"What's wrong?" asked Takahashi softly as he put his hand on his uncle's shoulder. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"No, I didn't ...... much" Uncle quickly wiped away his tears with his sleeve, he was silent for a while and said, "Alas, the company said that I don't want me anymore, I asked me what I didn't do well, I can change it, but they still don't want me......"

Takahashi patted his uncle on the shoulder and continued to listen to him.

"They said that the company would lay off employees, and temporary workers like me would be laid off. But they still have temporary workers at work. I, I!......" Uncle sighed.

Takahashi saw his uncle so sad, and he blamed himself for thinking about it. Ming Ming knew about the layoff plan early on, but he didn't say hello to Hiroshi Kudo and Yuji Kudo, nor did he tell his uncle first.

However, his uncle's next words turned Takahashi from guilt to anger, "I was a little bullied......

"Who, who bullied you?" Takahashi asked without waiting for his uncle to finish. Although he was a little rude to do this, he knew that if he really let his uncle start talking, it would only be a long and endless self-examination. Keep digging out why you are being bullied and how to do better to stop being bullied.

However, it didn't work. Uncle is too kind-hearted and always compromises. If we seek peace through struggle, we will survive peacefully, and if we seek peace through compromise, we will die peacefully. No matter how good he is and how perfect he is, if he doesn't fight, the people who should bully him will still bully him.

"A few colleagues, and a minister,......" said the uncle, "and you must not quarrel with them, Xiaoqiao." ”

"Uncle, don't worry, I won't quarrel, I won't do it if I don't let it, and I will rest for a few days. Takahashi comforted with a wonderful smile on his face.

"That's good, that's good. Uncle said

"By the way, which minister?"

"Minister of Games. ”

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When Yuji Kudo and Takahashi were in the United States, Shin'ichi Nakamoto returned to Tokyo, and when he returned from Kyoto Nintendo, he brought back a set of red and white machine development systems.

Shin'ichi Nakamoto made the final revisions to Gold Digger before submitting it for review on a development machine that is relatively easy to develop for red and white games.

Takahashi didn't have much time to revise, and during this time, he spent most of his time in the comic book editorial office next door, working with professional comic editors and artists on special comics about Hudson's games.

The first installment of Interstellar Force was well received, the second is also in production, and the fifth installment is expected to be released in conjunction with Gold Diggers, adding to the sales of Gold Dient.

Because of the minimum capacity standard of Nintendo cartridges, it is also 20k more than Atari's 4K, reaching 24K.

It's a waste if you don't use it, and it won't cost less.

So, when Shin'ichi Nakamoto made the final version, he added a lot of special effects to the game.

Although the effect is certainly not comparable to the new arcade games launched now, in the red and white games released at the same time, the graphics are not top-notch, at least average.

In order to make the game smoother, Shinichi Nakamoto increased the number of sheets for each animation by one or two. In particular, the animation of climbing the pillar, which was previously ignored because of capacity, has been greatly improved.

And in order to make the protagonist more conspicuous when digging a pit. Shin'ichi Nakamoto also added an animation with 50% transparency above the digging position.

Although it looks a little strange, it does stand out a lot, and it's not so easy to ignore. Finally, Takahashi suggested that this translucent animation should be interpreted as the spilled soil when digging a pit.

On June 15, the final version of "Gold Digger" was completed and sent to Nintendo for review.

On June 17, Nintendo approved it.

On the same day, Kudo Yuji personally borrowed 300,000 copies of the game cartridges from the Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, and obtained a loan of 700,000 cartridges from Daiichi Koyo Bank with Hudson's Nintendo authorized third party as collateral.

On June 20, Nintendo confirmed that the payment was in place and commissioned the factory to begin production of Hudson's million-copy Gold Digger cartridges.

On the first day of the order, Hudson, who had never made headlines, made headlines for the first time.

[An unknown small factory took out a huge loan to make a million children's games!]

Nintendo's commissioned production, although expensive, is very efficient.

On July 10, after 20 days of intensive processing and production, 500,000 cassettes were produced, and while the remaining cassettes continued to be produced, Nintendo's logistics system began to operate the nationwide distribution of "Gold Diger".

[Not self-sufficient, the game factory Hudson distributes goods nationwide!] "Tokyo Asahi Shimbun" reported.

On July 19th, Golden Day, Friday, the first day of summer vacation, "Gold Diggers" will be released nationwide, and the first issue of "Gold Diggers" will be released simultaneously in the "Korokoro" manga "FC-Rocky" section of Shogakukan.

[Dancing on the tip of a needle, video games are not an adventure!] said the news.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, when the game was released, Hudson's sent almost everyone out. Akihabara, Shibuya, Shinjuku...... Every famous shopping mall in Tokyo and the game sales place have Hudson people.

Today's game release is extremely important to Hudson. Whether it soars into the sky, or falls heavily with heavy debts and never turns over, it depends on how much "Gold Diggers" can sell.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, at the time of the simultaneous start, Takahashi stood in front of the counter selling game cartridges in the Nerima area.

I love to queue up. There were twenty or thirty people in front of the game counter, and although it wasn't very hot, it wasn't bad.

There are thousands of shopping malls in Tokyo, and there are tens of thousands of shopping malls in the capital. Nintendo: They have a total of more than 30,000 cassette sales outlets. If there are 30 people in each counter who buy "Gold Diggers", the sales volume will be 300,000 on the first day, and even if there are only 20 people in each counter to buy, then there will be 200,000 sales.

At this sales, the cassette was sold out in less than three or five days.

Don't look at the first sales of two or three hundred thousand decades later, it seems to be commonplace, but in 1985, it absolutely shocked the industry.

However, the sales volume on the first day was 300,000, and the sales exceeded one million in a week, which is to think about it, how can so many people buy the game in such a short period of time.

Wearing a hoodie and hiding his face in a hat, Takahashi pauses his fantasies while silently counting the number of people who have purchased "Gold Digger" at this counter.

One, two, three, four, five......

Until dark, the mall closed, and a total of seventeen people bought "Gold Diggers".

Takahashi took off his hood and hurried out at night. In addition to counting sales today, he also has one more thing, which is to continue to investigate the head of the game department.

In a month's time, Takahashi has mastered the rules of the activities of the head of the game department.

**Not a crime, even if Takahashi announced to everyone that the minister ** had three high school girls, it would only make those who knew worry about the body of the head of the game department.

The long wait was not for nothing, and one of the latest pieces of information Takahashi had was that the head of the game department had a hot conversation with a female Namco employee recently.

In addition, the head of the game department has a date with the female staff of Namco on this important day for Hudson.

This is a breakthrough, and the opportunity to vent his anger for his uncle is in front of him, Takahashi laughs, and walks into the bustling Ginza with his camera in search of prey.