Familiar with this history, he naturally knows what Nintendo is playing a trick of selling dog meat for soup without changing medicine, Nintendo is worried that the Atari impact may have too much adverse impact on their game consoles released in the United States, so they did not copy their FC name, but ingeniously changed the packaging of FC, but in addition to the appearance and name, the inside has not changed to become NES, and it has become such a tall thing as Nintendo's entertainment system.

In fact, it is essentially a game console.

Jester is dismissive of this kind of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and he is not worried about the bad impact of the Atari shock on the home game console market, in his eyes, the revival of video games is the wheel of history, no one can stop it, and it will not be diverted by any will, it is only a matter of time.

And he made it very clear in his previous article on "GAME" that what they want to sell on Mars Entertainment is a game console, not anything else.

Play-Enjoy, have fun, that's the slogan Jester has prepared for his home console.

Picking up a copy of the text on the table, Jester glanced at it, and then fell into deep thought, this is an official letter from Columbia Pictures, they asked if they could buy the adaptation rights of the film "Sheriff Balotelli", they did not directly state the intended price in it, nor did they mention the number of adapted films they were going to buy and the box office share after the release, just a simple inquiry.

Adapting his game into a movie is definitely something Jester wants to do, after all, this is a good thing that can increase the influence of game characters, and many game companies in his memory will adapt similar film and television works for their game characters - movies, TV series, cartoons, everything, but he originally wanted to do it himself, but it is also a good choice to be able to cooperate with a movie giant.

Moreover, now Columbia has just gotten rid of the fake check storm in the 70s, and after joining forces with Coca-Cola, it is in the rising period of its career, which is indeed a very good choice.

In Jester's impression, although he is not familiar with movies, he is familiar with famous companies in the history of games, not to mention as a dog, he is naturally familiar with Sony's most famous acquisition in the 80s, in 1989, in his original time and space, Sony bought Coca-Cola for a total of 5 billion US dollars, including debt, which caused a great sensation in the United States at that time, to be precise, a great panic.

At that time, Newsweek, the most famous and best-selling publication in North America at that time, published a special issue of dozens of pages on this topic, with an extremely alarmist title -- "Japan Bought the Soul of America", and on the cover, the Statue of Liberty of the United States, which was originally a registered trademark of Colombia, was replaced by a Japanese geisha wearing a kimono with a heavy white powder on her face, and in addition to the fiasco of the American manufacturing industry in the face of Japanese manufacturing at that time, the Americans who had long been on fire were even more indignant at Sony's acquisition.

In a special issue of one of the most influential magazines in the United States, the results of a poll based on the results asserted that the Sony takeover was a more formidable threat than Soviet military power.

When Jester read this history, he could understand the thrilling nature of this event just from the simple and simple words between the lines, and under this pressure, Sony and Akio Morita were able to complete this super merger, which was indeed impressive.

However, there is no hurry to talk about whether they agree or not, judging from Columbia's official letter, they only have such an intention, not very urgent, and in Jester's mind, he doesn't really want to sell the adaptation rights of "Sheriff Balotelli" now, after all, he still has another game with him as the protagonist waiting to be released.

This more excellent game based on the prototype of the Super Horse is the killer feature for Jester to open the sales of his home game console, although he has prepared for this home game console on which he has high hopes before, such as "American Cubes", which has become very popular by arcade machines and has many fans, but at the same time in history, Nintendo also has the help of the equally famous "Donkey Kong", and still did not completely open the American market until the release of Superhorse, It's what makes the success of NES so natural.

In Jester's eyes, even if he goes to talk to Columbia now, then the price offered by the other party will definitely not reach his psychological price, and it is better to wait for "Balotelli's Otherworldly Adventure" to be released before making a decision.

Moreover, he is going to CES soon, and there is little time to talk about it with Columbia Pictures in the next month and a half.

The early preparation team has arrived in Las Vegas for three days early, preparing for the venue's booth, after all, this CES exhibition is extremely important to Jester and Mars Entertainment, and Jester immediately changed the time of his press conference after learning the time of Nintendo's product launch.

Jester insidiously set the time three hours after Nintendo's launch, where he prepared a very delicious meal for Nintendo.

"Dangdangdang......"

At this time, there was a knock on the door in Jester's office, and after he said to come in, Yuji Naka, who looked a little tired, walked in quickly.

After all, the plan to pit Nintendo was about to be carried out, and Jester was not careful, although he had seen the demonstration that Yuji Nakatsu had given him in the R&D department, but he was still a little uneasy, so he called him over again to inquire again.

"There's nothing wrong with our simulator, right?" Jester's tone was extremely serious.

As soon as he heard Jester ask about the simulator, Yuji Naka's face couldn't help but show a trace of excitement, after all, this is the biggest result of his hard work for so long, originally his English was very Japanese kind of tongue curl, but after half a year, his English is also much more proficient and authentic, at least Jester doesn't listen as laborious as at the beginning.

Yuji nodded without hesitation, and then said in an unquestionable tone: "Don't worry, boss, I've simulated it hundreds of times, although the sample is still a little low, but I think there will be absolutely no problem." ”

"That's good." Hearing Yuji's reply, Jester finally nodded.

This emulator is the key to his preparation for Nintendo.

"But ......" Yuji's face suddenly showed some curiosity, he was a little eager to speak, Jester smiled and waved his hand, signaling him to just talk.

Then, Yuji Nakatsu took a breath and said with some doubts: "BOSS, although I shouldn't ask, but I still want to know, it's impossible for us to make this emulator for sale, but you have given me a lot of support in the past six months, spending millions of dollars in research and development expenses, just for such an emulator that can't bring you direct revenue at all, what is it for?" ”

Before Jester could reply, Yuji Nakatsu bowed sharply again, and continued in a very grateful tone: "Also, I am very grateful to the BOSS for giving me the opportunity to develop FC simulators this time, the growth I feel during this time is very huge, but I still hope that the BOSS can let me make zuò games, although it is very challenging to make simulators, but I feel that I can't make profits for the company after working hard, which is emotionally difficult for me to accept, Besides, I really like to make zuò games. ”

Jester smiled after listening quietly, he didn't want to go into too much detail about this matter, but simply said perfunctorily: "Sometimes, it's not the direct monetary profit that is called profit. ”

After speaking, Jester paused slightly, as if he thought for a while, before he opened his mouth to answer Yuji Naka's second question: "After this CES exhibition, I will personally take you to make a game, recently Sega's Hayao Nakayama called me several times in a row, saying that their new console has been prepared for final debugging, and the development machine is also ready, and asked me when the game I promised to make for their console will be made." ”

"Make a game for Sega?" As soon as Yuji Naka heard Jester talk about Sega, he thought of the harsh sarcasm of the HR of Sega that he met when he went to the interview, and he immediately became a little unhappy.

Jester also knew this story, Tamahideyoshiro had talked to him before, and he didn't expect that Yuji, the father of Sonic, who had created countless brilliant feats in Sekerry, this palace-level game designer, would have such a big prejudice against Sega because of such a trivial matter.

Although he was a little proud, Jester still felt the need to comfort the other party as much as possible.

"Don't think that Sega's games don't give up, this game is very important to us, and the previous contract can be negotiated is my biggest weight, otherwise Hayabusa Nakayama's cunning people will be willing to give up their big arcade machine motion technology? Now the team I sent has replied that Sega is not hiding anything and that the development process of the game "HANG-ON" is fully open to them, so I can't break my promise, and for Sega, the sales of their new console are more important than anything else. ”

And, as he spoke, Jester was also a little depressed, he seemed to blame himself, "It's also blame for saying big things at the time, and now I really regret it, this is a stone to shoot myself in the foot, if the game I made for Sega can't sell a million copies, then I'm going to give the home console copyright of "American Cube" to Sega." ”

"A million sets!" Yuji Naka, who heard the contract between Jester and Sega for the first time, also grew his mouth in surprise, this number is too incredible, even if Nintendo is still in full swing in Japan, the highest game sales are only more than 1.5 million copies, and the impact of one million sets on him is too great, so he didn't react for a while.

Jester didn't continue, he waved his hand and said to Yuji Naka: "You go back first, take a break, our charter flight will fly to Las Vegas in the afternoon." ”

After Yuji left, Jester looked at the white expanse outside the window, and couldn't help but think of the upcoming CES show, and the official confrontation with Nintendo, which also made Jester a little involuntarily excited.

"It's finally here."

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