Jester quietly listened to the conditions of Sega brought by Yu Suzuki.

In general, Sega's conditions are within his acceptable range, and Sega also understands the information about Ren Hell's failure to purchase the copyright of the "American Cube" home console, so this time they have not raised any undivided ideas in this regard.

In fact, the more Arakawa really went back, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, the price he offered was high enough, and his attitude was good enough, except for his hole card to let Mars Entertainment join Ren Hell Royalty Plan, this was almost his highest offer, but the other party didn't seem to care about it, and refused without even thinking about it, which was too unreasonable.

Moreover, it was with great difficulty that he had earned from his father-in-law that Mars Entertainment was forming the royalty plan that Ren Hell was forming, but the other party didn't even give him a chance to reveal it.

As a result, the undying Arakawa Minoru began to let people seriously collect information on Mars Entertainment, and this collection made him suddenly realize.

Especially after he saw that Mars Entertainment had integrated the entire R&D team of Atari VCS7200 as a whole, and had successively recruited dozens of other hardware R&D personnel, even a fool knew what Mars Entertainment was going to do.

After knowing the real situation, Minoru Arakawa suddenly became a little angry, thinking of the other party's play on him during the negotiation, and the other party obviously wanted to get information from himself about whether Ren Hell had released home game consoles in the United States, and he was stupid and didn't have the slightest defense-who would go ahead of a little-known company that only made one game has the courage to make home consoles in the current industry context?

You know, in the same industry, messaging has always been very fast, and while Ren Hell knows it, Sega, who is also very coveted for "American Cubes", basically knows it.

It is impossible to say that Sega does not want the copyright of "American Cubes", their newly released home machine SEGA1000 defeated by Hell in Japan, and it is almost a typical example of being eliminated as soon as it is born, so they have to start a research and development plan for a new generation of consoles, and the previous investment is almost all in vain, doesn't Sega want to get "American Cubes" to reverse this situation?

No, it's because Sega knows it's impossible.

Ren Hell's offer is good enough, and Ren Hell's offer is absolutely impossible for Sega to make, because their platform share is far less high than Ren Hell, so the price that Ren Hell can offer, Sega can't afford.

But they still came, they didn't just value the home console version, but the "American Cubes" arcade agency in Japan, you must know that before Sega entered the home machine industry, they were a veritable arcade giant, and there were countless classic arcade games produced by Zuò, selling well all over the world, but now, their arcade machines are also in Namco, Capcom and these old rivals are under the persecution, and the loss of market share is strict, especially the company has just gotten accurate information internally, These two companies will release two very good games in the second half of the year, and they don't have enough good games to compete with.

Even, the other party has done a very good job of this secrecy facility, only knowing that it is a vertical scrolling shooter game, but the gameplay and setting are unknown.

In this regard, President Nakayama has been furious at high-level meetings several times.

Yu Suzuki knows this deeply, and he will not allow failure this time.

"Do you want American Cubes arcade dealings in Japan and Europe?" Jester asked with a smile.

"Yes." Yu Suzuki nodded in acknowledgement.

"So, how do you divide it?" Jester does have plans to sell the arcade agency rights of his game, because he has just started to do the distribution, and it will be difficult to get the North American plate right first, as for the distribution abroad, first, he doesn't have the energy, second, he doesn't have the ability, and third, he doesn't even have the capacity.

Even these three new games, including his production, did not have enough production capacity after he finished making Zuò, and he had asked Atari before that if he asked them to make these three games again, they would directly ask for a share.

This is absolutely unbearable in Jester's eyes, he was not famous at the beginning, and he was blackmailed by Atari Atari, he endured it, and now his wings are stiff, you still want to blackmail me?

Faced with Atari's request, Jester sneered in his heart, and Lao Tzu lifted the table and stopped.

It's not your Atari family that can make arcades on a large scale in the world, isn't this Sega in front of you?

Obviously, Sega's investigation is also very detailed, and it is well aware of the current predicament that Jester's Mars Entertainment is currently experiencing.

Suzuki Yu did not smile, he directly took out a stack of papers from the briefcase in his hand, handed it to Jester with both hands, and then he said: "We Sega are very sincere, we will not only pay 20 million US dollars in advance to buy your company's "American Cube" agency rights in Japan and Europe, but also will give 30% of the net profit as your share, and all the production and publicity costs are borne by us." ”

Before he could read this article, Jester, who heard Suzuki Yu's words, suddenly raised his head and looked at the other party with some surprise, it was impossible not to be shocked in his heart, this offer was really good beyond his expectations.

You must know that the entire Japanese and European markets combined, at most can be compared with the United States, this is still a swollen face and fat people, in fact, even if they are combined, they are far inferior to the United States.

It's incredible that an arcade machine can sell 20,000 or 30,000 units in Japan, but in the U.S. it can reach 60,000 units, or even more.

Although Europe is large, the market for games does not even have a share of Japan's.

"Could it be that Sega is in trouble?" Jester's mind suddenly popped into this thought, and then the thought continued to expand irrepressibly, and he began to recall the Sega of this period in his mind......

After thinking for a few minutes, Jester remained silent and looked at Yu Suzuki, who was sitting there expressionlessly.

He couldn't think of any big crisis for Sega at this time, he had the impression that Sega had just failed miserably in the SEGA1000 of the video game field they had just entered, but Sega had already accepted it, and the development process of MS should have started a long time ago, since it wasn't for this, was there something wrong with their arcade industry......

The arcade industry at this time ......

Thinking of this, Jester's eyes suddenly lit up, and he remembered.

Sega did encounter some trouble at this time, but it was also at this time that Yu Suzuki stepped up and joined the development department to dominate the storm, which led to the glory of Sega later.

The legendary designer first released the world's first somatosensory game "Motorcycle Frame" in the 85-year system, and then released Japan's first 32,000-color game "Space Harry" in the same year, and "Motorcycle Frame" Later generations of players should have seen it, it is the kind of large-scale realistic motorcycle game, the kind that players can play on a motorcycle, Jester remembers very clearly, well, when it is eight coins for one dollar, this game needs two dollars to play.

These two games helped Sega regain arcade market share, so since it was a recapture of ...... From whom did they take it back?

Thinking of this, Jester suddenly showed a weird smile, which startled Yu Suzuki, who had been silently observing him, and he asked a little uncertainly, "President Li, what's wrong?" ”

"Hehe, it's nothing, I just heard from a friend in Japan recently that your old rival Namco is developing a brand new game, and I heard that it is almost complete, and the news I heard is that this game is very shocking, it seems to be called X...... Xevious, that's what it's called, right? Jester said, a curious look on his face.

Xevious is the famous Iron Plate Formation, the originator of the column-scrolling flight shooter, a landmark game.

The expression on Suzuki's face remained the same, but his heart was surging like a wave, which was a little incredible, how could the other party, a person who was far away in the United States, know that they had just gotten the information.

Could it be that their intelligence systems in Japan are better equipped than those of a home-grown company like Sega?

"Oh, by the way, I also heard that Capcom has made a similar game, called 1942, which is also about to be released, and it is similar to the genre of this game, which is also a vertical-scrolling flying shooter." Jester kept talking, and he said another classic game that he remembered that was released this year and caused a wave of gaming.

This time, Yu Suzuki finally changed color, and he looked at Jester with some incredulity.

He couldn't figure out how the other party knew about the type of game they had been trying to inquire about. The other party even knows the information that their Sega didn't hear? Haven't they established a branch in Japan yet? Their R&D director, Mark Saini, has been asking his friends at Sega to do this recently...... But they know better than they do, but how is that possible!

Yu Suzuki looked at Jester's eyes full of shock, and his lips turned a little dry: "Li ...... President Lee, is your message true? ”

Jester didn't admit it directly, he just smiled and said, "Mr. Suzuki, I just heard from my Japanese friends, as for whether it's true or not, I can't guarantee it." ”

"Ali Kata!"

Yu Suzuki listened to Jester's face, first was silent for more than ten seconds, and then suddenly made a ninety-degree bend to Jester, and said in an extremely respectful tone, "Thank you President Li for informing me, Sega is grateful." ”

"Then the licensing price we discussed ......" Jester also stood up immediately at this time, stepped forward to help Suzuki Yu up, to be honest, he has great respect for this future ace designer, that is, he led Sega against Ren Hell in such a difficult situation for Sega, never gave up, and never gave up, and he made a classic game called "Shenmue" called "Shenmue" in the 99th year, and it was Jester's favorite at the time.

The quality of this game was definitely the best of its kind at the time, and it was not inferior to any of the great games, but unfortunately it was born at the wrong time, and the final result was not ideal.

Later, this game, in a voting statistics of "famitsu", beat FF, DQ and other super masterpieces, and became a game that players expected to have a sequel.

For this game, this honor is well deserved, and of course it can only be a little consolation.

After all, at that time, the glory of Sega was no longer there.

Before Jester finished speaking, Yu Suzuki interrupted him with a stern face: "President Li, you don't need to say it, Sega can make further concessions!" ”

"No, no." Jester also understood that the other party might have misunderstood what he meant, and he immediately explained, "I didn't mean to raise the price, in fact, I was personally very satisfied with the previous offer, and we at Mars Entertainment have always been the most sincere in treating friends, and will never take the opportunity to blackmail." ”

Jester's tone seemed sincere.

Hearing this, a look of surprise flashed in Suzuki Yu's eyes, the other party he knew earlier was not such a person, he would take the opportunity to blackmail, the person in front of him who was younger than himself had not done it.

The four publishers who helped him launch "American Cubes" in the United States can go around denigrating Jester and Mars Entertainment in the industry.

Even Yu Suzuki felt a little too much when he saw Jester's request for the four agents at that time, if it wasn't for the last resort, none of the agents would be willing to sign such a humiliating alliance under the city.

"Let's not talk about the price for now, but would you be interested in seeing some of the new games we've developed?" Jester didn't care when he saw the other party's expression, he had a purpose, and he didn't care about the other party's crankiness, he just needed to let the other party know that the temporary cooperation between the two sides would be profitable for both parties.

"New game?"

Thinking of the ingenious elimination game that even he was unconsciously addicted to, Suzuki Yu's face couldn't help but show a curious look, although he got the news that Mars Entertainment was developing a new game, but he didn't get any exact information, only that it was also a elimination game.

Seeing such a confident smile on Jester's face, Yu Suzuki couldn't help but guess that "American Cubes" was already perfect, could the other party still be able to play on the elimination game?

Then, Yu Suzuki nodded, and under the leadership of Jester, he walked towards the R&D hall of Mars Entertainment.

PS: The iron plate formation is actually the Japanese version released in 83, and the American version released in 88, for the needs of the plot, I moved to 84, don't blame, but Sega's predicament at the time was real.