There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart. After getting the solution to the FC game console failure, Yamauchi Pu suddenly felt a lot better, of course, to really solve the problem, we must first unify our thoughts internally, and the Nintendo FC game console obstacle emergency countermeasures meeting was held. According to Yamauchi's idea, first unify everyone's ideas, and then announce the good news that the solution has been come out at the meeting, and I believe that in this way, the employees will continue to rally closely around him. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the meeting, before Yamauchi Pu had time to express his views, the vast majority of senior executives expressed their opinions, believing that it was approaching the end of the year, and if the game consoles that had been sold were fully recycled, it would directly affect the subsequent sales season, which would cause immeasurable losses financially. This is completely contrary to Yamauchi's opinion, in his opinion, nothing is more important than the company's reputation, and he can consider delaying tactics when he didn't figure out the cause of the failure, but now that the fault can be handled, in order to save the company's reputation, all the game consoles that have been shipped before must be recovered.

At the meeting, Yamauchi Pu patted the table and said excitedly: "We must get all the FC game consoles on the market back immediately, the sooner the better, otherwise we will lose the trust of users!"

At Yamauchi's insistence, Nintendo began to implement a resolute recycling policy. Long queues have once again formed in front of the once-bustling retail store, only a few months ago to rush to buy them, and this time for returns. In order to complete the recycling as soon as possible, Nintendo did not even care about Christmas, and completely abandoned the peak sales season at the end of the year, resulting in a direct loss of more than 1.5 billion yen. However, Nintendo's action regardless of losses has brought a good reputation, and many consumers would rather hold on to their coins than choose game consoles from other manufacturers on the market. Nintendo's round of action has laid a solid foundation for its future hegemony, but it has also made other companies that produce game consoles grit their teeth with hatred. When the repackaged FC consoles hit the market in January 1984, there was another rush to buy, and users who had been waiting for a long time frantically poured into the stores to buy every FC console they could see, and Nintendo's first batch of 1.5 million FC consoles was sold out in just two weeks. And some users who are slow to start and don't grab a game console can only buy one or two game cards to comfort their empty hearts.

Nintendo began to slowly achieve its own success, but another industry boss across the ocean ran into trouble. IBM's high hopes for the "peanut" PCjr were also launched in early 1984, but the keyboard material of this machine has congenital deficiencies and an extremely bad feel, which directly makes users interested in it greatly reduced. To add insult to injury, all of PCjr's interfaces to external communications are redesigned and completely incompatible with popular PCs, so users can either choose from a limited number of PCjr-specific accessories or abandon the idea of expansion. PCjr was originally positioned as a civilian-grade home PC for low-end users, but the bureaucrats who set the price did not think about the receptivity of low-end users, and directly set a super price that most users could not accept. Under the influence of three major unfavorable factors, this work that IBM tried to use to seize the low-end computer market finally failed shamefully, and it did not take long to completely withdraw from the computer market.

The fire at the city gate affected the pond fish, and the failure of PCjr directly poured cold water on the head of the ambitious Lubeta development team. The game was made according to plan, but the originally envisioned platform shrank, and just looking at the sales of PCjr at more than 2,000, Lu Beta could imagine that his game was going to hit the street with his toes. Fortunately, the savior appeared, and Tandy launched a computer with the same specifications as the PCjr, the Tandy-1000, which is different from the PCjr, but the Tandy-1000 is compatible with the PC. After getting two Tandy-1000s back to study, Lubetta soon came up with a modified version of The King's Secret Envoy and ran it on the new computer platform in a decent manner. With the help of the hot sales of Tandy-1000, "The King's Secret Envoy" has also achieved good results, at least the Lubeta development team did not let Zhang Lexing, an investor, lose money.

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Adobe, which had been silent for more than a year, also began to shine in the first half of '84, and Postscipt, the print control language studied by Warlock, began to attract the attention of many companies in Silicon Valley. The first person to call for cooperation was DEC, and Vice President Gordon wanted Adobe to work with DEC to promote the Postscipt language on DEC's laser printers. Soon after, Apple's Steve Jobs also called, looking for a good app for Apple's new Macintosh computer this year. The Mackintosh computer officially launched on January 24 only has two application software developed by Apple itself, although the 68000 processor is claimed to be faster than the PC, and the 128KB random memory is claimed to be larger than the PC, but the user buys the computer for use, not for the sake of broad, and soon the thin application makes the user give up this beautiful looking computer. In order to make Mackintosh's computer a turnaround, Jobs decided to use Adobe's technology to produce laser printers, and then use Mackintosh's computer to drive the printer, hoping to impress users with the print-like output effect of Postscipt technology, and by the way, drive Mackintosh's computer sales. In order to gain Adobe's support, Jobs even offered $5 million to buy a 20% stake in Adobe in exchange for Warlock's support for him. The cooperation between Adobe and Apple was successful, but Jobs's idea of buying equity did not materialize, and not only Wallock was unwilling to do this, but Zhang Lexing was even more unwilling, and Jobs had to settle down and spend $1 million to buy a Postscipt patent license. However, the rumors of Jobs' attempt to buy equity made Adobe even more famous, and the Red River Fund became the first successful investment case and began to attract some people's attention.

One day in May, Zhang Lexing was in the office looking at the company's operating report as usual, when an invitation to a cocktail party was delivered to his desk. Zhang Lexing usually either discusses the operating system with Joey, or watches the excitement in his own game development studio, and occasionally cares about the company's operation, and when he rests, he either stays at home, or accompanies Yang Xinxin to visit shopping malls or supermarkets, and rarely has too many social activities, and this is the first time Zhang Lexing has received an invitation like this. Unsure whether to go or not, Zhang Lexing decided to discuss it with someone.

"What the hell do you say this drinking party is for?" Zhang Lexing put the invitation on Yang Xinxin's desk, and then threw himself into the sofa.

"This party is organized by venture capitalists," Yang Xinxin also took out an invitation letter from the drawer, and said with a smile, "I also received one." ”

"Didn't you say that venture capitalists had a drinking party? How could they invite you?" Zhang Lexing couldn't help but pick up the two invitations and compare them, could this be the legendary "collision letter".

"The reception was done by venture capitalists, but it was also attended by insiders in the electronics industry. I'm here on behalf of VisualSystem, and I'm kind of a member of this community, and I'm not investing a lot. Yang Xinxin said indignantly.

"Hehe......" Zhang Lexing laughed dryly, his face was very embarrassed.

"It's a buffet party, and it's not cramped like a formal banquet. There's no harm in going there, you don't usually have too many social activities, but this time you can broaden your horizons, and maybe you can get to know a few experts and scholars. Yang Xinxin's smile returned.

"Well, that sounds good, let's go together then. Zhang Lexing had a smile on his face, but the liquid hanging on the corner of his mouth made people doubt his true motives.

A week later, the day of the reception came, and Zhang Lexing was very faceless and was driven by Yang Xinxin to the mansion where the reception was held. As an adult man, Zhang Lexing should have driven by himself, but I don't know why, as soon as he sat in the cab and picked up the steering wheel, Zhang Lexing couldn't stay calm as usual, either the speed couldn't be controlled, or the brake and the accelerator were confused, as a result, Zhang Lexing could only give up his plan to drive, and even go to work can only rub Yang Xinxin's car. It's a pity that there are no games like "Gran Turismo" and "Need for Speed" yet, otherwise Zhang Lexing would still be able to enjoy himself on the computer.

Yang Xinxin's driving skills are good, and the road is also very familiar, and she quickly drove the car into the mansion where the drinking party was held. There were a lot of people attending the reception, Zhang Lexing looked at many people and felt a little familiar, but unfortunately many of them couldn't be named, fortunately, Yang Xinxin was very good at socializing, Zhang Lexing followed her to say hello, and she could also deal with this embarrassing scene. After turning around and not seeing any familiar people, Zhang Lexing took the red wine and began to attack the dim sum on the table, Yang Xinxin followed with a wine glass, and occasionally picked up one or two dim sum to taste, but her attention was more on the guests around her. After staying for a while, Yang Xinxin seemed to see an acquaintance, explained to Zhang Lexing and walked away with a wine glass. Zhang Lexing was even more bored alone, so he simply dragged over a chair and sat down, concentrating on the side of the table and tasting delicious snacks. When he was eating happily, a middle-aged uncle with a beard on his face walked straight to Zhang Le.

"Could it be that you met an acquaintance?" Zhang Lexing muttered in his heart.

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