Time flies, and the years are in a hurry. The year 1980 passed imperceptibly, and 1981 came in a hurry.

Ron Meyer really deserves to be an elite talent who will be in charge of Universal Pictures for 18 years in the future, but he has already managed Lianmei in an orderly manner in half a month, and he doesn't need to worry about Wu Mingduo.

Under the management of Mark Hurd, Star Computer is also full of energy, and it will take about another three or four months to develop the first generation of Star Computer.

Polaris Software has achieved good results by learning the Wordperfect sales method and hiring students to promote products and after-sales service.

Today, the sales of Wordeasy and Excel have reached tens of thousands of copies. Compared with those leaders, it is still much worse, but it is also a new star in office software.

Star Entertainment Division, USA.

After more than a year of overcoming many problems, the PSB home game console finally completed its development a month ago.

After many tests and confirmation that there are no bugs, it has been put into production at the Taihua Electronics Plant a few days ago, with a daily production capacity of 10,000 units.

Now Wu Ming is playing games using a PSB game console brought by Huo Jianning.

Wu Ming looked ahead excitedly, holding a gamepad in his hand, his fingers kept pressing.

PSB's matching controller was designed by Wu Ming according to the memories of his previous life, and it is much more comfortable than other boxy gamepads on the market now.

On the TV screen, a long-bearded uncle kept jumping around with the operation.

Wu Ming is playing a game called Mario Bros., in which the two brothers use "topping" to destroy turtles and other monsters.

This game is the first game in the Mario series and the predecessor of the super classic game Super Mario.

Following "Bubble Dragon", Wu Ming handed over several games such as "Zuma", "Mario Brothers", "Mario Doctor" and "Mario Golf" to the game software development department of Star Entertainment.

Now that all of them have been developed, except for Zuma, which has already been released on arcades, all other games are ready to be released as PSB games for the first time.

"How is it, not bad?" asked Huo Jianning, who was sitting on the side, with a smile.

Wu Ming nodded and praised: "It's very good, what they developed completely meets my requirements." The performance in all aspects, especially the game screen, is stronger than Atari's home game console******* SB game console was developed by Wu Ming according to the red and white machine of Nintendo in his previous life, and the appearance is almost the same.

However, because it uses an ARM8 chip and an 8KB memory chip, the performance is much stronger than that of the red and white machine with MOS 6502 chip and 2KB memory. The picture is also more beautiful than the 52-bit color of the red and white machine because it supports 64-bit color.

"It took more than a year for us to finally make up for the last shortcoming. Huo Jianning sighed with an emotional expression.

Wu Ming also reminisced and sighed: "Yes, since the establishment of the company last year, we have successively entered the arcade and handheld markets. Now it's finally the turn of the home machine. ”

A young man of about twenty-six or seventeen years old standing on the side, his face was full of irrepressible excitement, and he said with a smile: "Atari was rampant in the home machine market last year, selling 2 million units and making billions of dollars. Now that our company's home machine has finally been developed, we can fight with them. ”

The young man's name is Tripp Hawkins, and he is now the president of Star Entertainment in the United States.

Hawkins is also a celebrity in the future game industry, and is the founder of Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), a well-known American game company.

Originally, this person is still working as the head of marketing at Apple, and will leave Apple in May next year to found the famous EA Games company.

In October last year, Wu Ming held a large-scale job fair in order to establish the Star Entertainment branch in the United States, and Tripp Hawkins came to apply for the job at that time.

Wu Ming had been in the game industry for decades in his previous life, so he naturally knew Hawkins. After asking some questions and confirming that this person was indeed the founder of the famous EA, Wu Ming appointed this person as the president of Star Entertainment in the United States on the spot.

Wu Ming hooked the corners of his mouth when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Atari guys are not our real opponents. Although our home consoles were released four years later than theirs, I am sure that we will surpass them in two years. ”

Although Atari has captured the home machine market, other home machines can only survive under the suppression of Atari. However, with many classic games such as "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank War", Wu Ming is confident that he can open up a part of the market.

When the Atari collapse occurs two years later, Star Entertainment can take the lead of Nintendo, and use the PSB game console to take over the home console market vacated by players after abandoning Atari and become a well-deserved hegemon in the video game industry.

"Aren't they our real opponents?" asked Tripp Hawkins, confused.

Wu Ming nodded, with a disdainful expression on his face, and sneered: "Yes, they Atari are not qualified to be our opponents. None of the current Atari executives really understand video games. Ashnell, the knowledgeable founder of Atari, was forced out by Atari's parent company, Warner Bros., three years ago. ”

"The current president, Ray Caesar, is quite capable and has brought modern management tools to Atari. But he clearly doesn't understand what the most important thing in the video game industry is. So the old employees were kicked out, the console and game development departments were suppressed, and only programmers were treated as ordinary salarymen, so so many excellent game developers would leave Atari and start their own businesses. ”

"Ray Kaiser just blindly pays attention to the promotion of the game, not the development of the game, so the launch is some relatively ordinary games, and the playability is not very high. Otherwise, they wouldn't be being crushed by us in the arcade market now. Naturally, there is no problem in a short period of time, and even because of the good publicity, their home consoles and game cartridges will sell very well. But after a long time, sooner or later Atari will go out of business because of this. ”

"Shut down!"

"How is that possible?!"

Both Huo Jianning and Tripp Hawkins screamed loudly.

Now Atari is the leader of the gaming industry, with billions of dollars in annual profits. Even if it declines in the future, it can still occupy a corner of the game market, how can it be said that it will go out of business.

Huo Jianning and Tripp Hawkins were not reborn like Wu Ming, so they naturally did not know that Atari would actually put a game that took only six weeks to develop on the market, and then triggered an unprecedented game market crash.