Satoshi Iwata and Hudson's Kudo brothers are considered fellow villagers, both born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After graduating from Tokyo Institute of Technology, he did not choose to join a large company, but continued to work at the HAL Research Institute, which he and his friends founded.

The name HAL, in addition to being derived from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", also means that each letter is one step ahead of the Deep Blue Giant and the international business machinery company IBM.

In 1983, the excellent picture expression of the red and white camera made Iwata Satoshi realize that the opportunity had come.

The HAL Institute was involved in the development of the FC version of Pinball, a five-person company that was appreciated by Nintendo, and the two developed an extremely close relationship. Although there is no second party yet, HAL is in fact Nintendo's second party.

In the HAL laboratory, the most dazzling thing is Satoshi Iwata, a young man with a mid-style style who looks chubby. His programming skills are so strong that the people of Nintendo unanimously call him a "genius programmer".

This rare talent, pushing open the door, saw the situation in the house, and was a little stunned. He saw Shigeru Miyamoto hugging the thigh of a young man he didn't know, and he looked like he had cried and laughed. He scratched his head in some confusion, not knowing what was going on.

Shigeru Miyamoto got up from the ground with some embarrassment and returned to the sofa.

Takahashi looked at Satoshi Iwata as if he was going to report to work, and felt that he should go out.

"I want to make a red-and-white version of Balloon Wars. Satoshi Iwata said straight to the point, turned around and wanted to leave Takahashi, who was only halfway through at this moment.

I heard it, Yamauchi Pu didn't rush out, there was no need to go out again, Takahashi and Miyamoto Shigeru sat side by side on the sofa on the side.

Balloon Wars is a game based on the arcade game Ostrich Rider produced by Atari. The core gameplay of the two games is the same, and in a way, "Balloon Wars" is a skin-changing product of "Ostrich Knight".

It's like Tomohiro Nishikaku, who was just an arcade repairman at the beginning, and because he repaired more, he understood the operation principle of the arcade machine, so he made "Space Invaders".

The "Balloon Wars" produced by the HAL Research Institute was not developed forward, but "Ostrich Knight" was first reverse-engineered, and the circuit composition and program settings of "Ostrich Knight" were clarified, and then "Balloon Wars" was designed and developed on this basis.

Today, Satoshi Iwata's "Balloon Wars" arcade project has just completed reverse engineering of "Ostrich Knight", and he plans to develop a red-and-white version of "Balloon Wars" before the formal design work has even begun.

Yamauchi Pu thought for a moment and said, "You can develop it, but don't delay the progress of the arcade version." ”

"Got it. Satoshi Iwata got permission and turned around and left Yamauchi's office, not dragging his feet at all.

Takahashi watched the departing figure of Satoshi Iwata, and he knew the reason why Pu Yamauchi agreed to develop a red and white version of "Balloon Wars".

Compared to arcade giants like Namco and Taito. Nintendo's arcade machine, although it sells okay, is still an order of magnitude smaller.

Even if Nintendo comes up with such a powerful home game platform as the red and white machine. In the eyes of other arcade giants, Nintendo is just an equal.

Under such circumstances, Nintendo's forced royalty system, although the big manufacturers did not refuse it for the sake of money, they were still very disgusted by this feeling of being inferior to Nintendo.

After the door closed, Yamauchi continued the topic he had just talked about.

"If you want to be your own semi-company in the future, I suggest taking the path of specializing in game media. I don't think you're a good fit to make games. ”

"Why?" asked Takahashi.

"You have the spirit, but your ideas are too whimsical and not down-to-earth enough. Compared with writing articles, making games is a technical job, and it also requires patience and hard work. I don't think you have the patience and skill to make a game. Yamauchi replied.

This face-to-face practice of mercilessly commenting on people is somewhat hurtful.

However, Yamauchi is right. Even though Shin'ichi Nakamoto taught Takahashi a lot of knowledge and read a lot of books himself, he couldn't make it possible for him to take the lead in making a game himself.

It's like when you go to school, you seem to have learned everything, but when you go to the ground and do a real project, even the best students in school will be very confused and confused.

As for the character, Yamauchi Pu is not wrong.

Don't look at everything Takahashi is doing now, he seems to be down-to-earth, realistic and detailed, but his heart is restless.

It's not that he wants to do this, but as a time-traveler who travels back in time from the future, he really has a lot of thoughts in his head.

Even if he didn't care about these thoughts at all, these thoughts still affected his state of mind.

Probably in this world, no one can resist this feeling of knowing a lot of information, as if you can get rich overnight, and watch the opportunities disappear one by one.

Takahashi nodded, but did not agree with Yamauchi's statement, he raised his head and looked at Yamauchi Pu and said, "President Yamauchi, if I really make a game, can I come to you and let my game be released on the red and white machine?"

"Do you really want to make a game?" asked Yamauchi.

"Hmm. Takahashi nodded heavily.

"Haha, that's young. Okay, you can make a red and white machine game. However, it's useless for you to let me see, you have to go through the normal process, and the quality of the game is passed, so that it is possible to pass the review and board the red and white machine. ”

"Thank you. Takahashi thanked.

Don't look at what Yamauchi Pu said seems to be very fair, and he didn't open any back door. But in fact, being able to send the game to Nintendo for review is already the biggest backdoor.

With the exception of a nominal second party like HAL, there are only five that actually own a third-party name and can develop games for Nintendo.

In addition, other game manufacturers, if they want to make red and white machine games, the only way at this moment is to find these five third parties.

Four of them are not bad for money, and they don't want to pay attention to other companies that want to make red and white games, and they have made a game of their own at that time.

The remaining Hudson has become a hot one, known as a nine-thousand-year-old sweetheart.

Of course, although Nine Thousand Years Old sounds like an honorific title, it doesn't mean very well.

The so-called nine thousand years old. Isn't it referring to the great eunuch beside the emperor, and by extension, it means bullying others.

Therefore, this nickname, other companies only call it behind their backs, and no one calls it on the face of death.

"If it's okay, I'll go back to Tokyo. I have to record the show tomorrow morning. Takahashi said.

Yamauchi didn't stay long, "Go back." Today I watched that show of yours. Why did that show go live? It doesn't work if it is recorded. Finally, you are welcome to come back to Nintendo when you have time. ”

"Well, I'll come back when I'm free. Takahashi also said with a smile.