146. NEOGEO Substrate Listing (Three Changes)
Zhu Shuguang asked Yang Yun if he had any construction of the national electronics industry, and Yang Yun smiled dumbly: "Minister Zhu, you also think too highly of me." I have a little experience in making games, and I don't know anything about China's electronics industry, I really don't know much about hardware, and you don't know, so I have a little experience with the animation and game industry, let me consider the rise of China's electronics industry as a whole, and I can't do it......"
In the electronics industry, which Yang Yun has the ability to touch?
This kind of money-burning thing should be left to the state to do!
casually researched a microprocessor, hundreds of millions of dollars are gone, it is estimated that there is not even a bubble when you put it in, China can't even make high-precision machine tools, and the entire industrial system lags behind the capitalist countries for several generations, how can Yang Yun alone change it?
But when he was a promoter, he dragged Lenovo's big brother into the water by the way, took the opportunity to buy shares, intervened in the research of China Loongson, spent a little money, got a good reputation, and made a little contribution to the country, Yang Yun was satisfied.
Having a good relationship with the country, from the policy, land allocation, and taxation to whether Huo Wu needs to wear clothes, how to suppress and crack down on the piracy group is beneficial to Longteng!
This situation has been taken seriously by Zhu Shuguang, who is now the deputy minister of the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry, in charge of the electronics industry.
"You give me a little time to study, transferring people from the Chinese Academy of Sciences requires complicated procedures, and you are going to be sent to Japan to work all year round, right? Political censorship is important and cannot be solved in a day or two. ”
Zhu Shuguang continued: "It's no problem for the Chinese Academy of Sciences to participate in this, after all, the Institute of Computer Software does this. But weishenme wants Lenovo to join? Don't you know that the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the largest shareholder of Lenovo? ”
Yang Yun laughed: "As a complete industrial chain, of course, there are people who do jishu, people who make products, and people who do sales. The Chinese Academy of Sciences does scientific research jishu. National military, large-scale equipment, aerospace, satellites, of course, orders in this area are prioritized, but the vast majority are still civilian products, right? Wouldn't it be better that we help with sales? Self-produced and self-sold, you can save a lot of money! ”
Zhu Shuguang hahadaxiao: "You are looking at the huge benefits brought by the middle!" Someone makes chips for you, someone provides you with goods, and you make a little money along the way? ”
That's right. This is Lenovo, what a great company this is!
In the future, the acquisition of IBM notebook computers, the leader of China's electronics industry, can still be called in the global IT industry, the world's largest PC manufacturer!
Now obscure. But in the future, it will be an elephant thigh, so hurry up and hug it!
Yang Yun did not have time to wait for the results of the meeting of these officials in China. After handing over the matter to Zhao Yongping. He came to Japan.
The Global Arcade Expo is still held by CESA, the all-Japan computer suppliers association, and in Japan, except for Nintendo, which arrogantly disdains to join, almost all computer companies are members of the association, even large companies such as Sony.
The conference has been in place for four days. There was still 1 day to close, Yang Yun caught the last train, didn't say hello to anyone, and secretly came over to inquire about the news by himself.
SNK's full name is New Japan Planning Co., Ltd. It was established in 1978, and it has only been 12 years, but its qualifications are far more than that, it can continue to go back for several years, and it can be regarded as an old enterprise.
From the initial shooting genre, to the transformation into an action game 4 years ago, SNK, which had been silent for 8 years, was finally noticed, and it was from the parlay game "Athena" 4 years ago.
Yang Yun has played this game, Athena is dressed in a three-point costume, holding a sword and shield, and she has passed all the way, full of liliang and wild beauty.
This game shocked the whole of Japan because of the innovative side-scrolling RPG concept, and the song sung by a complete idol singer can be heard in the game.
Not surprisingly, the Athena game was a great success, and in the same year SNK designed another game "Fury", which is the members of the Fury team in The King of Fighters, the protagonists Clark and Ralph, and the villain Harlandi, Yang Yun set the three of them as mercenaries from the Siberian death training camp and added them to the Dragon version of the King of Fighters game.
SNK has tasted the sweetness of action games, and continues to develop similar games, Cuban Heroes, FC version of Prison Escape, although the graphics are terrible, but people in the 80s, can play this kind of pixel games are hungry, can not expect more.
At this arcade expo, SNK, a professional action company, launched their own substrate NEOGEO, which really amazed all its peers.
This is the game booth of Athena 2, and there is a master player who is experiencing it.
Yang Yun stood aside, looking at the smooth picture, the beautiful and energetic music in his usual style, and smiled bitterly in his heart.
I have to say that under such hardware conditions, the performance of this substrate is very good, and the legendary 2 16-bit chips, although they failed to achieve the effect of 1+1=2, but at least reached 1+1=1.5.
It's no wonder that The King of Fighters' gorgeous game has been on the NEOGEO substrate for so many years, and from the hardware point of view, the Sega KTM is really sparse.
Gotta find a way to get it!
Yang Yun returned directly to Fengyun Company and met Wang Zhe and Yang Zhan.
These two people are now Yang Yun's most powerful thugs in Japan, one is a ruthless warrior, and the other is full of scheming, the two of them have worked together, and within half a year, Fengyun Game Software Company has become a super-powerful first-class company on a par with established companies like Capcom and Konami.
Yang Yun asked, "How did SNK refuse the acquisition of Sega?" ”
Wang Zhe personally handled this matter and knew it very well: "Their president, Yoshihiko Takado, said that the company is not short of money now, and he is confident that he will do his game well and does not need others to interfere." ”
Yang Zhan added: "SNK is a joint-stock company with four investors, and the relationship is complicated, and I have contacted them one by one, and they all said that they have no intention of selling their SNK shares. In the process of communication, I found an interesting thing, they SNK and Capcom have a lot of relationship. ”
Yang Yun became interested: "Is there still a relationship between Kenzo Tsujimoto and Yoshihiko Takado?" ”
It turned out that before Kenzo Tsujimoto originally created Capcom, he established a company called IRM, which is not famous, and only has a few games like "Underwater Wars", but Yang Yun seems to have an impression when he hears this, it must have been in the 90s, there was some big move.
Later, Yoshihiko Takado joined in and became a shareholder, but he was not convinced by Kenzo Tsujimoto, and the two fought openly and secretly, and they had trouble in the company.
In the end, Kenzo Tsujimoto lost and was squeezed out of the company, and in 1979 he founded Capcom, working against SNK, which was founded by Yoshihiko Takado in 1978.
As the president of IRM, Yoshihiko Takado led both SNK and IRM, and transferred many designers from IRM to SNK, and mobilized many resources to build momentum for SNK, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among other shareholders.
Therefore, in 1986, the company's president, Yoshihiko Takado, held 51%, and the other three shareholders of the former IRM contributed 49%, and the new Japan planning company SNK was reorganized.
After the success of Athena and Nu, Yoshihiko Takado saw that Capcom's business was booming, the development of CPS1 substrates was successful, and the success of Street Fighter was quite unhappy, so in 1988, SNK also began to invest in substrate research, wanting to press Capcom again.
Hearing this, Yang Yun laughed: "It stands to reason that the enemy of the enemy should be our friend, SNK and Capcom are mortal enemies, we and Capcom are also mortal enemies, weishenmeSNK will reject us?" ”
Yang Zhan replied with a smile: "Because Takado Yoshihiko is an unruly person, he can't even tolerate Kenzo Tsujimoto, how can he be a subordinate to others and be wronged?" He is a person who is quite difficult to deal with, has too much heart, and is very good at intrigue. ”
Yang Yun suddenly realized that this should be SNK's corporate culture, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and he is very good at power tricks, otherwise when he went bankrupt after 2000, he did not forget to bring the acquirer Aruze into a huge pit of up to 40 billion yen, SNK went bankrupt, turned around, and was reborn, and the acquirer Aruze got an empty shell of SNK and was burdened with tens of billions of debts!
People like Yoshihiko Takado can't cooperate with him, otherwise they will really be played to death by him, and they can't find the reason!
Yang Yun said: "In this case, we don't expect to buy SNK, but I am very interested in their NEOGEO substrate, you can think of a way to see if you can acquire this jishu, and the patent transfer can also be done." Of course, if you can, hehe, you know. ”
Wang Zhe showed a comprehension expression, since the big boss asked for it, then find a way to get it!
After the arcade expo, Sega still managed to get a few SNK's NEOGEO substrates, in the Sega hardware laboratory, everyone disassembled it to pieces, knowing this and knowing the other can win all battles, if you want to know weishenmeSNK so confident, then you have to see what dry goods the other party has!
Looking at all this, several jishu houses suddenly realized: "So that's the case!" (To be continued......)