Kamitoba-hodate-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan, meeting room at Nintendo headquarters......

With the help of the staff, Hideki Konno carefully connected an NGC to the large-screen TV in the conference room, and then pulled out a special 8cm Mini-DVD from his pocket, which he and his team had been working on for almost nine months - the completed version of "Louie's Haunted House". The reason for this trouble is entirely due to the fact that NGC uses Mini-DVD media, which is more resistant to piracy, to store games, this 8cm Mini-DVD is a little smaller than a regular DVD disc, and the corresponding capacity has also shrunk to 1.5GB, but for Hideki Konno, who has been working on the N64 game console's maximum 64MB cartridge for a long time, 1.5GB is already a loose unimaginable number.

Today is about two weeks before NGC is officially put on the shelves, but for Hideki Konno, today is a very critical day, which is related to whether "Louie's Haunted House", which embodies everyone's efforts, can be recognized by the company's top management and whether it can enter the online suppression process as scheduled, so Hideki Konno is not careless at all.

Turn on the power of the machine, put the small Mini-DVD disc into the disc drive, and with the prompt that appears on the screen that is reading, Hideki Konno turned around, looked at the executives sitting in the conference room, and said with a sincere smile: "Hello everyone, I'm Hideki Konno from the Intelligence Development Headquarters, and the game I show you today is "Louie's Haunted House" ......"

There was a slight clash between a teacup and a lid, and the high-level executives with different faces turned their eyes to the changing images on the big-screen television. Although I have watched it many times,Yamauchi Pu still habitually looked at the TV screen,If it was the glory of the red and white machine before,Even a few years agoN64The era of the initial host,He doesn't have to be so troublesome at all,Just say a word,There is no decision that can't be implemented。 But now it's different, after the fiasco of VRBoy, and the strong rise of the DreamBox128 game console, Yamauchi's voice within Nintendo is not as authoritative as before, and many decisions must be supported by other shareholders, and even the clapper of the game's listing is vaguely affected by the shareholder representatives, so it is now this redundant internal game promotion meeting.

Louis on the TV screen is holding a vacuum cleaner and a ghost screaming, Yamauchi Pu's eyes have been taken back from the TV screen, and by the way, he swept the expressions on the faces of the high-level executives, everyone's expressions seem to be relatively relaxed, and the last bit of worry in his heart has finally been put down, it seems that "Louie's Haunted House" should be able to pass.

Exhaled softly, Yamauchi's heart swelled up with a trace of exhaustion for no reason, the situation of Nintendo in recent years has not been as glamorous as it seems on the surface, whether it is the GameBoy that has returned to the light, or the N64 that is declining, although it has brought a lot of profits, but it has also put Nintendo into a more embarrassing situation. GameBoy games are very profitable, especially the Pokemon series that made GameBoy even greater, but this good thing is not in Nintendo's hands, and the outdated specifications of GameBoy will not last long. The N64 has good game sales, but the number is too small, and it is basically developed by Nintendo itself, which is very abnormal for a game platform.

Yamauchi Pu saw these and made changes, such as the GBA planned to be launched this year, such as the disc media on NGC, which is all to change the current embarrassing situation of Nintendo, but whether it can be effective, to be honest, he is not absolutely sure, but it will not work if he does not do this, otherwise Nintendo will have to watch others conquer the city, but he can only hold on to smaller and smaller territory to remember the past. If the situation goes any further, Yamauchi believes that the shareholders will definitely not be as quiet as they are now, and their days at Nintendo may be over.

There was a burst of applause, which woke up Pu Yamauchi in contemplation, he looked up at Hideki Konno who was doing the demonstration, and found that the smile on the other party's face was obviously much brighter than before, and turned his head to look at the high-level people around him, and found that these people were smiling brightly while clapping hard, he breathed a sigh of relief again, it seemed that "Louie's Haunted House" had really passed, so he smiled reassuringly, and then applauded.

Two weeks later, the Empire State Building Ballroom in New York, USA, ......

Standing in front of the speaker, Satoshi Iwata looked at the media reporters and guests who were in the dark, and couldn't help but feel a little more ambitious. Born in Hokkaido, Satoshi Iwata did not become a fisherman at sea like his ancestors, and he loved games from a very young age, but at first he studied more about how to use electronic components to create an interesting thing, and then gradually moved to computers that were still new technology at the time. In order to satisfy his hobby, Satoshi Iwata deliberately chose computer science as a student at Tokyo University, and after graduation, he was lucky to enter the famous HAL Research Institute and truly enter the game industry.

At that time, Satoshi Iwata's biggest dream was to create a popular game by himself, and after working as a programmer at the HAL Research Institute for many years, his psychology slowly changed, and with his understanding of the game industry, he found that if he was just a programmer, he could only dance according to other people's commands many times, and it was difficult to realize his dream. So Iwata Satoshi began to try a new way out, and soon the opportunity came to him, and the president of the HAL Research Institute, Masahito Tanimura, tried to salvage a sum of money from the futures market under the instigation of others, but he did not expect to lose a large amount of money to go in, and the HAL Research Institute was on the verge of bankruptcy due to this. Taking this opportunity, Satoshi Iwata became the new president of the HAL Institute, and within a few years, he pulled the HAL Institute back from the brink of bankruptcy, and successfully turned the red letter on the report into black letter, which attracted the attention of Yamauchi Pu.

Satoshi Iwata, who moved to Nintendo, was appointed by Yamauchi as the head of the planning department, responsible for planning Nintendo's global strategy, and soon after he received instructions from Yamauchi to come to the North American branch and began to pave the way for NGC's strategy secrets. With Satoshi Iwata's wrist and the support behind Pu Yamauchi, he quickly defeated Minoru Arakawa and took the authority of the North American branch, so there was today's new product launch.

"Hello everyone, I'm Satoshi Iwata from Nintendo, and I'm glad you all came today......" Satoshi Iwata, who was very interested, said in a somewhat broken English, with the usual Japanese smile and spirit on his face. After a few polite words, Iwata Satoshi reached out and pulled down the red silk cloth covering a table next to him, revealing the purple machine covered with the red cloth, and then said with a finger in his hand: "The era of dolphins has come......"

As if it were a signal, the whole of North America was boiling with the action of Satoshi Iwata tugging at the red cloth, and many game stores that had prepared in advance opened their doors at the same time to start welcoming the frenzied influx of game enthusiasts, and Wells Reed, who lives in Buffalo, was one of them.

Wells Reed is not a veteran gamer, and his obsession with consoles began in the N64 era, which is why he still thinks about NGC. Originally, Wells Reed didn't expect to get the NGC game console before Japanese players, although the DreamBox128 opened a precedent for global simultaneous sales, but after all, Nintendo is a Japanese company, from the previous practice, Japanese game companies always meet their own domestic market first, and then consider overseas markets, but this time it's different, Nintendo unexpectedly started from the North American market.

Wells Reed couldn't figure out what caused Nintendo to make such a decision, but it was undoubtedly good news for him, at least he didn't have to envy Japanese gamers across the ocean online. In order to get his long-desired NGC early, Wells Reid deliberately got up early in the morning to queue up, in fact, if he wants, someone on Ebay will definitely take out NGC to sell after a while, he only needs to stay at home comfortably and swipe the card, pay through PayPal, and then stay at home quietly and wait for NGC to deliver to his door, but it will take a while after all.

There are a lot of great games on the N64 console, and they are the kind of games that are more suitable for adults like Wells Reed, such as "007 GoldenEye", which has addicted him for a long time and brought him a lot of fun. Now that the N64 has been upgraded to a more advanced NGC console, Wells Reed feels that he should be able to find a game that suits him as well, and one that has been greatly improved in every way.

When Wells Reid took the NGC console from the clerk and got the paper bag containing the first game, Louie's Haunted House, his heart was filled with hope. If it were replaced by the previous "Super Mario" and the like, maybe Wells Reed would have to think about whether to shoot immediately, but the word "haunted house" made him very excited, and it was obvious that this was definitely not Mario's bouncing young age game, and for a moment he even thought of a zombie game produced by a Japanese company.

"NGC looks pretty solid...... It's probably a thrilling game...... "On the way home, Wells Reed fiddled with the steering wheel of his car while thinking about the NGC console and the launch game in the back seat.

After taking off his coat, Wells Reed couldn't wait to unpack the NGC game console, took out the NGC game console's large-screen TV connected to the entertainment room, and then took out "Louie's Haunted House" from the paper bag, stuffed the small disc into the NGC game console, and then went outside to open the refrigerator and get a can of Coke.

After pressing the gamepad a few times as prompted, and with a bit of nervous music, a cuckold, somewhat silly bearded man appears in the middle of the game screen, and the surrounding area looks like a legendary haunted house. Wells Reed frowned slightly, this was a bit far from his imagination, but there was no better choice for the time being, except for "Louie's Haunted House", the other two first games he didn't like just by hearing the name.

"Looks like we'll have to make do with it...... Wells Reed sighed, tossing the Coke in his hand onto the coffee table next to him, then picking up the NGC gamepad and exploring the haunted house......

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