Chapter 7: Failed Drag Racing

After graduating from Doshisha University, he worked as a labor dispatch worker at Sharp and other companies, but in the end he did not stay, and finally stayed at Nintendo.

After decades at Nintendo, he finally left Nintendo and founded his own company, KOTO Corporation.

On October 4, 1997, Gunhei Yokoi drove his car down the aisle in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture.

The co-pilot's seat was a briefcase that had been used for many years, and it had been fastened with a seat belt.

Inside this briefcase is a speech, and the name of this speech is "The Way Out for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises - Seeking Survival in Continuous Creation".

This is all he felt about the establishment of KOTO by himself a year after leaving Nintendo.

Today he was invited to give a special lecture at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

In this era of declining brick-and-mortar manufacturing economy, both the government and universities have begun to pay great attention to the industry of video games, which can create huge wealth.

Although the legends of companies such as Nintendo and Bandai Namco could no longer be replicated, he believed that the legend of KOTO Co., Ltd., which was created by Gunpei Yokoi on his own, could be reproduced.

With thoughts in his mind, Gunpei Yokoi actually felt that it was not suitable for him to drive.

But how can you hire a driver when you come out and start your own business? Of course, you can save money.

Suddenly!

The steel guy under his ass suddenly lost momentum, and even if he stepped on the gas pedal again, he didn't react in the slightest.

The most commendable thing about this car is reliability.

Although Nissan's car is called a mobile sofa, it is not at all relaxed in terms of reliability.

But why break down today?

Using the car's remaining inertia, Gunhei Yokoi slid the car to the side of the road. Pulling up the handbrake, he wanted to get out of the car to check what was wrong with the car.

For so many years, he has been dealing with electronic and mechanical gadgets, and he is still better able to deal with some car glitches than other ordinary people.

Although the car is a complex system, it takes years of non-stop learning to truly understand the car.

But it's just to deal with some small failures, and those auto repair workers don't necessarily have any reserves of theoretical knowledge.

As soon as Yokoi got out of the car, he suddenly felt a strong pulling force, which pulled him to the very edge of the road at once.

Immediately after that, a red Mazda drove by, and if he hadn't been pulled, he would have lost consciousness by now and had become a lump of flesh lying in a pool of blood.

Yokoi's heart was pounding, and the feeling of surviving the catastrophe filled his chest, and when his whole body was throbbing, he suddenly asked, "Who?"

He didn't believe that it was a chance that his car suddenly broke down and another car suddenly crashed into him behind him. Especially at this time, there are people who deliberately pull themselves to save themselves from disaster.

No matter from what point of view, you can taste the strong smell of conspiracy.

"Me!"

Autumn afternoons are cool and comfortable, with a gentle breeze blowing and golden leaves slowly falling.

The voice of the answer seemed to be somewhat familiar, but there was a little sense of alienation.

Who is it?

When Junhei looked back, he found that the person who grabbed him was actually the person who had broken with Nintendo for almost ten years - Takahashi.

"Why are you?" asked Yokoi.

"Why can't it be me?" asked Takahashi.

"How do you know this?"

"How could I not know?"

The two of them said in a fog like peerless masters.

Takahashi suddenly smiled, "Now it looks like we're comrades in the same trench." ”

Yokoi was not so calm, his brow tightly locked, not knowing what he was thinking.

Takahashi quietly looked at this guy who was over half a hundred years old and could be called an old man.

The matter of personal extermination is not the norm even in the world.

Probably only the corpse sank in Tokyo Bay, or was committed to suicide in the suicide forest, etc., announced that the book was not so civilized.

"Your car has been tampered with, and someone wants your life. Of course, you can also think of it as if all this is my filming, and I am the director. Takahashi said lightly.

Gunhei Yokoi knocked out a cigarette from his cigarette case and lit it silently in the breeze. He stared intently at the red and blue flames of the lighter, not knowing what to think.

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"What? failed, was pulled away? I know. "According to the Chinese parlance, sixty is already the age of the sixtieth birthday.

At such an age, it is not easy to surprise people.

As soon as Yamauchi put down the phone, he immediately fell silent.

He has never been stingy with thunderous means for traitors, he has the ability and the will.

However, he did not realize that his plan did not succeed.

Yokoi Junhei is a talent he has cultivated, but often the more effort he puts in, the more painful it will be.

Koto, newly founded by Junhei Yokoi, is already a de facto rival of Nintendo.

In the past, KOTO only made game consoles such as game watches, and Yamauchi could tolerate it, but recently KOTO has begun to advertise their new portable handhelds. This made Yamauchi unbearable.

Nintendo only has two core businesses, home consoles and portable game consoles, and these two businesses, that is, Nintendo's left leg and right leg, are not allowed to make any mistakes in Yamauchi's view.

And what Junhei Yokoi is doing now is to make Nintendo break one leg.

It has been almost 50 years since Yamauchi took over as president of Nintendo in 1949. He has more affection for the company than anyone else. He will never allow any action by anyone to harm the interests of Nintendo.

Since it is impossible to get Yokoi Junhei to stop the development in the form of an order, it is better to deal with his people.

Yamauchi Pu has never been a good man and a woman.

If it is really a good man and a woman, how did he complete the purge in just a few months after taking over Nintendo?

You must know that the original interest group is extremely strong, and it is not something that a weak grandson can do well on his own.

Yamauchi has never shied away from his association with the old and vibrant social organization, no matter what others think, all he needs is to keep Nintendo alive and solve all those who prevent Nintendo from continuing to develop.

In the past few decades, although the helper Nintendo has moved forward, it has now become a stumbling block for Nintendo and must be cleared.

This is this, that is that.

Yamauchi Pu is very clear.