You ask Jester if he wants to take a stake in Samsung Electronics?

This is nonsense, fools don't want to.

Of course, he knows how great Samsung Electronics will be in the future, yes, Jester uses the adjective great, and being able to participate now is definitely a profitable business.

But this is not possible.

Because a company may give up its shares only in three cases, one is a start-up, which needs a lot of funds for the further development of the enterprise, the problem is that Samsung is not short of money, and the second needs to open up new markets, and may give up a part of the shares to win-win with the market, and the third is the most important customer of the company, in order to maintain this relationship, it is necessary to exchange shares to obtain the right to speak to the other party.

And now Jester doesn't have any three.

What the? You say an order of 10 million copies? This has not been officially signed, and even if it is, Lee Kun-hee is not optimistic about the future of the video game market that Jester said, not to mention that there is such a desolate scene of the American video game market as a reference, it is really impossible for Lee Kun-hee or the Samsung Electronics he represents to agree that Jester will become his long-term and stable customer.

Unless Jester can prove it.

In this case, if Jester rashly proposed to buy shares, it would only be rejected by Lee Kun-hee without hesitation.

So, although Jester coveted Samsung Electronics, which was still a baby, he had to hide his thoughts for the time being.

But Jester felt that it was not far from realizing this idea on his own.

At this time, an employee of the hardware R&D department walked into Jester's office quickly, holding a test sheet in his hand and showing no expression on his face.

Seeing him come in, Jester didn't say anything special, but Lee Kun-hee's face was obviously nervous.

After this short period of conversation, Lee Kun-hee also knew that Jester's 10 million pieces were not a lie, so he attached great importance to this contract, although he knew that his memory would never have any problems in terms of quality, but he still couldn't help but feel nervous.

After all, this is the first time that the semiconductor products produced by their Samsung Electronics have entered the American market, and for Lee Kun-hee, this is a battle that can only be won and not lost.

"Boss, the test results are out, although they are not as good as Fujitsu's similar models, they are not much different, and they can be used completely." The employee's tone was excited, and he also knew that the memory of this specification was much lower than Fujitsu's from the company he had just tested.

Hearing these words, Li Jianxi on the side was also obviously relieved.

Jester smiled, took the test sheet and glanced at it, then stood up and stretched out his hand to Lee Kun-hee.

"It's a pleasure to work with."

"It's a pleasure to work with." Lee Kun-hee stretched out his hand to shake Jester's hand, a visibly relaxed smile appeared on his face, for himself, although the trip to the United States was not smooth, he was fortunate to not be dishonored.

When it was time for lunch, although some details of the contract had not been discussed clearly, it was also necessary to eat, and Jester originally wanted to entertain Lee Kun-hee and his party, but the Koreans obviously wanted to finalize the contract as much as possible, so they politely declined, just let Jester send them fast food like Mars Entertainment, and after dinner, they also had to continue to negotiate the details of the contract, and strive to negotiate the formal contract within a day.

Then, Lee Kun-hee also offered to say goodbye, and he also needed to discuss it with his team.

Jester didn't hold back either.

In game development companies, fast food is the least food for developers, and overtime is commonplace.

After Jester finished eating the pizza delivered by the fast food restaurant, he also went to the R&D department a little bored, because it was lunch time, so most of the employees were eating the pizza given by the company, and some people went to the lounge on the first floor to play game consoles.

At a table in the R&D department, the boisterous sound of a group of people gathered around caught Jester's attention.

Curious, he walked over and took a look, and saw that his employees were playing the board game for which he didn't know the name.

The game map is a rectangular piece of coated paper that covers most of the table, and is very well printed.

Jester looked at this game map with a familiar look, as if he had seen it somewhere, just when he couldn't help but fall into thought, Sean Dabily, the director of the 'Origin' development team, took two six-sided dice and threw them out, and when the two dice stopped rotating, two numbers six appeared on them at the same time, and then, Sean Dabili pushed the small man he represented the size of a finger forward twelve squares along the grid on the map.

A small plastic house has been placed next to this lattice.

At this moment, Sean Dabilee had an ugly look on his face, and he reluctantly pulled one out of the stack of what appeared to be some kind of bill in front of him and threw it into the hands of another young man with bespectacled eyes and a pair of jeans.

Then, Sean Dabilee took control of his villain and continued to push forward twelve blocks, this time without a plastic house like the previous one.

This time, Sean Dabilee had a smile on his face, and he took out the largest denomination from the stack of banknote-like papers in front of him, and set aside a small plastic house of a different color than the one before.

Then the bespectacled young man casually took the two dice from the table, shook them in his hand, and threw them out.

Seeing this, Jester patted his head, and then he remembered why he was so familiar with this board game.

Because he has played the PC version of this tabletop game.

To be precise, a game company in Treasure Island made a game of this genre by itself, of course, without authorization.

This game is called Monopoly.

"It's good to make this game into a PC version, it's not difficult to make zuò, and it can be ported to home consoles in the future." Jester thought thoughtfully, then he frowned and suddenly thought, "But whose hands is this version of the game now?" ”

"Monopoly" is a translation from Hong Kong and Taiwan, the original name of this game is "Monopoly", the official Chinese translation name is "Real Estate Tycoon", Monopoly originally means monopoly, because "Real Estate Tycoon" is a game that no matter how many people participate and there is only one winner, the original producer of this game wanted to use this game to satirize the evil of capitalism - winner takes all, and the meaning of Monopoly monopoly is also implied to this.

Unexpectedly, however, the game became popular soon after its release, and took the United States by storm during the Great Depression in the thirties.

Jester only remembers that the game's inventor was Charles Darlow, and that he later sold the rights to the board game to Parker Brothers, who officially brought the board game to market.

But now, decades have passed, and the Parker Brothers company no longer exists, and the copyright has been turned over several times, and it is long unknown who it is.

At that time, companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan could ignore the copyright and go to copycat "Real Estate Tycoon", but they definitely can't, if they dare to do this, someone will immediately jump out and sue them.

At the end of the game, the winner was Sean Dabilee, who was the winner, and then he was showing off his stack of game bills to the other players who were a little downcast.

"Sean, which company made this game?" Jester just took the opportunity to ask.

“Hasbro。” Seeing his boss ask him this question, Sean Dabili thought that his boss was also interested in this tabletop game and wanted to buy one, so he began to gush and say, "I'm a die-hard player of Monopoly, I've been playing since I was seven years old, and I'm telling you, this game is just for everyone to play together to have fun, the more people the better, and finally there will be a group of people around to watch it......"

In the hands of Hasbro.

Hasbro is Hasbro, but they don't have the Chinese name Hasbro yet.

Jester nodded, not commenting on the rest of the nonsense Sean Darbili said, but smiled and said directly: "How about we make this game a game, it can be played on the computer." ”

"Make it into a computer game?" Sean Dabilee was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face instantly, and he couldn't wait to say, "This is simply the best news in the world!" ”

Then the other people who had been watching around him before also cheered.

"That's a great idea!" This was the thought of almost everyone present.

Some people who were still eating pizza before were also attracted by the cheers, and after knowing the reason for the cheers, the R&D department once again resounded with cheers that were even louder than the first time.

This also shows the influence of "Monopoly" among Americans, and it is indeed the most popular table game in the United States, much more than DND fans, after all, it has a history of more than half a century, and many of the grandfathers here even grew up playing this game.

Jester then asked, "Do you know anyone who knows Hasbro, can you talk to them about us taking the rights to this game?" ”

Sean Dabilee shook his head, but at this point a somewhat thin employee raised his hand and said, "Boss, I have a friend who works at Hasbro, I can get in touch with it." ”

"Well, after we get the rights to this game, we'll set up the project." Jester said with a smile.

This once again made the people present cheer.

Jester only smiled and didn't speak when he saw such a scene, and he did play a little bit of "Monopoly" that he made.

Although he didn't want to get involved in computer games too early, he created a publishing company after all, and this publishing company couldn't just sell arcade substrates before his home console was released, so it was necessary for Jester to make a high-quality and fun computer game first.

Moreover, in fact, the publishing PC game industry is not as unprofitable as Jester thinks, he asked the research company to investigate the situation of these companies in Xuele Mountain, although the market for PC games is not large, but there are still tens of millions of sales a year.

In fact, what Jester didn't know was that Xuele Mountain, which specializes in PC games, also had sales of nearly one billion dollars a year around the 90s.

He then asked about the progress of several games in development.

The first 30 levels of "Snowman Brothers" have been done, and after the design of the level is started, the speed of the origin R&D team is getting faster and faster, and the official version can be made in two months, and the 25-level version of "Snowman Brothers" for the national game tour is also largely completed, and it will definitely not be possible at the trial meeting in Chicago, but there should be no problem in launching it at the trial meeting in the next city.

As for "Dawn", it has not been officially established, and there are not enough people, so there is no special production of zuò, but there are still two artists who are working on the setting of this game according to Jester's setting.

Jester also took a closer look, and he was quite satisfied with the design of the drawing.

And the author of the game plot novel "Dawn" has also found a candidate, a second-rate writer who has published several science fiction books that are not very popular, and he agreed without saying a word after hearing that Mars Entertainment could pay $100,000 for the book.

Even though he knew he would only get one percent of the royalties from the book.

Jester is also very satisfied with this, he does not have high requirements for the quality of this book, he just needs to write according to the story and game plot outline he set, without deviating from the game plot, allowing the author to play a little freely, anyway, he just wants to perfect a world view of his own.

The official versions of the three games of "Bejeweled" have also been basically done, and the process of DEBUG is also extremely smooth, and after the signing with Sega is over, the game can be directly sent to Japan for official production, and with the designers liberated from the post-processing of these three games, "Dawn" can also be established and carry out some preliminary design work.

At this time, Cao Kairui walked towards Jester with a piece of drawing paper.

"BOSS, look at the image you asked me to design before, I have been thinking about it for more than a week, with this plan, you see that the character does not match the kind of image characteristics that you said are kind, kind, and easy to remember like a mark." Cao Kairui walked up to Jester and handed the drawing paper in his hand to Jester.

"Oh?"

Jester glanced at Cao Kairui with some surprise, he didn't expect the other party to really come up with the design plan, so he reached out and took the drawing paper, and quickly looked down.

Then, a look of surprise appeared on Jester's face for a moment.

Obviously, he was very satisfied with the image designed by Cao Kairui.

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