"I'm so sorry to bother you so late, Kujo-kun. "Even though he was sitting on the sofa, Yamauchi still bent down very seriously, "As soon as I heard that Kujo-kun wanted to cooperate with us at Nintendo, I was very excited, and I couldn't wait to come over and have a long talk with a young man like Kujo-kun."www.biquge.info ”

"President Yamauchi has won the award. Li Xu, who wanted to roll his eyes, kept smiling, "I'm just a young man with good luck with whimsical ideas and basically zero hands-on ability." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand and asked the servants who served the tea to go down - there are also servants in the villas on this side of Qingshuimi, but they are not as many as the old houses in Toshima Ward, and there is no personal service.

Of course, if he brought Momoe Yamaguchi over, it would be different.

"Kujo-kun is too modest, whether it is the earliest snake, or the later arkanoid, as well as the space invaders and pac-man, they are all epoch-making games, Kujou-kun deserves to be a genius game planner!" said Yamauchi, toutingly.

It's really embarrassing for him, a man in his fifties, so sensuous to shoot a young man who almost reached the age of 18, and to put on a serious appearance of being thirsty for talent, it should be said...... Worthy of being a person who does great things?

After all, as I have said many times before, since Li Xu's rebirth, the first pot of gold was obtained by developing "Snake", and it was when he was 12 years old. After that, he developed a lot of games, all of which were popular in the seventies and eighties in his previous life, and it is not an exaggeration to be called a genius planner by Yamauchi.

Of course, if that's the case, Yamauchi Pu wouldn't be so polite at all, at most, a department in charge of Nintendo would come to talk to him, even if he took the initiative to contact them.

But who made Li Xu's background different? Both the United States and RB are big families and big capital, not to mention that you are a small company at Nintendo, and the people of Mitsui Mitsubishi have to be respectful when they come.

Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it doesn't matter, being able to get on the line is a major gain, maybe one day this small layer of relationship will be able to pull himself at a critical moment? Not to mention that he took the initiative to contact them.

"But, let me be rude to ask, Kujou-kun, why did you ask Nintendo to collaborate on a new game? I heard that Atari only recently ported Space Invaders to their console?"

As a successful businessman, Yamauchi knows what to do when and when, rather than spending money or time and energy to work with people he doesn't know at all.

Even if you want to make friends with the children of a wealthy family like Li Xu, even if you are a big wrongdoer, you have to be a valuable wronged man.

"It's very simple, Atari's foundation is too shallow, the 2600 is a good model, excluding the shortcomings of the previous model, it is bound to set off a storm, but unfortunately their shallow background cannot support such a huge volume. Li Xu smiled and spread his hands, with a bit of momentum to point out the country.

"What does Kujo-kun mean...... Atari might not be able to get past that hurdle?" asked Yamauchi cautiously.

Atari was the first electronics company to make game consoles, founded in 72 years, very young, and although the young company is full of vitality, it will also face more and bigger difficulties and even crises.

If you can overcome those predicaments and crises, you can become stronger step by step, and if you can't cross over, you have a high chance of declining in an instant, and you will never be able to turn over again.

"I'm one of Atari's shareholders, and I've watched how they've gone from being so energetic to getting carried away now. Li Xu continued.

Video games were first popular from arcades, and Atari was one of the first video game companies to make arcades, and Li Xu had dealt with them for a long time.

The few games he planned or plagiarized had millions of sales, so when Atari wanted to port his works to the consoles he was developing, he took the opportunity to take a stake in them.

Of course, Li Xu knew how Atari died and died in the end, but so what? Before they died, they still had a wave of peaks, just withdraw in advance, and they could make a profit.

Therefore, he is very clear about the changes within Atari, especially when there is information about his past life, plus some education he received in this life, he can see many details thoroughly.

"But ......," Yamauchi wanted to ask something.

"As for why you are looking for Nintendo to cooperate," Li Xu directly interrupted, "First, Atari is a dominant company in North America, and there are very few game console companies in the United States, and they are not very competitive; ”

No matter how forbearant Yamauchi Pu was, he couldn't help but shake his eyebrows and take a deep breath hiddenly. A young man who was almost 18 years old, in front of him, said in an old-fashioned manner that those people in their twenties and thirties who started a business were too young and impetuous?

"On the contrary, Nintendo has a background, although it has nothing to do with the semiconductor industry, but it has its own accumulation in making games. In addition, in the early days of an industry, there is a great need for craftsmanship, so I am optimistic about Nintendo. Li Xu didn't care what he was thinking, and continued, "Especially after the news of Nintendo's intention to make a handheld console, I concluded that you will never give up the game console, so-"

He smiled slightly: "If Nintendo can stand still and fully learn from the defeat of Atari, it will definitely do something unmatched." ”

This rhetoric was made by Li Xu with a lot of effort, and if he wanted to convince an old fox like Yamauchi Pu, he always had to have some decent excuses. It's impossible to tell him that Atari will not only be finished in three years, but will also bring a major collapse of the North American game market?

Rao is so, the credibility of this excuse is still a little worse, no matter what, Li Xu is still too young, not to mention that RB people have always taken things like seniority seriously.

But he didn't have any other choice, and when Sony's old fox asked him if he was interested in being a host, he made it very clear and firm that they had no plans for the time being.

Also, in the past few years, Sony has been busy tearing up the video tape standard with JVC, and video games are an emerging industry, how can they be interested? So knowing that Sony is good, God will be hell, Li Xu still has to contact Yamauchi Pu.

"You can see it as an investment for me," Li Xu said at the end, "I'm still somewhat sure of the future, President Yamauchi." ”

"In that case...... Yamauchi pondered for a moment, then turned his head to look at Yokoi Junhei, who had been sitting beside him, "Take it out, Yokoi-kun." ”

"Haiyi!" Without speaking from beginning to end, the sculpture-like Yokoi Junpei immediately responded, and took out a small object from the briefcase he carried with him and handed it to Li Xu.

"This is our upcoming handheld sample, Kujo-kun," Gunhei Yokoi said, introducing the small rectangular object, "We will call it game\\&watch, and it will be officially released at the end of April." Because of technical limitations, there is only one game in a game\\&watch, and the buttons on the left and right sides of the screen are arrow keys, and the top two ......"

Li Xu took the game\\&watch in his hand, and listened patiently to Yokoi Junhei's introduction, although this thing was too simple for him, but some of the design ideas were still very interesting.

For example, they deliberately pasted some different color patterns for the game in the corners of the screen to make the black and white picture look more colorful.

I have to admit that in the early stage of an industry, no obvious ...... has been formed When it comes to routines, the craftsman spirit of RB people is indeed very useful.

"Thank you for the introduction, Yokoi-kun, this is truly an amazing invention. After Yokoi Junhei finished his introduction, Li Xu immediately praised him, sincerely.

It wasn't that there were no handhelds before this, the first one was born in 76, but all of them were shabby to death, and the screen of the first handheld was a row of light-emitting diodes!

game\\&watch is the first handheld to use an LCD monitor, which makes a qualitative leap in the game's picture, so the game industry will say that this is the real game handheld. From this point of view, Gunpei Yokoi, who designed it, is indeed a genius, so it's no wonder that conspiracy theories are rife after parting ways with Nintendo and having a car accident.

"But I have a question, Yokoi-kun," after the other party was humble for a few words, Li Xu pointed to the direction buttons on the top and said, "You said before, the button arrow keys on the left and right sides of the screen are correct?"

"Yes. Yokoi nodded.

"So, if I'm going to put Daikin ...... I mean Pac-Man, transplanted to game\\&watch, what will I do up and down?" Li Xu asked with a smile.

"We can arrange two more buttons on top of the two. Yokoi Junhei immediately replied, looking at his confident appearance, he obviously thought about it.

However, what Li Xu was waiting for was this sentence: "Have you ever thought that if you encounter a situation where you need to operate the character quickly, the player's thumb needs to be pressed up and down and back and forth, which is not only easy to get tired, but also causes the character to react slightly slower." In this way, sometimes you can pass the level, but you get stuck because of the difference of a few seconds, and a few more times will cause the player to lose patience. ”

Yokoi Junhei's brows furrowed, but Li Xu didn't give him time to think: "Actually, this problem is easy to solve. ”

Beckoning, soon a servant brought paper and a pen, and Li Xu spent a few minutes drawing what he wanted on it and sent it to Yokoi Junhei.

After just one glance, Yokoi Junhei's eyes could no longer be taken off, his eyes widened wider and wider, and his hands trembled slightly: "This is...... It's ......"

"D-pad," Li Xu said succinctly, "the player only needs to use one thumb to operate, and the response is more sensitive." ”

That's why he's so tidy, words can't be convincing, so use facts to convince him, Yokoi Junhei, as the father of the handheld, will never fail to see the value of the cross key, which was originally his idea.

As for plagiarizing someone else's stuff in front of someone, well, this kind of thing doesn't need to be discussed.