"Hello, Ms. Song," Li Mo shook his hand. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Because this line is Li Mo's mother and grandmother, Wang Yi didn't come, but his wife came, as well as two fierce black aunts hired at Li Mo's request.

In their line of work, the main thing is to take Li Mo's mother, grandmother and a few younger siblings around the United States.

When he arrived at the hotel, Li Mo went to the Io Studio first, regardless of his family's impression of Los Angeles, to be precise, the Io Studio, the Colossford Fund and the House Fund.

Hao Like handed over the information they had gathered to Li Mo.

Li Mo looked at it carefully, but his eyebrows furrowed.

That's the gaming industry......

He had long kept Mr. Hollick on the industry, and there was a convenient condition that as the arcade industry shrank in the early eighties, many companies in the United States went bankrupt or were not profitable, and it was easy to acquire, including the talent in the industry.

In addition, if this industry can be revitalized, the United States will not reject it, because this industry has almost been hit by the Japanese.

"Lee, Japan's Nintendo is amazing," Mr. Hallick said.

Li Mo nodded.

At its peak, it created an annual revenue of more than 1 trillion yen with 5,000 employees, which was almost equivalent to 10 billion US dollars, and the value created by each employee reached 20 million US dollars a year.

For example, Wang An Computer, at its peak, had an annual revenue of $3 billion, more than 20,000 employees, and an annual revenue of only $100,000 per person. There is also Yile company, more than 1,000 employees, Liu Xiangzhong fully estimated, workers are becoming more and more skilled, there will be no problems with the equipment, and often work overtime, Yile company can create a year of revenue of only more than 100 million US dollars, of which sixty percent of the tasks are replaced by downstream manufacturers, that is, each employee can create a full output value of only 50,000 or 60,000 US dollars. In fact, once annual sales exceeded $100 million, Yile would either push back orders or have to expand its second plant. The difference between the two is 400 times!

It has nothing to do with efficiency, and Yile itself is a toy OEM company, how can the efficiency be high?

It's not that I'm afraid of Nintendo, which doesn't have giants in that industry, such as toys, clothing, or other ......

The key thing is that Li Mo really doesn't know about the game industry in the 80s, and it is clear that there is a Super Mario, but it has long become Nintendo's fist product.

Halick sat cautiously on the side with Scherfman.

Don't underestimate the lord in front of you, he has a brain that is said to have a legendary IQ of 160 or 170.

Over the years, Li Mo has made every decision without any mistakes, from the IT industry, to the toy industry, to his novels, the creativity of various animations, and even the company's advertising promotion.

But this time they are destined to be slightly disappointed.

Li Mo looked at it for a few hours, rubbed his eyes, put down the documents, and said, "Do you know that there is a little game of Tetris?"

Hollick and Sevman were a little dazed, and West Klein said, "I know, it's a little game that is said to have been made up by the Russians, and I've played it." ”

"That's it...... But a bit of a hassle......"

Tetris is a game program written by the Russian mathematician Pakitnov in his free time to test the performance of a computer.

In '85, he ported the program to his PC, and the game began to spread.

No one realized its value until 88 when a man named Rogers saw the game at an exhibition in Las Vegas, USA, thought it was fun, and recommended it to his company, Nintendo.

Rogers then travels to Moscow and discovers that Pakitnov has licensed Tetris to the computer center where he works...... It should be called the Soviet Union, you know, so the game became the property of the Soviet government.

Therefore, Rogers had a very hard negotiation process, and became good friends with Pakitnov, until the next year, Rogers won its license for Nintendo, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Pakitnov immigrated to the United States with the help of Rogers, continued to engage in game development, and in 96, he took back the intellectual property rights of Tetris, and established Blue Planet Software with Rogers.

This history is not very clear, but as long as it touches the Soviet Union, whether it is to talk about licensing or its intellectual property rights, it will be very troublesome.

"Li, if you want to talk, it's best not to let us come forward. ”

"Hao Lik, you have a point," Mr. Li said. Rogers represents a Japanese company, and if it represents an American company, don't talk about it.

"You can call Liu Xiangzhong," Li Mo said again.

China is now gradually détente with the Soviet Union...... Xiangjiang is an international port, and its identity is not so tense. Therefore, business needs to be far away from politics, but it is inseparable from politics.

"If you can talk about it, it's best to pay attention to the handheld. ”

"Li, the handheld doesn't work very well. Halick said.

The earliest handheld was an invention by Nintendo Yokoi Heijun, with only four buttons, and not long ago the D-pad to control the direction was introduced, which was too simple and did not achieve much success.

This continued until 1989, when Nintendo launched the GameBoy (GB). GameBoy designer is also a genius designer Yokoi Junhei, GameBoy uses an 8-bit custom Z-80 main CPU from Zilog company in the United States, with a speed of 4.19MHz, 8KBByteRAM, a 2.6-inch LCD that can display 4 levels of grayscale at the same time, with a resolution of 160x144, with 4 stereo channels, powered by 4 AA batteries, and the maximum game time can reach 35 hours. GameBoy has a plug-in card design, so players can go to the market and buy a variety of colorful game cartridges.

Although the hardware of the GameBoy was inferior to that of other consoles of its generation, the GameBoy was a huge success thanks to the countless excellent games it offered, and the GameBoy and its successors (GBC, GBA) sold more than 200 million units from its release to its final discontinuation, and its name even sparked protests from feminists (protesting why there was no GameGirl). The most successful game on the list is Tetris, which has sold over 30 million copies.

After the great success of the GameBoy, Nintendo followed up with improved models such as the GameBoyPocket (1996), GameBoyLight (1998), and GameBoyColor (color version, abbreviated as GBC, the real second generation of GB, 1998), and introduced a variety of colors and many accessories, such as screen magnifiers, special screen lights, and even printers, cameras, and so on. GameBoy also followed the FC red and white machine into China and became the collective memory of the post-80s generation.

"There are two things to pay attention to, one is the patent ...... of the handheld machine"

"yes," Hollick said with a headache.

"You try to get in touch with Nintendo, if you can negotiate its patents, and you can ...... their designers" Li Mo opened the previous information again: "If you take down the person named Yokoi Gunpei, we can pay Nintendo $100 million." ”

"I'm afraid it's hard to ......," Mr. Haulik said.

Although the handheld is still a chicken rib existence, Nintendo, like Microsoft at the beginning, is not bad for money, but at the beginning Microsoft was just a small leather bag company, Nintendo was a huge monster.

"If we can't talk about it, we have to find another way, first of all, we have to avoid Nintendo's patents, second, we have to improve the current handheld technology, it is too backward, and finally, we must take this Tetris down. This is one of my proposals......"

Li Mo took out a proposal from his briefcase, that is, the handheld technology of the late nineties...... But note that at the end of the eighties, many technologies could not be realized, but with it, it is equivalent to pointing out an accurate direction for R&D personnel.

His game design plan is also Nintendo's fist product, Pokemon, but Li Mo deliberately chose some European and American monsters and some legendary monsters in China to join.

At present, Nintendo does not have a Pokemon design plan for the time being...... In addition, with the current handheld technology, this game cannot be supported at all, which is destined to be a money-burning game.

Whether it can succeed or not, Li Mo is not sure.

If it succeeds, it will bring another profiteering industry to Li Mo, and if it fails, Li Mo is very likely to smash hundreds of millions of dollars into the Pacific Ocean.

Li Mo said again: "Hao Like, in addition, pay attention to the following industries for me, pagers, mobile phones, home appliances, especially small household appliances, computers. ”

"Lee, you want to play big?"

"Who knows," Li Mo said with a shrug.

These industries are becoming more and more technological, and all have a serious obstacle...... Patent.

"Lee, we don't have enough people. Scheufman said.

"So, you go to O'Melveny & Myers to dig up six or seven more people. Li Mo said.

"Hahaha," Hao Like Dale, dare to love O'Melveny & Myers Law Firm will soon become Li Mo's talent training base.

"Li, if you want to get involved in these industries, you need a lot of capital," he said. ”

Not only these industries, Li Mo is also paying attention to supermarkets, the upcoming service industry, they are all big guys.

"It doesn't matter, by the end of the year, I'll be able to pull out a lot of money. Li Mo said indifferently. It has nothing to do with capital, it is about talents, technology and patents, which is the next problem that makes Li Mo feel a little afraid and a little headache.

In addition to these, there was the deterioration of relations between China and the United States a few years later......

Li Mo put down the papers, and then went to Warner Bros. Pictures.

The Hollywood film market in 87 is very deserted, mainly a few films by Paramount, Bo Wei, and Warner Bros., and the rest of the major film companies are out of business, even if there are films, they are all small-budget films.

And because of the appearance of the Christmas file "Zhuluo Ji Park", the films with slightly higher production costs were placed in the summer file, and even delayed until next year.

For example, Bo Wei's "Three Dads and a Baby" was originally planned to be released in early November, but Shengsheng mentioned that it would be released on August 3, so as not to be killed by "Jurassic Park".

Bo Wei's other film "Good Morning Vietnam" originally wanted to grab the Christmas file, and Shengsheng mentioned that it would be released in early November.

Another film, "Purple House Love", also mentioned November from December.

Warner Bros. looked at the crowded November file and thought about it, let's not want to touch the glory of "Jurassic Park", let's honestly grab the summer file to be released, at least the summer file has a good effect, and it is not as crowded as the November file.

Li Mo thought about it and agreed, according to the contract, he had to go to see the sample film, and the other thing was that the protagonist of Lao Ka's movie was still Schwarzenegger...... No matter how big Li Mo's brain is, he never thought that he could associate Schwarzenegger with Snowpiercer.

This made him a little worried......