to sell millions of "Gold Diggers", then Hudson would have lost a lot.

30 August 1985.

The hottest days have passed, and after more than two months of sales, "Gold Digger" has finally exceeded one million sales.

When Broadbond learned the news, it was both excited and disappointed.

And "Gold Diggers Tournament", a game where players design levels, has also been completed and handed over to Nintendo for review, and after review, it can be burned and sold.

"Konsin, this is the Gold Digger Tournament cassette, you play first. Takahashi handed over one of the two cassettes in his hand to Konsin Mori, who was a little older than him, but who worked part-time at Hudson as a college student.

Some time ago, when Mori Koshin came to Hudson for an interview, Yuji Kudo and Hiroshi Kudo agreed that this kid also looked upright and was quite suitable for being a game idol.

In addition, compared to the strong Takahashi, the long-haired Mori looks thinner and more bookish, and the style of Takahashi is significantly different, and it is completely two styles. It is very suitable for shaping the game idol of the opposite of Takahashi.

That's right, Hudson is now planning to put up an opponent for Takahashi.

It's cold in high places, and there is no tension without opponents.

In order to promote the game Star Marine, Takahashi had to find an opponent. In their opinion, Maori Gongxin is a very suitable candidate.

In this way, Maori, who passed Hudson's interview, also accepted Hudson's plan for him.

Takahashi handed him the "Gold Digger Championship" cassette that had not yet been released and asked him to practice, just because he planned to use the "Gold Digger Championship" event at an opportune time to make his debut.

That's right, it's like the debut of an entertainment star. Konsin Māori has been cultivated as a "Māori celebrity" and has begun to look for suitable opportunities for him to appear in public and be known.

Actually, it's starting to get hotter now.

You must know that since Takahashi didn't start playing games downstairs, many young players are not happy. Despite their small words, Hudson couldn't really ignore their opinions.

After all, they are Hudson's food and clothing. Hudson's earnings are all contributed by them.

Money is God, and these children are God's masters.

After a series of adjustments, Takahashi now plays downstairs one day a week. And the remaining six days, except for one day reserved for ordinary contestants, the rest are all performance time for Maori Koshin.

Of course, these stupid and cute children, seeing that this young big brother "Interstellar Force" is also playing very well, slowly began to pursue him.

Even, some people have begun to discuss who is stronger between him and Takahashi.

However, according to the plan, the two people will not appear on the same day at all now. The discussion continued to brew and gradually expand. When the time comes, Hudson will take advantage of this explosion and make more money.

Of course, many of these cute and silly children don't know that Takahashi and Mori Konsin are Hudson's employees.

Some of them knew that Takahashi was the child of a Hudson employee, and even thought that Mori Konobu was sent by a rival company to challenge Takahashi!

Hudson, who seeks to maximize profits, allows rumors to spread.

It didn't take long for all the kids in Tokyo to know that there was a Mori challenge for Takahashi!